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The passing pocket, or the pocket, is a term used in American football to describe the area in the backfield created on a passing play where the offensive line forms a wall of protection around the quarterback. [1] This allows him adequate time to find an open receiver and to pass the ball.
Billiard Table Manufactory, J. M. Brunswick & Bro., Proprietors, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865 ad. A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pool, pyramid or snooker) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate, that is covered ...
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side. Using a cue stick, players must strike the white cue ball to pocket nine ...
The version of eight-ball played in China uses rules that are essentially the same as standard WPA rules; and the game is played with standard 2 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch (57 mm) solids-and-stripes balls. However, the tables are constructed similarly to 9-foot (2.7 m) snooker tables, with rounded pocket openings, napped cloth and flat-faced rail cushions.
No weight for the balls is specified in the rules, only that the weight of any two balls should not differ by more than 0.5 g. Some recreational sets (which are usually not measured metrically) are 2 + 1 ⁄ 8 in (about 54 mm) up to as large as pool balls, at 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (about 57.2 mm); larger ball size requires wider pocket openings ...
The head is strung with nylon or leather strings to form a pocket. The dimensions of the stick (length, width, sidewall height, and depth of the pocket) are governed by league rules, such as NCAA rules for collegiate players or World Lacrosse rules for international players. Field goalie's stick.
Ravenloft is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. It is an alternate time-space existence known as a pocket dimension or demiplane, called the Demiplane of Dread, which consists of a collection of land pieces called "domains", brought together by a mysterious force known only as the Dark Powers.
Ball near the bumpers and pocket. Typically, bumper pool tables are smaller than a regulation pool table. [2] [clarification needed] The table has two pockets, placed opposite one another, located at the center of two of the rails. [2] The surface of the table has the same cloth covering as a standard pool table. Two bumpers flank each pocket. [2]