fairness – This Sporting Life

Here are a couple of quick addenda to the last post on the different types of challenges that officials face in different sports, and how this should affect decisions about introducing technolog...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/08/17/more-on-blown-calls-which-sport-is-worse/

We can learn a lot about how sports differ from each other by focusing on the role of the officials — referees, umpires, linesmen, judges, timekeepers, and of course video-replay officials. Som...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/08/17/blown-calls-how-distracting-is-the-human-element-in-sports-officiating/

Diving is not the story of this World Cup, by any stretch. And I’ve been too wrapped up in what’s been great about the tournament — namely, the tactical match-ups and play on the pitch — ...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/07/08/is-diving-a-problem/

It’s been a terrific World Cup so far. We all have to keep our fingers crossed for the semi-finals and the finals being as intriguing as the quarters, because our individual and collective memo...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/07/06/luddite-officiating-divin/

Here’s a quick follow-up to the Imperfect Game controversy I followed over far too many posts, starting here. ESPN The Magazine conducted a (let us say, rather unscientific) poll of 100 major-l...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/06/15/the-players-like-it-imperfect/

A five-part series of posts on what we learn from a bad call in a regular-season baseball game is more than enough. There will be no Part 6. But I can’t help adding a shout-out to a terrific li...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/06/10/perfectly-unfair/

Are the businessmen in charge of baseball trying to manage their precarious pre-modern brand by preserving its quaintest features? Or is there a recognition by the high-priests in charge that we ...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/06/10/part_5_quest_to_tame_chance/

The passionate debate shows how much we all interpret baseball players as competing against all of their baseball ancestors as much as they are against their rivals this season. The blown call ma...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/06/10/the-imperfect-game-part-2-the-paradox-of-changing-the-rules-to-award-the-perfect-game/

Writing and traveling for my day job have distracted me from the blog for a busy three weeks in the sporting world. And in particular, other deadlines and a trip abroad kept me from weighing in o...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/06/10/the-imperfect-game-in-our-imperfect-world-part-1/

Do you buy into the mission of This Sporting Life and want to earn some cash explaining why? And are you a student? The International Pierre de Coubertin Committee and the UK-based Institute for ...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/05/05/ethics-business-sport-priz/