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- ↑ "DBA - Deaf Basketball Australia". Archived from the original on 2009-10-01. Retrieved 2009-09-28.
- ↑ DBUK - Deaf BasketBall of the United Kingdom
- ↑ USADB - United States of America Deaf Basketball
- ↑ Gannon, Jack. 1981. Deaf Heritage–A Narrative History of Deaf America, Silver Spring, MD: National Association of the Deaf, pp. 282-286