I was at that game in 2005, and watching that video was exactly as terrifying as watching Fischer go down, complete with the team rushing off the benches to stop the game.

The catch is this: eight out of the 14 referees are from either the NHL or Russia. I'll bet that the Russians would've lost their nut over the call if it was per chance Canadian official because of the NHL angle ("They just want another US/Canadian final!").

The problem is this: are you willing to accept potentially…

The follow-up item in the Austin Statesman-News gives a little more of an explanation of how this happened (the president of the track had invited her husband and her, he drove a couple laps, then she said she wanted to drive; it was completely unexpected).

If you go back to the only other sports theme that I'd call iconic, Roundball Rock, it's the same structure: open big, then go into the guts of the song with the same level of intensity.

Any man who lists Wayne Fontes (both the winningest and losingest coach in Detroit Lions history) as a coaching idol deserves at least a courtesy phone call.

Actually, no: that was Joe Garagiola sitting next to Scully. That said, very similar in terms of points in their careers.

Do not discount the incredible Harry Coyle, who directed this masterpiece while it was happening. Really, watching it 25 years later and thinking how overproduced/overdirected this would be done today is just depressing.

They blew the call. From the rules on substitutions:

The rule is that if you can pronounce what's written the same way as the correct answer, you get it. And speaking as someone who had speech problems growing up, I could easily see how someone could get to that spelling via pronunciation.

It's designed to prevent fishing expeditions which tie up public records officials. The problem lies in the fact that, as you note, $1 for a photocopy is an absurd charge (in contrast, when I worked at FedEx Office way back when, the usual charge was 25¢ per page). Frequently governments will use these charges as a…

(quickly goes to make clip of that soundbite for iPhone alarm)

The reaction of Merloni holding those papers up in front of his face because he wanted to lose it as bad as the viewers wanted to makes this video.

"May I suggest using a nightstick, officer?"

You know how KTVU swears up and down that these were the names the NTSB gave them?

The usher interrupting a live TV interview?

He's holding a microphone with the logo for Root Sports, a Pittsburgh area sports channel on it,

A couple points to add:

The worst part is the paper doesn't even look like that anymore! They did a full redesign last September. This is what it looks like now:

This validates what I've thought all along: Ridley never really looked at the original violation (calling it "splitting hairs" in his text to Eger). When Woods admitted it, suddenly Ridley was in a heap of trouble because the video was so incriminating when attached to Woods admission. That's what made Ridley's…

I would've never thought there would ever be a greater US national anthem moment than Wayne Messmer before the 91 NHL ASG in Chicago.