I wonder if the student-run part is going to be limited to the sports that aren’t necessarily regularly covered in the mainstream. BTN does something similar with their “BTN Student U” program where the schools’ production groups/programs run the production for non-revenue-producing sports (regular season baseball and…

*kinja’d*

Ok, who let Tony LaRussa near the computer again?

Not to rule-truther anyone here, but you can pull a quasi-double switch. The player in the DH spot can take a place in the field and the pitcher can then take the spot in the lineup of any of the other players and straight-sub for that player. This has to be requested at the time of the substitution, however.

There’s quite a bit of “gentle” controversy over who actually pioneered concrete-and-steel engineering - Osborn obviously a big name, but if you go to anyone who knows in Chicago, they’d say that it was Zachary Davis. No doubt that this era (‘20s and ‘30s) was the start of the “baseball stadium as a cathedral of the…

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You got that right. I went to look up the numbers and expected to see 150 or 160 for Goff’s yardage. It’s the NFL equivalent of hearing Carmelo Anthony go 9-for-40 from the field, but still score something like 30 points.

Good point. Nagy’s best trait so far is that he lets his D-coordinator and coaches do what they do best, and just stay out of the way. Let’s hope that continues into the future.

The Bears (Week 14) pretty much provided the blueprint to shut down the Rams. Shut down Gurley’s cutbacks and vertical running (Bears gave up 11-28, Patriots 10-35) and force Goff to make bad decisions on the regular (Goff’s line against the Bears was 20-44-180, 0TD-4INT, and the Patriots 19-38-229, 0TD-1INT).…

Regarding advantage - water polo has something similar, and the rule is worded similarly to the idea at which you’re getting. “A foul shall not be whistled if it would give an advantage to the team without the ball.” The problem with this in basketball is that this is going to encourage much more physical play, in…

Jerry Sandusky likes your style.

I would be very interested to know who the source of the documents actually is. This kind of game report generally isn’t available to anyone except the league office, the evaluators, and the officials in the conference. And everything is filed electronically, never printed on hard copy. Someone really wanted to throw…

That is the dichotomy I set up, and “sociopath” was a poor choice of terminology. Truthfully, it certainly isn’t an either-or proposition, and my comment really was meant to speak more to the “good faith” aspect of his judgments, regardless of if they were ultimately correct or incorrect. That’s really what I think…

You’re 100% right here, and it’s probably the biggest issue we as officials deal with, in any sport. In addition to our rules knowledge and mechanics knowledge, we need to be able to consistently apply our judgment to every play, and we need to be as uniform as possible in whatever sport we are. Unfortunately, no two…

He may have been. Based on what I’ve read about his history with this type of judgment call, it doesn’t seem out of line with what he’s done previously.

I don’t disagree with you there - even the best, most level-headed of officials could have a bad minute/game/day and make a call they regret because they did it out of emotion rather than dispassionate examination and judgment. Joey Crawford’s action was definitely bad optics, but that’s a single instance against…

I think umpires care about the outcome insofar that it was achieved by the rules and that the umpire him/herself didn’t unduly influence it. I don’t know if the umpire was “excited” about Osaka pulling the upset - I would suspect that he was more concerned that the match might swing back the other way, and sensitive…

I would agree with you more on the second and third sentence than on the first. There are day-to-day variances that might very slightly affect an official’s judgment, and potentially make them more sensitive to certain aspects of a contest. Those variances don’t affect the foundation of good faith on which officials…

Given what I make working football and baseball, $450 for working a final at the US Open?! (I’m assuming they get travel/lodging/per diem as well, but shit, only a day’s pay of $450 on top of that? Good lord.)

College football referee and baseball umpire here. So much of the commentary about this event has ascribed motivation to this official’s action, most of which is probably unwarranted. Ramos’s sole motivation was to enforce the rules, and enforce them as consistently as he could. He almost certainly didn’t want to…