Defiance has been the fuel to everything Russell Westbrook has been and accomplished in his NBA career. It didn’t matter what his critics or opponents said, because very often his play — or rather the result of his performances — had the last word. Now, as he’s underperformed in a Los Angeles Lakers uniform, the greatest initiator of pressure in the NBA, he’s seeing and hearing everything and no longer has the game to mute all the noise. An athlete in decline is the main course here,… Source link
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Last month, Valentyna Kostyantynovska heard the building drumbeat toward Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and decided to join the defense forces. She figured that the only way her homeland stood a chance against such overwhelming force was if everyone chipped in. And by everyone, she meant everyone. Even someone such as herself, a 79-year-old from Mariupol, located along the Sea of Azov which is connected to the Black Sea. “I cannot do much,” Kostyantynovska told Reuters. “I can help the… Source link
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