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One of the finest players in recent college women's basketball history, Shea Ralph enters her fifth season with the Pitt coaching staff. Ralph, a former standout at Connecticut, works primarily with the guards, is heavily involved with the team's conditioning program, assists with individual workouts, scouting and is the academic liaison for the team.
"I feel so blessed to be part of this amazing program. We have a wonderful staff and team and we are all so excited for the upcoming season," Ralph said.
As a part of Berenato's staff at Pitt from the beginning, Ralph has been instrumental in the development of the guards, and the program as a whole. In 2006, Ralph helped lead point guard Mallorie Winn to All-Big East Second Team honors as a junior and last season, sophomore guard Shavonte Zellous was named the Big East's Most Valuable Player and freshman point guard Jania Sims was named to the Big East All-Freshman Team.
"She is such a valuable asset to our program," head coach Agnus Berenato said. "Her experience as one of the most prolific players in recent history combined with her outstanding worth ethic has translated into making Shea one of the great young coaches in our business and we are thrilled that she is on our staff."
Ralph graduated from UConn among the top 10 leaders in several categories, including scoring (1,678), assists (456), steals (252) and field-goal percentage (.579). A captain of the 2000 national championship team, Ralph was named the Most Valuable Player of the Final Four, leading the Huskies to a 71-52 win over Tennessee in the National Championship game. In addition to her MVP award, Ralph was a Naismith Player of the Year finalist. That same year, she earned first team Kodak and Associated Press All-America honors in addition to being named the Big East Player of the Year.
Ralph was also the Sports Illustrated for Women Player of the Year and the recipient of the Honda Award, given to the top female collegiate athlete in each of 12 sports. In 2000-01, Ralph was listed as the Preseason Big East Player of the Year and ESPN The Magazine named her to the Preseason All-America First Team.
Ralph was a member of the 2000 U.S. Jones Cup Gold Medal team and paced the squad in scoring (12.0 ppg) and steals (1.75 spg). She was awarded Big East Championship Most Outstanding Player honors as UConn won the 1999 conference tournament, defeating Notre Dame. Other awards earned by Ralph include the Big East Rookie of the Year, United States Basketball Writer's Association (USBWA) Freshman of the Year, Sporting News National Freshman of the Year and Newcomer of the Year by Dick Vitale College Basketball in 1996-97.
A 2001 graduate of Connecticut with a degree in exercise physiology, Ralph was drafted that summer by the WNBA's Utah Starzz but was unable to compete because of a knee injury. She later went on to make the NWBL's Springfield Spirit team before falling victim to injury again. Ralph then became an assistant coach for the Spirit before joining Berenato's inaugural staff at Pittsburgh in the fall of 2003.
In high school at Terry Sanford High in Fayetteville, N.C., Ralph got her start in the spotlight early, earning National High School Player of the Year honors.
Ralph has also been a motivational speaker all over the country for the past five years and has worked numerous basketball camps for both collegiate and professional teams.
FULL NAME: Shea Sydney Ralph
BIRTHDATE: March 12, 1978
EDUCATION: B.A. -- Exercise physiology, Connecticut (2001)
COLLEGE COACHING EXPERIENCE: Pittsburgh (2003-Present), Assistant Coach
PROFESSIONAL COACHING EXPERIENCE: Springfield Spirit -- National Women's Basketball League (2003), Assistant Coach
National High School Player of the Year
Big East Rookie of the Year (1997)
Big East Player of the Year (2000)
Kodak All-American (2000)
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Panthers Alumnae Go Head-to-Head in WNBA Action
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McConnell-Serio Signs International Talent in Nelson
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POUGHKEPSIE, N.Y. – Marist men's lacrosse head coach Keegan Wilkinson has announced that 12 student-athletes have signed National Letters of Intent to join the Marist class of 2017. The 12 will join the Red Foxes Continue Reading
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - The Marist men's lacrosse team has named their captains for the upcoming 2012 season. Head Coach Keegan Wilkinson has announced that seniors Kevin Defranco (Shoreham, N.Y.) and Chris Harren Continue Reading
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So I just found a bunch of bird and dog photo's I made last summer, and I was wondering if anyone would be interested in those?
