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July 24, 2015
SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
The Ottawa Redblacks just lost a two-point conversion because a ref signaled that it was good.
Replay showed their running back fumbled right before crossing the line. Even though Ottawa recovered the ball, the ref's upraised hands made it a dead ball before that happened.
posted by rcade at 08:37 PM on July 24, 2015
Nice of the CFL to take the redefined Dez Bryant Rule out of contention for Dumbest Football Rule Thing this week.
posted by Etrigan at 09:26 PM on July 24, 2015
After the nonsense ending to the MEX-PAN Gold Cup semi-final, Concacaf did the obvious thing: Penedo banned for pushing official, team fined. But "The confederation takes these claims extremely seriously and will look into them immediately" though not seriously enough to do something meaningful such as awarding the game to Panama.
posted by billsaysthis at 09:39 PM on July 24, 2015
Originally, I thought he was a bit of a douchebag, but more and more I'm convinced that Bryce Harper is an awesome dude.