He has found a regular pickup basketball game at the McBurney Y around the corner; she has flung herself into art, and some of her work -- frescoes and gold-leaf paintings on glass in the Renaissance style -- line the sill of one window.
But perhaps no politician has been such an inveterate fan of sports as Rendell, who pinch-hit as host on a radio sports talk show while he was mayor, who has been an Eagles season ticket-holder for three decades, who is a regular at basketball games at the University of Pennsylvania, his alma mater, and who wrote the foreword for a book detailing a century of the Phillies.
If the regular basketball press was anointing him as a generational talent, statheads were saying he was at least a good NBA player.
His son is "a basketball fanatic," and plays for Hamden's Fathers' Basketball League, so there are regular basketball games to attend.
But for all Taylor's complaints about life inside – he wants conjugal visits, his own cooking and regular basketball – his aides admit things could be worse.
There are 25.9 million regular basketball players in America (including its recently elected president), according to the most recent survey by the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association.
Indeed, the store, founded in 1937, is open only by appointment on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, sometimes hinging on whether the director, Hy Wolfe, has his regular basketball game at the McBurney Y.
Michael Lewis had extraordinary access to President Obama for a profile in this month's issue of Vanity Fair, including playing in the president's regular basketball game, but even the best-selling author of "Liar's Poker," "Moneyball" and "The Blind Side" had to submit his quotes for the customary approval by the White House before publication.
However, not by playing just regular basketball.
Prior to her diagnosis, she played regular basketball.
