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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 27, 2008
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2008
Instant replay now allowed
Video will help umpires double-check home run calls
BY RONALD BLUM ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball reversed its long-standing opposition to instant replay and will allow umpires to check video on home run calls in series that start Thursday.
The start date comes nearly 10 months after general managers voted 25-5 to use the technology.
and following MLB agreements with the unions for umpires and for players.
"I believe that the extraordinary technology that we now have merits the use of instant replay on a very limited basis"
commissioner Bud Selig said. "The system we have in place will ensure that the proper call is made on home run balls and will not cause a significant delay to the game."
"The system we have in place will ensure that the proper call is made on home run balls and will not cause a significant delay to the game."
Three series are scheduled to start Thursday, with Philadelphia at the Chicago Cubs, Minnesota at Oakland and Texas at the Los Angeles Angels. For other games, replays will be available to umpires starting Friday.
potential home runs were fair or foul and whether there was fan interference on potential home runs.
Selig, who opposed replay in the past, said he wouldn't allow its use to expand to additional types of calls.
For now, video will be used only on so-called "boundary calls," such as determining whether fly balls went over the fence, whether
BUD SELIG MLBcommissioner
"My opposition to unlimited instant replay is still very much in play," Selig said. "I really think that the game has prospered for
well over a century now doing things the way we did it."
Video from broadcast feeds will be collected at the office of MajorLeague Baseball Advanced
Media in New York, where it will be monitored by a technician and either an umpire supervisor or a retired umpire. If the crew chief at a game decides replay needs to be checked, umpires will leave the field, technicians at MLBAM will show umpires the video and the crew chief will make the call, overturning the original decision only if there is "clear and convincing evidence".
Leaving the dugout to argue a call following a replay will result in an automatic ejection.
Selig said the use of replies may shorten games because it might
eliminate some arguments.
"While the use of instant replay is an experiment, we hope that over the balance of this season it will prove to be a success," players' union head Donald Fehr said.
union need Donald Pen said.
The players' association agreed to replay for the balance of the season but retained the right, through Dec. 10, to ask for additional bargaining for future years. If players don't, the replay agreement will run through 2011.
Baseball had been the last holdout among the major professional sports in the United States. Replays were first used in the NFL in 1986.
In the NHL, video review has been in place since the 1991-92 season to check whether the puck crossed the goal line completely, went in before time expired or the net was dislodged, and wasn't kicked or batted in intentionally.
In the NBA, replays have been viewed since the 2002-3 season to decide whether players got off shots before time expired and since last season to aid decisions following altercations and flagrant fouls. In grand slam tennis tournaments, a Hawk-Eye system has been used to decide close line calls since the 2006 U.S. Open.
International soccer has refused to embrace aiding referees, with FIFA's International Football Association Board voting last March to stop all experiments with technology that could determine whether balls cross goal lines.
TENNIS
Fashion rules on U.S. Open courts Tennis players incorporate flashier styles for matches
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY SAMANTHA CRITCHELL
NEW YORK - Models have the runway, actresses the red carpet and - when it comes to showing off their latest styles - tennis players have center court.
One emerging trend is to incorporate a cocktail-attire look into their performance clothes, especially if they're playing at night. And, says tennis star Maria Sharapova, there's no better place to pull out the stops than the U.S. Open.
“It’s the place to do something fun and a little out of the box,” says Sharapova, the 2006 U.S. Open champ who is nursing a shoulder injury and not competing this year. “It's the biggest crowd and it's what people are talking about. I was fortunate to play — and win — in the Audrey Hepburn dress.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Maria Sharapova of Russia hits the ball during a 2007 match against Casey Dellacqua of Australia at the 2007 US Open tennis tournament in New York. One emerging trend is to incorporate more of a cocktail-attire look into their performance clothes, especially if they're playing under the lights at night. And, says tennis star Maria Sharapova, there's no better place to pull out the stops than the U.S. Open.
That dress, with its sparkly neckline, satin-bow waistline and keyhole openings down the back, started a wave of red carpet-worthy ensembles. Tiffany & Co. even outfits Sharapova in jewelry for tennis events, and an earring collection, called Tiffany for Maria Sharapova, is sold in stores around the world.
This year, Serena Williams, who has sometimes been a fashion rebel, has a U.S. Open dress that also has a sophisticated cocktail-dress vibe. It's red with a slim bodice, dropped waist and pleated skirt.
On the men's side, Roger Federer, who last year played night matches in a tuxedo-style outfit,
this year was
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between a
polo shirt with
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for day and a
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graphic design on the bodice while the other was red and dotted with Swarovski crystals for nighttime
The U.S.
