At the end of the day, Jordan was a world-class basketball player because that was the sport that best matched his natural ability, talent, and training.
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Kentucky is clearly at the head of the class in terms of basketball revenues generated, ranking 7th nationally in basketball revenues generated.
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Thus was born the Onitsuka Tiger, which was worn by the Japanese Olympic basketball team in 1956 and generations of Japanese gym class students.
In June, a federal court will decide whether a suit brought against the NCAA by former athletes, including UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon, will be granted class-action status.
By November, it will be fully operational, a University of Kentucky basketball team deploying the planet-annihilating skills of the single greatest recruiting class in the sport's 100-plus-year history.
Middle-class kids are far more likely to play a pickup game of basketball or baseball than pick up a racket.
There were never doubts for Kentucky, whose path to New Orleans has been clear ever since coach John Calipari inked a freshman class full of pre-fab, plug-and-play basketball Brahmins.
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In high school, he was valedictorian and president of his class, played quarterback for the football team and point guard for the basketball team.
There is no freshmen basketball team at his school and only six freshmen made the JV, out of a class of more than 400 students.
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Suddenly, a school with an enrollment of about 12, 000, whose first graduating class wore the caps and gowns in 2001, is getting national attention because of a basketball team loaded with players whose best recruiting offers were from conferences like the Atlantic 10 and Missouri Valley.
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