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...LeBron James, Kim Clijsters and Tom Brady are among the stars investing in one of the fastest-growing sports in the US: pickleball....
...“What’s also exciting is the renaissance of interest in some of the modern rookie cards issued for players like LeBron James, Mike Trout and Tom Brady.”...
...The artist, whose given name is Mike Winkelmann, summarised his reaction to the sale with a tweet: “holy fuck.”...
...He bought retired baseball player Mike Piazza’s house for $15mn. He was represented by the Jills Zeder Group. So was Piazza....
...“[Established sports teams] are used to buying LeBron James or Cristiano Ronaldo and automatically selling millions of jerseys,” he says. “They’re not used to having to relate to the people.”...
...LeBron James on that Houston Rockets tweet....
...(FT) Jeremy Corbyn targets millionaires The Labour leader will launch his general election campaign with a direct attack on “the privileged few”, naming the Duke of Westminster, retail billionaire Mike...
...Dotted across the chart are names of fictional global customers — from Brad and David to Lebron, Li and Margaret....
...(NYMag) Veep debate has potential for fireworks Tomorrow night Tim Kaine and Mike Pence meet for the vice presidential debate, which is something like the opening band at a county fair to the Clinton/Trump...
...An estimated 300 million people in China play basketball but Mike Powell puts the sneaker business there at only 20-25% of the size of the US business....
...LeBron James, the basketball star, said he felt “sick” for the Packers, and Jack Welch, former GE chief executive, tweeted that the NFL was being “penny wise and pound [foolish]”....
...That’s when our will and determination shows,” said LeBron James, a star of the US National Basketball Association, after the win....
...The switch became a national event, with Mike Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, issuing a personal appeal to the star to move to the New York Knicks instead....
...And if Al Sharpton, Mike Bloomberg, and Newt Gingrich can agree that we need to solve it, then all of us can agree on that....
...There is also continuity on the bench: legendary Duke University coach Mike Krzyzewski will be at the helm through to the Beijing Games....
...Probably not – any side that includes Tim Duncan, Allen Iverson, and LeBron James is a formidable one. However, it is remarkable that losing is even considered a possibility....
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