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Dales is back -- and so is the smile

By Nancy Lieberman
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, June 5, 2006

It started as an innocent walk past a playground. But Stacey Dales didn't make it past the park. The basketball court -- and all its familiar sounds -- called to her. The ball bounced off the pavement. Shoes shuffled across asphalt. The twine of the net rippled. And before she knew it, Dales had some kid's ball in her hands and was taking aim at the hoop. Dales officially had walked away from the game months earlier, and her shot that day last year might have been a little rusty. But someth ...

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