Date:  Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:03:26 -0500
From:  Ron Butters <RonButters[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
Subject: (basket)ball terms

Larry writes:
>I don't think it's ["Duke ball" versus
>"Duke's ball"] s-deletion but something
>more >morphosyntactic

I agree: the source seems to me to be more logically the noun adjunct
construction than the possessive--a reduction of, say, "It's the Duke ball on
the forty-yard line" (I swear I've actually heard that; though I don't often
listen/watch football and never basketball, one can't entirely escape the
play-by-play for either one, especially the latter here at Duke).