A case for the “slaughter rule”

School team hit for 66 runs in two innings | Oddly Enough | Reuters

The coach of Kawamoto technical high school threw in the towel to spare his pitchers arm with his team losing 66-0 with just one batter out in the bottom of the second.

The hapless hurler had already sent down over 250 pitches, allowing 26 runs in the first inning and 40 in the second before Kawamoto asked for mercy.

Ouch.

MHSAA ordered to pay more than it’s worth

Federal judge: Michigan prep sports group to pay $7.4 million

Enslen ordered the MHSAA to pay $4.4 million in attorneys’ fees, the bulk to Kristen Galles, who runs a one-attorney, public-interest law firm in Alexandria, Va., and who has worked on the case 12 years for free. He also awarded interest on the judgment from the date the suit was filed in June 1998, swelling the total payout to $7.4 million.

The interest will pile up at $1,000 a day, seven days a week, until payment is made.

The MHSAA has a net worth of nearly $6 million, roughly half in investments and half in real estate, according to its most recent tax return, for the year ending July 2006.

Ouch. I agree that (my home state) Michigan’s stubborn insistence on goofy non-typical seasons has hurt young women student-athletes, but I’m not sure how this makes the situation better for them. From the sound of the article, the association had an opportunity to settle by changing its season bylaws, but refused. It’ll be interesting to see what happens from here.

I guess our (Illinois association) IHSA isn’t actually as bad as it could be.

Youth Ultimate Fighting – Only in Missouri…

Beating this story to death is a good idea – poconorecord.com – The Pocono Record

As hard as it is to believe, youth ultimate fighting is legal in the state of Missouri and some parents there are not only having their children, some as young as 6, participating, but are downright excited about it.

Ok, yeah, I know I’ve let this blog languish of late, so probably nobody will even see this. But seriously, this is brilliant. The best part is that you just KNOW it’s all going to be on YouTube!

Load up the Beagle and thin the herd, Charles!

Update: I told you there would be video!!

Update PS: Based on The Chick’s comment below, I’m trying to take this more seriously. The fact that the father interviewed by the AP as a proponent named his kid “Cage” is NOT making this easy for me.