If someone would like me to upload them as stock, I'd gladly do it, so just tell me :3
Also, yay, VACATION. FINALLY. I was so sick of studying for that damn testweek, I'm really glad it's over! I will go on horse camp from next Sunday to Saturday,
so I will hopefully shoot a LOT of horse and landscape pictures, which I will upload soon after I get back.
I'm sorry for being so inactive :c I just rarely have time to make photo's, but I'm currently uploading some old pictures, so I hope you'll enjoy those ;3
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"IYANLA: Fix My Life Special Report: Healing In Ferguson" Tonight
I will be glued to the television tonight to see how this all turned out!
Los Angeles, CA – OWN -- Oprah Winfrey Network will air "Iyanla: Fix My Life -Special Report: Healing in Ferguson" on Tuesday, August 26 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The special episode of the award-winning series follows ordained minister and spiritual life coach Iyanla Vanzant on an emotional trip to Ferguson, Missouri, as she embeds herself in the local community and works to empower citizens by helping them formulate a plan for peace and healing in the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown.
Iyanla visits the protest area and memorial, spending hours reaching out to individuals affected by the tragic event to hear their stories and empowering them with ways to move past their anger.
She brings face-to-face Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson and Michael Brown's uncle, Pastor Charles Ewing, and together they discuss the need for peace in order to give the system time to work. Not stopping there, Iyanla hosts a community discussion with leaders and citizens; sits down in a church minutes from the shooting site with a group of young men, many of whom profess to be gang members; and makes her way at 1 A.M. with community leader and "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" Tim Norman past National Guard checkpoints and police, to join a peaceful protest.
Later, as a first healing step, Iyanla, surrounded by citizens and community leaders, encourages everyone to choose peace.


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Post 98 Merrimack Legion Baseball
Welcome to the home of the Merrimack Post 98 Legion Baseball program. We will try to keep this site updated with the best possible information. If you want more information or would like us to post something that is not being addressed, do not hesitate to give me a call or drop me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com
The 2017 schedules for Junior & Senior teams are complete. Please call if you have any questions. 603-341-2330
Congratulations to the Junior team for reaching the post season for the second time in the team's history by taking 1st place in Junior District B1. Post 98 Seniors finish with an overall record of 10-8.
The junior program began in 2010 by Mike Driscoll, Mickey Gasper and Cliff Hicks.
Good luck to the Junior team!!!
Congratulations to the Senior team for reaching the post season. Post 98 Seniors finish with an overall record of 11-7. The state recognizes a record of 8-6 when Londonderry and Salem suspend their seasons after Post 98 won all four contests against them.
The senior program began in 1984 by Tom Hudon and Mike Driscoll and ran until 2007 when the program was discontinued due to lack of interest. In 2010 the AAU Colonials were aging out of their group and wanted to continue to playing as a team. Mike Driscoll, Mick Gasper, and Avery Finver led effort to revive the program at the junior division and hired Cliff Hicks to head the program. When the team won the state championship in 2011 the decision was made to introduce the senior program back into competition. Led by Coach Hicks and new junior coach Brenden Cosgrove the program struggled to achieve the success obtain in 2010. Chris McKenzie took over for the junior program in 2014 and Chris Shanahan with the seniors in 2015. Both program continue to excel and Shanahan leading the seniors to their first post season.
Good luck to the Senior team!!!
Why Team Chemistry is So Vital
Team chemistry can sometimes be hard to define, but when it's absent, it's readily apparent. Some fans might doubt the importance of having a close-knit team, or how getting along inside the locker room can benefit a team between the lines, but few coaches share that logic.
Allen (Texas) High School head baseball coach Paul Coe is one coach who considers team chemistry very important.
"Talent obviously is important, but if you don't have guys pulling for each other, I think it actually hurts your team. I think it's important for the guys to like each other, to work together, for your team. It's a team sport full of individual battles, but at the end of the day, it's a team sport and they got to be able to work together," Coe said.
