Baseball

Basketball is the game of five players between the two teams. Each player try to score the highest point. In this game, the players are throwing a ball through the 10 feet of high hoop under the some organized rules and it is the most popular sports in the world. Generally the games are played in four quarters of 10 (international) and 12 minutes (NBA). But the college games are used the two twenty minutes halves while the high school games used the eight minutes quarter.

Bottom of the basket was cut open to allow the ball to fall through in 1914, there by eliminating the need to poke out the ball every time when the goal was scored. There is also a one line which is called the arc. Today's the basketball is one of the most popular sport and the most entertainment part of the game in the Philippines, and it is widely reputed to be the national sport of the Philippines.

It was invented by Dr James Naismith in 1891 at the Springfield College in Massachusetts. This game is based on the one or two umpires or the referee and the table officials. The table officials are responsible for each teams scoring. In the basketball, most of the courts are made of wood. The conditions and rules of the basketball are: The ball may be batted and thrown in any condition with the one or both hands. Arms and body must not be used for holding the ball.

The ball must be held by the hands. The umpire shall be judge of the men and shall note the fouls while the referee shall be the judge of the ball and shall decide weather the ball is inbounds, in play and shall keep the time. A goal shall be made in that case when the ball is batted or thrown from the grounds into the basket. If the ball goes over the backboard and hits the top or side of the backboard, then the ball is out of play.

The first formal rules were devised in 1892. Initially, players dribbled a soccer ball up and down a court of unspecified dimensions. Points were earned by landing the ball in a peach basket. Iron hoops and a hammock-style basket were introduced in 1893. Another decade passed, however, before the innovation of open-ended nets put an end to the practice of manually retrieving the ball from the basket each time a goal was scored.