The Flint Journal reported this week that a Michigan school district recently had to block access to college basketball games over its computer network.

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He had just demonstrated how to control slides on an ice block the size of a basketball court in the center of the track.

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We used to play basketball on a 6 foot hoop and I would block all his shots so he had to develop a jump shot and handle.

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" Time Warner Cable fired back on Wednesday with ads featuring a giant flattened basketball and made reference to a National Basketball Association labor dispute that scuttled the first months of the pro basketball season: "First they lock out the Knicks, now MSG wants to block out the fans.

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