
 
 With regular referees locked out in a labor dispute with the NFL, a woman replacement ref will work a game for the first time Thursday night. (Bob Leverone / AP) The lockout of NFL referees continues, which means that Shannon Eastin will get her chance to officiate a preseason game. 
 
 Eastin will work Thursday’s game between the Green Bay Packers and San Diego Chargers, marking the first time a woman will be part of an officiating crew, the Los Angeles Times’ Sam Farmer reports. Eastin has been a referee in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and other leagues. 
 
 Replacement refs worked the Hall of Fame game Sunday night between the New Orleans Saints and Arizona Cardinals and stumbled a bit getting out of the gate. 
 
 Craig Ochoa, who has worked Big Ten games, messed up the coin flip, incorrectly announcing the results and then, as he caught his error, stopping to say, “Correction. Arizona won the coin toss.” 
 
 Talks between the league and officials’ union are continuing, with the NFL training replacements in the interim. 
 
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 For the first time, a woman will work an NFL game as part of the officiating crew. Shannon Eastin will be part of the replacement crew officiating Thursday's Green Bay-at-San Diego game. 
 
 Eastin, who's from Arizona, has been a referee for several high school and small-college conferences. 
 
 The NFL and its regular officials have yet to agree on a new collective-bargaining agreement. Those officials were locked out in June. 
 
 It's the first such labor meltdown since 2001, when a contract dispute led to the officials missing the last exhibition game and first regular-season game. 
 
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– With NFL referees locked out since June amid a collective-bargaining dispute, a new batch of officials will be calling the shots in upcoming games—and for the first time, one of them is a woman. Shannon Eastin, who has refereed small-college and high school games, will officiate at a Green Bay Packers vs. San Diego Chargers exhibition game on Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reports. But the replacement refs have had a shaky start: In last night's Hall of Fame game, an official had to correct himself after announcing the wrong coin toss outcome, the Washington Post notes.