unsportsmanlike conduct Stories - Black Shoe Diaries
The Bright Side of Stamkos' Outburst
Steven Stamkos has had one fighting major in his NHL career according to hockeyfights.com, a brief, spirited tilt with fellow young offensive player Nikolai Zherdev, and it took place on November 26, 2008-- less than two months into his NHL career, and less than two weeks after Rick Tocchet...
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...
49ers Year-by-Year: 1984
I would like you to enjoy a brief historical recap of the San Francisco 49ers' historic 1984 season. After 1982 and 1983, the 49ers were still a team without a definite or recognized identity as a true league power. They felt differently in their hearts, however, and this will show you how that...
Bellotti: Should Celebration Penalties Overturn the Touchdown?
Oregon coach Mike Bellotti, who's the head of the NCAA rules committee, is thinking about how to crack down on unsportsmanlike conduct. One of his ideas is to make unsportsmanlike conduct a live ball penalty. If a player starts doing excessive celebrating before scoring, the penalty is enforced...
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...
Rock M Roundtable!
First of all, everybody console Atch...who was screwed by weather and airlines out of a trip to the holy land this past weekend. The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive, Atch. Everybody's out on the run tonight, but there's no place left to hide...1 - It's K-State...
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