Skip to main contentSkip to navigation<>BLADE IN HAND, Mohashie "Mo" Rodriguez carefully guided a straight-edge razor across a customer's cheek, completing his first pass. It was midday on July 2 at The Cut Stop Barbershop in Miami's Palmetto Bay neighborhood, and people had been pouring into Rodriguez's barbershop since the city eased its lockdown rules. As Rodriguez prepared for his second pass, he heard his nearby cellphone ring and spotted the caller ID: Will Rondo, the 39-year-old brother of point guard .Normally, Rodriguez doesn't let calls interrupt his work, but he knew this...…Skip to main contentSkip to navigation<>BLADE IN HAND, Mohashie "Mo" Rodriguez carefully guided a straight-edge razor across a customer's cheek, completing his first pass. It was midday on July 2 at The Cut Stop Barbershop in Miami's Palmetto Bay neighborhood, and people had been pouring into Rodriguez's barbershop since the city eased its lockdown rules. As Rodriguez prepared for his second pass, he heard his nearby cellphone ring and spotted the caller ID: Will Rondo, the 39-year-old brother of point guard .Normally, Rodriguez doesn't let calls interrupt his work, but he knew this...WW…

Skip to main contentSkip to navigation<>This story, which reveals why it is that San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich cares so deeply about team dinners, was originally posted on April 18, 2019."POP WANTS TO talk to you."The server is speaking to a man named Jeremy Threat -- and from the tone in his voice, something is clearly amiss. Threat hustles back to the main dining room of Spataro Restaurant & Bar, an Italian restaurant in Sacramento, California, that has been overrun by the . Players, coaches, management, ownership. All are seated along a handful of long, rectangular...…Skip to main contentSkip to navigation<>This story, which reveals why it is that San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich cares so deeply about team dinners, was originally posted on April 18, 2019."POP WANTS TO talk to you."The server is speaking to a man named Jeremy Threat -- and from the tone in his voice, something is clearly amiss. Threat hustles back to the main dining room of Spataro Restaurant & Bar, an Italian restaurant in Sacramento, California, that has been overrun by the . Players, coaches, management, ownership. All are seated along a handful of long, rectangular...WW…

Skip to main contentSkip to navigation<>With COVID-19 testing becoming more available and more vaccines being administered, the NBA expects all arenas to be at full capacity next season and is hopeful that it can safely welcome additional fans into arenas this season, league sources said.A key aspect toward that effort is the NBA's new multiyear leaguewide partnership with Clear, a biometric screening company known for its expedited security process at hundreds of airports worldwide. The partnership makes Clear's COVID-19 health screening technology available to all 30 teams in their...…Skip to main contentSkip to navigation<>With COVID-19 testing becoming more available and more vaccines being administered, the NBA expects all arenas to be at full capacity next season and is hopeful that it can safely welcome additional fans into arenas this season, league sources said.A key aspect toward that effort is the NBA's new multiyear leaguewide partnership with Clear, a biometric screening company known for its expedited security process at hundreds of airports worldwide. The partnership makes Clear's COVID-19 health screening technology available to all 30 teams in their...WW…

Skip to main contentSkip to navigation<>ON THE FIRST floor of a gray, block-like, four-story structure on the campus' northwest corner, a dozen students shuttle into a three-hour class taught once a week on Monday mornings. It's the early fall of 2015, and inside Tolman Hall, the longtime home of the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Education, professor Derek Van Rheenen is set to lead graduate-level students in a course that he has taught for about two decades: : Theoretical Foundations of the Cultural Studies of Sport in Education.Except now, for the first...…Skip to main contentSkip to navigation<>ON THE FIRST floor of a gray, block-like, four-story structure on the campus' northwest corner, a dozen students shuttle into a three-hour class taught once a week on Monday mornings. It's the early fall of 2015, and inside Tolman Hall, the longtime home of the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Education, professor Derek Van Rheenen is set to lead graduate-level students in a course that he has taught for about two decades: : Theoretical Foundations of the Cultural Studies of Sport in Education.Except now, for the first...WW…