7 days ago

There is nothing worse for the father of a daughter on a fastpitch softball team than to be asked to Umpire the game. The double hit to the gut is to umpire behind the plate when your daughter is pitching. You would think that the parents of the opposing team would have a problem with it, but when y ...

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11 days ago by Alok Gurtu

Former England umpire David Shepherd died after a long battle with cancer David Shepherd, the legendary international umpire, died after a long battle with cancer. He was 68. His umpiring career started in 1981 from first-class matches. His last Test appearance was in June 2005 between West Indies a ...

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13 days ago by rahul

New Delhi: India’s batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar has come out in support of more technology being used for umpiring decisions saying that the umpires should be left to adjudge only the LBW decisions while the technology can take care of the rest. Tendulkar, who will be beginning his 21 st year in ...

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13 days ago by Jrod

Poor old Tom Redfern from Get a Hundred was banned for two games by the MCCL for showing dissent to an umpire. Based on the video proof it seems like a shit decision by a bunch of people with another agenda, that agenda seems to be blogging. This is from his post: “Next on agenda; comments in your b ...

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13 days ago by BnM Lover

I've spent much of the past ten days hiding in a dark room looking at "special interest" sites (not porn) and just recollecting myself. Family is up from Florida and they've really lifted my spirits. I haven't been depressed; I'm more less examining the past two years of my life and trying to analyz ...

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17 days ago by spikesup

Some people are rather angry at umpires. I understand that this list of umpire ratings is from the 2007 season but I think that it is sufficient to help me make my point. The umpiring this year has been downright awful and the postseason has unfortunately been no exception. Even with the league’s “b ...

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18 days ago by Keely Dunn

A stellar entry in my good friend John Hrytsak's blog. He's a terrific writer and just reading his post gets me excited about going out for my next match. Canada vs. India, the latest chapter in my umpiring career. Ť John Hrytsak's Random Thoughts Blog.

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18 days ago by Keely Dunn

The FIH has announced that they will implement the EHL rules variation mandating a 2-minute suspension for a green card in the upcoming Men's ABN AMRO Champions Trophy in Melbourne as well as the 3 BDO WorldHockey World Cup Qualifiers in France, New Zealand and Argentina. At those tournaments, playe ...

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18 days ago by Adam Bernacchio

So much for CC Sabathia not being able to pitch in the postseason huh? On just three days rest, New York Yankees’ ace CC Sabathia dominated the feeble Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim lineup and Alex Rodriguez hit yet another homerun, as the Yankees crushed the Angels last night 10-1 to take a 3-1 lead ...

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20 days ago by Charles Simone

Since it's the playoffs, and there was a controversial call this past weekend that wasn't strictly about the umpire's judgement, I thought I should chime in on the issue. Saturday night's ALCS game two call by umpire Jerry Layne on Erick Aybar's double-play-that-wasn't had the potential to result in ...

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