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
“I’m not putting her in the game to rebound,” said Kara Lawson, Reese’s head coach for the U.S. women’s basketball team, which won this summer’s World Cup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
They baked cupcakes, made West African food, played pool and had a go at basketball.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Coach Shephard has a basketball under his arm as he yells out, “Hey hey!! Yaeger lives! What’s the prognosis?”
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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
She has seen the video evidence of the two of them, both still in kindergarten, launching basketballs over their heads at the backboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025
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
Then another of the eight million basketballs free-ranging around the gym gets in between my feet and I realize I’m going to fall.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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