1. ”The pass is an act of familial telepathy. Lonzo usually catches one of his brothers in stride for a layup, but on at least one occasion that I witnessed, he threw a full-length, crosscourt pass from the right side of the court all the way to LaMelo in the left corner on the opposite end. It’s a modern wonder:”
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“A question mark on the end there feels almost unnecessary. What a selection of words that is. Total syntax. For England cannot knock it. Or, rather, knocking it is exactly what Bardsley has just done. What other way is there?”
3.“So facing Chris Harris would be the first football I’d played against another person since eighth grade. To prepare, I did what any kid from an upper-middle class household would do: I went out and bought snazzy gear and accessories. New cleats, shiny gloves and a regulation NFL ball, all of which went straight from my shopping bag to suitcase the night before my flight.”
4.“The system is not working for the underserved community,” he says. “It’s working for the white kids.”
But why? How come soccer can’t be more like basketball in America? How come athletes from the country’s huge urban areas aren’t embracing a sport that requires nothing but a ball to play? How have our national soccer teams not found a way to exploit what should be a huge pool of talent?
5. “Within minutes, the two-story house on a suburban corner, bought years ago with money Stephen made mostly for beating up opponents in the N.H.L., was engulfed in flames that lit the black sky and pulled neighbours from their homes. Days later, Stephen Peat was arrested and charged with arson.
“Part of me was like, I want to sit and burn with this house,” Stephen Peat said. “
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1. ”The pass is an act of familial telepathy. Lonzo usually catches one of his brothers in stride for a layup, but on at least one occasion that I witnessed, he threw a full-length, crosscourt pass from the right side of the court all the way to LaMelo in the left corner on the opposite end. It’s a modern wonder:”
https://vine.co/v/iO3WQ6pK1z2
On newly-launched site The Ringer, Danny Chau went searching for the next evolutionary step in basketball after Steph Curry.
2. “CAN WE NOT KNOCK IT”
“A question mark on the end there feels almost unnecessary. What a selection of words that is. Total syntax. For England cannot knock it. Or, rather, knocking it is exactly what Bardsley has just done. What other way is there?”
Adam Hurrey takes us back to the nineties and through the wondrous documentary that was Graham Taylor: An Impossible Job’ in The Set Pieces.
3. “So facing Chris Harris would be the first football I’d played against another person since eighth grade. To prepare, I did what any kid from an upper-middle class household would do: I went out and bought snazzy gear and accessories. New cleats, shiny gloves and a regulation NFL ball, all of which went straight from my shopping bag to suitcase the night before my flight.”
Sports Illustrated’s Andy Benoit went to test himself on some one-on-ones against NFL cornerback Chris Harris.
4. “The system is not working for the underserved community,” he says. “It’s working for the white kids.”
But why? How come soccer can’t be more like basketball in America? How come athletes from the country’s huge urban areas aren’t embracing a sport that requires nothing but a ball to play? How have our national soccer teams not found a way to exploit what should be a huge pool of talent?
American soccer has a diversity problem, writes The Guardian’s Les Carpenter.
5. “Within minutes, the two-story house on a suburban corner, bought years ago with money Stephen made mostly for beating up opponents in the N.H.L., was engulfed in flames that lit the black sky and pulled neighbours from their homes. Days later, Stephen Peat was arrested and charged with arson.
“Part of me was like, I want to sit and burn with this house,” Stephen Peat said. “
CTE is making a former NHL player a danger to himself, John Branch writes in the New York Times.
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