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Baseball
What Your Assignor Wants — Part IV
By Peter Osborne
October 6th, 2008

Reliability, availabilty, helping out in the crunch, satisfying the customer, handling situations, learning the rules: Those were the first six on the list of what Peter Osborne's assignor looks for in an umpire when he has a good game to assign.

What's left? Ah, that's on the inside!

But you must click the title to get there. And you must be a member to read it.

Football
Five is Better than Four That's Better than Three — Part III
Add the Back Judge
By Kent Holm
October 6th, 2008

Back in Part I we looked at some of the inherent shortcomings of the 3-man crew.  Adding a Line Judge provides some much needed perspective and coverage, especially to the sideline area, as we saw in Part II.

A truism: Overall field coverage continues to improve as you add officials.

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Baseball
Quiz Question — Part VIII
By Carl Childress
October 6th, 2008

Play: R1, R2, 0 out. B1 pops up in the infield, and F3 settles under the ball. For some reason (sun spots, maybe, though it's a night game) the umpires do not call an Infield Fly. F3 drops the ball but picks it up and throws out R1 when he tries for second.

You're the UIC in an OBR game. What do you do?

You're the UIC in a FED game. What do you do?

Click the title to go inside and read the answer.

Baseball
Fed and the DH — Part I
By Garth Benham
October 3rd, 2008

Willie Mays once referred to the DH as the "dumb hitter." How dumb? "Well," said Willie, who had ended his storied baseball career as a (gasp) first baseman for the New York Mets, "most of 'em can't even play first base." Now that's dumb, especially considering some of history's first basemen. Let's just say "Marv Thronberry," and let it go at that.
Basketball
Correctable Errors — and Refs Who Know Them — Part I
Laying the foundation: vocabulary and boundaries
By Juulie Downs
October 3rd, 2008

This series of articles will be about Correctable Errors in Federation rules, what they are and what they aren't, and how to handle them. We're going to work through rule 2-10 as if it was an 8-oz porterhouse steak, one bite at a time. When we get to the end, you'll be a stronger, smarter ref, because of the nourishment.
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