POSTS BRODIE REC LEAGUE Good news for all of our referees who would like a longer season, more games, and possibly more challenging games. We are working with this nation wide recreation league to provide officials for their basketball games in Calgary. This league runs for up to 11 months of the year, and 1 evening each week. The games are on Wednesday evenings and will start as early as 7:30pm ( 3 game evening ) and finish at 10:30pm. If there are only 2 games, then the first game will be at 8:30pm, and the last game will finish at 10:30pm. This is not for everybody, as this league…

POSTS FIBA 3 VS.3 WORLD TOUR Post Archives The FIBA 3 vs.3 world tour comes to Canada with one stop in Edmonton, Alberta on July 28 to 30, 2023. Three days of intense and exciting basketball that features the best in the world of both mens and women 3 vs.3 basketball Get ready for this epic return of basketball’s greatest 3×3 athletes to downtown Edmonton this summer! The 2023 FIBA 3×3 Men’s World Tour and Women’s Series events will be held at ICE District Fan Park. Edmonton, renowned for its successful 3×3 Challenger events, has been chosen as the exclusive Canadian host for the flagship FIBA World 3×3 Tour for…

POSTS SEASON END EXHIBITION GAME Post Archives Thanks to Heather and all the gang at Clearwater Academy, we had an opportunity to be involved in an exhibition game between the Clearwater senior boys and girls teams, and the Calgary Stampeders football club. Yes, you read that right, a football team, playing basketball. Let me tell you about a little known secret, these guys are very good athletes and for many elite athletes they had opportunities to play one of several sports, and in this case they chose football. That doesn’t mean that they are not good at other sports, and in this case five Calgary Stampeders put up a very…

POSTS THE POSSIBILITY OF AN EXTENDED SEASON Post Archives As we all know by now, the shortage of referees that we experienced last season has continued into this season, and most likely will take a few years before we might see these numbers get back to where they need to be. The problem has affected not only basketball but all types of minor sports throughout the country. Again, this is the result of the restrictions necessary to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the inability to organize any sort of group activity. In this case, providing training for basketball officials through organizations such as CMBA, and the equivalent. Bottom line…

POSTS BASKETBALL IS BACK IN CALGARY Post Archives Not only is it back, but it came roaring back with new schools, new teams and an intent to get back what it had lost over the last few years. There have been some casualties of the COVID pandemic, one being the pool of referees that we have to work with. It’s not just basketball that has been hard hit, but all organized sports have seen a large decline in the number of available officials. With no new recruits added to the system for the last two years, and many referees retiring for various reasons, our pool of referees is very low. …