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What's the etymology of the term Red Zone?
Joe Gibbs, the former Washington Redskins coach (1981–1992, 2004-2007), is widely credited with making the phrase popular in a Washington Post article in 1982. Supposedly, he tried to use it to ...
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Are the NBA champions called World champions? Why is that?
Like it or not, American sports has a history of calling the winner of each of its major professional sports each year "World Champions." This tradition goes back to the 1884 World Series. Besides ...
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What is the difference between a manager and a coach in case of a football team?
As you said in question these terms are used interchangeably. From Wikipedia:
In association football, a manager is an occupation of head coach in the United Kingdom responsible for running a ...
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Who are the "Olympic Athletes from Russia"?
The Russian Olympic Committee was suspended from the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games as a result of state-sponsored doping and testing fraud in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games. They are ...
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Why are assists in basketball called "dimes"?
There isn't really a verifiable source on this, unfortunately, without perhaps doing a ton of research of old television announcers. I've never seen that.
What I have found so far, is that it likely ...
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Abbreviations in a football league table - what do they mean?
Nice and easy:
P: Games played
W: Games won
D: Games drawn
L: Games lost
GS: Goals scored
GA: Goals against
+/-: goal difference (ie goals scored minus goals against); often abbreviated to "GD".
Pts: ...
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What is a protected pick?
A protected pick is one which will be traded only if it is below a certain point in the draft order. For example, in the Cousins trade, the first round pick that the Pelicans are sending to the Kings ...
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Why isn't the term "hat trick" used in American Football?
I'm not sure where you get the idea that American football has meaningful links to association football (American soccer). It shares a name, sure, but otherwise it is much closer to Rugby (Union/...
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Does this count as an assist?
According the Italy 1990 FIFA World Cup technical report,
An assist point can be awarded to a player when he/she:
Makes the last pass to the eventual goalscorer
Makes a penultimate pass ...
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Why was USA disqualified from the 4x100 men's relay final in the Rio Olympics?
4x100m relay are composed by 4 runners that run approximately 100m each. To avoid that a faster athlete run a longer section are imposed limits for the passage of the baton.
In the image below you ...
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What is the difference between ping pong and table tennis?
There is no difference. Ping pong is simply another name for table tennis. The two terms are used by the vast majority of people interchangably.
Historically, the name Ping Pong was a trademarked ...
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What is the difference between a manager and a coach in case of a football team?
The short answer is that these 2 terms have equivalent meanings in football. And whenever you read one of these words in a sports article, most of the times, authors don't distinguish between terms ...
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What does the superscript used in tennis scores mean?
When a set reaches 6-6, a tiebreaker is used to determine the winner of the thirteenth game and hence the set. The first player serves once, then the players alternate serving twice consecutively, ...
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Is the convention for reporting football results universal?
Yes, the convention in the US is to report the winning team first.
Take Wednesday's article in the New York Times on Tuesdays's Yankee-White Sox. matchup played at Guaranteed Rate Field (the home ...
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What are scrubbed tyres?
"Scrubbed" tires in F1 parlance are ones that have done a short number of laps (perhaps one run in qualifying for example but not enough to be worn out). They will have been through a heat cycle and ...
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Do position and role mean the same thing in football?
I'm basing my answer on years of watching soccer while not paying too much attention what the commentators say, and not any official lingo. As a disclaimer, I never played organized soccer either. But ...
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NFL broadcast info---HS or college affiliation? What does that mean?
There are no rules. Players get to give a shout out to one school and they say whatever they want. Would the networks let a player who went to Miami say they went to Oregon? Probably not. But as ...
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Why do the Golden State Warriors call themselves dubnation?
Dub = short for W
W = Warriors
Different way of saying Warriornation.
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What is a team basket in basketball?
Huh, this is a tricky one to actually try to look up due to the terms used. I can't find an instance of the term in the NBA or NCAA rules. However, I'm nearly positive a "team basket" is usually noted ...
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In North American football, why are 2 of the 5 offensive linemen called "tackles"?
Looking deeper into the initial development of the word tackle, from dictionary.com:
Middle English (denoting equipment for a specific task): probably from
Middle Low German takel, from taken: ...
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Rushing yards vs passing yards vs receiving yards?
That is just a bad definition of "passing yards" - as can be seen from (for example) this boxscore, passing yards are most definitely counted for individual players (Flacco and Mallett for the Ravens ...
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Are there any languages where people use a different word for goal?
The list:
Arabic (Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Egypt): هدف [pronounced as "hadaf"], Gol
Catalan (Spain, France): Gol
Croatian (Croatia): Gol, Cilj
Danish (Denmark): Mål
Darija (Morocco): Bite
Dutch (...
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Shouldn't they call it a fair pole?
It is probably to just keep with the same terminology. The lines extending from home to first to right field and then third to left field, are both called foul lines. Anything outside of them are ...
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Is there a technical name and rules for a double-touch in badminton?
Rules of Badminton state:
FAULTS: It shall be a ‘fault’:
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13.3 if in play, the shuttle:
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13.3.6 is caught and held on the racket and then slung during the execution of a stroke;
13.3.7 is hit ...
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What is a "go-ahead three-pointer" in basketball?
A three-pointer is a shot that scores three points by virtue of the taker being outside the three-point arc at the time of taking it.
The "go-ahead" shot or goal in any sport is that shot or goal ...
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Foot fault on a jump serve in volleyball
From FIVB rules of the game
12.4.3 At the moment of the service hit or take-off for a jump service, the
server must not touch the court (the end line included) or the floor
outside the service ...
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Would the Copa del Rey change its name for a queen?
No.
The Copa del Rey was originally named in honour of Alfonso XIII, and is now a generic king's cup.
The Copa de la Reina is the cup awarded for the corresponding women's competition. There does ...
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