Referee endorsements?

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

She keeps me in line. 10 years ago, when we incorporated our business, I told her I thought we should name the company after me. She said she didn't think the state would let us register "Dum$hit, Inc.".

All this honesty, and she's an incredible babe, too.

Plus... it's more difficult to get a license plate of your business name if your business has Dum$hit in it.

I'm not sure IANA allows swear words in domain names, though.

[Back In The Saddle]

I joined the convo late, but I have to say that is the most unprofessional thing I've seen in many years. Imagine taking the floor wearing that....

...belt. :O

[Kelvin green]

Yeah but I bet he did not have to buy it... gets it new ones when he needs to ...

[Karin]

A belt is a compulsory part of a FIBA refs uniform.Also the small logos on refs shirt are:a the basketball Australia one b.the WNBL logo.

The large one is the 'defence force' logo.They are the sponsors of the AWNBL-sadly unlike our nitpicking Northern Hemisphere colleagues,our leagues don't have enough funding to be able to run without sponsors contibuting to costs of transporting and accomodating officials.

BUT check the NZNBL logos-that is a target on their back-one official (originally from Northern Hemisphere) refused to wear logo on a TV game as was told you will be dropped from Panel and in fact was not rostered for 4 weeks as punishment. Officials | Basketball New Zealand logo on right hand
You can imagine the comments from courtside announcers!

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Karin

Officials | Basketball New Zealand

I went to that website and saw you have something called "Referee Officers". Do they carry guns? If so - cool.

[Karin]

Referee officers were a patchwork attempt to make up for the loss of a dedicated referee assigner-no they didn't carry guns ,although some of them with their inconsistent work ethics should have done!
.Remember NZ is one of the few places where police officers are not armed while on ordinary duty.
Am not in NZ anymore- now Canberra Australia.The referee in your original post is Travis(WNBL/NBL official who I evaluate locally.