overtime to lift the
             Dallas Stars over the Sabres– a goal so disputable as to compel the NHL to modify its "crease" rules. Or
             ask any Oakland Raiders fan about New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's late-fourth-quarter
             fumble in the 2001 NFL playoffs, a play which arguably should have ended the game and the Patriots'
             season but was reviewed and ruled an incomplete pass, thus propelling the Patriots into overtime and
             (eventually) to the Super Bowl. Or ask any Dodgers fan about the allegations that the 1951 Giants
             embarked on an ambitious and highly illegal program of sign-stealing that not only hoisted them into a tie
             in the pennant race but was also responsible for Thomson's homer (though, as the Giants' partisans will
             tell you, Thomson still had to hit the ball even if he knew what pitch was coming). Any serious sports fan
             knows that the game, whatever game it might be, is plagued– or perhaps enhanced– by shady practices,
             questionable rulings and ambiguous outcomes that defy explanation and infuriat
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