4 days ago by Keely Dunn

From WorldHockey: "The first day of the BDO World Cup Qualifier in Invercargill, New Zealand saw the recognition of Umpire Satinder KUMAR (IND) umpiring his 100th International match... His career highlights are as follows: Two Olympic Games: Athens (GRE) 2004 and Beijing (CHN) 2008 Two World Cups: ...

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4 days ago by Keely Dunn

From the NPUA website, guidance for the new rules has been produced by David 'Tex' Lane. As with the outdoor guidance published earlier this year, this document has been endorsed by both England Hockey and the FIH, so it can and, in my view, should be taken as authoritative in any jurisdiction playi ...

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9 days ago by Charles Simone

A couple of the umpiring controversies from this postseason, as well as last year's, got me to thinking about a post I originally planned to do over a year ago. Unless you're new here, you probably know that I attended Brinkman/Froemming Umpire School in 1994. My "dream" to become a professional bas ...

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10 days ago by BnM Lover

In just a few minutes, the clock will strike midnight and it will have been four weeks since my last relationship ended. It doesn't seem like it's been that long. Then again, I did lock myself in my bedroom for ten days after the break up. I've had a lot of time on my hands which has lead to a lot o ...

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22 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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26 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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27 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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27 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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28 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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32 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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