Talk:Sudden death (sport)
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[edit] Sudden death in tennis
I don't have a reference for this, so I won't make the edit myself, but I am 100% certain that the term sudden death in tennis specifically refers to the outdated 9-point tiebreaker rather than to the 9-point tiebreaker. In a 9-point tiebreaker, the winner of the set is the first player to win 5 points, not necessarily leading by two. The term sudden death specifically refers to the brevity of the tiebreaker and the fact that a match at the US Open could theoretically be decided by a single point after full sets of play. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.79.152 (talk) 18:49, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sudden death in fiction
Don't know if these are worth including as matters of humour...
In an episode of "Fantasy Island", the two best-known game show hosts (one played by Gene Rayburn, a real game-show host) "duke it out" in the "ultimate" game show, hosted by Mr. Roarke. Having finished out with one win each and working together to survive the third contest, Mr. Roarke asks if they'd like to take part in one final tie-breaker, "I believe you call it, a 'sudden-death'?" The men decline, knowing the "realism" of Fantasy Island.
In an episode of "The Facts of Life", to fill time on the university radio station after the turntables are broken, Jo's friends, Natalie, Blair and Tootie participate in talk programming. Blair reads the sports results from prepared text, including a line, "(x) lost to (x) in sudden death...". "How awful!" she exclaims, noting that it seems the team players all died.
GBC 02:41, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Why talk page redirects?
Talk page for sudden death (medical) article redirects to sudden death (sport). Why?--C6H12O6 16:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- That's a good question. I also wonder why sudden death (medical) seems to only discuss sudden cardiac death while completely and totally ignoring non-cardiac forms of sudden death. Clinicians may use the term "sudden death" to refer to cardiac sudden death only, but we laity don't. Chances are that if we're looking for "sudden death" we're likely interested in all forms, including anaphylaxis, ruptured berry aneurysm, ruptured AAA, stroke, etc., etc. --Charlene 22:24, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
