Gokul Venkatachalam recently won a title, besting the competition in the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee in dominating fashion. After he won it, Venkatachalam, who sported a fresh pair of Nike Air Jordan XIs, said he wanted a sneaker deal, according to Sole Collector. MORE: NBA Finals Game 3 Preview | Cleveland weatherman complains about no-calls in NBA Finals Well, the 14-year-old doesn’t have one yet, but he did receive a pair of sweet care packages, including exclusive Nikes from LeBron James himself....

In an interview with ESPN Radio, new commissioner Adam Silver said he met with multiple players during All-Star Weekend and James in particular lobbied for a longer All-Star break. ALL-STAR WEEKEND: Photos | Revitalizing NOLA | Meet rap organist, ‘Sir Foster’ It's one of the items on the list of "B issues" Silver wants to address, along with increasing the age limit. A longer All-Star break would need to be agreed upon between the league and NBA Players Association....

One such critic is LeBron James, who joked that Northern Iowa players should just quit playing the game. MORE: LeBron unfollowed the Cavs. So what? | Latest and greatest comebacks in college basketball “I would quit basketball. If I was on Northern Iowa, I would quit,” James joked with reporters Wednesday. “You up eight with 20-plus seconds, up five with 10 seconds? I would quit.” In case you missed it, Texas A&M forced three turnovers in a span of nine seconds Sunday and went on a 14-2 run in the final 34 seconds to force an epic Northern Iowa collapse and force overtime....

You could hear James yell “TOWEL, TOWEL, TOWEL.” MORE: Must-see NBA Finals photos | J.R. Smith arrives on a hoverboard After getting the cut looked at by the training staff, James stayed on the court to shoot the free throws. Despite drawing blood, James remained in the game. Typically, a player must leave the court if blood is drawn. Perhaps because the laceration was not deep, the training staff was able to stop the bleeding quickly....

He put on one of his I-can-still-do-it-all performances against the Warriors, the team with the league’s best record. The fully stuffed stat line: 42 points (on 25 shots), 11 rebounds, five assists, three steals (and, yeah, six turnovers, but still). Most important stat: a 110-99 victory, Cleveland’s 18 in its past 20. MORE: NBA: Then and now | LeBron upset about son receiving college offers | Iguodala devastates Dellavedova...

Lecithin supplements are used to lower cholesterol. Lecithin may also benefit some neurological and inflammatory conditions. However, lecithin supplements are not approved to prevent or treat any condition. This article looks at lecithin uses, food sources, and evidence for lecithin’s effectiveness. It also discusses possible side effects, dosage, and what to look for when buying lecithin supplements. What Is Lecithin? Lecithin is not a single substance. It is a group of chemicals that belongs to compounds called phospholipids....

Merritt said in the statement Paxton and other Texas Republicans have “launched an all-out assault on voter rights and civil liberties.” He also accused the state GOP of “blatantly attempting to turn back progress in the Lone Star State using the familiar tactics of voter suppression, divisive rhetoric and corporate money.” The voting rights struggle came to a head Monday when Texas House Democrats left the state and flew to Washington, D....

A native of Harrisburg, Pa., Temple rose to prominence in the 1950s as the track and field coach at Tennessee State, a historically black university in Nashville. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2016 He turned TSU’s women’s track team, which he dubbed “the Tigerbelles,” into a national power, with the likes of Rudolph and Tyus, who were among 40 TSU women to represent the U.S. in the Olympics. Rudolph became the first American woman to win three track and field gold medals (100m, 200m, 4x100m) at a single Olympic Games in 1960 in Rome....

Not on the court, of course, where he was a legendary competitor. But as a person, interacting with other people, he was wonderful and kind and generous. We all learned of another example of that on Thursday afternoon. MORE: Kentucky’s atypical leader | Idols of March: Villanova’s Dwayne McClain | Miller, Dayton reach extension It seems that Smith, who died on Feb. 7, made plans for each of his lettermen to receive $200, with the message, “enjoy a dinner out compliments of Coach Dean Smith....

