Page 50 - Sports Illustrated KIDS Magazine (January - February 2020)

WHAT’S

THE CALL?

Illustrations by
Sean Tiffany

BAKER’S

BLUNDER

The Dexter Donuts are playing the SUDDEN SPIKING
Pinckney Pastries in a basketball In a football game between the
game under NCAA rules. While the Birmingham Bulldogs and the Dalton
Donuts are on defense, a Pastries Dachshunds, the Bulldogs are driving
player throws up a shot that down the field, trailing a touchdown with
ricochets off the backboard and less than two minutes left on the clock.
bounces all the way to Dexter On a second-down play, Birmingham QB
guard Dylan Baker, who is Bart Thompson drops back to pass.
standing behind the three-point Thompson begins his throwing motion,
line. Baker, who foolishly stayed but when he sees no one open down the
up past his bedtime playing field, he begins to bring the ball back
Luigi’s Mansion, has a major brain down. As he does, he throws it straight
cramp and throws the ball back down to spike it, in an attempt to stop
up toward his own goal! The shot the clock. The Dachshunds think
goes in—nothing but net. Since Thompson has committed intentional
Baker was behind the arc, the grounding. The Bulldogs argue that
Pastries think they should get because he was under no pressure from
three points. You’re the referee. the defense, intentional grounding is
What’s the call? impossible. Who’s right?

OUT OF TURN

Debbie Martin is
participating in the 200-meter
butterfly under NCAA rules. As
she reaches the wall on the first
turn, she touches it with her right
hand below the water, then
separately with her left hand
above the water, as she pushes
off to turn herself around. A
spectator complains that she
turned illegally. You’re the race
official. What did she do wrong?

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