[GarthB]

Somewhere in this thread it was stated: "But in addition, baseball is a different beast. Why conform to what others are doing. Basketball is not 'Miked'."

While vacation in Southern California over Christmas I read an article in the San Bernadino Sun about Phil Jackson, who was fined once earlier for refusing to be mic'd, bitching that the two technicals his Lakers received were due in part to the fact the the ref "was mic'd and not concentrating on his job like he would have if it weren't for the microphone."

I don't know if this becoming common or not, I normally don't watch basketball until the playoffs, but it seems at least in this game a basketball ref was "mic'd".