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...football, as well as in international sports like cricket, rugby and tennis. Since video has vastly reduced officiating errors in these sports - just last month, the first video review in baseball World Series history was used to turn a double by the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez into a two-run homer - it could do so in soccer, right? (See pictures of the old Yankee Stadium...
...Instead, Platini has been testing the use of two additional referees, stationed behind each goal. These officials would scrutinize play in the penalty area - where the majority of contested calls are made. The problem with that, critics say, is it simply adds two more fallible humans to the current four-person officiating teams. "Thierry Henry's handling of the ball should relaunch the debate on video in soccer, because viewing replays would have allowed officials to sanction the offense, disallow the goal and preserve the integrity of the match," former French referee Bruno Derrien told France Info radio. (Read...
...uproar in the medical community was immediate. In a reversal of standard practice that bewildered physicians and patients around the nation, an independent government panel this week abandoned its long-standing recommendation that healthy women over age 40 get a breast-cancer screen once every year or two years. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force began advising women instead to delay regular screening until age 50, and even then, to get tested only every other year. (Read "U.S. Panel Recommends Delaying Regular Mammograms Until...
According to the author of the e-mail, two election commissioners refused to certify the results after they came in because they "had reason to doubt their validity." The vote to decertify the election results came at 10:15 p.m, according to the earlier e-mail from Seiler...
...version also gave an incorrect number for the initial reported vote margin between the two major tickets. In the initial, reported tally, Bowman-Hysen had a 45-vote lead over Hayward-Zhang—not a 46-vote lead...