If, before entering the field of play at the start of the match, a player or team official commits a sending-off offence, the referee has the authority to prevent the player or team official taking ...

Two officials in the U.S. Soccer Federation Referee Department ... misconduct (i.e., yellow or red card). "The Laws of the Game (specifically Law 12) say that it is a direct free kick foul ...

Firstly, soccer has no rules ... no offence, sanctions Law 12: Fouls and Misconduct - direct and indirect free-kick, disciplinary action… Law 13: Free-kick - types of free-kick, procedure ...

for direct free kick offences a penalty kick is awarded if this is within the offender’s penalty area where the Law designates another position (see Laws 3, 11, 12) The ball: must be stationary and ...

National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver, ’88, has spent much more of his professional career on basketball ...

It is well established that using your arms or hands in the game of football is not allowed. Yet the handball rule in football has been frustrating and difficult for players, coaches, fans, and ...

In April 2021, 12 of Europe’s wealthiest club soccer teams announced the formation ... of new competitions violated European law. Thursday’s ruling found that FIFA and UEFA rules were not ...

After a federal judge allowed a transgender teenage girl in New Hampshire to rejoin her school’s soccer team for the ... in ...

The United States women have been narrowly knocked out of soccer’s World Cup in the round ... through 1972’s Title IX of federal education law. Title IX wasn’t mainly about sports, but ...

Not so long ago, the idea that England’s national soccer team might ever appoint a German as its coach would have left fans of the Three Lions choking on their pints. Germans are, after all ...

Christine Masse, a Seattle attorney who's spent her entire 25-year career with the law firm Miller Nash, is stepping down to become chief legal officer of the city's two professional soccer teams ...

A lawyer for French soccer star Kylian Mbappé, one of the most famous and marketable athletes on the planet, has denied any wrongdoing after Swedish authorities opened a rape investigation ...