1.   Although Stump was a prolific writer whose subjects ranged from the champion golfer Sam Snead to basketball referees, his best-known account was a twice-told tale.

2.   As the daughter of a basketball referee she had connections with the game, but was unfamiliar with one of the local San Antonio stars.

3.   A basketball referee runs up and down the court with a whistle in his mouth and a pen and paper in his hand.

4.   Leslie is a high school basketball referee.

5.   Nope, Siebert is a high school basketball referee.

6.   That basketball referee in the Yankee dugout knows they need to score every time.

7.   The basketball referees are restless, jangly, suspicious of a world without carefully painted lines and half-circles underfoot.

8.   Whose numbers are right means little to Allen, because he has a different reason why NFL officials should be paid as well as baseball umpires and basketball referees.

9.   With a few quick whistles, a basketball referee can put a player on hisheels better than can the best defender.