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“Has the WNBA ditched those restrictive expensive uniforms and just gone for the traditional shirts vs skins?”

Not yet. Not all the players have nike tattoos on the chests.

wy69

“The ball was sitting motionless in the hands of Clark’s teammate.”

If you revue the film, both her teamates hands went on the ball to push it toward her and Clark’s hands were in a position to recieve the inbound pass. It wasn’t until after the contact that the teamate released the right and dropped the ball. From the official’s standpoint, the effort to inbound had started as the ball was in possession of the player out of bounds and a 5 swecond count would have been started but was stopped by the contact.

Also, review the call. It was considered a deadball foul and the contact was not considered in an act of guarding a player so it was called intentional.

The flagrant came later and was after consideration of the amount of contact. But it could have been hidden by an act of guarding and not just throwing a shoulder. For years grabbing to stop the clock, especially if they had a foul to give, was a regular thing. The whole change to fouls in the NBA was done so they couldn’t intentionally foul people, like O’Neil, that couldn’t shoot free throws. But in the minds of the league this time, this also displayed a cheap shot. Hence fine.

The amount of uncalled contact in the both leagues is far greater than people think. And it is allowed as long as it doesn’t hamper the flow of the game. All three rulebooks, NBA/WNBA, National Federation of High Schools, and the NCAA, have a line in the back under rule interpretations that reads “just because there is contact, to include violent contact, doesn’t neccessarily constritute a foul.” As you can see, there is a lot more to these calls than just the contact itself.

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As the WNBA continues in it’s competition with the NBA, it has grown in its determinations of what will put butts in the seats. The years of failing in the women’s leagues was consistent with the inability to dunk and supply the contact that the NBA has been doing without calls since the 1950’s. And as long as it fills the arenas, it will continue. Remember, the owners make the rules and they are always looking at the bottom line. So the slow transition to larger players and more contact in the WNBA has been foremost in their finnacial success. Carter’s foul is common place in the NBA and Clark is going to have to get used to the cheap shots.

WNBA Rules 12 section 8 applies.

If that had happened in an NBA game, depending on who it was, it most likely would have been called a loose ball foul and at most an intentional foul (possibly flagrant) which after the 2017 season is considered an intentional which is a shot and the ball depending on when it happened. Flagrant constitutes an ejection. This was thei leagues way of trying to control the intentional foul to keep it a foul and not a flagrant one that could cause injury and try to entice away from the advantageous false double foul. Don’t go there if you can stay away from it. It’s normally covered by shot arrow now. And if Carter had just reached for the ball while making the contact, it would have been just a common foul and she would have gotten away with not getting a fine because the ball was being inbounded at the time of the foul so it could be identified with trying to get a better guarding position.

wy69

“The Israelis remain soft-hearted in the wake of all this.”

The body has four cheeks, the last two are your az. For thousands of years, there has been a total attack on the Jews all over the world with the word genicide written all over it. The people that are attacking them have lied, murdered, and even caused the death of their own people to carry out this frenzy. And some half wit person (Biden) who is too senile to be held responsible for following basic security needs of the country he can’t control has come up with a plan he can’t enforce, can’t threaten anyone with, one his people can’t rewrite, but will continue on its course to no gain and the death of thousands before it’s over.

There is only one way to stop it: cut off their hamas’ safe haven having the people of Gaza do it by cutting off their food, power, all the comforts of home until they get hamas out of their country. If they refuse, they pay a price they determined they wanted to. Ball’s in their court.

Otherwise, this will pause long enough for hamas to resupply, and it will come right back just as it has since before the time of Christ. God left good and evil in the world. They haven’t left yet.

wy69

“The Israelis remain soft-hearted in the wake of all this.”

The body has four cheeks, the last two are your az. For thousands of years, there has been a total attack on the Jews all over the world with the word genicide written all over it. The people that are attacking them have lied, murdered, and even caused the death of their own people to carry out this frenzy. And some half wit person (Biden) who is too senile to be held responsible for following basic security needs of the country he can’t control has come up with a plan he can’t enforce, can’t threaten anyone with, one his people can’t rewrite, but will continue on its course to no gain and the death of thousands before it’s over.

There is only one way to stop it: cut off their hamas’ safe haven having the people of Gaza do it by cutting off their food, power, all the comforts of home until they get hamas out of their country. If they refuse, they pay a price they determined they wanted to. Ball’s in their court.

Otherwise, this will pause long enough for hamas to resupply, and it will come right back just as it has since before the time of Christ. God left good and evil in the world. They haven’t left yet.

wy69

“...Biden had spoken of reaching a complete ceasefire ahead of the first phase of the deal...”

