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...learn anything from the amateurs? While college football's overtime format may be more fair than pro's, it is absurd in a different way. In many respects, the setup feels like a game kids play at recess. Forgoing kickoffs altogether, each team receives the ball at the opponent's 25-yard line, meaning that without moving an inch, a team is already in field goal range. Teams alternate drives towards the end zone, until one team scores more than the other in an individual possession, or period (to try to move things along, the teams must...
...competition committee discusses overtime reform every off-season. In both 2003 and 2004, owners voted on a scaled-back version of the proposal outlined above. Each team would be guaranteed a single offensive possession, but after that, it would be sudden death, first to score wins. Not 100% fair, but a vast improvement over the current rules. To implement a rule change, three-fourths of the owners must agree with the proposal. In '03, just 55% of the owners approved it. The next year, only 22% jumped on board...
...happen in the championship game, or God forbid, the Super Bowl [which has never gone into overtime] for enough people to get concerned," Mara says. But why is the most decorated sports league in the land refusing to use some common sense? Mara's telling reply: "That's a fair question...
...group leaders and party hosts. This is an absolutely unacceptable situation—the health and safety of all students at the College should be the Administration’s first priority. Furthermore, it is unrealistic to assume that responsibility for a student’s condition can be fairly attributed to any one student or party. When one considers the sheer number of registered, unregistered, and totally private social events held across campus, it is utterly ludicrous to assume that the elected leader of a student group can be held responsible for the behavior of their sometimes uninvited guests?...
...punt, Andrew Berry is set to receive, doesn't signal fair catch, and bad blocking by Nico Amaro causes Berry to get absolutely decked. Harvard will start its drive at the Harvard...