What's the name of a sport where a player catches a ball with a large curved, broad stick and then throws it?
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The game is Jai Alai.  The glove/launcher is a fronton.
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Basketball, Swimming, Volley ball, Football, Street Hockey,
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No, dodgeball is NOT the same thing as basketball.\n\nDodgeball is a game popular with school kids.. it goes something like this:\n2 teams form with an equal amount of players on each side. (it doesn't really matter how many are playing, as long as the teams are equal). One team starts with the ball (Offense). the offense team throws the ball at the defensive team. If the ball hits a player, this person is "out". However, if one of the defensive players catch the ball, they remain in play and their team is now the offense. (There are different variations of the rules.. some variations state that if a player catches the ball, they are allowed to bring back another team mate who was previously "out".) The goal of the game is to be the last team standing. Meaning, once the last player on one team is tagged as "out", the other team wins.\n\nGood luck, hope this helps..
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Lacrosse was one of many varieties of indigenous stickball games being played by American Indians at the time of European contact. Almost exclusively a male team sport, it is distinguished from the others, such as field hockey or shinny, by the use of a netted racquet with which to pick the ball off the ground, throw, catch and convey it into or past a goal to score a point. The cardinal rule in all varieties of lacrosse was that the ball, with few exceptions, must not be touched with the hands.\n\nEarly data on lacrosse, from missionaries such as French Jesuits in Huron country in the 1630s and English explorers, such as Jonathan Carver in the mid-eighteenth century Great Lakes area, are scant and often conflicting. They inform us mostly about team size, equipment used, the duration of games and length of playing fields but tell us almost nothing about stickhandling, game strategy, or the rules of play. The oldest surviving sticks date only from the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and the first detailed reports on Indian lacrosse are even later. George Beers provided good information on Mohawk playing techniques in his Lacrosse (1869), while James Mooney in the American Anthropologist (1890) described in detail the "[Eastern] Cherokee Ball-Play," including its legendary basis, elaborate rituals, and the rules and manner of play.\n\nGiven the paucity of early data, we shall probably never be able to reconstruct the history of the sport. Attempts to connect it to the rubber-ball games of Meso-America or to a perhaps older game using a single post surmounted by some animal effigy and played together by men and women remain speculative. As can best be determined, the distribution of lacrosse shows it to have been played throughout the eastern half of North America, mostly by tribes in the southeast, around the western Great Lakes, and in the St. Lawrence Valley area. Its presence today in Oklahoma and other states west of the Mississippi reflects tribal removals to those areas in the nineteenth century. Although isolated reports exist of some form of lacrosse among northern California and British Columbia tribes, their late date brings into question any widespread diffusion of the sport on the west coast.\n\nOn the basis of the equipment, the type of goal used and the stick-handling techniques, it is possible to discern three basic forms of lacrosse—the southeastern, Great Lakes, and Iroquoian. Among southeastern tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, Yuchi and others), a double-stick version of the game is still practiced. A two-and-a half foot stick is held in each hand, and the soft, small deerskin ball is retrieved and cupped between them. Great Lakes players (Ojibwe, Menominee, Potawatomi, Sauk, Fox, Miami, Winnebago, Santee Dakota and others) used a single three-foot stick. It terminates in a round, closed pocket about three to four inches in diameter, scarcely larger than the ball, which was usually made of wood, charred and scraped to shape. The northeastern stick, found among Iroquoian and New England tribes, is the progenitor of all present-day sticks, both in box as well as field lacrosse. The longest of the three—usually more than three feet—it was characterized by its shaft ending in a sort of crook and a large, flat triangular surface of webbing extending as much as two-thirds the length of the stick. Where the outermost string meets the shaft, it forms the pocket of the stick.\n\nLacrosse was given its name by early French settlers, using the generic term for any game played with a curved stick (crosse) and a ball. Native terminology, however, tends to describe more the technique (cf. Onondaga DEHUNTSHIGWA'ES, "men hit a rounded object") or, especially in the southeast, to underscore the game's aspects of war surrogacy ("little brother of war"). There is no evidence of non-Indians taking up the game until the mid-nineteenth century, when English-s
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Croquet.  I believe you were talking about the sport?
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a ball n some players lol
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well im assuming since this is in sports, that you are talking about a ball that you could play with either in a sport or game. So I would say teatherball. That game is awesome :)
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Jai Alai.  Players have died while playing this game.  A curved and shaped "horn", similar to a.... I can't think of an analogy... anyway - this thing is strapped to their wrist and hand.  It's about 2 feet long.  They load what is equivalent to a baseball in it and whip it at a wall.  If it hits you in the head, you're dead.  About 3 players die every year from this.
