Eddie Huang‘s Boogie is a basketball movie, but one of its best moments comes courtesy of tennis. Boogie, né Alfred Chin (Taylor Takahashi) comes back to his home in Flushing, Queens, to find his Taiwanese immigrant father (Perry Yung) rewatching, for apparently the gazillionth time, the 1989 French Open match …
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The WNBA joined the NBA in sitting out Wednesday’s games to protestthe police shooting of Jacob Blakein Kenosha, Wisconsin. “After speaking with representatives from teams playing tonight, as well as our WNBPA leadership, the consensus is to not play in tonight’s slate of games, and to kneel, lock arms, and …
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“Who makes the game?” former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling asked his girlfriend in 2014. “Do I make the game, or do they make the game?” The NBA soon answered Sterling by banning him from the league for life shortly after that racist tirade, caught on tape, became public. …
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Daryl Morey did the right thing — at first. In a Friday night tweet that he has since deleted, the Houston Rockets general manager expressed support for the legions of protesters who have taken to the streets of Hong Kong. The demonstrations started as a protest against a new Chinese …
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