Can’t be done. Terrorists do not tell the truth or do what they say unless it is based upon destruction and harm.

“...a permanent end to hostilities...”

These histilities, better known as cleansing, have been going on for over 2000 years. And here’s this half wit idiot saying they are just going to stop it and keep it that way? That is self explanatory.

wy69

Here’s what the police report reads:

Scheffler, in an attempt to bypass the traffic, pulled into the westbound lane, where Gillis was stationed “in full LMPD uniform and a hi-visibility yellow reflective rain jacket.

That would mean he was on the opposite side of the road from the entrance traveling east and would need to cross the road to get into the club entrance.

The report said Gillis stopped Scheffler and attempted to give him instructions, but that Scheffler “refused to comply and accelerated forward, dragging [him] to the ground.”

ESPN’s Darlington said Scheffler drove about 10 yards before pulling over by the club entrance.

If you look at the tapes, you will see that the entrance to the club was not on the edge of the road but about 20 yards inside of the lane with a gate and film displayed Scheffler driving in that lane and had not reached the entrance yet when he was detained.

But, he did cross the traffic of the westbound part of the road after ignoring Gillis’ attempt to stop him.

Romines, lawyer, said “the miscommunication arose” because Gillis isn’t part of the regular event-traffic detail. “They are allowed to go through, that’s why they have the credential and the wave-through,”

And I suppose the presence of numerous police cruisers with lights on and high-visibility vests with traffic blocked off in both directions is not a sure sign that something is different?

From a previous entry.

“comparing Sheffler driving on the median to rape and murder is a bit of a stretch”

You don’t see this scenario as a major event but they booked him on a felony.

You can call this what you want, but it is just another time when law enforcement looks the other way for athletes because of the local income. And ponder this, they didn’t take him to court, the just dropped the charges. Happens all the time for numerous athletes for many different offenses. This is just another one.

But I’ll leave you with an article from ESPN which will give you an idea of what the real world is like:

https://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/13065247/college-athletes-major-programs-benefit-confluence-factors-somes-avoid-criminal-charges

And this isn’t even at the pro level where the money is far more lucritive. I’m off this topic, have a good time.

wy69

“Opposition lawmaker Yoshiharu Asakawa cited findings last year by the U.S. government’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) set up to handle such issues, adding that Japan lacked a similar body.”

Yeah, that’s the ticket! Japan needs to copy the incentives of the US by establishing an office to track things we can’t catch, or admit to, that if they exist have traveled light years to get here and are compassionate enough to let us live when we can’t even find an observation balloon that traveled from Hawaii, to Alaska, and right through the middle of the US at astounding speeds until it parked over our defense locations. (Then let it go to another location) Good thought Japan. I guess they are upset they missed out on the Salem witch tribunals and are making it up with this step forward.

wy69

“Who was the SS guy that was killed?”

Helmut Kämpfe was a highly decorated commander in the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. He was burned alive in front of an audience.

wy69

“Took you long enough.”

I guess I still don’t understand what you want. Not using them for playoff games is a far cry from firing them. And the can easily do that for performance. There is a line as long as the one to get into our southern border of officials that would give their first born to get into the league and make the bucks with the perks these guys get. Yet the person that was misrepresented as the person that made the call displayed is still under contract making the bucks which you seem to want fired.

If he’s that bad, and the line of officials is that long, and it is, then why is he still there? He apparently is doing what the league wants. So that’s their product. Either enjoy it or change channels to another league. But complaining about something that isn’t being changed accomplishes nothing.

The NFL for years had made decisions “in the fans best interests” as long as it fits their lifestyle. And the owners are the ones that make those decisions. They make the big bucks from their product and you, the fan, pays it. And as long as the outlook is consistent, they will move their chess pieces around on their board. And if they’re happy, that’s where the buck stops.

wy69

“Took you long enough.”

I guess I still don’t understand what you want. Not using them for playoff games is a far cry from firing them. And the can easily do that for performance. There is a line as long as the one to get into our southern border of officials that would give their first born to get into the league and make the bucks with the perks these guys get. Yet the person that was misrepresented as the person that made the call displayed is still under contract making the bucks which you seem to want fired.

If he’s that bad, and the line of officials is that long, and it is, then why is he still there? He apparently is doing what the league wants. So that’s their product. Either enjoy it or change channels to another league. But complaining about something that isn’t being changed accomplishes nothing.

