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February 7 – During an Indiana high school boys basketball game between Hammond and Griffith high schools, Griffith's Anthony Murphy was attempting a slam dunk when Tim Echoles of Hammond fouled him into a padded wall: players, coaches, fans and Griffith police spilled onto the court to engage in a brawl that lasted several minutes.
Professional women's basketball exists in Australia in the form of the Women's National Basketball League. The league was founded in 1981 as a way for the best women's basketball teams in the various Australian States to compete against each other on a regular basis. Today the WNBL is the premier women's basketball league in Australia.
In the 2005 high school basketball year, 3.6% of reported injuries were concussions, with 30.5% of concussions occurring during rebounds. [52] Incidence rates for concussions in NCAA men's basketball is lower than NCAA women's basketball, at 0.16 concussion per 1,000 athletes compared to 0.22 per 1,000 athletes respectively.
This same trend can be seen with regards to the FIFA World Cup. The 2015 Women's World Cup Final had an average of 25.4 million American viewers throughout the duration of the match, and peaked at 30.9 million viewers. [204] It was the most-viewed game of soccer ever in the United States–men's or women's–by a margin of almost 7 million viewers.
In basketball, a flagrant foul is a personal foul that involves excessive or violent contact that could injure the fouled player. A flagrant foul may be unintentional or purposeful; the latter type is also called an "intentional foul" in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Men's college basketball plays two 20 minute halves. Women's play four 10-minute quarters. Explaining the difference: ... Men's college basketball is the only visible form of the game in the world ...
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2008 IIHF World Championship final [304] Canada men USA men: 1920–present: Canada–United States rivalry [305] Canada women USA women: 1990–present: Canada–United States women's rivalry [306] Canada U20 USA U20: 1973–present: Canada–United States junior rivalry [307] Czechoslovakia Soviet Union: 1954, but especially after 1968, to 1993