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keeps Myrtle Beach boys soccer team out of postseason

Myrtle Beach’s boys soccer team will not be eligible to participate in the playoffs this season after incidents in which a player allegedly made physical contact with a game official and another player allegedly used profane language to an official during the Seahawks’ 2-1 loss at Socastee on March 25. The school will also drop one preseason game and two regular season games from next season’s schedule as part of its self-imposed punishment for the incidents, Myrtle Beach athletics director Doug Terry said.

Myrtle Beach boys soccer coach Jason Himmelsbach said the incident occurred shortly after Socastee’s go-ahead goal in the game’s final minutes, but he did not witness what occurred. The Seahawks led the Braves 1-0 before Socastee tied the match with about five minutes to play and took the lead a minute or two later, Himmelsbach said. “The problem was I wasn’t in a position to see anything happen,” said Himmelsbach, who was on crutches on the sidelines with an injured Achilles tendon. “After the [go-ahead] goal was scored I was speaking with the other referee. I didn’t have good angle to see the incident.”

Myrtle Beach was issued three red cards within the span of just a few minutes toward the end of that match. Himmelsbach said he has read the official’s report, and it said the first red card was issued to a player for using profane language, which is an automatic ejection per S.C. High School League rules. The second red card was for a dangerous slide tackle and the third red card was issued to a player disputing the second card who then made physical contact with the official, Himmelsbach said. Red cards result in an automatic ejection from the game and no substitution for that player is allowed.

In response to the incidents, Myrtle Beach has withdrawn the boys soccer team from postseason eligibility this season and will lose a preseason game and two regular season games in 2011. Terry said the SCHSL gave the school an opportunity to come up with a plan to rectify the problems, and that if not “they would do what they needed to do.”

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Equipment for soccer

In association football, as in a number of sports, kit refers to the standard equipment and attire worn by players., which refers to just the shirt, shorts and socks. The sport’s Laws of the Game specify the minimum kit which a player must use, and also prohibit the use of anything that is dangerous to either the player or another participant. Individual competitions may stipulate further restrictions, such as regulating the size of logos displayed on shirts and stating, that in the event of a match between teams with identical or similar colors, the away team must change to different colored attire.

Footballers generally wear identifying numbers on the backs of their shirts. Originally a team of players wore numbers from 1 to 11, corresponding roughly to their playing positions, but at the professional level this has generally been superseded by squad numbering, whereby each player in a squad is allocated a fixed number for the duration of a season. Professional clubs also usually display players’ surnames or nicknames on their shirts, above their squad numbers.

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Betting on soccer

Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results by making a wager on the outcome of a sporting event. In the United States, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 makes it illegal to operate a scheme except for in a few states. In many European nations bookmaking (the profession of accepting sports wagers) is regulated but not criminalized. The NCAA has threatened to ban all playoff games in Delaware if the state allows betting on college sports. New Jersey, which is also interested, has been similarly threatened. Proponents of legalized sports bet generally regard it as a hobby for sports fans that increases their interest in particular sporting events, thus benefiting the leagues, teams and players they bet on through higher attendances and television audiences. Opponents fear that, over and above the general ramifications of gambling, it threatens the integrity of amateur and professional sport, the history of which includes numerous attempts by sports gamblers to fix matches, although proponents counter that legitimate bookmakers will invariably fight corruption just as fiercely as governing bodies and law enforcement do. Most sports bettors are overall losers as the bookmakers odds are fairly efficient. However, there are professional sports bettors that make a good income betting sportsin a online sports betting , many of which utilize sports information services.

By adjusting the odds in his favor or by having a point spread, the bookmaker will aim to guarantee a profit by achieving a ‘balanced book’, either by getting an equal number of bets for each outcome, or (when he is offering odds) by getting the amounts wagered on each outcome to reflect the odds. When a large bet comes in, a bookmaker can also try to lay off the risk by buying bets from other bookmakers. The bookmaker does not generally attempt to make money from the bets themselves, but rather profiting from the event regardless of the outcome. Their working methods are similar to that of an actuary, who does a similar balancing of financial outcomes of events for the assurance and insurance industries.