"Don White" wrote in message
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:49:47 -0700 (PDT), JimH
wrote:
On Aug 15, 4:37 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
International baseball has a new 11th inning rule for tie games.
Runners on First and Second and a batter - each side gets to decide a
new batting order and selects the runners. Each team gets a turn.
Can't wait for the twelveth inning - load the bases? :)
Same strange rules with Olympic basketball:
http://www.interbasket.net/olympics/...ifferences.htm
The court is also laid out differently in the Olympics.
I like the International rules for basketball and hockey.
With the players getting bigger & faster all the time, The NHL should
adopt the International ice size.
This might encourage smaller, fast skaters to play.
Actually, I always thought the smaller, shorter skater had the advantage on
smaller rinks. They can in the short haul accelerate faster, but get them
long legs a stretch on a big rink, big guy wins into the boards.