The top current Olympian outside of basketball players besides Phelps, Misty May-Treanor, is known by 33% of the public.

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Outside of basketball, TWC SportsNet will are 12 live Mountain West Conference football games and more than 24 Mountain West basketball games, making Time Warner Cable SportsNet the exclusive regional home for Aztecs, Rebels and Bulldogs.

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However, many of these successes were achieved outside of its basketball program.

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Thousands more people gathered outside the Staples Center, home of the LA Lakers basketball team.

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The recent World Cup of cricket has occupied the attention of a lot of smart people, mostly outside of America, just as the March Madness college basketball tournament in the U.S. did.

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His bandshell of exuberant reach will be finished next year outside the new basketball arena in Miami.

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It helps that these are the two candidates with the most impressive histories outside politics Mr Bradley as a basketball Hall-of-Famer, Mr McCain as a Vietnam war hero. (In contrast, Al Gore and most others are career politicians or pundits, George W. Bush being a partial exception.) But there is more to their appeal.

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