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The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.