abstract:A game clock consists of two adjacent clocks and buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, such that the two component clocks never run simultaneously. Game clocks are used in two-player games where the players move in turn.
One of the biggest complaints, particularly during the NCAA tournament, has been about officials stopping games to check the gameclock, then adding a few tenths of a second back.
And while the broadcasters didn't get the structural commercial breaks of four quarters and repeated player substitutions, they did introduce one innovation that soon became commonplace across all televised sports--the sponsored scoreboard-cum-game clock.