Referees threatened after Belarusian league match

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The Belarus soccer federation says a group of referees were stopped on the roadside and threatened after overseeing a draw between the top two teams in the league. The federation says the incident happened when the referee and his assistants were traveling by car following Sunday’s 2-2 draw between leader BATE Borisov and second-place Shakhter Soligorsk. A vehicle containing unknown people apparently braked sharply to force the officials’ car to stop. The federation says the referees were then ordered out of the car and “insulted and threatened.”