THINKING ABOUT REFEREEING

1. Anne Arundel Umpires Assn.useful, interesting: quotes,10 commandments & much more
2. Soccer match analysis by Ric Miller  the Game behind the Game
3. The Diagonal    Articles from the AYSO Section 2 referee newsletter
4. Inside the Laws -- commentaries by Bill Sullivan
5. Referees, Coaches and Parents: Role Models
6. Teamwork, from Brent McLaren's Amateur Baseball Umpire homepage
7. Thoughts On Recertification and Training, by baseball umpire Brent McLaren
8. The Way An Official Develops and Learns; the Officials Corner, from Wrestling USA magazine
9. BAFRA Manual of Football Officiating    It's gridiron, but chapters 4,5,6 are very useful
10. Guidelines used by rugby assessors to rate games and referee performance
11. New England Rugby Referees manual (see especially Introduction to Refereeing)
12. Sports officials' training courses of the Australian College of Sports Education
13. Rol del Arbitro Deportivo (Fútbol), from the Uruguayan National Youth Institute
14. Psychological Skills for Referees, from the New Zealand Rugby Referees Association
15. Australian basketball's parallel Youth Referees Grading System
16. Mental Preparation: a useful checklist from basketball ref  Jon Levinson
17. Things to think about, from basketball ref Jon Levinson
18. Krantz' Laws for basketball officials