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Monday, July 10, 2006 12:00 AM

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Italy wins the World Cup as French legend Zidane is sent off. Let's do the same to the penalty-kick shootout. Plus: The Twins' side-arming blogger.

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  • Monday, July 10, 2006 09:17 AM

    Penalty kicks, no. Corners, yes.

    Ok, I'm not the biggest soccer fan. But when looking at overtime procedures for various sports, I like college football best: Alternating posessions from the 20.

    The current soccer situation is crazy, but if they did alternating corner kicks (or maybe 3 corners/per team), that would improve things. When the ball left the box, the attempt would be over.

    The goal of overtime should be to test the *team*, but in an abbreviated fashion to figure out which team is best. Corner kicks would do that in a real game situation without all the time wasted at mid-field.

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