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    Continuing Education - Umpire Evaluation

    Wouldn't you just love at that point to catch an umpire wearing, say, the wrong color shirt for an NCAA uniform and tell him he has to take it off to umpire the game.
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    Player safety when injured

    At the concession stand of our tournament, I always have the helpers save the first few empty hamburger bun bags, inevitably someone will come asking for ice.
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    Player safety when injured

    Just my experience, but pretty much all the games I've been to there's been at least one, if not three or four medically trained parents who step in to help with an injury. Apparently LE's game didn't.
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    Player safety when injured

    I'll bet a couple of masks were ordered soon after that incident by others who didn't have one yet.
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    Two calls from last night:

    "...gave up her right to the plate..." Whether it's verbatim or paraphrasing, I've never heard an argument like that before. What runner would ever want to give up their right to the plate? Sounds like making stuff up and digging one's heels into it.
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    DEFENSE

    I had it recorded and rewatched the play a few times. With all the time and commotion spent on instant replays and umpires review trying to figure out what may or may not have happened, it wasn't until I showed my DD the play she mentioned the batted ball appears to contact the catcher and the...
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    NAIA ruling on Transgender athletes

    Back up the clock. For every decade you go back girls and women had fewer and fewer sports opportunities. So much progress has been made to provide opportunities for females. Ask yourself, does allowing males who identify to play women's sports provide more opportunities for females or does it...
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    NAIA ruling on Transgender athletes

    I common argument I hear is not excluding these athletes from playing sports. But in so many of the highly publicized cases the sport has male and female divisions. Swimming, basketball, weightlifting, track and field, all have men's and women's divisions. No one is being denied the...
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    NAIA ruling on Transgender athletes

    Another rabbit hole for your thoughts: What if a male player wants to play on your team that doesn't cut players?
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    NAIA ruling on Transgender athletes

    It really is something to think about if you're a coach, say at the HS or college level where the trans player could be basically a fully grown male. Consider the sh__storm that would fall upon you, your family, your team, and your school depending on your response. Would you honestly play it...
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    Just a rant

    I like your insight on the skiing. Makes sense to me. Here I frequently see hockey players toward the top of the batting average list. Then tennis players.
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    Viewership for Women's basketball Iowa vs S. Carolina. Wow !!!

    I don't know what kind of numbers they had last year putting a college softball game on ABC, but I was wondering if they would bump a Texas/Oklahoma to ABC this year. They didn't; I also suspect being on one of the big three networks isn't as big a deal anymore.
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    Things College Softball Announcers Can Quit Saying 2022 Edition

    Took me a little bit on that one...
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    Who catches pitching lessons?

    Thanks for all the insights. I mark all my pitching balls with a segmented stripe so I can see rotation and get a sense of spin axis and rate better. My students tend to be on the younger side so I do have to watch their arms, legs, angles, etc. quite a bit. But I think I will try spending a...
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    Yellow batting gloves

    In football, too. You catch a glimpse on the corner of the tv screen of someone's gloves or shoes and it looks like a flag is being thrown on every play.
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