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  2. Foul (basketball) - Wikipedia

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    A personal foul is the most common type of foul. It results from personal contact between two opposing players. Basketball features constant motion, and contact between opposing players is unavoidable, but significant contact that is the fault of illegal conduct by one opponent is a foul against that player.

  3. Flagrant foul - Wikipedia

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    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). However, not all intentional fouls are flagrant fouls, as it is ...

  4. List of violent spectator incidents in sports - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Backboard shattering - Wikipedia

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    Shattering a backboard can be dangerous, sending various small pieces of the backboard glass flying over the players, sideline press personnel, referees, and spectators. In the National Basketball Association (NBA), shattering a backboard during a game is penalized with a "non-unsportsmanlike" technical foul and a possible fine towards the ...

  6. Fact or Fiction: Something is seriously wrong with the NBA - AOL

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    Go down the list, and you will not find a real basketball problem, other than "too many 3s." If you want to go back to 20 years ago, when scores were in the 70s and 80s, or 40 years ago, when the ...

  7. Violence in sports - Wikipedia

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    Violence in sports usually refers to violent and often unnecessarily harmful intentional physical acts committed during, or motivated by, a sports game, often in relation to contact sports such as American football, ice hockey, rugby football, lacrosse, association football, boxing, mixed martial arts, wrestling, and water polo and, when referring to the players themselves, often involving ...

  8. List of professional sportspeople convicted of crimes - Wikipedia

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    drug use, assault and dangerous driving 3 years [555] Bob Hewitt: rape 8 years [556] Two of the eight years suspended Roscoe Tanner: theft, fraud: 2 years [557] Released after one year.Florida DOC record Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine: Bill Tilden: contributing to the delinquency of a minor 1 year (1946) Served 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 months ...

  9. Contact sport - Wikipedia

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    In contact sports (e.g. basketball), athletes routinely make contact with each other or with inanimate objects but usually with less force than in collision sports. In limited-contact sports (e.g. softball and squash), contact with other athletes or with inanimate objects is infrequent or inadvertent. [2]