In Coe's case, strong team chemistry is almost a given. Many of his players started playing together at a young age, maybe in elementary school or earlier, and they have already been teammates for a number of years. So not only do they know one another quite well off the diamond, they also know exactly what one another is capable of between the lines.
Of course, no matter how well a group of players already know one another, there are certain shared experiences that help bring them even closer as a group.
"We spend a lot of time in the offseason, not necessarily on team building, but we work out a lot in the weight room, we run a lot and that builds team unity, doing things together, doing things that aren't fun," Coe said. "You're sweating together, you wake up together."
But having a tight-knit group doesn't mean that it's a hard team to break into. In fact, Coe believes quite the opposite.
In the rare situation of a new player entering his program, Coe has seen his players go out of their way to make those newcomers immediately feel welcome.
Part of having strong team chemistry is the built-in support system. When one player struggles on or off the field, his teammates are there to pick him up.
"When the kids care about each other and they see somebody going through something, then they're going to naturally try to pick him up. When you have genuine care and team camaraderie, that's something kids do," Coe said. "They're very resilient and they care about each other, so they try to step up and help their teammate out, stay after to help him out, do whatever they need to pick him up after an at-bat."
That chemistry also helps coaches anytime they want to tinker with their lineup because they know each player roster will be on board.
"You've got to do it the right way, visit with the kids, make sure they understand why you're doing something," Coe said. "But having a good relationship with kids and having good team chemistry, it's easier to have those conversations and know that the other players are going to be there for that person also."
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D-I coaches push Legion over travel ball in forum
Published: January 12, 2015 | Last Modified: January 12, 2015 11:28PM
By Ken Lipshez Record-Journal staff
MERIDEN — The four Division I college baseball coaches who spoke at the youth forum at Platt High School Sunday stressed the importance of playing summer ball in the American Legion program.
UConn coach Jim Penders, Hartford's Justin Blood, Bill Currier of Fairfield and new Quinnipiac pitching coach Pat Egan all said that the high school/Legion pipeline has advantages over travel baseball.
"There are some really good travel programs out there," said Penders, who just completed his 11th season as the Huskies' head coach. "There are some really good travel baseball players and some really good travel baseball people out there. However, the coaches that I still rely on the most are the high school coaches.
"It doesn't matter to me what level of baseball they played or coached at before. They can tell me if a young man is accountable, if he's dependable, if he's caring, if he's self-disciplined, if he pays attention to detail. Those are the building blocks. Then it's up to me to evaluate him as a player."
With the number of travel programs growing by the year, probably in the 25 range now, the college coaches acknowledged that some are more responsible than others and that it's buyer beware.
"The Legion coach, what's his motivation?" Penders asked. "These guys aren't in it for the money. The high school coach isn't in it for a $3,000 stipend. It's all about helping young people get to where they're going.
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A Randallstown, Md., native, Bussie averaged a team-best 15.5 points, 9.5 rebounds, three steals and a block in 32 minutes per game in the tournament. She also was named the Nugget Classic's MVP.
Bussie tallied career bests of 16 points, 12 rebounds and four steals in WVU's 66-41 championship victory at host Nevada. She chipped in 15 points and seven rebounds in the opening round, come-from-behind 69-66 win over Iowa.
She also added 11 points and four rebounds in WVU's victory at Duquesne last Tuesday. Bussie has reached double figures in scoring in five of WVU's six games.
Special Notes of the Week
This Week in Cross Country
The 2009 season is complete for the West Virginia University cross country team.
Last Week in Cross Country
The Mountaineers finished the 2009 season with a sixth-place (259) showing at the NCAA Championship on Monday, Nov. 23, in Terre Haute, Ind. … Big East foe Villanova took the title (86), while Florida State took second (133), Washington third (188), Texas Tech fourth (191) and Princeton fifth (251) … this season's showing is the Mountaineers' second-highest finish in school history, behind last season's fourth-place finish … the Mountaineers also finished fifth at the ECAC Championship on Saturday, Nov. 21, in Bronx, N.Y.
