School-Sanctioned Sunday games
 

Due to the weather, we've had a few postponements of tournament games in the past few days. It's caused some location changes, too, as one of the arenas had to break down their basketball floor for another function tomorrow.

Sunday games are not a consideration for school-sanctioned events here, even as a backup plan. Of course, rec leagues and I believe AAU do Sunday games all the time, but our state's association won't allow Sunday games at all.

Do any states out their allow their schools Sunday games, regular season or tournament? Plan A or backup?

Not sure if it was last year or in 2009, but Vermont had a game or two on a Sunday in basketball as the semis and championships kept getting postponed. I think one semi in one class was done and the other was not.

Sunday is off-limits in VA for public school games. Don't know if any private schools play on Sundays.

I suspect that it is rare for warm weather states to have need of multiple postponements that would even make them consider a Sunday for games. It was highly unusual in the Vermont case.

There are some, but they are rare and usually a make up game.

There is a "Sunday School" joke here somewhere!:cool:

Well, actually we get a lot of cancellations down here b/c we shut pretty quickly for ice and snow. In fact last season a lot of JV games and few Varsity were cancelled all together because they couldn't be made up in time for the play-offs. And at no time were Sundays a consideration.

No Sunday games here for schools. Wednesdays are taboo too. However, the same people that are adamant about not having school games on Wed and Sunday have no problem at all having AAU or club practices on either day of the week and Sunday games are common.:confused:

It's probably because the union custodians, who'd have to come in to work, get quadruple time and a half on Sundays.

We don't do anything here on Sundays.It would be a huge violation of the bylaws if anyone did.

We Still Have Blue Laws Here ...
 

Due to all the snow we had this winter, our state interscholastic sports governing body allowed games to be played on Sundays after 12:30 p.m. This was a big deal around these parts. We still can't buy alcohol at a liquor store on a Sunday.

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I wouldn't say their common here but they're not rare either. I know of several shootout (collection of games - not a tournament) type events where Sunday was day two of a two day lineup.

I will say this, when I was the asst varsity baseball coach we did practice on Sunday evenings however nothing would piss us off more than sometimes seeing the best weather day of the week go by with not being able to play. Which, especially with baseball, to see the calendar switch from may to june and all of the sudden Sunday was no big deal to play on. Similar to how when the HS bball season is over, rec and aau starts up and its no big deal there either.

It may have started off as a church thing but I would put money on it that it has to do more with administrators not wanting to "work" on those days. If you asked the players and coaches more than likely they wouldn't care. And as officials, if you didn't want to work then just block them out.

I've never heard about Wed's being taboo...is that a feeble thing?:D

Really? That's intriguing. What's so sacred about Wednesdays?

No idea, but I *love* the fact that there's one night during the week I'm guaranteed to be off.

It because that's when the clergy wanted their confirmation classes.

Rare Wednesday games here. Prayer meeting night.

The VT winter season deadline was looming, which necessitated the Sunday game as there were no other dates available before the deadline at the game site.

Nothing sacred. Where I grew up, it was just standard to have church and/or confirmation classes on Wed. evenings so athletic events just weren't scheduled. Where I went to college (same state, different area), it was Thursday. Playoffs, however, were scheduled on those nights (but not Sunday).

Wednesdays aren't completely sacred in Wisconsin. For years, the final football games of the season were played on Wednesdays/Thursdays. I saw a few snow makeups played on Wednesdays this season

It's just traditionally been a night off around here -- probably started that way for church reasons -- and stayed that way. With Athletic Directors having events M, T, Th, F, and S, it's nice to be able to have a family night for the ADs, coaches, players, and officials -- one that we can predict with pretty much certainty.

The state has no say over what day a school wants to play a game during the regular season. Now state tournament games are under the jurisdiction of the state so they do not schedule games on Sunday, but if they have no other day I do not see how they could not play on Sunday. Actually there are schools that will play events on Sunday like Catholic schools have done for years.

Peace

Seriously? It's Wodin's day.

Wow.
:D

Coach John had a particular day of the week? :confused:

Not bad. A for effort. :p

:mad: Do they still close at 8:00pm? Used to drive me crazy when I was a teenager. Moved to Fla. and it's the complete opposite...beer is available pretty much everywhere 24/7.

"Shaken, Not Stirred" (Bond, James Bond) ...
 

Currently, Connecticut allows the sale of alcohol for consumption off premises to be between Monday and Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Since the inception of the Liquor Control Act, the deadline for sales has changed several times, from 6:00 p.m. in 1933, to 11:00 p.m. in 1939, to 9:00 p.m. in 1957, to 8:00 p.m. in 1967, and back to 9:00 p.m. in 2003.

Many Mom and Pop stores still close at 8:00 p.m. because they don't want to pay staff for the extra hour.

in this case it's ok to anticipate
 

Shop on Saturday.:)

Years ago many churches had 'prayer meeting night' on Wednesday. No school events were scheduled on that evening. Mostly gone now.

Alcohol sales by state.

List of alcohol laws of the United States by state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For Virginia, any "on-premises" establishment that sells liquor is required by law to sell food.

Federal installations aren't restricted by the "off-premises" requirements so I can drive on the Army base next to my house 24/7 and buy any type of bottled/canned alcohol I desire.

I remember when I was a kid back on the South Side of Chicago, there was a 24 hour drive-thru liquor store near my house! Years later, when I lived briefly in Vegas before coming to Portland, I mentioned it to someone and they replied, "Yeah - so what's your point?"

I lived in Vegas for 5 years. Strip clubs and bars are open 24/7 selling liquor.

That's not all strip clubs sell in Vegas. :rolleyes:

A couple of them have really good lunch buffets:D

well, yeah -- if you like crabs.

In a good cream sauce?

Most grocery stores still are not 24/7 operations. I remeber a few years back my last game of the day during a Boys' AAU National Basketball Championship Tournament in Cocoa Beach, was an 08:30pm start. By the time the game was over and we had changed it was 10:30. I decided to stop at one of the chain grocery stores (Winn Dixie to be exact) to get some food on my way back to my hotel room. I walked into the store at about 10:55pm and started shopping. I soon discovered that I was being followed by one of the bagger/stock boys. I asked him if I could "help" him and he told me that the store closes at 11:00pm. I expressed my shock and told him that I would make my purchases right then. As I was going through the checkout I told the clerk and bag boy that grocerey stores in the "hick" state of Ohio are open 24/7,, to which the bag boy replied: "When would we sleeip if we were open all day." :eek:

My sister and mother live in Lake Mary, and the Winn Dixie nearest my sister's home still is not open 24/7.

MTD, Sr.

They're pretty much all 24/7 here, but walk in after 11 and you're likely to be tripping over and dodging the overnight stockers.

Grocery stores here close at 10 or 11.