RULES, MECHANICS, TECHNIQUES:

Basketball
Officials' Jurisdiction: When You Can Start and Stop Ruling on the Court; Administering a Technical Foul; Cutting the Corner; NFHS: 'Buy-In' Timeout Clarified; Five Minutes With ... Art Hyland

Baseball
Where There Are Fielders and Runners ... : Everything You Need to Know About Obstruction; Are You Annoying the Coaches? Series Umps Dead On: It's Not Interference; Five Minutes With ... Andy Fletcher

Softball
If It's Tuesday, It Must Be ASA: Confusion Can Reign When Umpiring Different Codes; Goofs, Gaffes and a Little Help From a Friend; Five Minutes With ... Paul 'Smokey' Edds

Soccer
'We Need to Talk': Know When to Give and Take Feedback; Foul or No Foul? Know the Context; Okulaja Named Referee of the Year; Pushing the Limit

Football
Flag It Now or Flag It Later? The Difference Between Live- and Dead-Ball Fouls; Two Minutes to Go; The Horns of a Dilemma: Waving Off a Flag; Chalk Talk: Measurement in a Side Zone

FEATURES:

How We Make Things Worse
The old saying among officials is, the only friends we have out there are our partners and ourselves. If that's true, why do we so often stick the knife into our own backs?

Rule Changes in 6 Not-So-Easy Steps
Ever wonder how they decide to make those rule changes every year? While you only have to learn a handful of modifications in any given year in your sport, the rulemakers sift through hundreds of proposals annually before ultimately instituting the ones that benefit the game.

Cold Calling
The adventure awaits – Eskimo settlements, Russian fishing villages, deadly temperatures reaching 40 below, even polar bears! From the midnight sun of Barrow and Deadhorse to the remote beauty of the Aleutian chain, Alaska's athletics offer a true officiating odyssey.

You Are There: It Was Never Going to End
A routine midseason match-up between two Midwestern teams turned into a marathon. It took seven excruciatingly long, low-scoring overtimes to determine a winner and produced the longest game in Division I history.

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS:

Publisher’s Memo
Reaching Out to You

The Gag Rule
How to Call a Timeout

The News
Schindler, Former NFHS Rules Editor, Killed in Accident; New Bill Aims to Limit Liability of Rulemakers

Back to Basics
The Power of the Press

Getting It Right
Ump Treats Big Brothers (and Little Brothers, Too!)

Tools
Study Guide: College Baseball Rules; Referee Rain Uniform; Superfeet Footbeds; Online Searchable Casebooks and Rulebooks; USA Hockey Officials Page

Profiles
On Top of the World on the Mat

Take Care
What's Behind Your Calls?

For the Record
Minor League Baseball and CBA rosters

Classifieds
Camps/Clinics; Equipment/Apparel; Cyberspace; Leadership Resources; Computer Software; Miscellaneous

Last Call
A Smile Most Foul