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FIFA has no choice but to embrace technologySoccer Betting Lines06/29/2010 - Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter apologized to both England and Mexico on Tuesday for officiating errors, and admitted it was time to take another look at goal-line technology. Perhaps Blatter should start by reviewing his own comments, which did nothing but state the obvious. "With what we have experienced here, it would be nonsense to not re-open the file on technology," Blatter said. "I deplore the obvious refereeing mistakes we have seen." Yes, Sepp. But are you actually going to fix the problem? We're waiting. We've been waiting. And it's getting old. FIFA has discussed the use of technology for years, but has been unwilling to follow any of the models used successfully in American football, baseball and hockey. Not to mention tennis, which has a system to follow a tiny ball going at insane speeds. Blatter still said Tuesday "we have to accept mistakes." After the slew of mistakes in the FIFA World Cup in South Africa this summer, it is very obvious Blatter has to seriously rethink the matter. Apologizing to England and Mexico, teams hurt in round of 16 games by goals that were disallowed and allowed, respectively, does not make a difference now. England's Frank Lampard scored a goal ... err ... did not score, in a 4-1 defeat to Germany. A glance at the final score seems to make the call, which disallowed a goal although the ball clearly crossed the line, irrelevant. But, Lampard's non-goal would have tied the game at 2-2 late in the opening half. The pessimistic British fan would have expected to lose in penalty kicks - see semifinals of 1990 World Cup and Euro 1996 - but you never know. Replays, which took all of seconds to flash around the world, showed the goal should have stood. It would have taken all of a minute for the referee to run to the sideline and take a look in a replay booth, so the argument of slowing the game down should fall on deaf ears. Consider the controversy involving Mexico, when after a goal from Argentina's Carlos Tevez who was yards offsides, both teams spent minutes huddled around the referee and his assistant as they discussed the play. Obviously, offsides brings another challenge altogether to replay, but if the referee has no problem taking a couple minutes to discuss the play, shouldn't he have the option of spending a few minutes to watch a replay? Officials already communicate through headsets during the game. Sepp, is that not a form of technology? It is time to take the next step. The credibility of the sport is at stake. Even if Blatter believes otherwise. "I cannot accept that the integrity of the competition and the referees is called into question," Blatter said. Earlier in this World Cup, United States midfielder Maurice Edu had a winning goal disallowed against Slovenia and nobody has figured out why. American Clint Dempsey is also part of the discussion, after he had a score erased for offsides when replays showed he was clearly onside. Officiating mistakes have been part of the game for too long. And it does not just happen at the World Cup. France qualified on the "Hand of Henry," a goal set up by striker Thierry Henry's handball in a playoff against Ireland. But, if nothing else, FIFA and the rest of the world has to embrace technology for goals. When Blatter gets together with the rest of the FIFA dictators, it would also be a good idea to discuss the obvious and disgraceful diving by players to draw fouls. Maybe Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo would actually stay on his feet long enough to score if such acting was outlawed. Ronaldo is one of the world's best players, but has made tripping over blades of grass into an art form. The worst example of diving in this World Cup was when Brazil's Kaka, another of the best players in the world, was run into by Ivory Coast's Kader Keitaan, who then fell in a manner that suggested he just got hit by a train. Kaka got a second yellow card (do not get me going that outdated system), and was ejected. Replays clearly showed that Keitaan initiated the contact with Kaka, and that the collision was chest-to-elbow. But Keita put on a Broadway play, grabbing his face to get the second yellow and an ejection for Kaka. Kaka was forced to serve a one-game ban. Blatter may have deflected a bit of the criticism surrounding the officiating for now, but with every game becoming more important and mistakes more significant, he could be in the cross hairs again soon. He insists FIFA will look into the officiating later this year, but what comes out of the meetings remains to be seen. "We will present a new model on how to improve high-level refereeing," Blatter said. "The question is to know what we shall do in the future." Technology, that's all you need, Sepp. Really, it's that simple.