The 2012 London Olympics Sports Thread

[PDH]

I know this guy who lives in a community where the police always allow motorists go 80.  Everyone knows this.  In fact the police always give a warning in the form of a yellow slip before issuing an actual ticket.

One day this guy was on his way to the hospital with his wife who was about to give birth.  He was driving 80.  A police officer who had no common sense at all pulled him over and even though he saw the impotance of the moment didnt give the yellow slip (as was the custom) but instead took his time writing a ticket.  The guy's wife went into labour but undetered the police officer mindlessly applied the letter of the law.  The mother didnt make it to the hospital in time and both mother and baby died.

Whatever, Mart 

[HVC]

Too mean.

[lustindarkness]

Why do we still call it common sense? Its not that common anymore.

[PDH]

Too mean.

What?  I used rolly eyes

[The Larch]

Damn were the frogs dirty in the Spain - France QF basketball game. At least Good prevailed.   

[MadBurgerMaker]

the important part was the bit about having common sense.

"But sometimes there's some common sense that has to go with it and spirit of the game," Vergara said. "We have to use the same laws but at the same time, there has to flexibility within the laws to have a little more common sense."

Something you are determined to ignore...

No, see, the rule doesn't seem to mention anything about not being able to call it at such and such time, because I'm sure that would have been brought up a while ago if it did.  It simply prohibits a player from holding on to the ball for more than six seconds.

So it comes down to this simple, easy to answer question:  Did the player hold on to the ball for longer than six seconds?  The answer is yes, which means it was able to be correctly called.  That's it.   Just because it isn't always called doesn't mean it's incorrect when the rule is actually properly applied.

Stop the shots next time.

[Admiral Yi]

The closest analogy I could come up with is the pine tar incident.

[Ed Anger]

Man, the Michigan Wolverine track and field girl was a doughy slow white ball. I think she was the Stay Puft entry.

[MadBurgerMaker]

The closest analogy I could come up with is the pine tar incident.

This didn't change the scoreboard.   This one is also apparently designed to prevent goalies and players from standing around and wasting a bunch of time because they have a lead, instead of just not wanting to make the ball gross and forcing them to get a new one every time they do it.

[Admiral Yi]

This didn't change the scoreboard.

Neither did the Bulgarian ref when he put 8 seconds on the clock in 72.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Neither did the Bulgarian ref when he put 8 seconds on the clock in 72.

[DGuller]

After seeing that head stomp, I really don't feel sorry at all for Canadians.  They should've been playing with 10 after that, that was downright disgusting behavior.  Karma is a bitch.

[sbr]

Damn were the frogs dirty in the Spain - France QF basketball game. At least Good prevailed.   

My ridiculously overpaid boy Batum did to that Spanish guy, what Ed has wet dreams about doing to Timmay.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ktlincoln/a-french-basketball-player-savagely-punched-a-span

[MadBurgerMaker]

The Brazilian beach volleyball chicks just won the bronze over the Chinese. 

[DGuller]

And the head stomper chick is not penalized.  Punching someone in the eye is bad, very bad, but stomping someone on the head with a cleated shoe is just fine.