I'm making a basket ball cake and am a little nervous about covering the round cake in fondant. Any of you out there who have done it, do you have any helpful tips? They would be greatly appreciated.

I've never done it but, for a basketball, if you had to, you could make the separate pieces, like what's divided by the black lines on the ball maybe.

These threads really helped me:
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-524553-fondant.html+ball
and
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-555433-sphere.html+fondant+covered
I also roll the fondant thicker than I normally would... it seems to want to thin out on me...