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Seniors Clara Grandt, Keri Bland and Marie-Louise Asselin led the team, as eached earned All-America honors … Grandt, a West Union, W.Va., native, was the first Mountaineer to cross the line, as she earned her first honors in cross country with a 13th-place finish (20:19) … Asselin and Bland became the first Mountaineers to earn three-consecutive All-America honors in cross country, finishing in 31st (20:43) and 34th (20:45), respectively … sophomores Kaylyn Christopher and Kate Harrison also had excellent races, as Christopher finished 87th (21:21) and Harrison crossed the line in 94th place (21:25) … Sarah-Anne Brault finished 145th (21:54) and Ahna Lewis finished 174th (22:13) … at the ECAC Championship, junior Jessica O'Connel was the first Mountaineer to cross the line, in ninth place with a time of 17:37, while senior Karly Hamric finished 15th with a time of 17:50 … both were named to the all-east team … also racing well was Maria Dalzot who finished in 22nd (18:00.2), Hallie Portner, who finished 40th (18:18.9) and Aubrey Moskal, who crossed the line in 43rd (18:25.2).
This Week in Women's Basketball
West Virginia (5-1) takes on Radford, Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m., at the WVU Coliseum … WVU will also face Maine on Saturday, Dec. 5, at noon, at the Coliseum.
Last Week in Women's Basketball
WVU went 3-0 last week with victories over Duquesne (73-52), Iowa (69-66) and Nevada (66-41) … WVU won the Nugget Classic in Reno, Nev., after defeating host Nevada … freshman center Asya Bussie notched career bests of 16 points, 12 rebounds and four steals and garnered tournament MVP honors … Sarah Miles tallied 15 points with seven assists and was named to the all-tournament team … Korinne Campbell and Liz Repella each finished the contest with 10 points and nine rebounds … WVU used a 10-0 run midway through the first half to take a commanding 19-9 lead and never looked back … WVU led 35-19 at the break, out-rebounded Nevada 48-31, had 38 points in the paint and converted 19 points off 19 Wolfpack turnovers … in opening round action against Iowa, Repella blocked a Kamille Wahlin 3-point attempt as time expired preserving the team's first-ever victory over the Big Ten foe … four Mountaineers reached double figures, led by Campbell's and Bussie's 15 points … Campbell also pulled down a game-best nine rebounds … the contest featured five lead changes and three tied scores … WVU took its first lead of the game on a steal and layup from Miles at 8:24 … WVU had 44 points in the paint, to Iowa's 24, and shot 86.4% (19-22) from the foul line in the victory … in WVU's victory against Duquesne, Campbell powered the team with 17 points and 16 rebounds, both career-bests, while as a team WVU shot a blistering 57.4% (27-47) from the field … Repella added 16 points and seven rebounds, and Bussie chipped in 11 points, four blocks and three steals.
Notes and Quotes
Mike Carey is seven victories shy of 450 for his career … WVU's 10 blocks at Duquesne tied a Carey era single game high … WVU has now won its second consecutive Thanksgiving tournament in as many years.
This Week in Rifle
No. 1-ranked WVU has concluded the first half of its season … the team will resume regular-season action on Jan. 17 and play host to NC State at 8 a.m. at the WVU Rifle Range.
Last Week in Rifle
The Mountaineers were idle last week.
Notes and Quotes
The Mountaineers (6-0, 3-0 GARC) last defeated No. 2-ranked and GARC foe Kentucky, 4691-4642, on Nov. 21 at the WVU Rifle Range … the team score is believed to be the highest collegiate aggregate total since the NCAA implemented a 60-shot course at the onset of the 2004-05 season … the total is 14 shots better than WVU's previous school record of 4677, set last year … with wins over the Wildcats in smallbore and air rifle, the Mountaineers remained undefeated in both disciplines … the Mountaineers are off to their best season start since 2003, when they opened the season 8-0 before finishing the year at 11-2.
This Week in Swimming & Diving
The West Virginia University swimming teams will depart for Columbus, Ohio, to take part in the Ohio State Invitational from Dec. 5-7.
