There’s also Horseshoes which only shares points for getting close with the game of Hand Grenades.
I think my club would frown on that. And sometimes we need to save our energy to play Crud on the pool table upstairs.
Doesn’t cross-country skiing do that?
I recall reading many years ago that professional boxing was the only sport in which nobody knew the score at any point until after the competition was over.
Is that not also true of MMA? Or are there no other combat sports when it goes the judges at the end and a winner is declared (as opposed to some martial arts where individual points are scored and announced)?
Well the judges know their own scores, but usually no one knows all the scores. But those rules aren’t locked in, there have been experiments with posting the scores after each round, and a common practice in some locales to post scores when there are two rounds left. The reason for not posting scores is supposed to be to keep a boxer from trying to run away at the end of a fight once they know they have a lead. Not knowing the score keeps fights more exciting because it’s a sport where even a boxer thinks he has a comfortable lead the scores don’t always reflect what any person with reasonably good vision saw in the fight so he has to make sure to win as many rounds as possible. Posting the scores is also likely to make a fighter give up if he’s losing badly on the cards.
Now the knockout in boxing isn’t something commonly found. In wrestling a pin is the equivalent. Outside martial arts I don’t know of any other sports where you can end the competition at any point like that.
This is also the case for Ultimate Frisbee, though that may be a result of the relative informality of the sport. Nobody has big money riding on an Ultimate game.
Catching the Snitch?
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old Boston Garden rink was smaller than other NHL rinks but as noted above all the rinks are the same size now.
Is there any sport other than Australian Rules Football where point(s) are awarded if the ball hits a post and doesn’t go through the goal?
Horseshoes. You get points for close, touching, and “surrounding” (effectively, through).
In rugby a try is awarded if the ball touches the line, rather than needing to cross the line. So a try is scored if in the act of grounding the ball it touches the goal posts or padding around the posts without needing to touch or cross the goal line.
As a qualification, in Aussie Rules a behind is scored only if the ball hits one of the goal posts (inner pair). If the ball hit one of the behind posts (outer pair) the ball is out of bounds.
I’d watch if they made hitting each other with sticks mandatory.
Golf’s been mentioned several times, but I didn’t see anything about players being allowed to use not only different brands of balls, but balls with different specs – compression, etc.
I understand that Tom Brady enjoys golf.
Baseball, too. Baseball has two tall poles at the wall in right and left field that indicate the fair/foul demarcation. They are intended to aid the umpires in making the right calls on home runs/foul balls. If a batted ball hits the foul pole and bounces back into the field, it is considered a home run. Every part of the ball must be outside of the line for it to be considered foul, similar to a goal in soccer.
And the Frogs. And petanca, aka bulles. And some variants of marbles, but not all.
Pistols at dawn, sir! Do you put jam on your toast before the butter as well? 
Well, the side that’s out is trying to get the side that’s in, out (etc). So any other confusion is hardly surprising.
In fact, having non-players make the calls is increasingly common, if controversial, in Ultimate. See http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/sports/ultimate-frisbee-debates-a-role-for-referees.html.
Are you implying that toast is in some way an equivalent to fine, rosy-cheeked English scone?
I have never heard the like.
Good day to you sir,
I SAID GOOD DAY!
Indeed, that would be an insult to good American toast.
Say, are scones supposed to be as hard as concrete blocks? 