Avinash Kunnath

Rose wants to be the hometown kid to bring a championship back to Chicago, and he never lost an edge with James, with Wade. He asked nothing of James in the summer of 2010, lost no edge, lost no standing. His game has come, and Rose believes he can trade blows with the best in basketball now. He’s right. These Bulls are built around a superstar point guard. His team, his city, his burden. “Chicago’s got a good one,” Wade said. Chicago’s got a great one, and Derrick Rose is desperate to someday show Wade and James: It isn’t just that he didn’t want them. He didn’t need them. - Avinash Kunnath

Rose wants to be the hometown kid to bring a championship back to Chicago, and he never lost an edge with James, with Wade. He asked nothing of James in the summer of 2010, lost no edge, lost no standing. His game has come, and Rose believes he can trade blows with the best in basketball now. He’s right. These Bulls are built around a superstar point guard. His team, his city, his burden. “Chicago’s got a good one,” Wade said. Chicago’s got a great one, and Derrick Rose is desperate to someday show Wade and James: It isn’t just that he didn’t want them. He didn’t need them. - Avinash Kunnath

Holllly sh-t. If even 20% of this is true... - Avinash Kunnath

Holllly sh-t. If even 20% of this is true... - Avinash Kunnath

Someone asked equipment manager John Falk which of his championship rings was his favorite -- between Big Ten titles and national titles, Falk had something like 14 at that point -- and Falk quickly responded, "The next one." Brady loved that. He steals it whenever someone asks him, "What was your favorite Super Bowl?" The next one. "It's not about what you've done," he said. "It's about the process and journey of what you've accomplished, the gratification you get from it, and what you learned from it. After that, it's over. And it's time for the next one. That's how you have to think." - Avinash Kunnath

Someone asked equipment manager John Falk which of his championship rings was his favorite -- between Big Ten titles and national titles, Falk had something like 14 at that point -- and Falk quickly responded, "The next one." Brady loved that. He steals it whenever someone asks him, "What was your favorite Super Bowl?" The next one. "It's not about what you've done," he said. "It's about the process and journey of what you've accomplished, the gratification you get from it, and what you learned from it. After that, it's over. And it's time for the next one. That's how you have to think." - Avinash Kunnath

The book, which costs €3, has sold 600,000 copies in three months and another 200,000 have just been printed. Its original print run was 8,000. In the run-up to Christmas, Mr Hessel's call for a "peaceful insurrection" not only topped the French bestsellers list, it sold eight times more copies than the second most popular book, a Goncourt prize-winning novel by Michel Houellebecq. - Avinash Kunnath

Sweet. I'll never have to stand in line to go see this place again. I can just go to this website! - Avinash Kunnath

Here's what I'm personally most proud of, is that I have created a world for myself where I can get up every day and I don't have to answer to anyone but myself. That's the thing I'm most proud about. Every day I can look myself in the mirror and I can know I'm not doing anything today that I don't want to do. I don't have to do anything I'm doing today. My life is a choice. It's my choice. It's not something that's being forced on me by someone else. - Avinash Kunnath

Just awful. - Avinash Kunnath

Explains a lot of what's wrong in the world. - Avinash Kunnath

Shocking. Doubt anyone will get too outraged. - Avinash Kunnath

“I really had a great high school coach,” Bryant said. “I really had a great high school. I had the will to learn the game, but he had the knowledge to teach me the game. He would get there early to work with me on the basic things: midrange game, footwork. “But these kids now, the coaches are catering to the star players. They don’t want to tell them when they’re messing up. They don’t want to correct things. They end up skating through things in AAU [Amateur Athletic Union], and go to college and still have all these weaknesses in their game. I don’t like it." - Avinash Kunnath

"In interviews this month, Carolyn Miles, chief operating officer of Save the Children, said there was no connection between the group’s about-face on soda taxes and the discussions with Coke. " Hah. Yeah. Sure. - Avinash Kunnath

I imagine this is going to be one of the many articles that'll compare the Wire to the NBA. I'm all for it. - Avinash Kunnath