basketball

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After years of learning and building UCLA’s women’s basketball program, Cori Close is ready to prove she belongs among the elite coaches in the sport.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

INDIANAPOLIS—When Dusty May took over as Michigan’s basketball coach in 2024, he was stepping into an abject disaster.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Until 1968 – and 1972 for football and basketball – freshmen weren’t even allowed to play at the varsity level.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Noah Petro, head of NASA's planetary geology lab, told AFP that the Moon will look to the astronauts "about the size of a basketball held at arm's length."

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

“You’re not on the basketball team,” he says.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko