We stumbled across this site at work tonight and it has kept us entertained. The Sports Pickle is another fake sports news site that has been around for years. You should check it out. Here is one example I enjoyed.

Rookie wheelchair basketball referee calls traveling 38 times in first quarter

Dale Myers, a longtime basketball referee in northern New Jersey, brought a wheelchair basketball game to a virtual standstill on Saturday, calling more than 38 traveling violations in the first quarter before the rules of the wheelchair game were clarified for him. It was the first wheelchair game Myers ever officiated.
The opening quarter of the game between two teams of local paraplegics lasted more than 45 minutes, as Myers whistled players for traveling each time they put the basketball on their lap and wheeled around the court. Myers said he was unaware that there is no dribbling in wheelchair basketball.
“When I volunteered to referee the game the league coordinator stressed that I remember that the wheelchair basketball athletes are no different than anyone else and that the game is played exactly the same way – so that’s how I called it,” said Myers. “But what I was told was obviously not completely accurate.”
Myers not only messed up the traveling rules, but he called for numerous jump balls, to start the game and after tie-ups, causing several players on both teams to break into tears.
“I don’t think he intended any harm, but his officiating really upset a lot of us,” said Darnell Romner, who was called for traveling four times. “I’m glad somebody finally told him the rules and he did a fine job after the first quarter, but I think we’d all prefer it if he not call anymore games in our league.”

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