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To: Stoat

Fascinating. I’d never heard of “netball.” It sounds complicated.


12 posted on 12/27/2007 12:15:57 PM PST by Tax-chick ("The keys to life are running and reading." ~ Will Smith)
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To: Tax-chick

Netball is a non-contact sport similar to, and derived from, basketball. It is usually known as a women’s sport.[citation needed] It was originally known in its country of origin, the United States, as “women’s basketball”. Invented in 1895 by Clara Gregory Baer,[1], a pioneer in women’s sport, it is now the pre-eminent women’s team sport (both as a spectator and participant sport) in Australia and New Zealand and is popular in the West Indies, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom.


38 posted on 12/27/2007 1:02:54 PM PST by Graybeard58 ( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Tax-chick
I played it in 7th and 8th grade. In the USA it's called (or was called) "women's basketball." Slightly different rules, zone playing, lots of passing and little (or no?) dribbling. I wasn't any good at it, by the way, and even the doting parents thought it was boring to watch.
61 posted on 12/27/2007 3:49:19 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Point of clarification.)
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