There are two ways a team can be in the penalty or in a penalty situation:  Each team is allowed to commit four fouls in each quarter with no penalty. On the fifth team foul committed that quarter, that team is in the penalty or in a penalty situation.  The penalty situation also occurs if a team commits more than one foul in the last two minutes of a quarter. Even if a team has not committed any fouls and there is less than two minutes remaining in the quarter, they are in the penalty as soon as they commit their second foul.
Legendary comedian and showman Bob Hope (search), who traveled the globe performing for millions of American troops stationed overseas through four wars, has died. He was 100. His longtime publicist said Hope died Sunday night of pneumonia, while surrounded by his family at home in Toluca Lake, Calif.
Don Pardo, the man whose voice introduced the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live for decades, died at the age of 96, the network announced August 19. Skateboarding legend Jay Adams died of a heart attack August 14 while vacationing in Mexico with his wife. He was 53. Ed Nelson, best known for playing a doctor in the 1960s nighttime soap opera Peyton Place, died on August 13, his family said. He was 85. Actress Arlene Martel, whom Star Trek fans knew as Spock's bride-to-be, died in a Los Angeles hospital August 12 after complications from a heart attack, her son said.