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In Senegal, an academy develops the minds (and game) of promising players

By Joshua Hammann
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Almost everything Amadou Gallo Fall has, he owes to basketball. He was "discovered" playing on a club team in Tunisia by a Peace Corps worker, and he used the game as his ticket to America and a basketball scholarship to the University of the District of Columbia. He earned a degree in microbiology there and set his sights on medical school. But Fall never let go of basketball, even if he didn't have NBA talent. While he studied and worked in D.C.-area research labs, trying to scrape togeth ...

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