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YOUTH BASKETBALL: The Metro Youth Basketball League, a competitive league for boys and girls league grades 3-8, is taking registrations for the 2016-17 season. All practices and games are held at Jackson Middle School, 10600 Indian School Road NE. For more information, or to register online, see myblabq.com or email dan22079@yahoo.com.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Arizona senior forward Talbott Denny will miss the season after tearing the ACL and medial meniscus in his left knee. The school said Wednesday that the 6-foot5 graduate transfer from Lipscomb will have surgery.

PARALYMPICS: Nearly 80 percent of the tickets for next month’s Games in Rio de Janeiro remain unsold, but sales have increased sharply since the end of the Olympics, organizers said on Wednesday.