Indoor sports Indoor sports Billiards is a family of games played on a table, with a stick, known as a cue stick, which is used to strike balls, moving them around the table. ...more on Wikipedia about "Billiards"
Button football is a football (soccer) simulation game played on a table-top utilizing concave "disks" or "buttons" as players. Board dimensions, markings, and rules of play are modeled to simulate standard football. It is popular throughout all of Brazil, and possibly other countries as well. ...more on Wikipedia about "Button football"
Earl Strickland, known as Earl the Pearl, is a famous American pool player. ...more on Wikipedia about "Earl Strickland"
Floorball is an indoor team sport played using composite sticks with a plastic vented blade where the aim is to put a light plastic ball into the opponent's goal. Floorball is most popular in Sweden, Finland and Switzerland, and is also played in several other countries, such as Norway and the Czech Republic. It is gaining popularity in many other places as well, including some countries outside Europe, such as Singapore, Japan, Australia and the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Floorball"
George Balabushka ( December 9, 1912 - December ?, 1975) was a Russian-born legendary billiards (pool) cue maker, arguably the most prominent member of that profession, and is sometimes referred to as ‘the Stradivarius of cuemakers.’ His full name or last name standing alone is often used to refer to a cue made by him. ...more on Wikipedia about "George Balabushka"
Grady Mathews (born January 3, 1943), also known as "The Professor," is an American pool player who is as well-known for his after-hours play as his tournament success. He is also revered for his contributions to pocket billiards through his promotions and lessons. ...more on Wikipedia about "Grady Mathews"
Hardball Hockey in the United States (often called rink-hockey in other parts of the world under the Roller Hockey umbrella) is one of the three most popular hockey variants and shouldn't be confused with Inline hockey which is also categorized under Roller Hockey unmbrella. Hardball Hockey is highly popular in Latin countries, with Portugal (15 World titles), Spain (11 World titles), Italy (4 World titles) and Argentina (4 World titles), dominating the sport since the early 1940s. Other countries, such as France, Brazil, Germany and Japan are regular international competitors, but rarely win over the "big four". ...more on Wikipedia about "Hardball hockey"
Indoor lacrosse is a version of lacrosse played, unlike other varieties of lacrosse, in winter in ice hockey arenas (a floor for lacrosse is placed over the ice). Indoor lacrosse was intended to be less violent than the other indoor version of the game, box lacrosse, on which it is based. However, subsequent changes in the rules of both games have made them more similar. The chief difference between the two forms of the game now is that indoor lacrosse allows only sticks with hollow shafts, while box lacrosse allows solid wooden sticks, and that indoor lacrosse games consist of four quarters of fifteen minutes each, while box lacrosse games consist of three periods of twenty minutes each. ...more on Wikipedia about "Indoor lacrosse"
== Inline Hockey == ...more on Wikipedia about "Inline hockey"
Jean Balukas ( June 28, 1959 – ?), an American billiards player from Brooklyn, New York, ranks among the stellar females players in the history of the sport. Many aficionados place her as the greatest female player ever. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jean Balukas"
Lasertag is an indoor sport loosely related to the original game of tag. While seen by some as having more relation to the sport of paintball, lasertag usually features less realistic environments such as mazes, different modes of gameplay, and often accompanied by music and theatrical fog. Lasertag is also played outdoors, such as in parks or wooded areas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lasertag"
Q-Zar (called Quasar in Ireland and the UK) is a type of lasertag that was developed in Ireland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Q-Zar"
Rink hockey is a rollersport variant of Roller hockey one of the three most popular hockey variants, along with Field hockey and Ice Hockey. It is highly popular in Latin countries, with Portugal (15 World titles), Spain (12 World titles), Italy (4 World titles) and Argentina (4 World titles), dominating the sport since the early 40's. Other countries, such as France, Brazil, Germany and Japan are regular international competitors, but rarely win over the traditional top competitors. Rink hockey is referred to as Hardball Hockey in the United States. Rink Hockey should not be confused with another variant of roller hockey, which is played with inline skates, called Inline Roller Hockey. Inline Hockey uses a different skate, stick, and rules. Both Rink-Hockey and Inline Hockey are rollersport members of Roller hockey. Roller Hockey is governed by the following international rollersport links CIRH and FIRS , or select the National Federation(s) that apply to you National Federations . ...more on Wikipedia about "Rink hockey"
Roller hockey is a category which includes two rollersports. One rollersport is called Inline hockey, sometimes called Roller Hockey, derived from and very similar to ice hockey using inline skates instead of ice skates. The other rollersport, sometimes called Roller Hockey, uses quad skates and is sometimes called Quad Hockey or International Style Ball hockey, but is mostly known as Rink hockey worldwide or Hardball hockey in the United States. Both are very fast rollersports. Hardball Hockey was a demonstration rollersport in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. ...more on Wikipedia about "Roller hockey"
Squash tennis is an American variant of squash racquets, but played with a ball and racquets that are closer to the equipment used for lawn tennis, and with somewhat different rules. For younger players the game offers the complexity of squash racquets and the speed of racquetball. It also has great exercise and recreational potential for older players. ...more on Wikipedia about "Squash tennis"
Steve Mizerak (born October 12, 1944) is a hall of fame pool player known especially for his supremacy during the 1970s and early 1980s in the game of straight pool (14.1 continuous). He has also appeared as an actor in the 1980's film The Color of Money as well as a humorous commercial for Miller Lite beer in which he proclaims that you can "really work up a thirst even when you're just showing off". ...more on Wikipedia about "Steve Mizerak"
Stické (also sticke tennis) is a racquet sport invented in the late 19th century merging aspects of real tennis, racquets, and lawn tennis. The origin of the name is unclear. It either derives from Sphairistikè ( Greek for "playing ball"), the term originally given to lawn tennis by Walter Clopton Wingfield, or from a Major-General Sticke, a French Canadian who is credited with inventing the game. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stické"
Table football is a table-top game based on football (soccer), and invented by Alejandro Finisterre, an editor and poet from Galicia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Table football"
Xare is racquet sport, a form of Basque pelota. The racquet (called an Argentine racquet) is made of a hoop in hazel or chestnut wood, and is somewhat loosely strung—the ball is not exactly struck, nor is it quite caught—the effect is somewhere in between. The ball is very hard, and covered by parchment. The game is played in a special indoor court, called a trinquete. For xare a net is strung across the middle of the trinquete, and the players face each other, as in real tennis. The players wear helmets. ...more on Wikipedia about "Xare"
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