Talk:Sudden death (sport)

message: I don't have a reference for this, so I won't make the edit myself, but I am 100% certain that the term sudden death in tennis specifically refers to the outdated 9-point tiebreaker rather than to the 9-point tiebreaker.  In a 9-point tiebreaker, the winner of the set is the first player to win 5 points, not necessarily leading by two.  The term sudden death specifically refers to the brevity of the tiebreaker and the fact that a match at the US Open could theoretically be decided by a single point after  full sets of play.    —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.79.152 (talk) 18:49, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sudden death in tennis

message: Don't know if these are worth including as matters of humour...
In an episode of "Fantasy Island", the two best-known game show hosts (one played by Gene Rayburn, a real game-show host) "duke it out" in the "ultimate" game show, hosted by Mr. Roarke.  Having finished out with one win each and working together to survive the third contest, Mr. Roarke asks if they'd like to take part in one final tie-breaker, "I believe you call it, a 'sudden-death'?"  The men decline, knowing the "realism" of Fantasy Island.
In an episode of "The Facts of Life", to fill time on the university radio station after the turntables are broken, Jo's friends, Natalie, Blair and Tootie participate in talk programming. Blair reads the sports results from prepared text, including a line, "(x) lost to (x) in sudden death...".  "How awful!" she exclaims, noting that it seems the team players all died.
GBC 02:41, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Sudden death in fiction

message: Talk page for sudden death (medical) article redirects to sudden death (sport). Why?--C6H12O6 16:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a good question. I also wonder why sudden death (medical) seems to only discuss sudden cardiac death while completely and totally ignoring non-cardiac forms of sudden death. Clinicians may use the term "sudden death" to refer to cardiac sudden death only, but we laity don't. Chances are that if we're looking for "sudden death" we're likely interested in all forms, including anaphylaxis, ruptured berry aneurysm, ruptured AAA, stroke, etc., etc. --Charlene 22:24, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To follow up, I've suggested deleting the redirect under WP:RFD for December 25. --Charlene 22:35, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why talk page redirects? 

message: I've tightened up the section on American football, but I've moved the information on notably long games to Overtime (sports).  PS: Someone with context should also harmonize the plural in Overtime (sports) versus Sudden death (sport). --Spike-from-NH (talk) 18:40, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Long American football games 

message: I'll delete the former Section 16, "Future," which User:Jnestorius marked with .  He has added text to the intro with both important points that Section 16 made:
* The basis for criticizing the sudden-death format
* Considerations of television
I'll modify slightly his new text in the intro to
* Mention team-travel considerations, formerly in Section 16, and
* Rephrase "unsatisfactory travesty"
--Spike-from-NH (talk) 05:30, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alleged speculation 

message: The American Heritage Dictionary confirms, from Greek 'krasis' (mixture), versus democracy, from Greek 'kratia'/'kratos' (strength, power).  I'll be dipped!  --Spike-from-NH (talk) 18:12, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling of 'idiosyncrasy'

message: Perhaps it would be prudent to mention, for the benefit of non-native English speakers, that sudden death generally does not involve actual death? Some guy (talk) 09:18, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's clear from the beginning that this term is figurative, and there is a brief mention of actual death in the middle of the second paragraph. --Spike-from-NH (talk) 10:30, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think clear is an exaggeration. It's obvious if you're already familiar with the concept. The mention in the second paragraph isn't exactly clarification. Someone who is not a native English speaker could easily read the first few sentences and not be certain as to whether someone who loses a sudden death game is killed for the loss. Some guy (talk) 12:39, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The article's first sentence could be rewritten "...sudden death (or a sudden-death round) is a figure of speech for competition under a rule that provides that play ends as soon as..." (My underlined change does more than add "figure of speech," to be more precise than saying "form of competition").  I have not yet applied this change to the article because I remain unconvinced that confusion of non-native English speakers is a serious problem here, and would solicit input from others first. --Spike-from-NH (talk) 14:38, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The article admits that there were attempts to start calling it "sudden victory" out of political niceness, but happily that tepid term didn't catch on.WHPratt (talk) 14:29, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't be so sure. The NCAA rulebooks for soccer, lacrosse, and wrestling all refer to "sudden victory" overtimes. Hockey, thankfully, still calls it "sudden death."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.206.43.5 (talk) 18:07, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Death

message: I'm pretty sure that the NFL didn't authorize overtime play until the middle 1950s, just shortly before it was first needed in 1958.
I suppose that, prior to that, if the NFL championshipo game had been tied after 60 minutes, they'd have crowned co-champions. Not an ideal solution, but workable.
But, what would they have done if a playoff game between teams that finished tied for a division lead were tied after 60?  Someone has to advance to the title game!
A good topic for some research. WHPratt (talk) 20:40, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for that relevant information! I've now added it to this article, lifting your wording from the article you link to, with minor adaptation (primarily, deleting the sentences that were not directly related to the topic of sudden death overtime). JudahH (talk) 15:17, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  American football 

message: The article implies that basketball never employed sudden death; this is not the case as it was routinely used after two overtime periods had failed to break a tie in the years up to about the outbreak of World War II when overall scoring was far lower.  If I come upon a reliable source stating this I'll cite it and add this to the article; however if someone already has this source I encourage them to be bold and go ahead and add this to the article.  2600:1004:B16D:AA57:B87B:8F7C:E361:389F (talk) 18:16, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Basketball 

message: Why does the disambig read "sport" and not "sports"? As it is, it seems as if there was a sport called "sudden death". --uKER (talk) 05:09, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Sport encompasses "all forms of competitive physical activity or games which,[1] through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.71.192 (talk) 05:56, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Precisely. Sudden Death is not a sport. It's a term describing something that's related to sports in general. --uKER (talk) 21:06, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, as explained by the link, sport in general, not any particular sport. IOW, it's shorthand for "Sudden death in sport", as opposed to say "Sudden death in hospital" or "Sudden death in traffic"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.71.192 (talk) 02:41, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
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