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A few years ago, there was a very dominant team here in the Portland area with a deaf player. She was very, very good, so they had worked out a number of adaptations. The interesting thing was that whenever there was a need to communicate with her during a live ball, there was a set of signals (signs?) that all the players and ALL THE FANS!! would do, like they were cheers. It worked! She didn't have to pick one person out to look at, and there wasn't a person running the sidelines for the translating thing.
The other interesting thing was that when there was a time-out, there were several fans whose job it was to stand up right behind the bench, so no one could see the interpreter. Like the coaches on TV that hold the clipboard over their mouths.
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