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(NLL) - The National Lacrosse League has announced a modification to the number of permitted video replay challenges. Womens Navy Blue Percy Harvin Elite Jersey. Beginning this season, teams will be permitted to challenge an on-field call once during each half of the game, for a maximum total of two challenges. A third challenge will no longer be permitted to teams that win the first two challenges during a game. The Crew Chief and Assistant Referee will continue to initiate all replay reviews with two minutes and under remaining in the fourth quarter and in overtime. "The leagues Competition Committee felt this change would help improve game flow", said Brian Lemon, NLL VP of Operations. "There can now be a maximum of two replay challenges initiated in each half, one by each team. Under previous rules, you could have as many as six. This change will allow coaches to challenge plays while minimizing the number of additional stoppages of play during the game." Other rule changes for the 2012 season include reducing the maximum stick length for all runners (non-goaltenders) from 46 inches to 42 inches. Defensemen who previously used the maximum 46 inch sticks will now be adapting to a shorter stick length. "The Competition Committee felt the previous stick length gave the defense a disproportionate advantage", said Lemon. In September, the league announced some rule changes for the 2012 season, including a shorter time for teams to get the ball across the centre line, faster transition after a change of possession, and a three-goal release for a player committing a major penalty (up from two). Goaltenders will also wear slimmer equipment with a one-inch reduction in the size of pads. The committee is also studying an additional potential rule change during scrimmages and exhibition games leading up to the 2012 season. 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The Detroit slugger joined Ken Griffey Jr. as the only players to win multiple titles, thrilling the crowd at Kauffman Stadium with several shots into the right-field fountain and beating Torontos Jose Bautista 12-7 in the final Monday night. "Just being mentioned with him is real special," said Fielder, who spent time at Griffeys house when he was a kid. "My dad would let me go over and play video games all day. He always took care of me when I was a kid." On a night when the Yankees Robinson Cano was repeatedly booed and went homerless, Fielder put on the most powerful display among baseballs big boppers. Winner at St. Louis Busch Stadium three years ago, Fielder had a total of 28 home runs over three rounds to cap the main event on the eve of the All-Star game. He hit the four longest drives of the night, including a pair at 476 feet. "They were far," he said. "Thats not easy to hit it out there." While the ball stayed out of McCovey Cove during the 2007 Derby at San Franciscos AT&T Park and the right-field swimming pool last year at Chase Field in Phoenix, there was plenty of aquatic activity in Kansas City, second only to Rome for most fountains in cities around the world. After three splash shots among his five homers in the first round, Fielder started off the second round as the setting sun lit up clouds in a pretty pink behind the left-field wall. His mop of dreadlocks visible as he hit without a helmet, Fielder deposited four more balls into the 322-foot-wide water spectacular, which by then was illuminated in the twilight. He added another water drive in the final round, then leaned against one of his sons whiile he watched Bautista swing. Navy Blue Kam Chancellor Limited Youth Jersey. "Im a little disappointed," Bautista said. "Im capable of doing more. I had a lot of fun doing it." When he won three years ago in St. Louis, Fielders 23 homers included a 503-foot drive that disappeared between two sections of bleachers in right-centre. Griffey won titles in 1994 at Pittsburghs Three Rivers Stadium, 1998 at Denvers Coors Field and 1999 at Bostons Fenway Park. Cano set a final-round record of 12 en route to last years title in Phoenix, where he hit 32 overall. This year he was the object of loud booing throughout by fans upset he didnt select the Royals Billy Butler after promising to take a hometown player for his derby team. Fans chanted "Bil-ly Butler!" in between their boos. When it was over, Cano got hugs from Bostons David Ortiz and Yankees teammates Curtis Granderson and CC Sabathia. "I was criticized before I got here. If you play for the Yankees you get booed everywhere you go," Cano said. It was the 17th time a player went homerless in the Derby, the first since Detroits Brandon Inge in 2009. 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