Little kids are playing a pickup game of soccer, using a 10th of the field.

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She and her fellow soccer teammates also played a marathon pickup game to raise money for breast cancer research.

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Middle-class kids are far more likely to play a pickup game of basketball or baseball than pick up a racket.

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Point guard Jason Brickman, who leads the nation in assists at 8.5 per game, sounded as if he were playing a pickup game back in the borough.

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But come lunch time, they would run down to a basketball court that was close by, choose up sides for a 4 on 4 pickup game, go shirts and skins, and compete like they were both NBA teams.

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His observations became the basis for last year's best-selling book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists.

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