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Forum: Sporting Events 10-29-2007, 11:29 PM
Replies: 223
Views: 1,160
Posted By cognito20
Re: If you got Ladanian Tomlinson and a few of his closest friends...

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i think i'm done with this debate for now dean. it's kinda boring when you are the only one who actually knows anything about _both_ the sports being discussed.

perhaps we can resume...
Forum: Probability 10-07-2007, 10:58 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 89
Posted By cognito20
Question re: heads-up NL winning %ages

Hello:

I was wondering how to go about doing the following calculation. I have been playing a lot of heads-up no-limit SNGs recently and have a record so far of 69-40 (.633 winning percentage)....
Forum: Sporting Events 09-28-2007, 02:05 PM
Replies: 96
Views: 378
Posted By cognito20
Re: Ask me about being a FIFA-certified soccer referee

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The current interpretation as I see it is the person in the offsides position needs to be played the ball, attempting to play the ball, or interfering with the keeper for offsides to be...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-28-2007, 01:38 PM
Replies: 96
Views: 378
Posted By cognito20
Re: Ask me about being a FIFA-certified soccer referee

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I've got a question about the offsides rule. I understand that being in an offsides position is fine if they are not affecting the play. The problem I've always had with this rule is that...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-28-2007, 01:09 PM
Replies: 96
Views: 378
Posted By cognito20
Re: Ask me about being a FIFA-certified soccer referee

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I'm a rugby and cricket fan. I'd like to know why soccer doesn't get with the times and have a proper third off-field referee who can check all the video angles as these other sports now...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-28-2007, 12:57 PM
Replies: 96
Views: 378
Posted By cognito20
Re: Ask me about being a FIFA-certified soccer referee

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why is there only one referee in the middle?

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In some of the matches I work, there isn't. There is only one referee if the diagonal system is being used, in which there is...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-28-2007, 12:49 PM
Replies: 96
Views: 378
Posted By cognito20
Re: Ask me about being a FIFA-certified soccer referee

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What's the pay like (if you don't mind answering)

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Very dependent on what level it is you're working. When I first started doing indoor league games when I started out, it...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-28-2007, 10:32 AM
Replies: 96
Views: 378
Posted By cognito20
Re: Ask me about being a FIFA-certified soccer referee

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When a guy fakes an injury rolling around on the ground and then hops back up and continues to play as if nothing has happened, why don't you penalize him? This is the single reason why...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-28-2007, 10:18 AM
Replies: 96
Views: 378
Posted By cognito20
Re: Ask me about being a FIFA-certified soccer referee

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Yeti > IMHO because football is one of the most simple team games. You only have a few rules (comparing to rubgy, basketball, volleyball...) and basically everyone watching/being involved...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-28-2007, 10:15 AM
Replies: 96
Views: 378
Posted By cognito20
Re: Ask me about being a FIFA-certified soccer referee

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I've always heard that the higher end soccer players are all giant pussies and aren't that tough compared to baseball, hockey, and football players. What's your take?

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Forum: Sporting Events 09-28-2007, 10:11 AM
Replies: 96
Views: 378
Posted By cognito20
Re: Ask me about being a FIFA-certified soccer referee

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why is football such an undisciplined sport? by that i mean countless times you see players surrounding the referee, tearing after him when he retreats, swearing in his face, yet they...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-28-2007, 10:00 AM
Replies: 96
Views: 378
Posted By cognito20
Re: Ask me about being a FIFA-certified soccer referee

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What is the biggest game you have ever reffed?

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Probably the 2005 Dallas Cup U-19 Semifinal between Santos Laguno of Mexico and Hartlepool United U-19s of England, won by...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-28-2007, 09:50 AM
Replies: 96
Views: 378
Posted By cognito20
Re: Ask me about being a FIFA-certified soccer referee

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+how do you get to be one?

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I started out by taking a required physical education class on soccer officiating when I was in college, to learn the rules and the different...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-28-2007, 09:02 AM
Replies: 96
Views: 378
Posted By cognito20
Ask me about being a FIFA-certified soccer referee

Ask me anything you like about being a FIFA-certified soccer referee.
Forum: Other Other Topics 09-28-2007, 09:02 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 103
Posted By cognito20
Forum: Sporting Events 09-28-2007, 08:35 AM
Replies: 170
Views: 1,774
Posted By cognito20
Re: ***Official 2007-2008 NHL Season Thread***

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Those are bad odds on Buffalo. They won't contend for the cup without Briere.

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What makes you say that? Buffalo for the last two seasons has been the deepest team in...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-21-2007, 07:54 PM
Replies: 55
Views: 307
Posted By cognito20
Re: hockey fans: who\'s better?

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One was lucky enough to play on a good team that survived the high-variance luckfest known as the Stanley Cup playoffs , end of story

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FYP.
Forum: Other Other Topics 09-06-2007, 11:19 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 502
Posted By cognito20
Re: Greatest Band getting back together...Led Zeppelin

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Wait... people still actually listen to ska?

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The ones who just weren't in the scene for 4 months or so because it was the latest trend, yes.
Forum: Other Other Topics 09-06-2007, 11:10 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 502
Posted By cognito20
Re: Greatest Band getting back together...Led Zeppelin

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Greatest Band getting back together...

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Yes, I know. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are reuniting to play their 5-night Hometown Throwdown in Cambridge this December. I'm...
Forum: Other Other Topics 09-06-2007, 08:55 PM
Replies: 81
Views: 392
Posted By cognito20
Re: Arrested over weekend, court tomorrow, what do I expect ?

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Over the weekend I was arrested and charged with misdemeanor breaking and entering. Processed in the jail house, paid a $40 booking fee and was let go, no bail. And told to report to the...
Forum: Other Other Topics 09-06-2007, 08:38 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 555
Posted By cognito20
Re: RIP Luciano Pavarotti

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don't forget james brown

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You'll like this then:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VCIyzNISw1Q&mode=related&search=

RIP, Luciano.
Forum: Other Other Topics 09-06-2007, 08:22 PM
Replies: 88
Views: 621
Posted By cognito20
Re: list of funny stand up comedians

Dane Cook steals. Some of the stuff he does is funny, but he is notorious among other comics for his shameless theft of material. There was an entire Opie and Anthony show on XM Radio a few months...
Forum: Other Other Topics 08-20-2007, 01:09 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 130
Posted By cognito20
Re: Grand Slam (the game show)

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I was a little disappointed not to see Bob Harris make the list. He might not be quite in the upper-echelon on Jeopardy champions, but he is certainly more qualified than someone from...
Forum: Other Other Topics 08-20-2007, 12:18 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 130
Posted By cognito20
Re: Grand Slam (the game show)

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I enjoy this show simply because it's like an All-Star game of trivia. I certainly concur with OP's last sentence.

I personally think John Carpenter is going to take it. He's got a...
Forum: Other Other Topics 08-16-2007, 05:09 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 130
Posted By cognito20
Re: Grand Slam (the game show)

Jennings v. Carpenter is gonna be one hell of a semifinal assuming neither one of them suffer an unlikely upset before then. Same with Rutter v. Pawlowicz, with the same caveat, although I think Brad...
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