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For purposes of high school baseball in Ohio, a double first base is not used. Should a local league/facility chooses to use a double first base, if a batted ball hits the base in foul territory, it is a foul ball. From a mechanics standpoint, once the ball goes past first base, it is the base...

If USA fails to qualify at 65 kilos, the failure came at PanAms when Nick Lee lost to Austin Gomez. Just CANNOT lose that match.

with the extra week of season now, it might possibly be happening less, though who knows for sure.

many of the leagues in the northeast do try to schedule the games against the same team back-to-back and then possibly an open date after so the make-up can happen right then and there. However, if you get consecutive days of rainout, you start getting into the territory where league games are...

D1 - NE 3 regional bids, NW 1 regional bid (central and SW have 6 each). NE -> St. Ignatius is the favorite in the north and also statewide, as they return essentially everyone from a team that won the state title, despite being their weakest team in a long time. Medina and Brunswick are well...

Just to show how high a bar this U20 national freestyle tournament is, we are defining an Ironman finalist that is top 20 in the rising senior class as not "super elite", and I think that is a reasonable analysis of Routledge relative to those finalists in the weight classes below him (and some...

For purposes of practical application, if we have a fastball clearly in the batters box or a back foot breaking ball type scenario, it is not reasonable to expect the batter to move out of the way. On the other hand, if we have a situation where the batter is actively moving a body part to...

For the first part of the question, the minute the foot is clearly out of the box in contact with the ground and the bat contacts the ball, it is a dead ball with the batter called out. Runners return to the base they were at from the time of the pitch. If the foot is partially out the box and...

Convergence toward college. This is part of a cross-sport trend for NFHS where rules are converging. https://www.nfhs.org/articles/participants-now-inbounds-with-one-point-of-contact-in-high-school-wrestling/ One supporting point in bounds (vs. the present two) Takedowns are 3 points near falls...

the united states olympic trials in all sports are part of the olympics media rights deal that NBC/Universal has agreed to with the USOC. Flo has a deal with UWW for the United States streaming (media) rights to all of its events. Flo also has a deal with USAW for events conducted in the United...

I hope Brooks can medal at world's. One can argue he should have lost to Zahid, and it should be noted that he also gave a "four" in the match against Dieringer. Brooks/DT could have been a little bit of they know each other so well, and Brooks had a plan to win the match (vs. Brooks is better...

three finals are NLWC on NLWC, 8/12 finalists are NLWC members. Penn State is such a force right now, and they are running laps on everyone in the college to the point were the sport/season is unwatchable.

Trumble was also extended in his match against Aiello. That's not an excuse. Moore just lost a match against an opponent that I - and most others - projected him to beat.

both finalists and a true third (i.e. the winner of a contested match between what would normally be the bronze medalists in a UWW event) will qualify for the Olympics from the "last chance qualifier".

57 and 65 are not qualified in MFS, and it's going to be hard to qualify them at the remaining opportunity. Crazy thing is both those weights have "Americans" qualified, but representing another country. 65 also did not qualify for the Olympics in the 2020"1" cycle if I am not mistaken.