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Ice hockey penalties

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

Altercations often occur near the goal after a stoppage of play, since defensive players are extremely concerned with protecting their goaltender. All rulebooks call for penalties if an offensive player interferes with a goaltender’s ability to defend the goal. A typical game of ice hockey has two to four officials on the ice charged with [...]
Games descended from Rugby School rules

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Rugby football Rugby League Rugby Union Rugby Sevens Touch Rugby — a variant of rugby league replacing tackles with a touch. Also call Touch Football or Touch Footy. Tag Rugby — a form of non-contact rugby league using a velcro tag to indicate a tackle. OzTag — a form of Tag Rugby played in Australia. [...]
Players, equipment and officials in soccer

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Pavel Nedvěd Each team consists of a maximum of eleven players (excluding substitutes), one of whom must be the goalkeeper. Competition rules may state a minimum number of players required to constitute a team; this is usually seven. Goalkeepers are the only players allowed to play the ball with their hands or arms, but they [...]
Rules and regulations in basketball

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Measurements and time limits discussed in this section often vary among tournaments and organizations; international and NBA rules are used in this section. The object of the game is to outscore one’s opponents by throwing the ball through the opponents’ basket from above while preventing the opponents from doing so on their own. An attempt [...]
Snooker fouls

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Action from The Masters Tournament in 2007 A foul is a shot or action by the striker which is against the rules of the game. When a foul is made during a shot, the player’s turn is ended and he will receive no points for the foul shot. The other player will receive penalty points. [...]
Golf rules and other regulations

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Strandhill Golf Club in Ireland is an example of a coastal links course. The rules of golf [1] [2] are internationally standardised and are jointly governed by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (R&A), which was founded 1754 and the United States Golf Association (USGA). By agreement with the R&A, USGA jurisdiction [...]
History and development of soccer

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Map showing the popularity of association football around the world. Countries where association football is the most popular sport are coloured green, while countries where it is not are coloured red. The various shades of green and red indicate the number of players per 1,000 inhabitants. Games revolving around the kicking of a ball have [...]
Marquess of Queensberry rules in boxing

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Headgear is mandatory in Olympic boxing In 1867, the Marquess of Queensberry rules were drafted by John Chambers for Olympic championships held at Lillie Bridge in London for Lightweights, Middleweights and Heavyweights. The rules were published under the patronage of the Marquess of Queensberry, whose name has always been associated with them. There were twelve [...]
Rules and equipment of biathlon

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Andrea Nahrgang prepares to shoot from the prone position at the 2002 Winter Olympics. The complete rules of biathlon is given in the official IBU rule book. However, the concise description given below, along with the section on competition format, should be enough for a spectator to understand what is going on at a biathlon [...]
Foundation of the modern game in ice hockey

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

The original Stanley Cup, in the Hockey Hall of Fame vault. The development of the modern game centred on Montreal. On March 3, 1875 the first organized indoor game was played there, as recorded in the Montreal Gazette. In 1877, McGill University students, James Creighton, Henry Joseph, Richard F. Smith, W.F. Robertson, and W.L. Murray [...]
Rugby Rules

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Distinctive features common to both rugby games include the oval ball and the ban on passing the ball forwards, so that players can gain ground only by running with the ball or by kicking it. Set-pieces of the union code include the scrum, where packs of opposing players push against each other for possession, and [...]
Nature of the football game

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

A goalkeeper dives to stop the ball from entering his goal. Football is played in accordance with a set of rules, known as the Laws of the Game. The game is played using a single round ball (the football), and two teams of eleven players each compete to get the ball into the other team’s [...]
London Prize Ring rules (1743)

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

The beginnings of the modern right cross demonstrated in Edmund Price’s The Science of Self Defense: A Treatise on Sparring and Wrestling, 1867 Records of boxing activity disappeared after the fall of the Roman Empire. The sport would later resurface in England during the early 18th century in the form of bare-knuckle prizefighting. The first [...]
Rugby

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Rugby football refers to sports descended from a common form of football developed at Rugby School in England. The two major sports are rugby league and rugby union. American football and Canadian football also originated from Rugby football. Rugby league and rugby union Rugby league is played both as a professional and amateur sport in [...]
Soccer

Monday, March 16th, 2009

The striker (wearing the red shirt) is past the defence (in the white shirts) and is about to take a shot at the goal. The goalkeeper will attempt to stop the ball from entering the goal. Association football, soccer, or simply football, is a team sport played between two teams each consisting of 11 players and [...]
Baseball gameplay

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Diagram of a baseball field (the term diamond may be used to refer to the square area defined by the four bases or to the entire playing field). The dimensions given are for professional and professional-style games; children often play on smaller fields. The complete Official Rules can be found www.mlb.com, the official web site [...]
Golf

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews Golf (gowf in Scots) is a sport where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. It is defined in the Rules of Golf [...]
Darts

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Darts in a dartboard Darts is a game, or rather a variety of related games, in which darts are thrown at a circular target (dart board) hung on a wall. Though various different boards and games have been used in the past, the term ‘darts’ usually now refers to a standardized game involving a specific [...]
Spread betting

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

Spread betting is a form of gambling on the outcome of any event where the more accurate the gamble, the more is won and conversely the less accurate the more is lost. A bet is made against a ‘spread’ (or index), on whether the outcome will be above or below the spread. The amount won [...]
Basketball

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. Basketball is a sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points on one other by throwing a ball through a hoop (the basket) under organized rules. Since its invention in 1891, it has developed to become a [...]