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Old Sat Feb 14, 2009, 08:20am
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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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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?
Camron can best answer that!
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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?
Mark Padgett: Does the clock count up, or does it count down, in croquet?
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