Can basketball save the world? New NYU course says yes

NEW YORK --- Basketball is moving from the court to the classroom at NYU, though students won't be tested on dribbling or shooting. Nor will they spend much time on the game's role as exercise or entertainment. The theme is how it can save the world. That's the ambitious belief of professor David Hollander, who has seen the game grab people from his hometown gymnasium in New Jersey all the way to pickup courts in China, and in so many other places in between. "Basketball seems like one of the few things that everybody in the world is OK with," Hollander said. "Even the most closed societies, like North Korea, who wouldn't allow anybody in, was OK with allowing a group of ...

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