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13 hours ago by JF

No, the Mets can’t hit. And, no, they haven’t been pitching very well either. But they don’t deserve umpiring like this. Here is the strike zone map for today’s Mets/Phillies game through 6 1/2 innings: To recap, Ed Rapuano has awarded 7 called strikes to Joe Blanton on pitches out of the zone and n ...

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15 hours ago by Keely Dunn

Condolences to the family and cricket community. It's definitely reassuring to hear it was a freak accident. Welsh cricket umpire dies after being struck by ball.

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2 days ago by Ed

Today it's been announced that Premier League referee Steve Bennett will work at the ECB as the Director of Officials. Apart from the wanky job title, good luck to him. I'd love to understand what the Director of Officials does day-to-day - organising the officials is clearly an admin job, so presum ...

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6 days ago by formerlyanonymous

Things have gotten a bit slow in these parts. Summer ball winds down this week, Pony tournament season is just getting started. School is in mid-swing. Yeah… stuff. On to today’s topic… heat exhaustion. This weekend I was the victim of some outrageous temperatures. I got a call Sunday morning around ...

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10 days ago by Ed

Yes, the ICC have said that referrals will be rolled out from October, but there is no detail given as to how they're going to do this so I'm worried. Will they, like last time, not allow the video umpire to see where technology suggests the ball will go on to after hitting the pad for LBWs? Will th ...

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11 days ago by Gabriel San Blogman

Bernice Gera’s Fight Back in the day on June 24th, 1972, Bernice Gera became the first woman to umpire a professional baseball game in the United States. Taking the field of a Class A minor league game pitting the Geneva Rangers against the Auburn Phillies, she broke the gender barrier in the profes ...

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13 days ago by Brent

Welcome to the second installment of my Weekly Bite. The week has been one that has not raised as many issues as before being the split round but here is my top and bottom four for this week in Football. THE TOP FOUR 1. ROUND 14 SAINTS VS. CATS – Both sides remain undefeated going into round 13 of F ...

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14 days ago by Keely Dunn

A third interview from the JWC, this time featuring Ghana's star, Richmond Attipoe.

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14 days ago by Keely Dunn

Another interview from the Standard Charter Bank FIH Men's Junior World Cup, this time with Spain's ever-charming Marcelo Servetto.

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14 days ago by Brent

Fremantle 11.9.75 def by. Geelong 13.16.94 Geelong has continued its winning streak in season 2009 defeating a valiant Fremantle outfit. Fremantle were able to push an at times sluggish Geelong team but just could not come away with the points, eventually being defeated by 19 points. It looked as th ...

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