The Dumbest Rules In Sports

 Here are some of the dumbest rules in world sport, including tennis lets and disqualifications for false starts
GOLF — WRONG SCORE? SEE YA
In the technological age we live in, the fact that golfers have to manually write out their scores at all seems ludicrous enough.
But make a mistake while doing that writing and you’ll pay dearly.
Disqualification dearly.
Overkill much?
Karrie Webb received that fate at the Australian Ladies Masters, where she signed an incorrect scorecard before realising her error and quickly bringing it to the attention of officials.
She was disqualified regardless.
CRICKET — MAN, THAT SUCKS
Most people hate the mankad, the rule that allows a bowler to run out the batsman at the nonstriker’s end before the ball is bowled.
The issue of ‘Mankading’, named after Indian player Vinoo mankad, who ran out Australia’s Bill Brown this way in 1947, reared its head again in 2012 when Indian spinner Ravi Ashwin did it to Sri Lanka’s Lahiru Thirimann.
That said, you can’t blame bowlers them for being frustrated at how far down the pitch batsmen wander in order to gain an advantage.
ATHLETICS — DON’T JUMP THE GUN
Ask Usain Bolt what he thinks about the disqualification rule in athletics.
The no strikes policy the IAAF implemented in 2010 cost the world’s fastest man the 2011 100m world title when he made a false start in the final and was disqualified.
Considering the pressure the world’s twitchiest athletes are under in an event routinely decided by hundredths of a second, another chance in finals seems more than reasonable.
TENNIS — LET’S THINK ABOUT IT
As if there isn’t already enough time to perform almost your entire list of household chores between each of Novak Djokovic, Maria Sharapova and Co’s serves, for as long as we can remember we’ve had to cop them serving another one if their ball grazes the net and lands in.
Why?
Why can’t it just be ‘play on’? They’re already trying a no-let rule on the Challenger circuit and in college tennis, and early reports are the players and crowd don’t mind it.
FOOTBALL — YELLOW CARD FOR BEING HAPPY
The tension has been mounting, your fans are pleading, the opposition is baying for your blood. It’s the last minute and you desperately need a goal. It comes. An explosion of joy, of spontaneity, you rip off your shirt, whirl it above your head hurting... well, who exactly.
A yellow card for excessive celebration? Nonsense.
RUGBY — BECAUSE IT’S RUGBY
We started to list the rugby rules that even the players barely understand, but we quickly realised that mentioning them all here would crash the internet.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL — HOW DARE THEY DUNK!
Priceless.
College basketball team Kansas State was slapped with a technical foul BEFORE THE GAME HAD STARTED after one of its players, Brian Rohleder, performed a slam dunk in the warm-up.
Kansas State’s opposition, Kentucky, was awarded two free throws to be shot before tip-off as a result.
Apparently it’s against NCAA laws to do any dunks once the game countdown clock shows 20:00 or less.
The player had dunked with the clock showing 19:58.
Ridiculous, but that’s college sport for you.