basketball
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You only need to look over at college basketball, where March Madness is the main event, and the regular season is a highly optional viewing experience, like a Tom Cruise Oscar film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
“I dabbled in basketball some too,” she confessed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
They baked cupcakes, made West African food, played pool and had a go at basketball.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
He proudly showed off the metal sign he just bought, marked "Penn Station," the subway stop for Madison Square Garden -- the arena where his beloved Knicks basketball team plays.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
“The school is huge, but a girl asked me to sit with her and her friends at lunch. And I played basketball pretty well.”
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
Specs can digitize a chess board, provide AR-guided training for shooting basketballs and even highlight the coolant reservoir under the hood of a car, according to videos and photos online.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
There I was, dribbling basketballs like a Globetrotter, diving through inter-dimensional portals, riding on the back of a galloping dinosaur in an explosive train heist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
I was in the gym, shooting basketballs every day, working on my game.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2025
Aday Mara and Lazar Stefanovic stood alongside one another on the perimeter and tapped basketballs before firing three-pointers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
Magic Johnson says as he shoots old bottles like basketballs into a faraway trash can.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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