The NFL for years had made decisions “in the fans best interests” as long as it fits their lifestyle. And the owners are the ones that make those decisions. They make the big bucks from their product and you, the fan, pays it. And as long as the outlook is consistent, they will move their chess pieces around on their board. And if they’re happy, that’s where the buck stops.

wy69

“...comparing Sheffler driving on the median to rape and murder is a bit of a stretch”

I can find all kinds of crimes that athletes are involved in that are swept under the rug as an example of the special treatment of athletes. It’s no comparison, it just existance of crimes no matter what they are. But the ones that can be identified within the media are only the big ones. And judeing by the ammount of them, I think it is safe to assume there are others that are ignored of a lesser value.

Carrol Rosenbloom was mafia connected and was in debt to the families in different parts of the country due to gambling. His drowning was witnessed by a Canadian tourist on the shore the day it happened and that witness has not been identified by law enforcement in any reports by name and is no longer around.

But the information caused Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn to call on Attorney General William French Smith to look into implications that organized crime figures had fixed a dozen NationalFootball League games between 1968 and 1970. And Rosembloom was part of that investigation. If you wish to look some up, look at athletes attached to beatings, illegal gun possession and other acts of violence that compare to dragging a cop holding on to a car into oncoming traffic at a confined road that had a fatal accident in it. You’ll find them.

wy69

“The best revenge for this misuse of authority will come when the PGA removes this venue from the schedule.”

And that’s why the charges were dropped. Not because he didn’t break the law when he turned intentionally into oncoming traffic to get into the course even though there were lights, high visibility cops, and lit up police cars in the roadway to control traffic. They were all there. This is not the first time a sport has threatened authority to get their way.

We have reports of crimes that have been swept under the rug for many years. Players beating and raping women have just disappeared before. Kobe Bryant, Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Henderson, Christian Peter, Mark Chmura, Dave Meggett, Lawrence Taylor, and there are many more. And these are just sisome of the battery/sex charges. Drugs fill another catagory altogether. The death of Carrol Rusenblume drowning was never looked into even though there was a witness to people holding him under. There’s many more. Just because the cops did their jobs on the front line still doesn’t make the prosecuters do theirs.

wy69

“Allen and his crew are infamously awful”

The original thread did not cover the crew, it covered the displayed play. And by going after an official that had nothing to do with the play is what I posted. If you wish to complain about the linesman and his error, go for it. But you aren’t when you mention the referee slot making a call he didn’t.

The problem with the post to me is that a comment being made about the decision not to use certain officials for a contest can’t be a problem with he NFL as the rating process for officials to stay in the league is extensive.

Every play in the NFL for officials is evaluated. Each game averages about 153 plays, so a typical official who works 14 regular-season games is evaluated on nearly 2,200 plays in a single season. There is nowhere to hide on the football field. Whether working a closely contested Super Bowl or the final minutes of a preseason game, officials are expected to exhibit the same high level of excellence on every play. A subpar season-long performance could mean remediation, or even a demotion. NFL officials serve on a year-to-year contract, and they have to prove their mettle every year. There is no guarantee that they will return the next season.

So if they are not good enough to be there, then why did the NFL sign them and let them continue to call when they are constantly evaluated with film, required supervisor game attendance, weekly total game ratings, and with others waiting to get in, the pressure of staying within the guidelines estblished by the league with the threat of being discharged at any moment available? If the league accepts their work and continues to allow its continuence, that is what the game is. And since the league establishes the guidelines, determines the rating of the officials, and makes all the rules, plus it is within their power to discharge and replace, then why haven’t they?

The league provides a product. If you don’t appreciate their product, then turn on another football league. What you see is acceptable by the league to give to you to buy their jersies. And the dollar is what it is all about, not the game. Penalties could be called on every play in the NFL. But half the fans don’t want to see that. And the other half are often happy their team got away with it.

wy69

“Is the agency purposely selecting people who sign up precisely because they want to act outside the law?”

Oh, c’mon, they are the law when they are directed from higher levels to do something. It’s part of the misrepresentation of chain lf command. It is otherwise called government.

wy69

Maybe it is that the word got around that liberal women don’t taste very well?

Or create gas?

wy69

The scene you entered can not be used to rate Allen. Allen has been a referee, positioned in the offensive backfield, since he entered the league in 2014. The call you displayed came from the head linesman tossing the flag, not the referee.

wy69

The law is not made up of emotions. If emotions are to beused, then she should have become a grief counseller and not a judge. The law is based upon facts and determinations of the people and the judes are supposed to parallel those facts. If they aren’t then they are creating law at the bench not by the people.

wy69

“How about we just shoot all thieves”

In this case, if you shoot the one then the other three get off scott free. I was thinking it could be used as an incetive to get the other three. And the determined sentence, probably different in every state, would be satisfied for all the perps with the warm fuzzy going to the stool pidgeon to get him out early to run from the ones that he informed on.

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God knows what they are doing under the sheets.

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