Ronnie Chalmers, Mario's father, spent 22 years in the Air Force and coached Mario's high-school basketball team in Anchorage, Alaska.

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My 14-year-old son Jordan did not make the JV basketball team in his high school.

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Paulus, national player of the year in high school as a quarterback for Christian Brothers Academy in Syracuse and also a star on the basketball team, opted to play point guard at Duke for coach Mike Krzyzewski and after receiving his undergraduate degree enrolled at Syracuse as a graduate student for his final year of eligibility.

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At West Point the origins of the cheating scandal were traced to a small group of football players, and at Harvard the most noteworthy early withdrawals from the school are those of the senior co-captains on the basketball team, which in recent years has been faced with troubling questions about its players and coach.

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Mr. Staley coaches the Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School girls' basketball team in South Carolina when he isn't teaching economics and government.

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For years, Tammy Lusinger, head coach of the girls' basketball team at Mansfield Summit High School in Arlington, Texas, had a favorite play called "Bama" in which the girls cleared out one side of the court then set up a series of screens to free a player for an open shot.

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During his first high school semester the coach of the basketball team sits him down and tells him that in order to be a pro one day, he is going to need to focus on one sport and give it his all.

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