Threes in American Football
- Three units on a football team; Offense, Defense, and Special Teams
- Three ways of advancing a football; run, kick and pass
- Three points for a field goal
- In the football league the team that wins the game gets three points
- In football you are allowed to call only 3 timeouts during each half of the game
- Football’s 3-point stance
Threes in European Football
- Three football teams in Glasgow – Celtic, Rangers & Partick Thistle
- Three lions on an England football shirt (sorry, soccer shirt)
- Three lines: Forwards, Halfback, Fullback
“Three Lions” was the official song of the England football team for the 1996 European Championships, which were held in England. The music was written by The Lightning Seeds, with comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner providing the lyrics. The song was a much bigger success than most football songs, capturing the Zeitgeist perfectly.
The lyrics spoke not of unbounded optimism for victory, but instead told of how, ever since 1966 and the one unequivocal success of the English football team, every tournament has ended in dashed hopes and the feeling that England will never again reach those heights (“Three Lions on a shirt, Jules Rimet still gleaming Thirty years of hurt, never stopped me dreaming”).
The song’s intro included samples of pessimism from football commentators Alan Hansen (“I think it’s bad news for the English game”), Trevor Brooking (“We’re not creative enough; we’re not positive enough”), and Jimmy Hill (“We’ll go on getting bad results”).
Despite the failures of the past, each tournament is greeted with fresh hopes that this might be the year they do it again, and the song’s exuberant chorus proclaimed that “It’s coming home, it’s coming home, it’s coming, football’s coming home”.
A three-day event also called HORSE TRIALS, equestrian competition, testing the overall abilities of horse and rider in competition at dressage, cross-country and endurance riding, and stadium show jumping. 
ACCORDING to the latest authority (Murray. " A New English Dictionary," 1887), Billiards is so named from " billard, 'a cue,' originally 'a stick with curved end; ' diminutive of bille, piece of wood, stick." Other derivations are balyards (a game played with balls and yards or sticks, Johnson), and billard (French bille, ball and suffix ard, Todd). 
The cue ball must contact the red ball first on the break (first) shot; on subsequent shots either red or white may be the first ball hit. If the first player scores on his opening shot, he may select either white ball as cue ball on his second shot. Subsequently, however, he must cue the white ball used on that second shot and his opponent must cue the other. When a player fails to score, he yields to his opponent, who plays the balls as they have been left. A game is usually continued until one player scores an agreed number of points, often 50. Shooting the wrong cue ball incurs a penalty of one point and loss of turn.
