An official will assess a flagrant foul 1 if the contact is deemed "unnecessary." The WNBA rulebook outlines a flagrant 1 as follows: "Rule 12B, Section IV-a.: ...

Flagrant foul rules will also be used to protect players from any "dangerous or excessively hard deliberate fouls," including if a player tries to deliberately foul an opponent by leaping on an ...

A YouTube video is drawing attention to a series of hard fouls on Hornets guard Jeremy Lin that have all been called common fouls by NBA referees.

Kelsey Plum might have deserved a straight red card during Saturday’s game against the Golden State Valkyries. The Los Angeles Sparks guard Plum received backlash for her flagrant foul on ...

Los Angeles Sparks star Kelsey Plum was called for a flagrant foul while defending against Veronica Burton on Saturday.

Yet, despite the Sky's 88-64 victory at Wintrust Arena, controversy continues to swirl around Reese, the All-Star forward who ...

Silver said the new rules changes will have a real impact on games, and there will be a reduction of "roughly 45 percent of the incidents of the away-from-the-play fouls right now." ...