This is not a correct statement. There is no place in the Laws of the Game that has such a declaration, nor is there, to my knowledge, a decision from FIFA that says that this would be the case.
An individual referee might decide this was unsporting conduct. If so, it is not a foul. The play should continue and the player would be cautioned and shown a yellow card at the first available stoppage of play.
Because as facherwirrt (sp?) points out, the line drive rule applies even if there is just a man on first. The infield fly rule applies only if there are men on first AND second (or bases loaded.)
As for the ways a runner can score without crediting a batter with an RBI, there’s more than five. There are ten I can find:
Catcher’s interference with the bases loaded would cause the batter to get credit for an RBI, rule 10.04(a)(3). That’s amazing to me, but there it is. I also believe, from reading the rules, that if a runner scores in accordance with the rule against throwing gloves or other equipment at a batted ball, the batter would get an RBI for that.
Interesting.
Over here the tote, or parimutuel, substitutes a scratched horse with the returned favourite in that race. Should there be joint or co-favourites, the animal with the lowest racecard number replaces the non-runner in the wager.
If the defense recovers the ball in their opponents end zone, it’s a safety. If the defense recovers the ball in their own end zone, which is what I think you meant, it’s a touchback as long as the ball is not advanced out of the end zone.
That’s the rule in rugby, too. The player is considered part of the touch line in that situation.
Also, the player can jump from touch into the field of play, catching the ball. No matter where he catches the ball, if he lands with both feet in play, the ball never went into touch.
Don’t even get me started on the rules for what happens when the ball goes into touch in the try zone. I’ve been playing for 8 years and still don’t understand all the situations.
Give it a rest son - the statement is correct, it’s against the ‘law’ or ‘rule’ of sportsmanlike conduct. As there is no exhaustive list of misconduct, it’s meaningless to talk about absences of declarations on the subject. There is no ‘declaration in the Laws of the Game’ that explicitly concerns the bearing of one’s arse upon scoring a goal, but it’s clearly unsportsmanlike conduct. The example I gave is not as obvious, which is why I posted it initially - it’s interesting and would come closest to the ‘verbally distracting an opponent’ example given in the Laws.
I’ve played in several amateur games where this has been given btw - actually with a free kick when two players have gone up for a header and someone has shouted ‘mine’.
And I have refereed in professional games and I tell you you are incorrect. As a matter of both law and fact. It is a situational case. Unsporting conduct (get the terminology right 
) is not standardized. So the one who needs to give it a rest is you.
In Tennis, the ball does not have to go over the net to be good. If the angle is right, it is possible and legal to hit the ball around the net, even if it is lower than the pole/net when it crosses the middle line.
Also, if the ball hits the other player in the body, you get the point.
Incorrect.
Correct, unless the momentum exception applies.
The momentum exception basically says that if a defender or returner gains possession of the ball between the goal line and the 5-yard-line, and that player’s original momentum carries him into the end zone, and then the ball becomes dead while in the end zone, the ball will be spotted at the point where the player gained possession of the ball.
This happened to Florida when they were kicking off to LSU last season, much to my chagrin. Florida got the last laugh, though, winning by about 30 points.
I’m not really a sports guy, but I think I remember reading somewhere that, in American football, it is—now—specifically illegal to have a midget player pick up the ball, then have a teammate throw the both of them to the goal.
It’s against the rules (by precedent) for midgets to play major league baseball.
Reffing a bunch of fatties chasing a ball round a mid-west cornfield doesn’t pass muster as an appeal to authority, DSYoungEsq. Although I’m sure you make an excellent referee, out of the Mike Riley school of officiating if your posting style is any guide.
Just came across this NFL rule that I was unaware of:
That rule is a companion for the rule I posted earlier: in the final two minutes, a fumble into the end zone that is recovered by an offensive player other than the player that committed the fumble is spotted at the 1 yard line. The reason is the rule that you cite: awarding a touchdown would be “advancing” the ball.
It stems from the Holy Roller play. In fact, there are a lot of rules that were the spawn of unusual plays that set precedent and needed to be addressed.
Check out this Wiki page on NFL Lore. It lists rules such as the “Greg Pruitt rule (tear-away jerseys are now illegal),” the “Bert Emanuel rule (the ball can touch the ground during a completed pass as long as the receiver maintains control of the ball),” the “Tom Dempsey rule (any shoe that is worn by a player with an artificial limb on his kicking leg must have a kicking surface that conforms to that of a normal kicking shoe),” and more.
And (factually unsupported) ad hominem attacks don’t past muster as any kind of argument. Appeal to authority is at least a valid (though refutable) argument, and it seems to me that someone who has refereed professional games is more of an authority than someone who talks of their experience in a pick-up game.
Of course,I also think that DSYoung is correct: there is nothing in the Rules of the Game that specifically addresses calling for the ball, and I have not seen any official FIFA interpretation that addresses it either.
Nor, in my experience (which is less than DSYoung), have I ever heard of any foul being called solely for calling for the ball without using a specific name.
It’s certainly possible that some places, particularly pick-up games where people may be switching teams, there’s a tradition that calling for the ball without identifying who you are is unsporting and not done, but it’s certainly not a universal rule of soccer.
Not exactly. The response to the Eddie Gaedel “experiment” was to make all player contracts subject to approval by the Commissioner.
Golf has some weird ones, including the rule against removing a half-eaten pear from a bunker, under PGA rules. The R&A will permit it, though.
No, it’s spotted at the point of the fumble.
Quercus As Busy Scissors says, there is nothing in the rules that say a player cannot show his arse after scoring a goal, or at any time for that matter.
I think that Scissors is right, to call for the ball and thereby distracting an opponent would fall under ungentlemanly conduct