Getting down to officials business From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) | Date: March 21, 2002| Author: | Copyright 2002 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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Getting down to officials business

By DAN MANOYAN of the Journal Sentinel staff

Thursday, March 21, 2002

If you attended a non-conference boys basketball game in Brown Deer this season, you saw something you rarely see outside the city of Milwaukee in Wisconsin: a three-person officiating crew.

"We can do that," said Brown Deer coach / athletic director Mike Novak. "Because I know the athletic director pretty well."

But what about the rest of the state? Outside of Milwaukee, where three-person crews are employed for about 30 key games per season, three-person crew sightings are about as ...

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