[1rudeboy]

There is something fundamentally wrong with a sport that routinely ends up in a tie.

Funny, I think exactly the opposite. It's too easy to ruin a sport by introducing all sorts of absurd machinations in order to avoid a tie outcome.

It really hasn't been that long since tie outcomes were an intergral part of the process, across most sports.

[ebersole]

I didn’t read the article as soccer per se as the only sport ending in a tie, but referring to the current culture within youth sports that all games are a tie.

I’ve also coach numerous sports for my elementary aged children and can attest that the organizations do not allow formal scorekeeping until a certain age or certain level and thus all games end in a tie. However, the kids definitely keep score and definitely know who won. The difficulty as a coach is to try and keep a straight face when the kids tell you the exact score so as not to look like the aggressive coach in the league:)

[Turbo Pig]

It's too easy to ruin a sport by introducing all sorts of absurd machinations in order to avoid a tie outcome.

I am not going to argue with you there. The current NFL rules are a good example, IMO. Notice that I said "routinely", though. A tie outcome, in and of itself, is not a bad thing.