Last Week in Swimming & Diving
The Mountaineers were idle last week.
Notes and Quotes
This will be the first time since coach Vic Riggs started at West Virginia that the teams will swim in the Ohio State Invitational … previously, the Mountaineers swam in the Georgia Invitational.
This Week in Wrestling
The Mountaineers travel to Primm, Nev., for the 28th annual Cliff Keen Invitational on Dec. 4-5 ... the two-day event will take place at the Star of the Desert Arena ... notable teams competing include Arizona State, Ohio State, Michigan and Nebraska.
Last Week in Wrestling
The Mountaineers were idle last week.
Notes and Quotes
WVU opened its dual season on Nov. 22 at the 'Sprawl & Brawl' duals … the Mountaineers fell in their first match to Wyoming, 19-18 … WVU then lost its second dual, 23-15, to No. 23 Illinois … the non-dual starters competed at the Navy Classic on Nov. 21.


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With the life of its own that the January transfer window seems to have developed over recent times, it sometimes feels all too easy to sweep its shortcomings under the carpet.
What was once a mere alteration of the rules by Fifa and Uefa at the turn of the century, now resembles something along the lines of a national institution.
It's become an all-singing, all-dancing mass-media event, spawning masses of forums and websites in its dedication, as well as generating its own commercial shtick, to boot. Indeed, it now feels somewhat difficult to imagine how Sky Sports News once survived without its cheap, deadline day chutzpah.
Yet for all the speculation and excitement that January's uncertainty spins amongst supporters, the start-of-year transfer window isn't without it's faults and the problems tend to cut a lot deeper than Sir Alex Ferguson's simple musings about their being 'little value' to be had.
Ironically, one of the main benefits of the January window's introduction was that it was supposed to force clubs into long-term planning. Where as before, a club could pull the managerial guillotine and buy their way out of trouble mid way through March (players could previously be traded up until March 31st), the new window system was supposed to put a stop to that.
That was the opinion heralded by the then-League Managers Association chairman John Barnwell back in 2006, anyway. Fast forward seven years, and opinions within the managerial community appear to have changed considerably. Barnwell's successor, current incumbent Richard Bevan, has gone on record in recent times asking for the window to be done away with all together.
In 2011, Bevan said: "It doesn't create stability, it doesn't create a level playing field, and certainly in the Football League they are very keen the domestic window is removed."
The school of thought within the LMA, one that they still abide by two years on, is that the January window increases instability; with a small window to chop and change as they please, club chairmen – especially those with vast resources at hand – can simply tear it up and start again mid-season.
Then you have the managers themselves who carry a persistent disdain for the January window. You can take your pick from who possesses the biggest dislike for the window, with everyone from Arsene Wenger to Sir Alex Ferguson going on record stating their wish to see the back of it. For the men in charge of our clubs, the window generates a period of mass uncertainty, putting power into the hands of both players and agents.
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Wenger in particular has consistently clamoured for change, slamming the damage the window can do to a club. Speaking last January, he said:
"You have players coming to you saying, 'If I don't play maybe I will leave in January,'"
"So, they are already less committed to the cause. It gives them an opening. We have gone from a period where you knew, if you didn't play, you had to be committed.
Furthermore, while the forums of footballing debate so often tend to ignore the needs of clubs plying their trade outside of the top tier, there is a case that the January window also does more harm than good to lower league sides' financial prospects. For many clubs in the Football League, the nurturing of their young players with a view to selling is a crucial part of financial survival.
Offering the bigger clubs a deadline by which they can bully lower-league teams into a sale, can drive prices lower and the incentive to develop younger talent consequently recedes.
Yet although both managers and their respective authorities harness very relevant points indeed, the realities of the current political boundaries make instigating potential change an extremely difficult task.
The odds of being able to scrap the January window in favour of having a sole, summer window in which to trade would be extremely difficult to implement.
