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15. “An impressive record of achievements for an impressive player who joined San Antonio in September 2011.”

14. “In September 2011.”

13. “The last one in the family but the tallest.”

12. “Nueve Lounge.”

11. The piano.

10. “Three times winner of the NBA.”

9. “Pamela.”

8. The pose.

7. The couch with the dogs.

6. “Was part for quite a few times.”

5. The dogs.

4. “Terence is the second in line.”

3. “The age of 30, Tony Parker has not said his final words and intend to continue this story and amazing career.”

2. The cartoon.

1. “He gave me this American spirit which, I think, strengthens me.”

(Source: tp9.net)

I wrote about the high-stakes drama of home-field advantage… in chess. Also about celebrity grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, with cameos from rock-paper-scissors, Jay-Z, the Mayor of Paris, a trip to Azerbaijan, and Indian food.

And this March you prompted the unparalleled headline in The Wall Street Journal, “Harvard Outsmarts Harvard,” when one of you devised a hot new mathematical model that gave the men’s basketball team a 4.6 percent chance of an NCAA upset. Then another one of you, against all odds, helped upset that prediction when you led the team to its first ever NCAA victory. You are the class that busted a million brackets.

Front-page story in the Journal today about the Nintendo version of The Great Gatsby. A real thing! With video and a podcast interview and a dot drawing of an 8-bit Nick Carraway. (F. Scott Fitzgerald’s estate declined to comment about the game. I didn’t ask about the dot drawing.)

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