referees

Die-hard sports fans might have known this tidbit about footballs used in National Football League games, but I certainly didn't.

The NHL, and its referees, came under fire over the weekend, for a controversial call made in the NY Rangers - Buffalo Sabres game. You be the judge...who was right?

It's another example of athletes getting too physical with referees. Italy's Federezione Italiana Rugby has banned Bruno Andres Doglioli, of Argentina, for three years after he blindsided a female referee with a vicious hit during a match on Sunday when neither were anywhere near the play...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The NFL officiating department will oversee replay reviews on challenged plays beginning next season.

The replacement referees of 2012 will be remembered the same way the replacement players of 1987 were remembered; guys (and gal) who were given the opportunity of a lifetime but were not qualified to fill enormous shoes.

Hey, wow, after months and months of getting nowhere with the NFL, looks like the league's referee will be back in uniform for all of this week's games! Gee, wonder how that happened? While the refs and the league dot "I's" and cross "T's", we want to take this moment to remember the gloriousness that was the NFL's replacement referees. Nobody put it better than Conan O'Brien T

If Deadspin and the Lingerie Football League aren't pulling anyone's leg, there may be calls for some NFL front office jobs. Deadspin alleges and the LFL confirms that a handful of the NFL's replacement referees were thrown out of the LFL...because they weren't good enough!

So have you had enough of these replacement refs in the NFL? Are you tired of them making mistake after mistake. After what happened last night between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks that cost the Packers the game..clearly something has to be done.

Officially, two Hail Mary's were answered in NFL action this week. Unofficially, one was answered by a referee instead of by prayer, and should never have counted.

I have been following professional and major college sports for a long time.  To me sports is just great entertainment.