1.   Hanks came with his children and wife Marva, a college basketball star at Iowa.

2.   That brand of sneaker is endorsed by several basketball stars.

3.   The lanky basketball star was great at slam-dunking.

4.   Also recruited were Cal basketball star Jason Kidd, a first-round pick of the Dallas Mavericks, and current UCLA receiver J.J. Stokes, Williams said.

5.   Among the most frequently forged signatures are those of ex-Red Sox slugger Ted Williams and basketball star Michael Jordan.

6.   America has witnessed this painful ritual before, with basketball stars Reggie Lewis, Hank Gathers and Len Bias and Olympic volleyballer Flo Hyman.

7.   An attorney for basketball star Jason Kidd says he is hoping to negotiate an out-of-court settlement of charges stemming from a hit-and-run accident.

8.   And appeals to use condoms by basketball star Magic Johnson seemed to have been more effective among blacks than other racial and ethnic groups.

9.   And Bill Russell and other former basketball stars spoke for Bill Bradley.

10.   An example was University of Dayton basketball star Chris Daniels, whose postmortem tests for long QT were inconclusive.