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NBA playoff takeaways: Thunder clamp down on Timberwolves to take 2-0 series lead
After talking to the University of Alabama football team, Kobe Bryant and then Alabama head coach Nick Saban spoke one-on-one. “I thought it was great what you said about patience,” Saban told Kobe. “That you have to be impatient, but you can’t get frustrated.” Saban was referencing something Kobe had told t... See more
SIX at 6: Circumstances, Making It Undeniable, A Tragic Immobility, What’s Missing, A Detest Fest, and Traffic
He’s Sih Hsuin Ma now—his old self turned inside out, like a jaunty, reversible jacket.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Joel Embiid sees you
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Although Leo Manning respected Kelly, even liked her personally, he felt that twenty-two days wasn’t enough. Given the bad PR the LAPD had been suffering of late, it seemed wiser to send this to the Board of Rights. After all, Kelly had broken a prisoner’s neck and then said a few choice things to the press that she shouldn’t have.
Scott Frank • Shaker: A novel
“I came to the San Francisco 49ers with a specific goal—to implement what I call the Standard of Performance. It was a way of doing things, a leadership philosophy, that has as much to do with core values, principles, and ideals as with blocking, tackling, and passing; more to do with the mental than with the physical.”
Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
throughout the South. He went on to invest in a professional football team in Memphis, which he named the Clarence Saunders Sole Owner of My Name Tigers. Really. They played
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Know Where You Are
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
“His trip reports betray a theme, in photo after photo entirely devoid of human companionship: empty lounges, first-class menus, embroidered satin pillows—inanimate totems of a five-star existence.” But he’s winning.