Categories: Disambiguation United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... A dead ball in American football is a condition that occurs between football plays. ... Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... In baseball, when the ball is dead, no runners may advance beyond bases they are entitled to, and no runners may be put out. ... Cricket is a team sport played between two groups of eleven players each. ... In the sport of cricket, a dead ball is a particular state of play in which the players may not perform any of the active aspects of the game. ... Rugby football, as a catch-all term, may refer to two related but separate team sports: rugby league and rugby union. ...