Well, that should shut up all the racist turds braying that Balotelli isn't a real Italian.

Well, that should shut up all the racist turds braying that Balotelli isn't a real Italian.

No, it doesn't matter if the kick wasn't easier; it might have been a slight improvement (college hashmarks being wider than the goalpost, after all, so the kick is longer from a hash than from center and at an obliquely narrower target), but that slight improvement was, the Badgers thought, to be gained at no risk,…

Nope, sorry, this one's on the zebras. They blew the whistle when he laid the ball down. I heard it. You heard it. The players and other officials ten times closer to the play heard it. Doesn't matter who's waving what, once the whistle's blown, the ball is dead, and tampering with a dead ball while the clock is…

Yeah, the gloss I get from it is "kill them all and let God sort them out," as another poster spotted. Possibly the worst sentiment ever expressed by any human EVER and frankly, if you wish attach it to yourself in anything resembling a permanent form, you deserve to have someone transcribe it as "kill me now because…

Yeah... not to give too much away, but it's definitely NOT going toward "the COs say/think X so we the viewers should think X." You might've bitten on the head-fake, there.

Heh, good luck with the football exam. I've seen Chinese dictionaries lighter than the football rulebook.

You're saying it would've been a balk, which is not quite right; the rule you mean is 5.09h, which has the same effect—unless the pitch is (called) strike three for out three, in which case the batter's out and the inning's over. In either case, the pitch is valid as a ball or strike depending on whether it goes…

Hm. I said the pitch was 30 feet from the plate when Ortiz stood up; on rewatching, it was more like 60 feet 6 inches.

.... SCIENCE, bitches!

The Brooks Baseball maps are based on where the strike zone would be if the batter's not being a yutz. Clearly we have an outlier here. May still be the wrong call, but it's not eight inches wrong, and Papi could've avoided it by actually participating in the at-bat instead of being halfway to first before the pitch…

The prudent batsman does not stand upright while the ball is 30 feet from the plate, thereby 1) presuming to do the umpire's job for him and 2) depriving the umpire of his frame of reference for the strike zone and making him guess. Ortiz has surely been half a baseball player for long enough to know that he should…

You say hilarious, I say depressing as hell.

Counter-counterpoint: had he ONLY left the lane to touch the bag, you'd be right, but the rule says "a step, stride, reach, or slide in the immediate vicinity of first base for the sole purpose of touching first base." The whole rule is negated if you get to run inside the line the whole distance and then plead that…

Only problem with your reading is that, while the line is considered part of the running lane, you have to have both feet in it to be legal. And I didn't even see him touch the line with his right foot for the last 30-odd feet of his run.

Read the rule (6.05k): [a runner is out when]

IF that's what happened—the other guy's coach interfering—you're quite right, but I got nothing out of that video to suggest that was the case. And beyond saying "his coach said it" Bogomolov did nothing to MAKE the case, which he should've taken to the tournament referee if his beef was legit. That could've won him…

Sorry, did you hear ANYONE say "out" in that replay, because I sure didn't. Doesn't mean it wasn't said, but it wasn't said like a line judge would say it. It's not like Bogomolov made an effort to have a point replay, either; the umpire just made his ruling and Chuckles walked off. "Meltdown" is the appropriate…

The umpire DIDN'T allow the crowd to call balls; that's precisely the point. The guy heard "out" but didn't hear it from an official. The people who actually made the decision said nothing (which means "in"). This guy wanted a spectator's call to be binding because he was an idiot and stopped playing.

"Resemblance" ≠ "likeness." People have likeness rights; they do not have resemblance rights. Ellen Page doesn't own every image or simulacrum of a teens-to-twenties white brunette girl with a ponytail. I've been told by exactly one not-altogether-sane person that I look like George Clooney; this does not mean that…