41.   And this is supposed to be a major-college basketball player.

42.   And the grandest entrance of all will be made by Akebono, the former American college basketball player, who has reached the pinnacle of the sumo world.

43.   And the transformation from McCarty the basketball player to McCarty the musician is much less dramatic.

44.   And with all that practice, Finley found out more about himself, more about his capabilities as a basketball player.

45.   And when a recent NCAA report shows that female basketball players suffer twice as many serious knee injuries as males -- and six times more anterior cruciate ligament tears?

46.   Another is the cult of personality that follows standout Navajo basketball players, Kodiak Yazzie says.

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

48.   Another friend of his, a basketball player, recently committed suicide.

49.   Any pro basketball player scoring in double figures has sneaker companies and television networks and record companies all vying to make him a superstar.

50.   Anyway, these were the five Michigan basketball players who, in the company of recruit Mateen Cleaves, were involved in a recent automobile accident.