basketball
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Stripling checked with a basketball agent, who said he represents 24 college players that each have a different money manager.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
When you hear a series of crisp, reverberating smacks outside your window, you visualize your neighbor’s child bouncing a basketball down the street.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
To play basketball you need only a ball and a basket.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
Finch had emerged from the lowest level of college basketball imaginable, playing at Division III Franklin & Marshall before decamping to the steel town in Yorkshire to keep his playing career alive.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
She’s the type to sweetly agree to a toddler’s request to play them in basketball, only to then cross them up and dunk on them.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