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It's the "ball" in a game of badmitton that you swat over the net.  It's a weighted rubber half-ball with plastic "feathers" stuck in it allowing it to float more gently to the ground.
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There aren't a whole lot of "tricks" that aren't muscle memory and coordination.  Just watch players when they're just messing around for ideas or inspiration.  You can "snap" at a ground ball and effectively rake it by flicking your wrist fast enough to turn it over.  You can choke up on the stick, toss the ball gently, and bat it back to yourself with the butt-end of the shaft of the stick.  You can work on a behind-the-back pass or shot.  \n\nNone of these are simple 1-2-3 "here's how you do it" tricks like magic tricks done with a pack of cards.  The reason they're used to show off is because they're difficult and take a bit of practice to get right.
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Use the ball's shape as a weapon. For example, a softball curves mores than a baseball, but this principal is the same - a four-seam curveballl will curve 3-times more than a two-seam curveball.\n\nThis can be a weapon, you can throw a two-seam curve or two-seam fastball. Then throw the identical same pitch but rotate the ball 90 degrees in the grip, thus throwing a four-seam and the pitch will look identical for the first 2/3rd of the flight but curve 3-times more in the last 1/3rd of flight.\n\nTrue for baseball as well.
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tennis, basketball any kind of sports
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yea yea its intense midfield all out. Attack is for lazy stickhandlers, long pole is for big guys, but all take great skill to be good. Lacrosse is great.
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Basketball. I played basketball in school.
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Well ive been playin lacrosse for 4 years. You should start off with cradiling, the movement in which you move the head of teh stick back and forth to keep the ball in. Then work on pasing and catching. To spice it up throw in a rainbow whihc is when you have the ball in your stickand you move it over your head to avoid defenders. Also work on checking on defense. (When you hit the other oponents stick to get the ball out.)
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Cricket, soccer, rugby and vollyball.\n\nor games like \nTreasure Hunt (trace a square in the sand and hide something in it.)\nBeach Golf (Dig holes in sand and use tennis balls and driftwood.)
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cricket, ball-and-bat game played chiefly in Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries.\nBasic Rules\n\nCricket is played by two teams of eleven on a level, closely cut oval “pitch” preferably measuring about 525 ft (160 m) by about 550 ft (170 m). Two wickets are placed 66 ft (20.12 m) apart near the middle of the field. A wicket consists of two wooden crosspieces (bails) resting on three wooden stumps 28 in. (71.1 cm) high.\n\nAt each wicket stands a batsman. If the opposing bowler, delivering the ball from near the opposing wicket, knocks down the bails of the batsman's wicket, the batsman is retired. In delivering the hard, leather-covered ball, the bowler throws overarm but may not bend the arm, and the ball usually approaches the batsman on one bounce. After six bowls to one batsman, an umpire (there is one at each wicket) calls “over,” and another bowler begins bowling to the batsman's partner at the opposing wicket. The players in the field shift position according to the batsmen.\n\nIf the batsman hits the ball with his willow paddle-shaped bat far enough so that both batsmen may run to exchange places, a run is scored. When the ball is hit a long distance (in any direction, since there are no foul lines), up to four exchanges or runs may be made. (If the ball crosses the boundary of the field on the ground, four runs are scored automatically; if it clears the boundary in the air, six are scored.) However, if the opposing team recovers the ball and uses it to knock down the bails of a wicket before the batsman reaches it, the batsman is out. A batsman is also retired if an opposing fielder catches a batted ball on the fly (as in baseball), or for any of several more technical reasons. An outstanding turn at bat may result in more than 100 runs, a “century.”\n\nA game usually consists of two innings; in one innings all players on each team bat once in a fixed order (unless a team, having scored what it considers runs adequate to win, chooses to retire without completing its order); a game may take several days to complete. Substitutions are allowed only for serious injury.\n\nOrigin of Cricket\n\nCricket's origin is obscure. Evidence suggests it was played in England in the 12th–13th cent., and it was popular there by the end of the 17th cent. By the mid-18th cent. the aristocracy had adopted the game. In 1744 the London Cricket Club produced what are recognizably the rules of modern cricket. The Marylebone Cricket Club, one of the oldest (1787) cricket organizations, is the game's international governing body.