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He once missed a House of Commons vote as he was officiating at a Barcelona match in the Champions League, leading one SNP MP to brandish a red card across the chamber.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2022

Scott Foster was one of the referees assigned to the game; the last 11 times that Suns guard Chris Paul has played in a postseason contest that Foster was officiating, Paul’s team lost.

From Washington Times • Jul. 12, 2021

Early this season, Evan Scott was officiating an N.B.A. game in Portland when a member of the Trail Blazers’ coaching staff approached him during a timeout.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2021

Krueger was officiating a high school basketball game in Richland Center, Wisconsin, on Monday night when he collapsed and died.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2021

When his father was officiating at Wem in Shropshire, in Hazlitt's twentieth year, Coleridge, who at times affected the same denomination, visited the place, and Hazlitt was most powerfully impressed by him.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George