It was probably inevitable that this would happen for 2014, given the famous goal from the 2010 World Cup that Frank Lampard will never get official credit for.
Even after this, FIFA and UEFA resisted embracing goal-line technology. FIFA simply stuck their heads in the sand, while UEFA instead embraced adding two officials to the end-lines to watch for plays like this. As Ukraine will tell you, it didn't work as planned:
On the plus side, with England involved in both of the above games, at least they weren't the victim of official idiocy both times.
- As a fan of Seattle's sports teams, but not much of an NBA fan, I've been reading with slight interest how the Sacramento Kings are owned by bankrupt fools who are looking to sell the team. Over the last month or two, an agreement seems to have been reached for the fools to sell the team to a group that would move the team to Seattle for next season.
It then surprised me to see that the Kings traded away a valuable asset (the 5th pick in the 2012 draft) for a bunch of stiffs. That doesn't seem like maximizing the value of the asset for the buyers.
- Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman is a tremendous player. He also talks...a lot. You may remember Sherman from one of his 8 interceptions from last season. Or you might remember him for this:
Anyway, Sherman has been making quite a bit of noise since the season ended about how he's better than Darrelle Revis. Revis was not amused.
- File this under PC-gone-amok (and I'm not talking about computers): University of North Dakota's men's basketball play-by-play announcer Paul Ralston was suspended for using the words "choke job" to describe the team's loss in a post-game interview with the coach. Bill Walton this this was a TERRRRRRRRRRR-IBLE decision by the school.
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