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Balcony Ball is a game played at Sid Richardson College at Rice University in Houston, Texas. A person on the ground throws a tennis ball to a person on the second floor balcony, who in turn tries to toss it to a person on the third floor balcony, and so on until it reaches the seventh floor balcony. That person then directs the people on the lower balconies to form hoops with their outstretched arms, lines them up, then attempts to drop the ball through all five hoops.

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Shofar FTP Archives: people/b/ball.john/goeth-shooting-01 (1258 words)
	Ball has unwittingly demonstrated that the shooting _described in the book_ was not blocked by the hill even from the house he acknowledges was Goeth's.
	Ball for the photos, which prove that the shooting _as described in the book_ was not over the hill from _either_ house.
	From the text on the map, I gather that the shot is of the front of the house, as the balcony was said to be at the rear.

basketball1 (1148 words)
	The official ball is spherical (round) with a circumference of 29.5 to 30 inches for men and 25.5 to 29 inches for women.
	The men's ball weighs 20 to 22 ounces and the women's ball weighs 18 to 20 ounces.
	He or she often takes the jump balls and is respomsible for rebounding and close-range shooting.

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