Open has a
party atmosphere like no other Grand Slam, said Nike senior designer Colleen Sandierson. Whereas Wimbledon is very traditional and Paris is more fashion-forward, fans at the U.S. Tennis Center likes to see the best athletes look like stars.
"It's the place to do something fun and a little out of the box."
MARIA SHARAPOVA Tennis player
At the 2007 U.S. Open, Sharapova had two custom-made Nike dresses in the same silhouette but one was white with a black
play.
It was an acknowledgment of the changing conditions the day can bring; hot and steamy under the sun and cooler in the evening.
Sharapova explained. The crowd's mood changes as well, with a more casual audience during the day and a dressier crew at night.
Designers are working on a similar look for the home athlete.
Golf-clothes designer Linda Hipp, whose label Lija is launching tennis clothes this spring, said an increasing number of athleticwear customers want to be able to wear their outfits even off the court. An
evening player might be on a date or enjoying time with her spouse and might want a little more fashion in her outfit.
But among amateurs, the look isn't quite a grand slam yet. Nadine Wolff, an avid tennis player from Port Washington, N.Y., has a closet full of tennis clothes, but she chooses outfits based on weather — not the time of day.
Though tennis dresses are unlikely to be mistaken for a bona fide cocktail frock, there's no reason not to incorporate a ruffle or ruching to make a flattering, flirty garment.
"Evening tennis has a more live- social component," she said.
"For the real world, you wear the same type of attire day or night. I have a lot of tennis clothes and I don't separate them," she says. "Maybe I do wear more white during the day, but that's because it's hot."
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals' Brian Barton runs to first for a single, his third hit of the day, during the sixth inning of a game against the Atlanta Braves on Sunday in St. Louis. Barton left the game after the hit with an apparent injury, pointing to his side.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cardinals keep rookie player
Injury ensures outfielder Barton's spot on team's roster
BY R.B. FALLSTROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday with a strained right side muscle. Now, they're guaranteed to retain him.
ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Cardinals were virtually home free with Rule 5 draft pickup Brian Barton before the reserve outfielder went on the 15-day disabled list on
The Cardinals have to keep the 26-year-old rookie on the roster the
vated an allure sore side muscle beating out a bunt for a single during a career-best three-hit game on Sunday and has four hits in his last four at-bats.
"I probably seem a little down right now," Barton said before the start of a two-game series against
"We're in a pennant race and I want to be a part of it. I don't want to be out for two weeks."
BRIAN BARTON
Cardinals outfielder
Barton is hitting .269 with two homers and 13 RBs in 130 at-bats, and is a .303 pinch hitter with 10 hits in 33 at-bats with a homer and three RBs. He agra-
entire season or else offer him back to his old team — the Cleveland Indians — for $25,000. Placing him on the DL with what is believed to be a somewhat minor injury ensures he'll make it through the year in the majors, given that teams can expand their rosters on Sept. 1.
the Milwaukee
Brewers. "We're
in a pennant
race and I want
to be a part of
it. I don't want
to be out for two
weeks.
"Int two weeks, you'll probably see a smile on my face."
Both the Cardinals and Barton think he can be back in 15 days. Outfielder Nick Stainoha, batting .337 with 16 homers and 74 RBIs at Triple-A Memphis, was recalled for his third hit with the team. He was batting .200 (5-for-25) with four RBIs with St. Louis.
"September 1 is just around the corner, but we just can't play short," manager Tony La Russa said.
with his rookie season.
"Regardless of the role you have, you can do better," he said. "I feel like I've given my all, but at the same time I feel like I can do better. If I was batting, 400 I feel like I still would feel that way, probably."
The Cardinals were 3 1/2 games behind the Brewers for the wild card entering the final two games between the teams this season. La Russa thought the series was more important for the Cardinals because they're the pursuers and won't see Milwaukee again.
"It's our last two games against them," he said. "I think it's more important for us than for them, they've got the lead. But neither one of our October chances are determined by this series. There's a lot ahead."
Brewers manager Ned Yost said it was every bit as important for his team.
"We try to put as much distance from a (darn) good team as we can," Yost said. "These guys haven't gotten, to my understanding, the credit they've been due since the first day of spring training.
"That's a good team over there, capable of flying past us in a heartbeat."
NFL
Chiefs place receiver on reserve release three
reserve, release three
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs placed wide receiver Kevin Robinson on the physically-unable-to-perform
reserve list Tuesday and released three other players.
Released were defensive tackle Maurice Murray, defensive end Jonal Saint-Dic and tackle Ken Shackleford.
Robinson was one of two sixth-round picks in the 2008
draft out of Utah State. Murray and Saint-Dic were signed as rookie free agents and Shackleford came into the NFL as a sixth-round selection by St. Louis in 2007.
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