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  2. Home advantage - Wikipedia

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    In the 2018–19 NBA regular season, the home team won 729 games (59%), and the away team won 501 games (41%). The team with the best overall record, the Milwaukee Bucks, finished 60–22, going 33–8 at home and 27–14 away. In all, 55% of their wins were at home, and 64% of their losses were on the road.

  3. Spades (card game) - Wikipedia

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    It appears like a simplification of contract bridge such that a skilled spades player can learn bridge relatively quickly (the major additional rules being dynamic trump, the auction, dummy play, and rubber scoring). The game's rise to popularity in the U.S. came during World War II, when it was spread by soldiers traveling around the globe.

  4. List of FIFA World Cup finals - Wikipedia

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    FIFA World Cup final. Founded. 1930; 94 years ago. ( 1930) Current champions. Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team (s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global ...

  5. WarGames match - Wikipedia

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    WarGames match. WarGames is a specialized steel cage match in professional wrestling. The match usually involves two teams of either four, five, or more wrestlers locked inside a steel cage that encompasses two rings placed side by side. The cage may or may not have a roof, depending on which professional wrestling promotion the match is held in.

  6. History of the FA Cup - Wikipedia

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    The practice of teams from the top two divisions receiving exemption to the third round of the competition began in the 1925/26 season. [citation needed] The 1926 final is the first to be played under a change to the offside rule. [8] The 1945–1946 FA Cup was the first played since the competition was suspended during World War II.

  7. Barbados 4–2 Grenada - Wikipedia

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    On January 27, 1994, the national football teams of Barbados and Grenada played against each other as part of the qualification round for the 1994 Caribbean Cup. Barbados won 4–2 in extra time. In the last minutes of regular time, both teams attempted to score own goals. The result has been described as "one of the strangest matches ever".

  8. Away goals rule - Wikipedia

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    Away goals rule. The away goals rule is a method of tiebreaking in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. Under the away goals rule, if the total goals scored by each team are equal, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" win the tiebreaker.

  9. Forfeit (sport) - Wikipedia

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    In various sports, a. forfeit. is a method in which a match automatically ends, and the forfeiting team loses. There are two distinct forms of forfeiture. One occurs when a team is unable (or refuses) to meet the basic standards for playing the game, either before the game begins or as a result of actions that happen during the match. In such a ...