Five Lessons: Hard-to-Explain Rules in Sports

Comment by Phil

Phil — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:54:39 +0000

Hey - the comments thing seems to have erased my other comment which was "awesome!"

Comment by Phil

Phil — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:10:42 +0000

BTW: you might add a sentence of text to the hockey and offsides rules, to show -why- the rules exist, which would help some folks understand the rest of your explanations.

Five Lessons: Hard-to-Explain Rules in Sports

Ken — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:27:59 +0000

This is a new feature here on realkato.com. Periodically, I'm going to start posting five (hopefully informative) tidbits on a particular topic. We'll see if this feature lasts longer than my earlier "Learn Something Every Day" feature that fizzled after a few days. If there are particular topics you'd like me to cover, let me know.

Today's topic: Five Hard-to-Explain Rules in Sports. The assumption here is that you're a casual sports spectator who knows the basics about a sport, but then some obscure rule comes into play that leaves you wondering what happened.