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Be Courageous!

Personal confession time from a few games in my 17 years of officiating: I’m sure if I spent more time, I would remember more examples of when I decided to take the…

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Get it Right!

Sometimes we freeze, brain-fart, head up and lock, swallow our whistle, or panic. We make the wrong call. It happens. How we react when we snap out of it and refocus is…

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Responding to a Coach

In the last Ready for Play article, we discussed how coaches want good listeners. We need to discipline ourselves to completely listen to the coach’s concern without immediately jumping in with an…

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