Footballers have attacked referees in many ways -- both physically and verbally -- but few have ever attempted to make the ref literally choke on the whistle that sparked the player's ire in the first ...

A screenshot purporting to show a headline published by the Irish Examiner warning that referee whistles may cause sudden heart complications for athletes is digitally altered and was never published ...

Jamie Vardy scored an excellent goal against Southampton before intervening to stop play when the match referee suffered a worrying injury. After opening the scoring for Leicester City in the 17th ...

A UK high school has been unable to use its new $860,000 sports field — because the noise from referees’ whistles upsets the neighbors. Cornwallis Academy in Boughton Monchelsea near Maidstone, Kent, ...

Many kids dream of playing ACC basketball. Mike Costabile of Hillsborough loved the game, and liked to tinker with radios as a young boy. Now that he is all grown up, he has a Capital Idea that takes ...

You can’t go one day without hearing it. “Player A is only performing at that level because he gets such a good whistle from the referees”. Even this past weekend, Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony ...

The only thing distracting from the up-and-down pace of the first quarter of Sunday’s national championship game between LSU and Iowa was the sound of the referees’ whistles. By halftime, there was ...

In a match between two teams already heading back to the Championship, it can be tough to players, but Leicester City legend Jamie Vardy brought the show to the King Power Stadium on Saturday in ...

Ricardo Salazar, who will referee San Jose Earthquakes vs. Colorado Rapids on Saturday (10:30 pm ET) Mark Geiger, who will referee Seattle Sounders vs. FC Dallas on Saturday (10:30 pm ET) Silviu ...

Key passage in the civil rights legislation that has provoked the Southern filibuster is the Federal Referee Plan, devised by the Justice Department, incorporated into a House bill by Ohio Republican ...