If you’re visiting for a very large sporting event & you happen to discover RANCH while you’re here… pls pack it in your CHECKED BAG on the way home.
Thank you.
Instead of celebrating the Cavaliers’ 2016 championship reunion in Europe, Kyrie Irving chose to spend his time mentoring young players at the NBPA Top 100 Camp before returning to New Jersey to connect with and inspire up-and-coming student-athletes in his local community 🙏
(h/t @ScoopB )
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
Just finished my first listen of the new Vince Staples album. It’s too early for a review but first reactions:
▫️Vince sounds incredibly inspired
▫️The grimy rock production is the perfect backdrop for the messages he’s conveying
▫️This is the album that people have been calling for in rap to speak on what’s going on right now in the world
▫️Vince is the most consistent rapper in the game. Every drop is quality
Excited to spin this back 🔁
Baby Keem tells the story of being placed in a group home as a 6-year-old:
“I walked in… there were these bunk beds. It was dark. All the kids were whispering, like, ‘New kid. New kid. New kid.’ I’m like, ‘Where is my grandma? What’s happening?’ I remember crying that whole day.”
“This kid tried to comfort me. He was like, ‘Look, at least you have a home to go to. Some of us never get to go home.’ That always stuck with me. I did go home. Connie came and got me.”
Maja Chwalinska has changed her life at this year’s Roland Garros.
Her total career earnings before Roland Garros:
$864,030.
What she’s earned at this tournament:
$1,624,000.
Because the players don’t get the money til after the tournament, she was worried she wouldn’t be able to cover her costs for a hotel as she went further and further in the draw.
Polish company OSHEE had to step in and pay for the rest of her hotel fees.
It’s nothing short of heartwarming to see this happening to such a humble person who has overcome her share of struggles.
She overcame a battle with depression and stopped playing tennis entirely for a period to take care of her mental health.
She wasn’t sure if she’d ever come back to this sport.
Absolutely unreal story. 🥹
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Paige Bueckers through 40 career games:
— More points than Caitlin Clark
— More assists than Chelsea Gray
— More threes than Kelsey Plum
— Higher FG% than A'ja Wilson
— Higher 3PT% than Diana Taurasi