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Old Sat Feb 14, 2009, 08:20am
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Originally Posted by JugglingReferee View Post
In Fed, the object is to score on your own basket. In FIBA, the reverse is true.
Does this have something to do with the metric system? And while were on international rules, why is it in soccer, called football in the metric system, the clock counts up, while in every other team sport, that I know of, the clock counts down?
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