Flag Football: My First Love.
Love is everlasting; I’ve found that through officiating Basketball; but my first love has never left my side, upon discovery of reffing – my entree? Flag. Football. It was a…
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Episode 200, The Rant: Special Bicentennial Edition.
A Milestone that’s Special, in More Ways than One. Never in my wildest dreams that I thought a conversation with my friends would push me to make art and go…
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Episode 100, The Rant: Tommy Caramella
Kindred Spirit, Friend, Mentor. Elite Boy’s & Girl’s Nassau Basketball Official. As stubborn as it sounds, we reserved Episode 100 for this special guest. In this pod, we discuss our…
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Episode 99, The Rant: Keith Keough
Grover Cleveland High School’s Proudest Basketball & Baseball Alumni, Basketball Assistant Coach, and Board 119 Official. Keith beat the odds, and is reaping the benefits and values now. In this…
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Rule 11: Work
In the beginning, as most people have mentioned on The Rant, officiating has become a pastime, a hobby, an avenue, an outlet to make more money, supplemental to anchor the…
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Episode 77, The Rant: Nyreaf George
Multi-sport Official, Single-Minded Purpose in Making Refereeing Work For Him. Nyreaf and I go back to my CYO days in Basketball. I saw him here and there, but we just…
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Rule 9: Touch the Sky
“Small aim is a crime.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalamazoo I’m at Wendy’s conjuring up the words that will make me actuate. It’s been a whirlwind week for Cassio Machado, who by way…
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Episode 70 The Rant: Leroy Samuel.
Board 119 Certified Official, Basketball Coach to Multiple Teams, and Basketball Trainer, and Young OG. “He is I and I am him, slim with the tilted brim.” – Snoop Doggy…
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REFEREE ROUNDUP – 7.3.19
In this week’s installment, we see across the country episodes of violence amongst parents, fans, and officials. This is a serious epidemic, that we hope gets ameliorated with proper training.…
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Referee Rant Presents… A Day in the Life @ Island Garden
Here at Referee Rant, we looked at the landscape of videos. When it came to sports, it always focused on the players, and rightly so. We are flipping that concept…
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