“We don’t want to celebritise referees, but we want to humanise them,” says Howard Webb, chief refereeing officer for Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), while sitting pitchside in ...

Jen Pawol is set to make history this Saturday as the first woman to umpire a regular-season Major League Baseball game. Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that the 48-year-old trailblazer will ...

The one constant through the years, James Earl Jones famously said as he stood in the middle of a cornfield, has been baseball. And as long as baseball has been a constant, so too has the umpire. The ...

The Schohanna Board of Baseball and Softball Umpires will hold its first meeting of 2026 at the SUNY Oneonta HIRC building lecture hall #5 at 9 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 1. This is an open interest meeting ...

CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. (NEWS10) — As athletes hit the playing fields this spring across the Capital Region, there is a growing shortage of referees in youth sports. One local community is trying to keep ...

The Schohanna Board of Baseball and Softball Umpires will hold its first meeting of 2026 at the SUNY Oneonta HIRC building lecture hall #5 at 9 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 1. This is an open interest meeting ...

The East Coast Umpire Association (ECUA) has been in operation for more than 20 years, providing referees and umpires to countless games across Palm Beach County. Federal investigators are looking ...

A serious accident has Japanese professional baseball on tenterhooks. Two weeks after being struck on the head by a flying ...