By age 12, Dan had developed a full-blown obsession with basketball.

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That student body does not have the near full time job of playing football or basketball.

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Hamlin is a big-time basketball fan who has a full court with lights and a scoreboard at his house.

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If, instead, the stipend funds are spread over all full scholarship athletes, the football and basketball players receive less because of the dilution.

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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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Is anything in basketball harder and more taken for granted than bringing up the ball against full court pressure?

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They have a roster full of young, hungry players and a surge over the next year or two might make NBA basketball in Charlotte relevant again.

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In the world of basketball, there is one story after another like this about legendary games where David used the full-court press to beat Goliath.

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