And there’s a way to get there. In Leicester — where the population is 0.4 percent Buddhist per the most recent census — some soccer fans believe their team has found that path from longtime relegation and second-tier status to nirvana: a group of Buddhist monks, a ritual, a new karmic balance allowing The Foxes to exceed expectations. It seems silly, of course, this conflation of sports and the supernatural....

Leicester are 21/20 to beat West Brom The goalkeeper, who made 22 appearances in the Premier League for the relegated Tigers last season, will meet his team-mates in Hong Kong this week. Jakupovic becomes the Foxes’ third signing of the summer, adding to the arrivals of Harry Maguire and midfielder Vicente Iborra from Sevilla. And, following the completion of his move, Jakupovic told the club’s official website: “I’m very happy and excited that the deal is finally done....

The Foxes snapped up the Algeria international for just £460,000 in January 2014 after noting his potential in France with Le Havre. Their faith was handsomely rewarded in 2015-16 when Mahrez proved to be a talismanic presence in a remarkable Premier League title triumph – with his efforts recognised with the PFA Player of the Year award. On the back of that success, the 26-year-old has regularly pushed for a move elsewhere – with two transfer requests tabled amid links to Arsenal and City – but Leicester have stubbornly blocked his path....

The leopard, who is thought to be around two years old, was discovered wandering around a village near the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, in the Thane district of Maharashtra state, according to a report inthe Times of India. A video posted to Twitter by wildlife journalist Ranjeet Jadhav showed the animal crouched alone on a roadside, with its head enclosed inside the plastic jar. As well as being unable to access food or water, the leopard would also have unable to breathe properly....

A 5-year-old boy was killed on Tuesday in the northern state of Uttarakhand. One day earlier, in the neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh, a 10-year-old girl died after being attacked. News channel NDTV reported that the boy, named only as Piyush, had been on his way home in the village of Nishni when a leopard attacked and dragged him to a nearby field. Divisional Forest Officer Lalit Mohan Negi said villagers had raised the alarm and the leopard ran away into nearby forests....

And then it started. Fifty years ago next month, Associate Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson made the opening statement at what was then called the International Military Tribunal-and what ever since has been known as the Nuremberg war-crimes trial. “The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish,” Jackson said, “have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated....

Douglas, one-fifth of the United States’ latest gold-medal gymnastics steamroller, didn’t put her hand over her heart after the team competition. Because it’s not a rule. Because it’s just as respectful to do as she did. MORE: Images of the day | ‘Final Five’ work beautifully as one Still, people reacted and the snowball started down the hill. It came to a crescendo when NBC got around to airing the competition on Tuesday night, but not before Douglas had preemptively apologized....

In doing so, he defied expectations, precedent and history. Biden is only the fourth candidate in modern history to defeat an elected incumbent president. He has already received more votes than any other presidential candidate in the history of our nation. And when all the votes are counted, he is likely to end up landing more than 300 Electoral College votes, flipping five states from red to blue and winning the popular vote by more than 5 million....

As our history is stolen and rewritten, Americans lose not only pride in our past, but also appreciation for our present and a vision for our future. We’re seeing this unfold as the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) continues to infiltrate our classrooms. Although radicals would like the masses to believe otherwise, America has historically revered its Black patriots from our visionary beginning. Consider Crispus Attucks—our nation’s first martyr for the cause of freedom—and James Armistead—whose infiltration behind British lines as an American spy was essential for success in our final revolutionary battle at Yorktown....

That does not mean Kris Letang will play Tuesday—or any day in the foreseeable future — but the Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman's recovery from a late-January stroke (yes, seriously) is coming along well. "There's no indication at this point in time of when a return to play is even possible," coach Dan Bylsma said. Still, Letang's improvements, along with that of several other players, has to have Bylsma thinking that his team has turned the corner on a particularly rough stretch of injuries, and a dip in effectiveness that has accompanied it....

He looked sheepishly at me, pulled the paper back and headed toward the corner. And then it hit me. The reason he had had to ask me, a stranger, was not because he hadn’t seen the sign. It was because he couldn’t read it. He was not alone. An astonishing 47 percent of Detroiters, nearly one out of two adults in this predominantly black city, are functionally illiterate. (By way of comparison, the figure for Vietnam is 6....