[Freddy]

Just came yesterday. A line-by-line comparison of this year's book and last season's:

ERRORS:
The errors in last year's edition (9-1-3a, 9-1-PENALTIES 4a) were corrected.
As far as new errors in this year's issue, I'd appreciate knowing of any you find, but I couldn't detect any.

ANNOUNCED CHANGES:
The ones they told us to expect by way of rules changes and editorial changes seemed to all be accounted for.

TECHNICAL FOUL SECTIONS REVISION:
Regarding their advance announcement that they were going to reorganize the technical foul sections to make them more orderly and easy to grasp -- all they really did was make Rule 10 of the rulebook more closely match the titles of the chart on p.71. Draw a line under old 10-1-4 and entitle the above "Administrative Technical", then leave the remainder of old 10-5 thru 10-10 "Team Technical", add the clarifying sentence, "Head coach does not lose the privilege of the coaching box" for each . . . and that's about it. Nothing changed there really, that I could detect. Merely a new title we all probably went by before.

UNANNOUNCED CHANGES:
You can decide if these are merely for the sake of clarification or if there are really any substantive rule changes set upon us by these:

4-19-7 was: A team-control foul is a common foul committed by a member of the team that has team control (including a member of the throw-in team from the start of the throw-in until player control is obtained inbounds)
4-19-7 now is: A team-control foul is a common foul committed by a member of the team that has team control or by a member of the throw-in team from the start of the throw-in until player control is obtained inbounds.

4-42-5a was: The throw-in ends when: a. The passed ball touches or is legally touched by another player inbounds.
4-42-5a now is: The throw-in ends when: a. The passed ball touches or is touched by another player inbounds.

10-5-5 NOTE was: The head coach may enter the court in the situation where a fight may break out -- has broken out -- to prevent the situation from escalating.
10-5-5 NOTE now is: The head coach may enter the court in the situation where a fight may break out -- or has broken out -- to prevent the situation from escalating.

That's all I could find. Anything else worthy of note, I'd appreciate hearing from you on it.