Talk:Time-out (sport)

History
Nothing here on the history of time outs. I assume they weren't always a part of the rules of these sports. I would argue there needs to be some information as to when and why they were introduced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GunnertheGooner (talk • contribs) 17:48, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Rename to "time-out (sport)"
Actually, I think this page should be moved to time-out (sport), because:


 * It allows editors to use the implicit piping of  with an empty pipe resolving to the title without the parenthetical content -- rather than having to type
 * It is the standard Wikipedia naming scheme, in part because of the above point, and this easier to remember

-- 62.147.37.94 17:41, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Maybe "sport" should be plural as in, "A time-out in sports...". I not that big of a sports fan, but I thought that might help.--Blackmage337 20:31, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Times-out or time-outs?
I have always said (and written) it as time-outs, but some people insist on saying times-out, which bugs the heck out of me, though I'm not sure it's incorrect. Does anyone know what the official way to pluralize it is? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.12.57.237 (talk) 23:07, 5 May 2007 (UTC).
 * The normal way to pluralize it is time-outs, but it probably should be times-out. If you take multiple of one time-out, you are spending many times during the game out of it. See, for example, brother-in-law. If you have more than one, you multiple brothers--but wait! They're actually brothers-in-law. However, I'm thinking that time-out is inherently more colloquial, and eventually everyone will say time-outs. I say time-outs as well, because I didn't realize until just now that it isn't really right. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 03:51, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we need to answer first the question: is one a time out, a time-out, or a timeout. The article on TV timeout has it as one word, as does the article on the concept in computing. I wonder if this is a British vs. American thing. If it is one word, then clearly the plural would be timeouts, and certainly this is what one sees or hears on use, at least here in the US. I wouldn't swear to it, but years ago I used to officiate high school sport, and as best I recall, the "s" always came after the "t", although I can't say whether or not the rule books used the one word or hyphenated version. Wschart (talk) 00:48, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Picture
How about a picture of time-out signals Fainites barley scribs 21:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Baseball
Since baseball does not have anything called "timeouts", the baseball section should be cut significantly. It only needs to mention that there are no timeouts, there is also no need for TV/media timeouts (as already explained in the article), and maybe refer to how players/coaches can ask the umpire for "time", which is the closest thing baseball has to a timeout. In its present state the section implies that an umpire's stoppage of play after a request for "time" is considered a "timeout", which is rather inaccurate (the Dead ball article explains that the term "timeout" [or "time out", etc] has no meaning in baseball.) --162.239.236.97 (talk) 23:19, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

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NBA
So there are 16 time outs (unless I've miscalculated) if there's no overtime. PS does the 6:00 refer to time left or how long is gone? Mobile mundo (talk) 19:34, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

'season season??
Under the section on gridiron, the word season appears twice in a row. The sentence doesn't make a lot of sense to me (completely new to NFL knowledge) so is either an error or perhaps could be rearranged to make easier sense to we newbies?

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Mathsgirl (talk) 15:58, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Why only men?
The article includes only men's sports organizations. Timeouts are often different for women's leagues. WCCasey (talk) 16:46, 22 March 2023 (UTC)