The soul of basketball can be found in the small towns of Kansas (The Kansas City Star)

6 March 2010, 8:16 pm

They say the soul of basketball is out there in a place where grain elevators are skyscrapers and barbed wire gives an order to things. The whispers of legends carry through the rustling Kansas prairie grass, along the pounding of freight trains that connect civilization with the nation’s outskirts, in dark gyms where boys and girls bounce basketballs because that’s what has been done for ...... Read More »

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