Lamar Hunt, the flamboyant owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, had seen his children playing with an incredibly bouncy ball.

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India's prolific domestic cricket is played on dull, flat tracks, which make most of its batsmen vulnerable to the moving ball and bouncy pitches overseas.

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Traditionally, mozzarella, that bouncy, grassy-fresh ball of a cheese, is made with the milk of the water buffalo in the Campania region of Southern Italy.

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