1.   As we made the slow passage past San Quentin, the inmates were in the yard getting some midday sun and shooting hoops.

2.   After school, some teen-agers are shooting hoops when they notice a shadowy figure watching them from a window across the street.

3.   After shooting hoops at recess, she is dribbling again on her way home.

4.   But friends say he also could be found shooting hoops with other teens from the nearby Patterson Court public housing community.

5.   Her sons wear their Yankees caps backward and spend afternoons shooting hoops at their local schools.

6.   Mac and Drew were shooting hoops and cars were lined up on the street, insiders gawking outside.

7.   Shooting hoops in the backyard until dark.

8.   The boys are shooting hoops, as usual.

9.   They rarely have homework, leaving afternoons a carefree mix of shooting hoops and tidying their collection of Minnesota Twins and Timberwolves paraphernalia.

10.   Young men from the south of Sudan are shooting hoops in a rundown court on a sweltering evening in downtown Khartoum.