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL BETTINGNCAA Football Betting : USC's reward: Top spot in Top 25NEW YORK (AP) -By staying away from the cupcakes, Southern California earned itself a slim new ranking. No. 1 always seems to fit USC. Southern California jumped two spots to No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 on Tuesday, rewarded by voters for opening the season with a dominant performance on the road against a BCS conference opponent. Georgia and Ohio State, the preseason Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, started their seasons with glorified scrimmages at home against FCS (formerly I-AA) teams. USC, however, traveled across country to face Virginia and could not have been more impressive in a 52-7 victory. Georgia fell to No. 2 and Ohio State to No 3. "We realize that rankings so early in a season are certainly fluid. But rankings do help establish a pecking order for things later in the season," USC coach Pete Carroll said in a statement. "As for moving into the No. 1 spot, it's nice to know that people think highly of our team." Since reaching No. 1 on Dec. 7, 2003, the final-regular season AP poll of that season, USC has been No. 1 in 39 polls, by far the most of any team during that time. "Some have said the voters are taking our schedule into consideration," Carroll said. "Our philosophy has always been to schedule outstanding opponents. We need to play challenging games like we just did, traveling across the country to open the season at Virginia. Games like that bring out our best and make us stronger as a team." The latest voting was close. USC received 21 first-place votes and 1,539 points from the 65-member media panel. Georgia had 20 first-place votes and 1,506 points. Ohio State got 15 first-place votes and 1,497 points. "I'd say we've evolved as pollsters," said Stewart Mandel of SI.com, who moved USC up to No. 1. "In the past, voters just kind of automatically moved teams up and kept teams where they were if they won." Georgia beat Georgia Southern 45-21 on Saturday and Ohio State opened with a 43-0 win over Youngstown State. "There's a bit of a growing backlash for the amount of teams that open with I-AA cupcakes," said Mandel, whose book "Bowls, Polls and Tattered Souls" chronicles college football's controversies. "To see a team [USC] go on the road and play a New Year's Day bowl team from last season, and not only play them but destroy them, how could you not reward that team?" USC also jumped past Georgia to No. 1 in the USA Today coaches' poll, which has the same top five as the AP poll. "It's definitely a privilege to be No. 1. But it's not heartbreaking to me if we drop," Georgia offensive lineman Josh Davis said. "It doesn't matter right now what we're ranked. What matters is our next game and right now, that's Central Michigan. The only time the polls matter is in December. That's when the polls matter." While the Bulldogs opened easy, their schedule ultimately should be as difficult as any team's. Georgia's big nonconference test is at No. 15 Arizona State on Sept. 20. The Bulldogs also face six Southeastern Conference rivals that've been ranked in the first two polls. As for Ohio State, the Buckeyes play at USC on Sept. 13 before getting into the Big Ten schedule. But of the teams in this week's top 10, USC and Texas are the only ones that don't play an FCS opponent, and the Trojans are the only team that doesn't play a team from a non-BCS conference. Get the latest 2009 BCS Championship odds at MySportsbook.com. The last team to drop from No. 1 after a victory was USC last season. LSU jumped from No. 2 to No. 1 when it beat Tulane 34-9, the same week the Trojans edged Washington 27-24 on the road. The last preseason No. 1 team to lose the top spot after winning its opening game was Florida in 2001. The Gators beat Marshall 49-14, but preseason No. 2 Miami opened with a 33-7 victory over Penn State and the Hurricanes jumped to No. 1 with Florida slipping to second. The next four teams in the new Top 25 stayed the same: No. 4 Oklahoma (two first-place votes), No. 5 Florida (five first-place votes), No. 6 Missouri (one first-place vote), No. 7 LSU (one first-place vote) and No. 8 West Virginia. No. 9 Auburn and No. 10 Texas each moved up a spot, taking advantage of Clemson's big drop. Clemson, ninth in the preseason, fell out after losing 34-10 to Alabama on Saturday. Also falling out after losses were Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh and Tennessee. Moving into the rankings were No. 21 Fresno State, No. 22 Utah, No. 23 UCLA and No. 24 South Carolina. Alabama moved up 11 spots after its big victory over Clemson. The second 10 started with No. 11 Wisconsin, followed by Texas Tech, Alabama and Kansas. BYU and Arizona State were tied for 15th. Rivals BYU and Utah are both ranked for the first time since 1996. South Florida was No. 17, ahead of Oregon, Penn State and Wake Forest at No. 20. The final five were all the teams to move into the ranking, except for Illinois, which dropped four spots and tied South Carolina for No. 24. Get free Sports Betting lines RSS feeds from top rated online sportsbook MySportsbook.com |
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