enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Truncated icosahedron - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated_icosahedron

   The balls used in association football and team handball are perhaps the best-known example of a spherical polyhedron analog to the truncated icosahedron, found in everyday life. [14] The ball comprises the same pattern of regular pentagons and regular hexagons, each of which is painted in black and white respectively; still, its shape is more ...

3. Spherical polyhedron - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_polyhedron

   The next most popular spherical polyhedron is the beach ball, thought of as a hosohedron. Some "improper" polyhedra, such as hosohedra and their duals, dihedra, exist as spherical polyhedra, but their flat-faced analogs are degenerate. The example hexagonal beach ball, {2, 6}, is a hosohedron, and {6, 2} is its dual dihedron.

4. Ball (association football) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_(association_football)

   A football or soccer ball is the ball used in the sport of association football. The ball's spherical shape, as well as its size, weight, mass, and material composition, are specified by Law 2 of the Laws of the Game maintained by the International Football Association Board . [ 1 ]

5. Adidas Telstar - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adidas_Telstar

   The Telstar was the first World Cup ball to use the now-familiar truncated icosahedron for its design, consisting of 12 black pentagonal and 20 white hexagonal panels. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The 32-panel configuration had been introduced in 1962 by Select Sport , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and was also used in the official logo for the 1970 World Cup. [ 6 ]

6. Why gallery in Miami's Wynwood district merged soccer ... - AOL

   www.aol.com/why-gallery-miamis-wynwood-district...

   The Wynwood Art Experiences is featuring an exhibit, which runs through Aug. 31, that includes a bronze sculpture of Brazilian icon Pelé's feet and soccer balls finely painted to honor past World ...

7. Football (ball) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(ball)

   Adidas Tricolore, the official ball for the 1998 World Cup. Law 2 of the game specifies that the ball is an air-filled sphere with a circumference of 68–70 cm (27–28 in), a weight of 410–450 g (14–16 oz), inflated to a pressure of 0.6 to 1.1 atmospheres (60–111 kPa or 8.7–16.1 psi) "at sea level", and covered in leather or "other suitable material". [7]

8. World Cup mystery solved: Why soccer players dive, as told by ...

   www.aol.com/sports/world-cup-mystery-solved-why...

   When a defender is shielding the ball towards the endline, feels minimal contact from the opposition, goes down, and draws the foul, somehow, that is acceptable and even praised as ‘clever ...

9. Why soccer players are demanding change to a calendar that ...

   www.aol.com/why-soccer-players-demanding-change...

   Just how much soccer is too much soccer?. It’s a question on the lips of players, managers and executives alike, as the sport comes to terms with a seemingly never-ending schedule.