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Confidence Comes from the Rules
Confidence is the key to success
Confidence is the key to success and optimum performance in any endeavor, but confidence is not a genetic mental...
New Video Guide on Targeting is Like Nothing You’ve Seen Before
The holy grail of officiating training is useful video. The key word there is 'useful'. In sports, video is now everywhere. The problem with...
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Five Steps Toward Being Truly Great
Let’s assume you are a good umpire, even an exceptional umpire. You do well on association exams and know your mechanics. Nevertheless, do you...
NCAA Officials Share Fitness Regimens
Recently, we asked a handful of top NCAA officials from both the men’s and women’s game to share their fitness routines as they prepared...
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General Officiating
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Get To The Point With Game Language
Good officials must know the language of their respective sports and be able to communicate that language in a way that coaches and players...
MLB umpire Steve Rippley ejects 17 during one ’84 game
It may happen that an umpire can go through an entire career without a “hat trick.” That’s baseball parlance for ejecting three participants in...
