Sentence examples for egregious calls from inspiring English sources

One of the things that jumped out during the preseason was the rule changes, specifically the illegal contact rule that drew egregious calls against the secondaries.

After an egregious call, stop play and tell your friend the shot looked good to you.

Still, this was not even the most egregious call at first base in a Cardinals World Series game.

The egregious call at first base by the umpire Jim Joyce that cost a Detroit Tigers pitcher, Armando Galarraga, the chance to be only the 21st major-league pitcher to have tossed a perfect game has unleashed consternation on the land.

PENALTY BOX Perhaps the most egregious call Sunday came in Tennessee, where the Titans' scoring drive in overtime against Detroit was aided by what turned out to be a 27-yard personal-foul penalty by Stephen Tulloch, who delivered a helmet-to-helmet hit on Titans receiver Craig Stevens.

So you challenge a call with the bases loaded in the first inning and then an egregious call decides the game in the 9th.

That is, they are susceptible to poorly timed slumps and devastating injuries and egregious umpire calls and rotten scheduling.

The problem, of course, is that Joyce's decision is easily the most egregious blown call in baseball over the last 25 years.

Following the latest, and perhaps most egregious, disputed call by the replacement officials in the Green Bay-Seattle game Monday night, politicians from both parties are echoing many fans' frustrations and calling for an end to the lockout.

But prices continued to rise, despite a recession in 1969-70, and by mid-1970 Nixon had directed the council to issue "inflation alerts," singling out what Mr. McCracken later called "egregious cases" of inflation, including a large jump in New York City taxicab fares.

What were some of the more egregious goal-line calls you have seen or that you remember?