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In sport, grey areas are good for the game, or so popular wisdom will tell you. They generate controversy, talking points, the froth and heat of column inches.Football, the worlds most popular sport, is riddled with grey areas. Is the offside player active or passive? Is that handball or ball-to-hand? As for trying to ascertain whether a defender first made contact with ball or man, good luck with that. Even among a punditariat paid to deliver verdicts, and afforded multiple TV replays from innumerable angles and at all speeds to reach them, there is rarely consensus as to the facts of what happened. Ive seen em given.Rugby, with its rucks and mauls, isnt so much a grey area as a black hole, although what it lacks in clarity is mitigated by players acceptance of refereeing decisions.Perhaps its all a test of moral forbearance, ultimately edifying. Yet something implacable in us seeks justice and certainty, and so, in cricket, technology has been embraced to supplement fallible human perception and help clear up grey areas and blind spots.Many of crickets grey areas tend to be matters of ethics - walking and Mankading, for instance - rather than of adjudication, particularly where technology definitively clarifies incidents previously tossed on the pile marked benefit of the doubt to the batsman. But there are also cricketing grey areas that, as well as being matters of ethics, not only elude the capabilities of technology but also the current definitions of the rules.Imagine youre an ant (as a thought experiment, rather than for a John Buchanan-esque team-building exercise). Youre out foraging in the vast forest of Feroz Shah Kotla, and one day decide to clamber the huge swaying green skyscraper plants, whereupon you see the giant, white-clad monsters that ant mythology had told you about. Are you, from this new vantage point, on the ground or not? And how about from the cricketers vantage point?Reductio ad absurdum, perhaps, yet quite often commentators watching the replay of a low catch will observe that grass can be seen through the fielders fingers (commonplace enough on shagpile carpet club outfields). Assuming the technology catches up to the point where all this can be unequivocally verified - perhaps through 3D modelling - if the ball flicks a blade of grass on the way through to the fingers, is it out? Can the ball hit grass without hitting ground? Is the ground a fractal surface?Whether catches have carried has long been an ethical hotspot for cricket. There have been innumerable flashpoints. Just this summer at The Oval, Alex Hales entered the referees room uninvited and mightily aggrieved at being given out caught at midwicket. In 2008, midway through a particularly fractious Border-Gavaskar series, the tentative agreement to accept the fielders word on contentious catches was shelved by the captains, Anil Kumble and Ricky Ponting.Of course, claiming catches that you know have bounced is, obviously, cheating (no ethical grey area here), but it is often extremely difficult to tell, both for the existing technology and for the catcher herself, whose head, due to the hardwired survival instinct, frequently lifts away from the ball, the eyes not watching it all the way into the hands. Mike Brearley once denied debutant offspinner Geoff Cope a Test hat-trick, catching Iqbal Qasim low at slip before, feeling unsure despite the umpires finger being raised and two fielders verifying it had been taken cleanly, recalling the batsman in the best interests of the series.Meanwhile, the nature of images hitherto captured by TV cameras - particularly at low angles, with impinging shadow, foreshortening in magnification and general blurriness - has done little to remove uncertainty. Batsmen have often exploited this (and the benefit-of-the-doubt convention) by standing their ground and waiting for inconclusive replays. This is where the soft signal has been such a success, one of the few ways that statutory support for the on-field decision makes sense (because of the flaws with the technology) and isnt a simple sop to umpires waning symbolic authority.So, after an engagement that had been full of hesitations, India agreeing to the use of DRS for the home series against England seals crickets marriage with technology. Not that there arent other aspects of the game that still elude its implicit drive for absolute certainty.How long before lasers help judge no-balls, even stumpings, perhaps after a powerful zoom shows a millimetre of heel behind a crease line that was painted unevenly (from an ants perspective, if not a humans)? Will umpires eventually wear holographic glasses projecting a batsmans original stance so they can better judge leg-side wides, or whether full tosses are over waist height, as with Chris Woakes reprieve in Dhaka? More prosaically, we have flashing stumps and bails, so what about a flashing boundary marker? Of course, while FIFA eventually acceded to goal-line technology, football cannot adopt blanket technology because so much of it is interpretation. For instance, Law 12 states that a direct free kick is awarded if a player commits the offences of kicking, tripping or striking an opponent (or attempting to do so), or jumping, charging, pushing or tackling them in a manner considered by the referee to be careless, reckless, or using excessive force. Considered by the referee…Cricket is non-contact, and thus doesnt have to interpretatively parse such conflagrations. It is primarily concerned with ballistics, with the black-and-white of line calls, or tracking lines. Yet areas of interpretation that cannot be definitively ascertained by technology remain. Take Bangladeshs final wicket in the Chittagong thriller, as a vicious reverse-swinger crashed into Shafiul Islams pad several inches outside the line, whereupon Kumar Dharmasena adjudged him not to have played a shot and gave him out lbw.Now, as anyone who has faced someone swinging the ball both ways at decent pace will confirm, its perfectly possible