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Refs : Collective noun for those officiating at a volleyball event - including referees and lines people. Often mocked for wearing predominantly white shoes on a beach volleyball event; Rufio : A cheer done in volleyball, famous from the movie Hook, where a player blocks the opposing player straight down on the opposing players' side. Players ...
This is a list of volleyball players that played in the Spikers' Turf. [1] In early 2017, the league was merged with the women's league (Shakey's V-League) and renamed as Premier Volleyball League .
In the collection below, you'll find names inspired by funny puns like “All For Won” and “Brain or Shine.” There are also clever team names including “The Brainy Bunch,” “Sherlock's ...
The name "Wallabies" was chosen by the 1908 rugby union side, making its first tour of the Northern Hemisphere. [4] British newspapers had already nicknamed the 1905 New Zealand touring team the "All Blacks" from their sporting uniform predominant colour; [ 5 ] the 1906 South African tourists had adopted "Springboks". [ 6 ] "
In women's beach volleyball, the United States team of Misty May (now May-Treanor) and Kerri Walsh (now Walsh Jennings) won the first of three consecutive gold medals, the only team to defend a beach volleyball gold medal. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the United States men's indoor team won all their matches on the way to their third gold ...
In games where a ball may be legally caught (e.g. baseball) or carried (e.g. American football), a player (or the player's team) may be penalized for dropping the ball; for example, an American football player who drops a ball ("fumbles") risks having the ball recovered and carried by the other team; in baseball, a player who drops a thrown or ...
The Creamline Cool Smashers are a Filipino professional women's volleyball team playing in the Premier Volleyball League (PVL). The team is owned by food company Rebisco and named after its Creamline Creamy Ice Cream brand. They are the most successful team in the PVL, having won ten championships. In the 2024 season, they became the first PVL ...
Named because the team wears white, due to a former FIFA regulation reserving black for referees. Beach Blacks [6] Beach volleyball (men) Beach Ferns [6] Beach volleyball (women) Black Brooms [7] Quidditch/Quadball: Disbanded 2023 [8] Black Caps [9] Cricket (men) Since January 1998, after a competition to choose a name for the team. [9] Black ...