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Supposedly the player in question is going to undergo a sex change operation (male to female) after the season.

Many people at the tournament also wondered how the director was going to handle it if the "wrong" team won. "OK, you, come here and . . ."

A sportswriter I know was covering the tournament, and I suggested to him that he had an interesting story on his hands for his back page. All he said was, "I'm not touching this one with a ten-foot pole!"

Omigod! As I'm writing this I find out that I had umpired the player in question. I spent most of the weekend doing the gorillas, er, men, but had agreed to do a few women's games for the first time. If it's the player they tell me it is, I would have to say she certainly looked and acted female. Honestly, she wasn't bad looking, either.

Yesterday many of the women were agreeing that with the changes in society, some clear criteria have to be drawn up to determine who plays in what division. You can't have brutes with five o' clock shadow and bulging biceps crushing balls over the light towers in the women's division, just because they're wearing wigs and claiming to be female.