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    have a ball and a basket: why don’t we call it basketball?" The eighteen players were John G. Thompson, Eugene S. Libby, Edwin P. Ruggles, William R. Chase...
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    peach baskets instead. Naismith christened this new game Basket Ball and put his thoughts together in 13 basic rules. The first game of "Basket Ball" was...
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    Willie Howard Mays Jr. (May 6, 1931 – June 18, 2024), nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 seasons...
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    Victor Wembanyama (category Centre Fédéral de Basket-ball players)
    of his generation due to his rare combination of height, length, speed, ball-handling skills, shooting range and agility, he was selected first overall...
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  • The ball is kept in constant motion through passing until a player without the ball cuts toward the unoccupied area under and around the basket, and...
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    University Press. p. 91. Turpin, Eric W (1964). Basket Work Harbour; The Story of the Kowie. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. p. 136. ISBN 0-86978-244-4. Wikimedia...
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    Boule de Suif (redirect from Ball of Fat)
    translated variously as "Dumpling", "Butterball", "Ball of Fat", "Ball of Lard", or "Small Ball", is a short story by the late-19th-century French writer...
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  • Kent State University. Retrieved January 24, 2015. "Normal College Basket Ball". Kent Courier. November 1915. Chestnut Burr. Kent State University Special...
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    guard Mike James in an exchange that occurred after Howard fouled James on a drive to the basket. Howard posted a season-high 31 points on April 17, 2006...
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  • his helper: In the simplest version, a long piece of rope is left in a basket and placed in an open field, usually by a fakir. The rope levitates, with...
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    Baseball (redirect from Base-Ball)
    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several...
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  • Maryland with his childhood. The film covers his personal life and rise as a ball player with the Red Sox, trade to New York, and decline in health and career...
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    Larry Drew II (category William Howard Taft Charter High School alumni)
    in the 1980 NBA draft before becoming a head coach in the league. At William Howard Taft High School, Drew won the John R. Wooden High School Player of...
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    so often on passing the ball, in what his coaches called "Bradley's hope passes", to inferior teammates closer to the basket; he only emphasized his own...
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  • Dominican to jump more NBA players in the world, including Derrick William, Dwight Howard, Jrue Holiday, Nikola Pekovic, Corey Brewer, Muggsy Bogues and Al...
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  • [dead link‍] "Telstar Hesperange - Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Basket Ball FLBB". "Boston Whirlwinds to Test 'Trotters". The Lewiston Daily Sun...
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  • Phog Allen (category William Chrisman High School alumni)
    coaching. A section on sports medicine was included in his book, My Basket-Ball Bible. Among the many elite athletes he treated at his downtown office...
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  • can be world's best:William Bill Harris". I'm here to create a superstar, says India's NBA coach Kenny Natt "INDIAN BASKET BALL TEAM COACH KESHAV KUMAR...
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  • up, three down." A double play in which the pitcher (1) fields a batted ball and throws home to the catcher (2), who retires a runner advancing from third...
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    James Baskett (redirect from James Basket)
    W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson (1936) Edgar Bergen / W. Howard Greene / Museum of Modern Art Film Library / Mack Sennett (1937) J. Arthur Ball / Walt...
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  • Retrieved July 30, 2024. Earl, William (June 10, 2024). "Steamboat Willie Horror Film 'Screamboat' Casts 'Terrifier' Star David Howard Thornton as Murderous Mouse...
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  • A Song Is Born (category Films directed by Howard Hawks)
    Virginia Mayo, is a 1948 Technicolor musical film remake of Howard Hawks' 1941 movie Ball of Fire with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. This version...
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    Holden saw Lin playing in a much more competitive game, driving to the basket at every opportunity with the "instincts of a killer", and he became Harvard's...
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    Scientific Contribution Award (Frederic Lord, 1988; Howard Wainer, 2009); the AERA E.F. Lindquist Award (William Turnbull, 1981; Frederic Lord, 1988; Samuel Messick...
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    Butler at Ball State Bulldogs Cruise Past Ball State, 59–38 Sophomores Gordon Hayward and Shelvin Mack each scored 15 points and junior Matt Howard added...
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    to catch, cradle, and pass a solid rubber lacrosse ball in an effort to score by hurling the ball into an opponent's goal. Cradling is a technique of...
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    Gets Physical". Boston University Sargent College. Retrieved May 10, 2010. Howard Atwood Kelly (1920). A cyclopedia of American medical biography: comprising...
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  • Batticoloa happily. Hop Fred the Easter Bunny is giving a woman an Easter basket in China. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides A voodoo doll of Jack...
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    or crosse, to catch, carry, and pass a solid rubber ball in an effort to score by shooting the ball into the opponent's goal. The triangular head of the...
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    Lacrosse (section Ball)
    the ball". English-speaking people from Montreal noticed Mohawk people playing the game and started playing themselves in the 1830s. In 1856, William George...
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