that you start out leaving the ball and at some precise point over the course of the next 0.45 seconds - the Oh shit moment - change your mind and decide to play.Imagine a hypothetical techno-utopia in which you could observe this thought process on a real-time MRI scan. Those firing neurons might say: Right, Ive now decided Im going to try and play this ball, but unfortunately my motor system was tardily alerted and the bat will thus arrive on the scene late - unfashionably late, just as the ball crashes into my pad - while the somewhat ostentatious rush to bring it into position can only confirm my guilt in the umpires eyes...Playing a shit shot is not the same as playing no shot, as many batsmen missing googlies by several inches have been at pains to explain, yet the umpire is here reduced to judging intention. And while theres no doubt whatsoever that Shafiuls shot was incompetent, can we say, irrefutably, that he wasnt trying to play a shot? Or, to frame it another way: at what point on a balls trajectory must a batsman be deemed to be attempting to play a shot: at release, upon arrival?Reading the human brain for intent is the greyest of all grey areas, and while well probably never do that beyond all reasonable doubt, there can be little doubt that when Dharmasenas death-dealing finger went up, the Bangladeshis werent thinking, Oh well, at least its a talking point... Kånken Ryggsäck Stor . After Gasquet beat fifth-seeded Ivan Dodig of Croatia 7-5, 6-3, Tsonga followed up with a 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-2 win against sixth-seeded Edouard Roger-Vasselin in an all-French match. Fjällräven Kånken No 2 Rea . LOUIS -- Attorneys for the St. http://www.fjallravenkankensverige.com/kanken-mini-ryggsack/fjallraven-kanken-rosa.html . The next step is a better finish. Bae played bogey-free Friday on another gorgeous day at Riviera for a 5-under 66, giving him a one-shot lead over Aaron Baddeley and Robert Garrigus going into the weekend. Klassisk Fjällräven Kånken Ryggsäck . -- Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson asked his players a simple question during Fridays morning shootaround: How many of them had ever been on a team 14 games over . Kånken Big Sverige . Houston won 3-0 to advance to face New York in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Last in the game, Di Vaio and Romero got into a shoving match with several Houston players. Romero appeared to elbow and kick Houston defender Kofi Sarkodie. CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- NASCAR will resurrect its series in Mexico behind new title sponsor Peak, an automotive products company seeking to boost its profile.The rebranded NASCAR Peak Mexico Series will mark its return with an exhibition race in Mexico City in December. The series plans to run a full championship schedule next year.The announcement Tuesday night in Mexico City was attended by Daniel Suarez, who used the series as a starting point that led to his current ride with Joe Gibbs Racing.Suarez is tied for the lead in the Xfinity Series championship. He spent four years racing in NASCAR Mexico and won 10 races before graduating to the national series level. Hes the first Mexican driver to win a national series race and lead a national series in points.While Suarez was winning races in the United States, the series he had competed in was dormant. NASCAR had operated a Mexico-based stock car series from 2004 to 2015 in coordination with the Mexican promoter OCESA. NASCAR will operate the series in 2017 with former driver Jimmy Morales as the promoter.NASCAR Executive Vice President Steve ODonnell said Tuesday night he believes the series is in a good position to be stable with the sponsorship and promoter partnerships.The future of NASCAR in the United States is going to be reliant on the Hispanic fan base, growing the sport outside of the United States as well, ODonnell said. The success we saw in Mexico with the drivers, particularly Daniel Suarez, we felt like we were just on the cusp of really growing things in Mexico. ... It wasnt a question of if [we will return] for us.We knew how important this market is to the future of NASCAR. It took us a little longer to put everything together, but to have a successful partnership, sometimes that does take time.Morales, president and CEO of motorsports reprresentation company Escuderia Telmex-Telcel, has managed Suarez in his move from Mexico to NASCAR racing in the United States.ddddddddddddJimmy knows what it takes to be successful for a driver through what weve seen with Daniel, ODonnell said. Thats the model he wants to set up is what was the learning curve we had with Daniel, what did Daniel help us learn as well where we could make some improvements and put that together with this partnership.ODonnell said he envisions the series will have 10 races next year. While it has raced at Phoenix International Raceway in the past, ODonnell said he doesnt anticipate a return there in 2017.Well concentrate on Mexico [next year], but the goal really for the series is to be home base for Latin America, and the drivers who aspire to get into the [NASCAR] national series level would come here and compete, ODonnell said.NASCAR Mexico also has helped the development of Ruben Garcia Jr., who has three career Xfinity Series starts, and German Quiroga, who has 53 starts in the Camping World Truck Series.Lou Garate, vice president of partnership marketing for NASCAR, said he believes the return of the series in Mexico will bolster the popularity of stock car racing and provide opportunities for aspiring drivers and crew members.We want this to be a base, and if you can make it in NASCAR Mexico, you can make it in the U.S., Garate said.NASCAR Mexico did not run this year as NASCAR reassessed the program after nine seasons. The return was aided by the multiyear agreement with Peak, a division of Old World Industries that has a lengthy association in auto racing.Information from ESPNs Bob Pockrass and The Associated Press was used in this report. ' ' '