Tag: Ball

Well, we need to first decide what it means to be a man. The concept of manhood and its narrative is one of complex nature and has evolved throughout history — reflecting the changes in ideals, values, and perspectives. Throughout history, what it means to be masculine has been defined...

Using a pen to leave our mark is falling from favour and increasingly it’s the touch-screen and fingertip that are replacing paper and ink. But once upon a time, and not so long ago, cheap plastic ballpoints were everywhere. They’re still to be found aplenty in office stationery cupboard...

Berlin in the late 1920s was a surreal place. For the Weimar Republic’s greatest artists and bohemian visionaries, the city offered safe harbor and a space in which to experiment freely. At the same time, Berlin symbolized all the stuff that hedonistic dreams are made of, or depending on how y...

I remember the specific moment in 5th grade when my little league baseball career abruptly and thankfully ended. I was standing in the outfield on the grass at Brewbaker Field Sports Complex in my hometown of Lexington, Virginia, feeling nervous about being there. Baseball was not a sport I particul...

So, I was just a bit high on forecasting 5000 for the S&P 500 Index (SP500), being off about 4%. But, I pretty much nailed the low in the middle 3000s, which was 3491.58 for the year. And, we are much closer to the low to close the year than the high. Most importantly, in January of 2022, I t...

When the Los Angeles Laker selected Lonzo Ball with the second overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft ahead of players like Jayson Tatum and De’Aaron Fox the thought was that the Lakers had their point guard of the future. Ball was a highly touted recruit out of Chino Hills, California a...