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Netball is played on either a hard or soft court with scoring hoops or "rings" at both ends. The court is slightly larger than a basketball court, being 30.5 metres (100 ft) long and 15.25 metres (50.0 ft) wide. [5] [6] The longer sides are called "side lines" and the shorter sides are called "goal lines" or "back lines". [5]
During the 1950s and 1960s, a movement arose to change the Australian name of the game from women's basketball to netball in order to avoid confusion between the two sports. The Australian Basketball Union offered to pay the costs involved to alter the name, but the netball organisation rejected the change. [49]
Basketball player Dwight Howard making a slam dunk at the 2008 ... Netball. Fast5 netball; Indoor netball; Walking netball ... December 12 – please don't wait until ...
Scoring (basketball) (5 P) Pages in category "Rules of basketball" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Some of the important netball competitions held in India include: The 2010 Commonwealth Games [3] The 7th Asian Youth Netball Championship, held from 3 to 10 July 2010, at the Thyagaraj Stadium. [1] Some of the top performances for the India national netball team include: 2010 Nations Cup: Sixth place [4] 2010 Asian Youth Netball Championship ...
Typewritten first draft of the rules of basketball by Naismith. On 15 January 1892, James Naismith published his rules for the game of "Basket Ball" that he invented: [1] The original game played under these rules was quite different from the one played today as there was no dribbling, dunking, three-pointers, or shot clock, and goal tending was legal.
Netball Federation of India (NFI) is the national governing body of Netball in India. [3] NFI is a non-profit, government funded organisation affiliated with the International Netball Federation (INF), the Asian Federation of Netball Association (AFNA) and the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and recognised by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. [4]
Olympic pictogram for basketball. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end ...