1.   NATIONAL Westminster Bank has netted a buyer for the Harlem Globetrotters, the American basketball team.

2.   American basketball supremacy had survived for another day.

3.   Among Olympic athletes, members of the American basketball team clearly were a breed apart.

4.   Any American basketball player would have performed a victory dance after those backhand return-of-serve winners.

5.   Banchero is making her return to American professional basketball after three years in the ABL.

6.   A Guadeloupe native who was educated in France, UCLA freshman Jerome Moiso is slowing adjusting to the nuances and terminology of American basketball.

7.   African flair is to soccer what the playground game is to American basketball.

8.   For an American playing professional basketball in Israel, tough decisions must be made.

9.   If Edwards sticks through Atlanta, she will be the first American basketball player to make four Olympic teams.

10.   The clock is ticking on the final stage of American basketball dominance.