My sons tier 4 team played a tier 2 team in playoffs on sunday. The best player on the opposing team (#19) got a major for boarding in his prior game on the thursday night so he was suspended for the sunday game. Our entire team (players and families) knew about this because the penalty came in an exhibition game against our tier 3 team. So all our kids learned about this at school the next day from their friends/classmates at their various burnaby schools lol
you cant really scam the system here because the game tracking/record keeping is rigidly bureaucratic. The league uses the hisports app (online game sheets) and its pretty foolproof. each team declares their roster online pregame and the system will automatically exclude suspended players from selection.
To our surprise, #19 shows up sunday morning and the opposing team manager says pregame “ya i dont know whats up with hisports but its not letting me add him to the roster ... can you guys just add him manually in the game notes section”
good effort lmao
We had something similar with HS football around here about a decade ago. Two or three of the schools had to forfeit their season and another cost the school district (taxpayers) nearly $100K but was ultimately "cleared" (I use the quotes because the conclusion, if I remember correctly, was essentially that they weren't doing things right, but they didn't have enough evidence that it was wrong to punish anyone).
When I ran a team in the stockbrokers league, some asshole was famous for paying players, cheating rosters, having his "industry players" sit on the bench the entire game.
Health officials in the United Kingdom are scrambling to find anyone who may have had close contact with man being referred to as a "superspreader" after being linked to 11 new infections of the novel coronavirus.
The man, said to be in his late 50s, travelled to Singapore for a sales conference from January 20 to 22, where it is thought he caught the novel virus, several news outlets reported. The man then flew to a ski resort close to the French Alps, before returning to his hometown of Hover and visiting a local pub, The Washington Post reported.
