1.   At the Berkeley YMCA, officials last year launched a girls basketball league and clinic.

2.   At Tree of Life Gospel Church in Springfield, Mass., church leaders organized a basketball league two years ago to draw neighborhood men.

3.   -- Played at least two seasons for another professional basketball league.

4.   A week later, he is going to England because, he said, a pro basketball league is interested in giving him a tryout.

5.   Afterward he is scheduled to join Joe Smith and assistant coach Rod Higgins in kicking off a drug-free youth basketball league in Oakland.

6.   But I think we can be and are a pretty good basketball league.

7.   Churches are reaching out with everything from basketball leagues, to male-only Bible classes and prayer groups, to fathering classes.

8.   Community basketball leagues will be able to use the facility.

9.   Down the road, Blodgett is excited about the talk of a pro basketball league for women.

10.   Dennis Rodman forms his own basketball league for MTV.