unsportsmanlike conduct Stories - Black Shoe Diaries
Todd Grantham, Chas Henry, and the Controversy at the End of the Georgia-Florida Game
All right, I still just wanted to lie around, feel sick, and mope for a few more days, but, like Al Pacino in "The Godfather, Part III," I’ve been pulled back in by circumstances. I am speaking, of course, of Todd Grantham’s "choke" gesture, which some quarters of the blogosphere deem to be the...
Secret Transcript of NCAA Rules Panel Meeting at Which New Celebration Rule Approved!
By now, you’ve read Dr. Saturday’s, Orson Swindle’s, and David Hale’s takes on the new celebration rules that will take effect in 2011. While we rarely report breaking news here at Dawg Sports, I am proud to say that we have a confidential source who was at the meeting at which this move was...
The Legality Of A Pointed Finger
I'm talking about celebration: the gestures displayed when good things happen. In the third quarter of last week's game against Syracuse, Stephfon Green ran two yards on a pitch to the right and scored a touchdown to make the score 44-6. He pointed at something. Penn State was penalized...
Stop the unsportsmanlike madness
If there is a single penalty in college football that C&F really, really hates, it's the unsportsmanlike penalty call for excessive celebration. And a flag against Jake Locker during the BYU-Washington game is a perfect example of why. Following the penalty, BYU blocked Washington's...
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