1.   And baseball celebrates its history more than basketball does.

2.   Baseball does not seem to be attracting the young and keeping them interested, as basketball has done.

3.   Basketball does it right.

4.   But it gave him no heroes, not as basketball did.

5.   Hendrix said basketball had done much for their self-image.

6.   I have come out of playoff games physically and emotionally exhausted in a way I never thought basketball could do to me.

7.   Nor can you legislate the game to isolate one player, as basketball has done over the years.

8.   Now it can showcase Griffey, as basketball does Jordan, while Mattingly, his future in doubt, leaves with a post-season in the memory bank.

9.   The basketball generally does the trick.

10.   The man underneath the rim said the basketball did very strange things Saturday night at Miami Arena.