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By By Luke Cyphers

Monday, December 9, 2002

Accordion strike zones. Arbitrary ball spots. Blatantly wrong out-of-bounds calls. For many fans, coaches and players in this advanced age, today's zebras are all-too human. The quest for impartial perfection -- the assurance that it's players, not officials, who determine the outcome of gameshas led to a rush of high-tech invention seeking to eliminate human error. And as the Tom Brady "fumble" and Warren Sapp "block" prove, Replay Justice is still in the eye of the beholderand anything but ...

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