Sports Wiki

Evergreen explainers on the rules, tactics, records and numbers behind football and basketball — built to be read long after the final whistle.

Rules25 Aug 2026
Basketball fouls and free throws: personal, technical, flagrant and the bonus
How shooting fouls become free throws, when the team bonus kicks in, what technical and flagrant fouls are, and how many fouls foul you out.
Rules25 Aug 2026
The advantage rule: why the referee sometimes waves play on after a foul
What “playing the advantage” means, how the referee signals it, the few seconds’ window to pull it back, and why a card can still come later.