1.   Although he ruled the asphalt courts at Prospect Court and Saratoga Street, Springer never wanted to play at Tilden High.

2.   But Axtell might be just as eager were the tour taking place on elementary school asphalt courts with chains for nets.

3.   But he woke up Saturday morning in Manhattan feeling like he was heading for the asphalt courts back home in Pasadena, Calif.

4.   City parks officials, eager to attract more people to Lincoln Terrace, seized the opportunity, building four asphalt courts.

5.   Every week or so on an asphalt court in Queens, my buddies and I play a high-spirited if rather gimpy version of pickup basketball.

6.   However unstable things were at home, Dixon and his older brother Phil knew the asphalt court a few blocks away was there, beckoning them.

7.   In the foreground of the barren Buick plant in this town that prosperity forgot, weeds cover asphalt basketball courts like cobwebs and the bare rims rise like wraiths.

8.   Later that year, new asphalt courts in another corner of Baisley Pond Park were inaugurated with a ceremony, a plaque and the name Gregory Vaughn Basketball Courts.

9.   On an asphalt court behind a store, teen-agers were facing off in capoeira, a kind of martial art almost balletic in its beauty.

10.   The two have spent summers playing pickup ball in YMCAs and on asphalt courts across the city.