What the heck is handball?
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Handball is a sport that is large in europe.\n\nIt is professional.\n\nFrom first sight it resembles indoor soccer played with hands.
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Soccer, game played by two teams on a rectangular field, in which players attempt to knock a round ball through the opponents’ goal, using any part of the body except the hands. Generally, players use their feet and heads as they kick, dribble, and pass the ball toward the goal. One player on each team guards the goal. This player, the goalkeeper, is the only player allowed to touch the ball with the hands while it is in play.\n\nSoccer is a free-flowing game that has relatively few rules and requires little equipment. All that is needed to play is an area of open space and a ball. Much of the world's soccer is played informally, without field markings or real goals. In many places, the game is played barefoot using rolled-up rags or newspapers as a ball. Soccer is the world's most popular sport, played by people of all ages in about 200 countries. The sport has millions of fans throughout the world.\n\nOnly in the United States and Canada is the game referred to as soccer. Outside these countries the sport is commonly called football, or fútbol in Spanish-speaking countries, where the game is particularly popular. The official name of the sport is association football. \n\n****************************************************\n\nHistory of Soccer -\nBefore World Cup Soccer\nThe modern form of soccer originated in England in the early 1830's. The sport grew among working-class communities and was seen as a way of keeping young and energetic kids out of trouble at home and in the school; they could
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what has this got to do with soccer? =)
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Lacrosse is a fast-paced team sport played by two teams of ten players for men or twelve players for women each who use netted sticks (called the cross) in order to pass and catch a rubber ball with the aim of scoring goals by propelling the ball into the opponent's goal. Popular mostly in North America, lacrosse is the continent's oldest sport and the fastest growing sport at all levels – youth, high school, college, and professional. Lacrosse is especially popular in the northeastern part of the US and is Canada's national summer sport. It is expanding westward, with burgeoning lacrosse communities in Colorado, California, Florida and Texas.
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Badminton is a racket (or racquet) sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles).\n\nPlayers at opposite ends of the court aim to hit a shuttlecock, more informally called a shuttle, over the net so that it lands inside the marked boundaries of the court, and aim to prevent their opponents from doing the same. Unlike a tennis ball, the shuttlecock flies with a lot of drag, and will not bounce significantly. The shuttlecock is always volleyed, and a rally ends as soon as it touches the ground. Badminton racquets have long shafts, to make it easier to impart a great deal of momentum to overcome the drag. The racquets are also much lighter than tennis racquets, because the shuttlecock is light. Badminton is one of the fastest sports in the world with shuttles reaching speeds of up to 332 km/h (206 mph), faster than the speed of the Eurostar train. Fu Haifeng of China set the official record July 3, 2005.\n\nMore info:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badminton
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what the hell is the world cup?
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1  Get a life already ! Excuses. I watched the game there were no such things as unseen fouls.\n\n2  Do you know when it is apenalty ? when the handball done inside the penaltybox is deliberate. None of the handballs you say were deliberate.\n\n3   The linesman's flag was up , clearly, Frei was in a offside position. BUT when the ball was passed it touched a Korean player on the way . Thus it turned into a pass from a swiss player to a misspass from a korean. In case of a misspass the players offside position gets nullified, even if the whole swiss team was in offside & a misspass was made. this is the FIFA rule from 2003. The ref can overturn linesman's descision. He followed the rules & was right.\n\n\nGood for Korea as they got a test of their own medicine. Remember how they cheated past Italy & Spain in 2002 ? The people who said Korea deserved it need to consider these facts after 2002-\n1   Korea didnt win Asian Cup Japan did\n2   Korea finished 2nd to Saudis (!) in qualifiers\n3   They lost 3-1 to Ghana in the build up.\n\nHow come you Koreans not say anything about how Vieira's legal goal was mistakingly ruled out ? If it stayed you would have went out much before.
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volleyball - 6, basketball - 5, handball - 1 \nthese are the minimum number of players to play for 1 team at 1 time. not including substitutes.
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It actually is an olympic sport.\nIt's just under a different multi-sport event called the \n                 World Games\nfor more info:\nhttp://www.worldgames-iwga.org/\n                      or\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Games
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European handball is a really cool sport. the problem is its not that well known in the US. :(\nI think it would be tough to get a scholarship to a college based on it, but im sure you can find a college with at least a team (or a club/informal team)\nLong live European handball, the king of sports!!!!!\npeace out homie
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Handball is similar to racquetball, with a few exception.\nThere are various courts where handball is played, but I believe the first courts just had one front wall.\nYou can use either hand to strike the ball, the ball is smaller and harder (yeah it hurts), players usually wear handball gloves (reduces the pain slightly). The rule are very similar to racquetball. \n\nI watched a national handball tournament in Tampa and those players were really good and tough.\n\nI hope this gives you a better understanding of handball.
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How the hell is darts a sports?
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basketball you shoot into a hoop, handball you shoot into a net.  Basketball you must dribble, handball you must pass the ball around.
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WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH SPORTS
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Field lacrosse is the greatest sport on this planet. Too many people are ignorant of this great game. It combines the aspects of every major sport.\n\nHockey - sticks, body checking, different ways of shooting, penalty box\nBasketball - pick and rolls, technical game, personal and technical fouls\nFootball - scrums for loose balls, can't hit from behind, you're allowed to kick the ball to score a point\nSoccer - ten people on the field, field is as big as a soccer pitch, goalie can use his hands to block a shot\n\nLacrosse is a thinking man's (woman's) game. Strategy, speed, strength, and power are all required to excel at this great game. Don't knock it unless you've played it.
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It's a sport that's played in most of Europe and has gained popularity in Asia and other countries.  It's an Olympic sport cuz there's enough popularity for it to demand a place there.  Read the entry on it to learn about the rules and such.
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1 Get a life already ! Excuses. I watched the game there were no such things as unseen fouls.\n\n2 Do you know when it is apenalty ? when the handball done inside the penaltybox is deliberate. None of the handballs you say were deliberate.\n\n3 The linesman's flag was up , clearly, Frei was in a offside position. BUT when the ball was passed it touched a Korean player on the way . Thus it turned into a pass from a swiss player to a misspass from a korean. In case of a misspass the players offside position gets nullified, even if the whole swiss team was in offside & a misspass was made. this is the FIFA rule from 2003. The ref can overturn linesman's descision. He followed the rules & was right.\n\n\nGood for Korea as they got a test of their own medicine. Remember how they cheated past Italy & Spain in 2002 ? The people who said Korea deserved it need to consider these facts after 2002-\n1 Korea didnt win Asian Cup Japan did\n2 Korea finished 2nd to Saudis (!) in qualifiers\n3 They lost 3-1 to Ghana in the build up.\n\nHow come you Koreans not say anything about how Vieira's legal goal was mistakingly ruled out ? If it stayed you would have went out much before.