Casspi, the first Israeli to play in the National Basketball Association, was part of a blockbuster five-player deal that had the Pelicans acquiring All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins.
In 1936, with Nazi Germany set to host the Summer Olympics, anti-fascist organizers in Barcelona decided to stage a parallel event: the People’s Olympiad. A hotbed of progressive and left-wing politics, the city had lost its Olympics bid to Berlin in 1931, two years before the Nazis came to power. Inspired by the International Workers’ Olympiad, […]