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[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

I worked a game Tuesday where an assistant coach came up to me and showed me his iPod Touch and said, "this isn't a phone." Confused, I said, "OK?" and he told me an official saw him with it before their previous game and made a huge deal out of it and told him that if he saw him with it during the game, he'd remove him from the bench.

I laughed. I reassured him I wouldn't even be looking in his direction if he was sitting on the bench.

Might not be that OOO, Rich. Rule 10-1-3 and a case book play prohibits having a coach from contact with somebody in the press box. Text messages, etc. could fall into that category. That's a rule that might need updating for clarification with the technology advances.