While some have made a case that the current window offers a technical restraint of the free movement of workers – which would contravene EU Law – the European Commission has stated that there could be good sporting reasons to introduce some form of economic restriction in regards to the benefit of stability. Yet bare in mind the current transfer window is a hazy compromise between both the right of a player to move clubs post-Bosman and the need for contractual stability in football, it's unlikely Fifa and Uefa will get away with just on window.
And if the only alternative is a year-long open market, is that particularly going to have much of a positive impact? While Wenger is right in his concerns over conniving agents and fidgety players, but where as the January window offers them one, sensibly placed mid-season chance to plot an escape, dumping the window will give them all season.
Similarly with managerial stability, would returning to the old set-up really encourage long-term managerial planning? It's hard to imagine how the sackings of Roberto Di Matteo, Sean O'Driscoll and Nigel Adkins would have been avoided without a January transfer window.
Furthermore, while there is a case that lower-league clubs may prosper from being able to move on youth products more quickly, it can also damage them, too. Without the January window, who's to say Wilfried Zaha wouldn't have been taken away from Crystal Palace's promotion push back in October? Again, the money the likes of Zaha, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Aaron Ramsey have generated for their clubs in recent years has hardly seen them 'bullied' by the window's constraints as some have suggested. Clubs are also now paid training compensation for loosing players under the age of 24, which they weren't before the January-window era.
Ultimately, the January transfer window isn't without its faults. But it may well be a necessary evil in today's ever changing footballing landscape.
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Katie Wing
Nolan on Wing: "Katie is a versatile player who can play anywhere along the flank ... With a years experience under her belt she should start to establish herself in our rotation ... I am excited to see how Katie progresses this year."
2009: Appeared in eight games during her first season on campus.
Prior to Georgetown - As a member of the Slammers FC, Katie competed against the best teams in the country. Her team was a National Finalist in 2008 and regularly competed in the best tournaments across the country. For high school, she has been named a two-time All-League selection and also twice been named Team MVP. Wing was also team captain after starting four years on the varsity squad and helped lead her team to the 2009 California State National Cup Championship. She also played volleyball for two seasons.
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By Paul Gardner
Here we go again, alas, alas. And, for me, it really is alas, because once again we've got a good young American coach losing it and berating the referee. A
few weeks back, it was John Hackworth and Caleb Porter. This time it's D.C.
United's Ben Olsen erupting after his team's 1-0 loss to Vancouver on Saturday.
In all three cases, the criticism is simply not justifiable. It can be excused, I suppose, as
blind frustration having its say. A sudden release of pent-up anger which can have only one target. Referees are used to this sort of thing, they'd better be.
But these cases
invariably find the referees accused of faults and crimes they have not committed, while the coaches end up looking unpleasantly embittered. Because these bursts of barely controlled anger nearly
always focus on incidents that the referee got right. They are simply calls that the coach doesn't like, calls that he feels robbed them of a goal, or presented the opposition with a goal. And
the later in the game that the call comes, the greater is likely to be the coach's departure from reality.
Of course Olsen is feeling the pressure -- D.C. United now has the worst
record in the league. And the frustration in this particular game was cruel. D.C. did do enough, did play well enough, to win it. Instead they were defeated, and Olsen found it necessary, post-game,
to bury referee Matthew Foerster with scornful criticism. Calling the officiating "a clown show," Olsen told us "the joker in the middle did not do a good job."
The second of the two complaints that Olsen raised during his rant concerned a very late 94th-minute non-call by Foerster.
D.C. should have had penalty, claimed Olsen, because Vancouver
defender Brad Rusin handled the ball. But Olsen's claim -- "If the ball hits a guy's hand in the box right in front of the referee, it's a PK" destroys his own argument. If the ball
plays the hand, that is normally regarded as accidental contact, so no call. And that's what happened -- there was very slight, incidental contact with Rusin's hand -- even as Rusin was
trying to draw his hand away.
The other injustice that Olsen went on about involved a first-half penalty that Foerster did call -- against D.C. goalkeeper Bill Hamid for bringing
down Vancouver's Matt Watson. This is Olsen's version: "If Bill Hamid touches the ball, and his follow-through tends to trip the guy, it's not a PK."
