For America’s best amateur basketball players, March Madness is an opportunity to demonstrate their basketball bonafides in front of an audience of millions. Unfortunately, it’s also likely to be some of the last meaningful basketball they play in their lives.

During the initial Covid-19 vaccine rollout, a rare complication called myocarditis was detected, primarily in young males. The incidence of this problem was low and most of the cases were mild. Still, even for people in the highest-risk demographic for vaccine-associated myocarditis, receiving the primary series of the Covid-19 v…

Admittedly, I have no real skin in this game. All of you who know me (at least the past decade of my existence) know that I have turned myself into a Hanshin Tigers nerd. I started a blog in 2014, a podcast in 2015, got featured in the papers in 2017, received a digital column in April 2018, passed Level 1 (top tier) of the Tigers Proficiency Test in Au…

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Comrades: In honor of DIE enthusiast Mark Cuban, I have created The Cuban Rule. “The harder someone virtue signals, the more skeletons they have in their closet. Behind every DIE commissar is a woke white man shielding himself from criticism.” For the past few weeks, Cuban has been simping for DIE on Twitter.

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The best kind of journalism – built on extensive research and infallible evidence – stands the test of time. It’s what first attracted me to Substack and it is why – for my first post – I’m revisiting a story that I started reporting on over two decades ago. The idea started in my head and ended up in the High Court. It changed lives along the way. Not …

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The email arrived 17 years ago this week. I’ll never forget it. Dr. Jeffrey Werner, a cardiologist, had a question for me. He wanted to know if I’d ask Trail Blazers’ coach Nate McMillan when he planned to play Dan Dickau. Fantasy-league question? I thought the same thing, at first. It turns o…

What you see above is an official game ball. It has the league logo, a team logo (in this case, for the Mad Ants in the G League) and a specific ball number. There are three Wilson game balls hand-picked off the ball rack for each NBA…

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From the time I was 10, I’ve been obsessed with what it means to grow older. I’m curious about what it means to others, of all ages, and so I invite them to take “The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire.” Here, journalist, editor, and “global book ambassador”

The clouds were persistent all throughout the day. Low, in an overcast layer that wouldn’t budge. Around 3pm, reading on the couch, I started to drowse. A bad night’s sleep catching up. I set my book on the coffee table, stretched out and closed my eyes. Captain, indignant at my legs trying to find space around his body, dropped off the couch and floppe…

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Damian Lillard's trade demand is essentially one month old and generating little pressure on the Portland Trail Blazers with training camp so far in the distance. Media Day is a full two months away for 28 of the NBA's 30 teams … and it falls on Sept. 29 for the twosome of Dallas and Minnesota before the Mavericks and Timberwolves travel across the world…

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You only had to survive 21 days without NBA basketball. How did you do? The league largely went quiet Tuesday to observe the July Fourth holiday, but there were five summer league games played Monday in Sacramento and Salt Lake City, including the long-awaited return of Oklahoma City's Chet Holmgren. Highlights enclosed:

In lieu of writing a long list of prospect profiles covering players the Spurs could be interested in ahead of tonight’s draft, I thought it might be entertaining to start a new tradition of sorts. When San Antonio was picking No. 9 overall last summer, I thoroughly enjoyed biting down on tape, talking to people and trying to identify one or two players…

Hello, it’s nice to meet you. My name is Max Wilbert. I was born in Seattle, Washington, but for nearly a decade I’ve lived in rural western Oregon. I’m madly in love with our planet. Wild places make me absolutely giddy. I find it deeply meaningful to guide people — especially young people — into the wilderness, and to introduce them to deeper relations…

A few short years ago, Michael Houben and Stevie Cozens were just two guys sharing spreadsheets full of basketball prospects. With Houben in Australia and Cozens in New Zealand, they’d trade information about up and coming players across the Tasman Sea, and use a growing Twitter audience to shine a spotlight on those that were looking for college opport…

Yesterday (April 11) was World Parkinson’s Day. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive and debilitating neurological disorder affecting millions of people throughout the world. Despite significant advancements in treatment, there is still no known cure for the disease, and those living with Parkinson’s must navigate it…

I pulled random Sacramento Kings from their lottery-era rosters without trying for a number and came out with 50 Sacramento Kings, on the dot, nailed it. Then I ranked them. Nailed that. 50. Norvel Pelle — see how it works? Now there’s a name! Pelle is an Antiguan big man, he played one game for the Kings in 2021 and

We all teach shooting the basketball a bit differently, I prefer the elbow connected to the knee concept, although this might be a bit dated it has worked for me. We presume that everyone speaks about looking at the basket and focussing your attention on some part of the rim. Step Curry in a recent video spoke about looking for the parts of the rim wher…

SALT LAKE CITY — I was thrilled when the NBA announced Basketball Without Borders would be returning to All-Star Weekend after the premier event for international players was canceled the past two years due to Covid and travel restrictions. Evaluating international prospects is what I enjoy most about scouting, and I’ve been bummed that I’ve been statesi…