Tue Jun 27, 2000, 02:15pm
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Originally posted by hawk:
Todd-
You stat that the on ly sport where officials can give (take, really) a point is BOXING, and we don't want to go there!
How about holding in the end zone = safety = points. Or a balk with a runner at third = 1 point. Or, perhaps, goaltending? (I think that soccer refs can now award a goal for a handball if it was obviously going into the net without the handball, but I could be wrong.) Indeed, as I recall in much earlier days of basketball, instead of shooting bonus free throws, after an alotment of fouls was exceeded, a foul resulted in one point for the fouled team,and the other team got the ball back -- creating an obvious strategy for the losing team at the end of a game.
That being said, I agree that (outside of rec leagues) awarding points is a terrible idea.
sorry Hawk, soccer refs cannot award goals under any circumstance, however they can take them away if the ball has not been put back into play
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