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The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.
Most important terms related to the basketball court. This glossary of basketball terms is a list of definitions of terms used in the game of basketball. Like any other major sport, basketball features its own extensive vocabulary of unique words and phrases used by players, coaches, sports journalists, commentators, and fans.
A wrestling event where a company's biggest draws wrestle. [1] Compare B-show and C-show. A group of a wrestling promotion's top stars who wrestle at an A-show. [1] Compare B-team. To suddenly discontinue a feud, angle, or gimmick due to a lack of fan interest or some other caveat (like injury), usually without explanation.
There are winners and losers in every business deal, and that’s what college sports realignment is: big business. In this case, major college football programs that are more attractive to ...
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' highest-paid player, in terms of the salary cap, retired about a year ago. Tom Brady's $35.1 million cap hit accounted for almost $11.5 million more than any other player ...
LOSER: Nikola Jokić, Denver Nuggets For the second straight season, the Denver Nuggets lost a key free agent to a team willing to pay more. Bruce Brown left last summer, when the Indiana Pacers ...
Sportsmanship is an aspiration or ethos that a sport or activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, and with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect, and a sense of fellowship with one's competitors. A "sore loser" refers to one who does not take defeat well, whereas a "good sport" means being a "good winner" as well as being a "good ...
In some cases, the specific sport may not be known; these entries may be followed by the generic term sports, or a slightly more specific term, such as team sports (referring to such games as baseball, football, hockey, etc.), ball sports (baseball, tennis, volleyball, etc.), etc. This list does not include idioms derived exclusively from baseball.