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TIMEOUTS


In sports, in particular, football and basketball, two versions of timeouts need to be eliminated: TV timeouts and "Icing" timeouts.

 For a long time now I have been of the opinion that "Icing" a free throw player from the foul line in basketball or a field goal kicker in football by calling a timeout from the sideline should be deemed an Unsportsmanlike Foul. True, coaches call-in plays to have their own players do what they want on the field, but to have their influence on the other team via a technical aspect instead of a strategic aspect is just uncalled for in my book.

 The other timeout elimination involves TV Timeouts. Listen, players start with little league basketball, football and other sports and go through High School and some College without any TV coverage, therefore no TV Timeouts. So, why not do away with those timeouts all together and do what I have seen NASCAR and Formula 1 racing do - they provide a split screen with the live action running in one square so you don't miss any of the action and the commercial, with audio, running in the adjacent square so the advertisers can make their money. It would make games a lot quicker also.

 So, no Icing, allow the game to play-out the way it was meant to play-out - without any technical influence from the bench. And let's keep the action moving on television with the Split Screen - half commercials when the time comes and half continued game action - and no TIMEOUTS.

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