A close-up of the Tokyo 2020 logo embossed on a building at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, July 2021. (Charly Triballeau/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images via the New York Times) TOKYO—Imagine getting something you’ve been aiming and training for your whole life
By Samuel Kahn, age 13 NEW YORK, NY — Over 120 years ago in Springfield Massachusetts, physical education teacher James Naismith created a schoolyard game of throwing soccer balls into a peach basket. That game, basketball, was created as a safer option
NEW YORK, NY— Milo Kong is a 10-year-old 5th grader living in New York City, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood. Milo goes to school, plays with friends in the yard, and plays Roblox. Oh, and he is also a chess prodigy! You
“When you get to the NBA, you’re nobody and everybody is somebody”: New York City—Naturally I was nervous because here I was, a 13-year-old kid talking to an NBA legend. I immediately started thinking of questions that would lead to answers that