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Questions about the rules of sports, including regulations for particular competitions or formats. Questions must also be tagged for the specific sport or competition.
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Is it legal to throw an alley-oop to yourself in a real game?
For the NCAA, it is scored as follows (from page 10 of the 2011 Official Basketball
Statisticians’ Manual):
A.R.15. Adams throws a pass to himself or herself off the backboard, and then shoots and …
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If a play ends with two runners at the same base who is safe?
Technically the play cannot end with two runners on the same base.
If two runners are occupying the same base, then the trailing runner is considered "In Jeopardy", or able to be tagged out, and mus …
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Are you allowed to play zone defense in the NBA?
I haven't seen this foul called in a very long time so I'm not sure if it is because teams have gotten smarter and stopped playing zone or if the rules have been changed. …
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What happens if there is a tie during an olympic race?
Recently during the USA Track and Field Olympic trials, there was a tie for third place between Allyson Felix and Jenebah Tarmoh. It appears that there was previously no tiebreaker rule in place for t …
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How is a penalty enforced on an extra point to end the half?
This happened recently in a high school game I was watching and it appeared that the referees did not know exactly how to enforce it. While this happened in a high school game, I am curious about the …
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