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Excerpt from 51 Ways to Ruin a Baseball Game
Call a technical balk
By Carl Childress
August 27th, 2008

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Baseball
Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part III
Lumber, lead feet and foul reporting
By Ray Cox
August 27th, 2008

The legs feed the wolf: That's a fact of life. So you might mistakenly assume that the more and faster one runs, the better fed he is. But the difference between the adolescent pup and the leader of the pack is that the jefe knows when, where, and how much to run.

Mad dashing about, running just to be running, is not productive. It's tiring. And it gives the impression that the runner doesn't know what he's doing.

Veterans know when to run. The only real difference between us and the wolves is that we don't eat our prey — usually.

Click the title and allow me to share a useful hint for how to look more like the leader of the pack and less like the adolescent pup.

Basketball
Applying the Advantage/Disadvantage Principle
By Jim Dixon
August 26th, 2008

"Advantage/disadvantage is already built into the rules." How many times have you heard that?

Read the article to see if it's true.

Baseball
Balk: It's Just Another Four-Letter Word — Part IV
By Garth Benham
August 26th, 2008

We've dealt with the sneaky stuff, the deceptive balks; those things the pitcher does that the OBR says he cannot do. Now we'll take a look at the mechanic balks, those things the pitcher doesn't do that OBR says he must do; and the penal balks, those actions simply deemed illegal and deserving of a penalty.

A word of caution: Most authorities agree with the three categories of balks (deceptive, mechanic and penal), and which of the balks are deceptive. There is, however, some disagreement as to the labeling of the remaining balks. The lists that follow represent as close a consensus as could be established.

Football
We Want "Six" — Part II
Wanted: a sixth official
By Darin Hayes
August 25th, 2008

Darin emails:

The catch-phrase "Drive for six" is commonplace in the realm of football, but the drive for six I'm talking about in this series has a different meaning than what is customary. In Part I, some of the inadequacies of officiating with five-man crews were examined. Today, I'll discuss the best fix for those deficiencies, which is: adding a sixth official.

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