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European ref in LA

Hi,
I'm a 20 year old basketball referee from the Netherlands and new on this forum. From september till january I'll be going to California for my study/internship. During this period I'd like to obtain some more expierence in officiating, visit some camps, work as many games as possible and if possible get some games evaluated. I have a few years of expierence refereeing FIBA basketball and quite some expierence as a player, but I have no idea how this would translate to US basketball.
I'll be staying with family in the Los Angeles (San Fernando) area and will have a car at my disposal. Do you think this would be possible and if so do you know any people that could help me or any camps that would suit my expierence (if there are any during that timeframe?) Any help is much appreciated.
Kind regards, Jeroen

Can You Stick Around For The Final Four ???

Since you'll be in Southern California, you'll be doing NCAA Division I basketball by October.

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Originally Posted by JeroenB (Post 825702)

Jeroen:

Welcome to the Forum. The first place to start is with the California Basketball Officials Association (http://www.cboa.net/); this is the main website for the CBOA.

I was a member of the San Gabriel Valley Unit when I lived in Glendale, California, from Feb. 1982 to Aug. 1984; in my opinion it was the finest Unit in the CBOA back then. The San Gabriel Valley Unit's website is: http://www.cboa.net/sangabrievalley/.

There is also a San Fernando Valley Unit and its website is: http://www.cboa.net/sanfernandovalley/.

There are sections at each website that will give you names of people to contact. If you choose the San Gabriel Valley Unit, please tell them that I recommended them. They were a very helpful group of guys back then.

MTD, Sr.

Thanks for the quick and informative reply mr DeNucci, found some really useful information on those sites.

PS: URL's work better with only lower case characters ;)

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Originally Posted by JeroenB (Post 825777)

Thanks for the quick and informative reply mr DeNucci, found some really useful information on those sites.

PS: URL's work better with only lower case characters ;)

Did you mean "url"?;)

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Originally Posted by BillyMac (Post 825705)

Since you'll be in Southern California, you'll be doing NCAA Division I basketball by October.

Even though you said it, this never gets old. ;)

Peace

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Originally Posted by BillyMac (Post 825705)

Since you'll be in Southern California, you'll be doing NCAA Division I basketball by October.

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Originally Posted by JRutledge (Post 825807)

Even though you said it, this never gets old. ;)

My thoughts too......unless of course, you're new to the forum.....and then your response is huh? :confused:

I've Been On The Forum For More Than Six Years ???

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Originally Posted by grunewar (Post 825808)

Ed Zackery!

Huh?

C'mon Billy, snap out of it......

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Originally Posted by BillyMac (Post 825822)

Huh?

Google it........

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Originally Posted by grunewar (Post 825846)

Google it........

He's probably doing an image search.

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Originally Posted by RichMSN (Post 825866)

Copied from the Interwebs:

A woman was very distraught at the fact that she had not had a date or any sex in quite some time.

She was afraid she might have something wrong with her, so she decided to seek the medical expertise of a sex therapist. Her doctor recommended that she see Dr. Chang, the well-known Chinese sex therapist, so she went to see him.

Upon entering the examination room, Dr. Chang said, "OK, take off all you crose." The woman did as she was told. "Now, get down and craw reery, reery fass to odder side of room." Again, the woman did as she was instructed. Dr. Chang then said, "OK, now craw reery, reery fass back to me." So she did.

Dr. Chang shook his head slowly and said, "Your probrem vewy bad. You haf Ed Zachary Disease. Worse case I ever see. Dat why you not haf sex or dates."

Worried, the woman asked anxiously, "Oh my God, Dr. Chang, what is Ed Zachary Disease?"

Dr. Chang looked the woman in the eye and replied, "Ed Zachary Disease is when your face rook Ed Zachary rike your ***."

Am I the only one who finds this NOT funny and in very poor taste?

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Originally Posted by VaTerp (Post 825876)

Am I the only one who finds this NOT funny and in very poor taste?

I think Rich has been hacked.

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Originally Posted by just another ref (Post 825878)

I think Rich has been hacked.

Lol- Maybe. I think he's just reposting the joke from the "interwebs."

I just think it's in poor taste and NOT funny. Now if it was actually funny, then poor taste can certainly be overlooked.

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Originally Posted by VaTerp (Post 825882)

Lol- Maybe. I think he's just reposting the joke from the "interwebs."

I just think it's in poor taste and NOT funny. Now if it was actually funny, then poor taste can certainly be overlooked.

To each his own. I think without question it could be considered to be in questionable taste, but hey, we're all adults here, and one big happy family.
sorta

But I actually did find it funny.

It's just that there are a number of other guys here that I would have thought much more likely to post this than Rich.