basketball
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All seven Australians in the NFL converted from rugby, basketball or Australian rules football, and Australia has a huge pool of similar athletes with transferable skills.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 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
Since buying the Dodgers, he has invested in European soccer, women’s hockey and basketball, squash and auto racing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
The league delivers a devastating blow to Los Angeles’s B-side basketball franchise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
If this day weren’t terrible enough already, I can’t stop thinking about how the first basketball game of the McNulty season is this afternoon.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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At 10:30 a.m., the bell rings through the halls of William F. Prisk Elementary School in Long Beach, sending students racing onto the playground, throwing basketballs, doing cartwheels, gliding down slides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
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
Some seemed as small as fireflies, others as large as basketballs.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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