basketball
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“I grew up with home cooked meals, where getting the Happy Meal at McDonald’s was like the happiest day of my life,” said Ennis, a 33-year-old professional basketball player living in Spain.
The Crimson Tide had just been rolled over by a Midwestern basketball school that has inexplicably morphed into the best college football team in the country.
"That's all I can do...I was just trying to shoot the basketball."
From Barron's
“She’s like, ‘I just feel like I don’t know how to play basketball.’
From Los Angeles Times
When she hiked up the mountain a week prior, on Dec. 21, she descended through the Devil’s Backbone Trail and ran into a group of teenagers, one wearing Nike Dunks — basketball shoes.
From Los Angeles Times
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