[Rick TYler]

The Washington state FIRST teams are a friendly bunch. Someone found out the correct part number for the balls in advance and ordered a case of 12 balls for all the teams in our state at $58 a case. We didn't know that we were ordering balls, by the way, but the one person who knew ordered a case for each team who wanted to buy the $58 "mystery item." We picked them up with the KOP at the kick-off in Bellevue. Thanks, TRC, Team 492!

My son and I found the balls at Fred Meyer yesterday for about $6.50 each. The store in Redmond still has one (1). We bought the rest. Unfortunately, Fred Meyer does not have an online store.

I went to google.com, and the clicked on "Froogle." Searching on "poof basketball" returns lots of hits. I haven't checked the availability or pricing, but there appear to be lots of sources online. Good luck.