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While unusual, it has proved the perfect pastime for him. If hockey or netball are too boring or too hard, don’t worry – next week you might play handball or volleyball. Osborn-Rassaby, 35, a youth worker and artist, now captains a team, the Mystic Flames, that plays weekly at Carlton Baths sports centre. At a basketball game The Age watched earlier this month, a referee looked on benignly from afar, instead of hovering with a whistle, while a French rap song played in the background. Players wore casual clothes, although the Mystic Flames have matching pink T-shirts.