PHILADELPHIA — Bruce Rubin is getting a bit desperate.
How desperate? This isn’t an unlikely scenario …
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Bruce Rubin, 80, of Lansdale shoots baskets while waiting his turn to join the game in the background at Pennbrook Middle School in North Wales, Penn.
Elizabeth Robertson/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS
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