That is more
or less what happened -- Hamid did get the ball first -- and he did then wipe out Watson. Many will agree with Olsen's interpretation, but many will not. Me, for one -- because I see the sort of
challenge that Hamid made as certainly careless, and likely to be reckless, play. Both are fouls -- there is nothing in the rules that excuses goalkeepers from having to consider the safety of
But goalkeepers, aided and abetted by refereeing complacency, have become quite used to getting away with their careless challenges. Appropriately, it was Hamid himself who
later gave us an almost perfect example of the way that goalkeepers feel that crunching into other players is an OK thing to do (you will have noticed that goalkeepers are usually the biggest guys on
the field).
It was a desperate gimmick-play from D.C. -- to send Hamid upfield, hoping to get on the end of a last-gasp D.C. corner kick. Hamid did his job -- he did get his head to the
ball (the D.C. claim for a hand-ball penalty followed) -- but the ball was partially cleared. Hamid saw another chance to head it -- and raced to meet it, crashing violently into defender Jordan
Harvey, without getting anywhere near the ball. A dangerous foul for which Foerster quite rightly gave a yellow.
Getting back to the penalty kick call on Hamid, there is also this to
consider. In getting his hands to the ball, Hamid did not push it very far away -- had Watson stayed on his feet, he would surely have reclaimed it very quickly. But thanks to Hamid's demolition
job, Watson was on his back, not his feet.
I have no sympathy at all for the goalkeepers in these situations. All they're being asked to do is play the game according to the same
rules as everyone else -- to show consideration for the opponents and not to make wild challenges.
The day before Hamid's fouls, you may have seen an even clearer example of the
problems that goalkeeper violence can cause. This was during the wonderfully exciting U-20 World Cup game between Mexico and Mali. At the end of the first half, Mali played the ball into the Mexico
penalty area and, to punch it clear, goalkeeper Richard Sanchez raced forward ... into a crowd of players. What was immediately noticeable was that, as Sanchez leaped to get to the ball, his knee was
raised in that menacing way that goalkeepers use to protect themselves from players who charge into them.
But no one was charging into Sanchez. Quite the opposite -- he was the one doing
the assaulting, and his knee crunched heavily into the face of a player. The game was delayed for over 3 minutes until the player, looking understandably dazed, could be removed on a stretcher.
So a penalty to Mali? No -- the player whom Sanchez had clobbered was his own captain, Bernardo Hernandez. Luckily, Hernandez did come back into the game (whether, given the severity of the
knock he took, he should have returned is another matter).
But the matter of the penalty kick is unresolved. The way Sanchez went for the ball -- which was absolutely typical of what
all goalkeepers do, and are repeatedly allowed to do -- was surely careless play.
Surely, it is irrelevant that it was a teammate who took the knee to his head -- that was
sheer chance, it could easily have been an opponent ... isn't that sort of random damage what "careless" means?
The rule book, defines three ascending categories of foul
play -- careless, reckless, and using excessive force. For the reckless and excessive force categories it specifies that the danger or injuries must be to an opponent.
But for careless,
as it happens, there is no mention of opponents. That "the player has shown a lack of attention or consideration when making a challenge or that he acted without precaution."
There is surely enough justification there for referees to penalize goalkeepers for these dangerous challenges,
What makes the challenges so frightening is that they are more likely than
not to involve head injuries and concussions. I discussed this topic a few days ago, and
suggested that MLS let us know what instructions its referees have been given on dealing with head injuries.
Not a word from MLS ... but this from Columbus coach Robert Warzycha after his
team's Saturday loss to Kansas City: "The referee [Juan Guzman] didn't stop the play for a head injury ... You have a player with a history of concussions [Chad Marshall] go down.
The play should have been stopped."
MLS needs to clear this up. Quickly.
As for Ben Olsen, he will be fined, but I'm hoping his chastisement goes no further than
that. He won't look back on his rant as a shining moment, but I'm hoping he'll get over it quickly and will persevere, will be allowed to persevere, through his team's sticky