- LOWRY traded to Heat, instant NBA Finals appearance.
- SIAKAM traded to Pacers, NBA Finals appearance
- OG traded to Knicks, NBA Finals appearance.
REMINDER: The Raptors were going to be a DYNASTY if Kawhi stayed, even the haters must see the vision now. STACKED TEAM. 🐐 🍁
My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away
There is a Japanese Legend that says:
"Whether it's a machine, a house, or a relationship... Maintenance is always cheaper than repairing." What you don't maintain, you eventually lose.
ALESSANDRO NESTA:
“My father worked on the railway, while my mother, Maria Laura, was a housewife. We were a simple family from Collevecchio, a small town in Rieti, Italy. That’s where it all began. The story of a boy whose only dream was to chase a ball.
One afternoon in 1984, my father took my older brother, Fernando, to sign up for a football school. I started crying because I felt left out, so my father ended up paying another 30,000 lire to enrol me as well, even though I was only eight years old.
A few months later, Roma scout Francesco Rocca contacted us. We didn’t take it very seriously because my whole family supported Lazio. But a few days later we got a real surprise when Roma president Dino Viola turned up at our front door. He placed ten million lire on the table, which was an enormous amount at the time, and said:
‘We want your son at Roma.’
I still remember the look on my father’s face when he replied firmly:
‘My son wearing the giallorossi shirt? Impossible. I’d rather die before that happens.’
I looked at him with the certainty only a child can have and said:
‘I agree with you, dad.’
Later he asked me:
‘Do you want Lazio?’
I answered without hesitation:
‘Yes. It’s my dream.’
I remember the San Basilio training ground, where I was one of 300 children and only nine years old. At first I played in midfield and even tried out on the right wing. But then I had a huge growth spurt, 22 centimetres in a single year, which caused pain in my knees and hips. So they moved me into central defence, and that’s where I truly found my place.
In the spring I trained under the strict coach Mimmo Caso. He was extremely demanding, focused on every detail, and tough on both himself and his players. From him I learned how to read space and how to play zonal defence. I owe him a lot.
I will never forget the first time I wore the Lazio captain’s armband. Even now I get chills when I think about that moment. My dream was to stay at Lazio forever and continue my career in that sky blue shirt. But football doesn’t always respect feelings. The club needed money and I had to leave.
It didn’t end the way I wanted, but the love never faded. Every time I look at the sky and see its colour, I think of Lazio’s colours, and they will always remain in my heart.”
Another amazing Brazilian scientist, Dr. Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist at Embrapa's soybean research center, spent decades studying bacteria that pull nitrogen from the air and feed it to plants.
The result: Brazil went from importing nitrogen fertilizer to becoming the world's largest soybean exporter — using microbes instead of chemicals.
Her work won the 2025 World Food Prize. But the real prize is the 40% reduction in synthetic fertilizer use across Brazilian agriculture.
This isn't just about soybeans. It's about a different model of agriculture: partner with biology instead of dominating it.
The Global South has something to teach the world here
- surgeons who game make 37% fewer errors
- gamers make accurate decisions 25% faster
- 10hrs of gaming slowed cognitive decline by 7 years
- action games improved reading in dyslexic kids as much as reading programs
- 3D gamers scored 12% better on memory tests