The Hula Bowl is forging a landmark in officiating as a crew of all women will take the field for the 2023 contest. Amanda Sauer will lead the crew of 7 plus one alternate in the game that is the first of the 2023 college all-star invitational games. There are five
Diversity in officiating
NFL will make history with Monday night officiating crew
In a year of awakening, Big Ten fields a historic officiating crew
The Big Ten conference began its covid-19-belated season this weekend and officiating coordinator Bill Carollo put together a special crew for the Michigan-Minnesota game at Minneapolis, the home of George Floyd. Carollo put together an all African-American officiating crew to call the game for the first time at the Power Five
March is a big month for NFL officiating hopefuls
March is a big month on the NFL calendar as, traditionally, the NFL hires new officials. We already know of four retirements (Byron Boston, Mike Spanier, Jeff Rice and Walt Anderson) and the NFL is incentivizing several veterans to take the gold watch. So the retirement list may grow. Al Riveron, senior
XFL makes history again by opening doors to LGBTQ officials
[Editor's note: This feature was originally posted last season for the Alliance of American Football and has been updated for the 2020 XFL season.] Amanda Sauer-Cook entered into officiating because she loved the game, but she had no idea when she started that she would someday be a trailblazer that opens
XFL breaks new ground by having a woman on every officiating crew
Football Zebras exclusive As the NFL concludes it's season by having a majority minority officiating crew in Super Bowl LIV, XFL head of officiating Dean Blandino is opening doors in the creation of a diverse officiating roster for that league's reboot in February. To that end, Blandino did something unprecedented: there
