"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.