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  2. Glossary of cue sports terms - Wikipedia

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    9 ball . See the Nine-ball main article for the game. Also the 9. The object ball numbered 9; in American-style pool ball sets, it is striped yellow. The 9 is the money ball (or game ball) in a game of nine-ball. It is the last ball that must be pocketed, after the remaining eight object balls have been pocketed, or may be pocketed early to win ...

  3. Snooker - Wikipedia

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    Snooker (pronounced UK: / ˈsnuːkər / SNOO-kər, US: / ˈsnʊkər / SNUUK-ər) [ 1 ][ 2 ] is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets: one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. First played by British Army officers stationed in India in the second half of ...

  4. NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament bids by school

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    This is a list of NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament bids by school, and is updated through 2024. [1] There are currently 68 bids possible each year (32 automatic qualifiers, 36 at-large). Schools not currently in Division I are in italics (e.g., CCNY) and some have appeared under prior names (e.g., UTEP went by Texas Western in 1966).

  5. List of world sports championships - Wikipedia

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    WEPF Eight-ball Pool World Championship: Individuals 1993 Ronan McCarthy (2022) 2023 Annual WPA World Nine-ball Championship: Individuals 1990: Francisco Sánchez Ruíz 2023 Annual WPA World Ten-ball Championship: Individuals 2008: Wojciech Szewczyk (2022) 2023 Annual World Billiards Championship (English billiards) Individuals 1870: David Causier

  6. ATP Masters 1000 tournaments - Wikipedia

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    The Hamburg Mastersevent was downgraded to an ATP Tour 500event. The Madrid Mastersmoved to May and onto clay courts. A new tournament in Shanghaireplaced the Hamburg Masters and took over Madrid's former October indoor slot. In 2011, six of the nine Masters level tournaments were combined ATP and WTAevents.

  7. Tennis - Wikipedia

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    Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to manoeuvre the ...

  8. College Football Playoff - Wikipedia

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    The College Football Playoff (CFP) is an annual postseason knockout invitational tournament to determine a national champion for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest level of college football competition in the United States. It culminates in the College Football Playoff ...

  9. NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament - Wikipedia

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    The tournament consists of 68 teams competing in seven rounds of a single-elimination bracket. Thirty-two teams automatically qualify for the tournament by winning their conference tournament, played during the two weeks before the tournament, and thirty-six teams qualify by receiving an at-large bid based on their performance during the season ...