basketball
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In 1946 the rise of professional basketball wasn’t inevitable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Nick Welch Jr., an improving 6-foot-9 senior center at Rolling Hills Prep, is scheduled to announce his college basketball choice on Sunday in Torrance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
By the 1930s, Jewish players had become dominant in college basketball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The basketball pro scored quite an impressive deal on this unit, which had been listed for $2.5 million.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
I sign out the basketball first thing every morning and check it back in last thing every night.
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
When viewed under a scanning electron microscope, the powder resembles tiny basketballs with billions of holes, said study leader Zihui Zhou, a materials chemist who is working on his PhD at UC Berkeley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2024
His peers could dunk basketballs and had mustaches; he was in eighth grade but had barely hit puberty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
I scoop rolling basketballs, placing them on the court down left.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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