Clubhouse Chatter: You can change one rule in any sport. Which is it?
Clubouse Chatter features what our Sports staff has to say while waiting for the games to resume. Today's question: What sports rule would you change?
• Kevin Schmit: I don't have a strong feeling against any rule in particular but I've never liked the overtime rules in the NFL. Why does it have to be so involved and convoluted? Take a page from high school football and make it nice and easy: four downs from the 10-yard line. No mystery there. Everyone knows the situation.
• Scot Gregor: Add the designated hitter to the National League. Or, remove it from the American League. You can't have it both ways, and Major League Baseball can't keep kicking this can down the road.
• Mike Smith: Since there's obviously no more traveling infraction in the NBA (and college basketball for that matter), baseball managers still wear uniforms and one foot inbounds counts as a catch in college football, how about we do without the single point for an overtime loss or a shootout loss in the NHL? Why should teams get rewarded for losing? A win's a win and a loss is a loss. Except in the NHL. If you don't want to change the rule, at least adjust it so the winner gets 3 points.
• John Leusch: I would not change any rules. I believe it ruins the tradition of each sport. I would like to add one change to basketball stats. I'd like a category called 'setups'. That would be for every time a player tosses a pass to another player who is within layup range of the basket and then misses the shot.