With many of its teams wracked by COVID-19, directly or indirectly, with games postponed left and right the last few weeks or teams reduced, absurdly, to playing with the minimum eight players, you may think it's time for the NBA to shut down, for…
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Richard Lloyd Parry, Tokyo
– Jan 21, 9:00 AM
The Japanese government has privately concluded that the Tokyo Olympics will have to be cancelled because of the coronavirus, and the focus is now on securing the Games for the city in the next available year, 2032. According to a senior member of…
A few years ago, I was talking to a physicist friend of mine, and he had a theory. That theory was that humans fundamentally had trouble understanding the impact of exponential functions, and that contributed to a great many societal problems.
After submitting his best game, immediately after his worst one, Warriors rookie James Wiseman explained the adjustment. “I study film a lot. I study film every day and just figuring out floor spacing,” he said after Wednesday's…