Steady progress? Judge wrong turning outside sporting blunder (3-4)

'steady progress?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'judge wrong turning outside sporting blunder' is the wordplay.
'judge' becomes 'J' (abbreviation for judge).
'wrong' becomes 'tort' (legal term).
'turning' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'outside' indicates putting letters inside.
'sporting blunder' becomes 'OG' (short for own goal).
'tort' backwards is 'trot'.
'j'+'trot'='jtrot'
'jtrot' placed around 'og' is 'JOG-TROT'.

Can you help me to learn more?