basketball
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The new state he lives in has a professional basketball team, but he believes the ordeal has made him unemployable in the small world of sports writers.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
D’Amelio most recently served as chief innovation officer for the New York Liberty, where he worked across basketball operations, health and performance, analytics and applied sciences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the former basketball star whose father was a jazz trombonist, observes that “Coltrane’s music is the soundtrack to the Black experience in America.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The sprawling property has everything from standard rooms to stand-alone lake houses, plus indoor and outdoor pools, lawn games, basketball and pickleball courts.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
He would instruct high school sciences, lead the band, and coach both the football and basketball teams.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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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
Sure, it’s basketballs to baseballs, and not a perfect comparison; just imagine how high Ohtani’s usage would be if you could spam the pick-and-roll with him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 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
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
Baseballs are too small, soccer balls too heavy, but basketballs are just right.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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