LITTLE ROCK — Casino not accepting final ‘TD’
The House may always win in Las Vegas, but that doesn’t mean some people in Sin City do not have a heart.
A Las Vegas casino is offering refunds to gamblers who lost money when the Seattle Seahawks beat the Green Bay Packers on a controversial touchdown at the end of Monday night’s game at CenturyLink Field in Seattle.
The D Las Vegas owner Derek Stevens said Wednesday he just can’t accept the outcome of the game.
Seattle won 14-12 after Packers safety M.D. Jennings (Arkansas State) and Seahawks receiver Golden Tate fought for the ball on the final play.
Replacement officials missed an offensive pass interference call and then decided there was a simultaneous catch, giving Seattle a touchdown.
Stevens calls the refunds theright thing to do. He says the casino will refund straight and money-line bets made on the Packers through Sunday, but only on wagers made at his downtown Las Vegas sports book.
Oops
They call it a midfield logo, but at the University of Minnesota at Crookston, a Division II team, it’s called a close to the midfield logo. Theschool painted its logo at the 45-yard line.
Shawn Smith, the sports information director at the school, said the first time someone noticed the mistake was when the team had a walkthrough practice at the stadium last Friday. He said Coach Paul Miller was the first to notice the logo seemed a bit off.
“I think the initial reaction was like, well that isn’t right and everyone had a nice little laugh,”Smith said in an email.
The school is taking it in stride. Smith explained that over the past few years students have volunteered to paint the block M at midfield for the homecoming game. When they went to do so this time, the yard markers weren’t painted yet.
So, they started the logo at the 40-yard line instead of the 45 like they should have, and the entire logo ended up five years off center.
Forget this
Old Dominion quarterback Taylor Heinicke threw for 730 yards in a 64-61 victory over New Hampshire on Saturday, breaking the single-game record of 716 set by Houston’s David Klingler in 1990.
“Years from now,” wrote Reggie Hayes of the News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne, Ind., “members of the New Hampshire secondary will not be telling this story to their grandchildren.” Quoteable
New York Giants linebacker Mathias Kiawanuka, to Newsday, on life with NFL replacement refs: “I haven’t been held this much since I was a baby.”Quote of the day
“I think we’ve shown
that you can do it at Arkansas. You can win.
You can make the BCS.
We can be in contention to win a national championship.” Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long
Sports, Pages 18 on 09/27/2012