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Good Sports: MIT COACH MOVES TO MEMPHIS
November 2020 -
The National Basketball Association’s Memphis Grizzlies have hired Sonia Raman as an assistant coach, making her the 14th female assistant coach in the history of the NBA. She becomes the third assistant coach of Indian origin in the NBA, along with Vin Bhavnani (Oklahoma City Thunder) and Roy Rana (Sacramento Kings).
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Good Sports: KENTUCKY HONORS FORMER JUNIOR TENNIS STAR
November 2020 -
Vimal Patel, a 48-yearold tennis coach in Naples, Florida, will be inducted next January in the Kentucky Tennis Hall of Fame for his achievements as a junior tennis player.
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ZUBIN MEHENTI CO-HOSTS ESPN RADIO SHOW
November 2020 -
Zubin Mehenti, a studio anchor at ESPN since 2011, recently began co-hosting ESPN Radio’s weekday morning show, Keyshawn, JWill & Zubin, alongside former NFL player Keyshawn Johnson and NBA player Jay Williams. The show, which airs from 6 to 10 a.m., is also simulcast on ESPN2 (6 to 8 a.m.) and ESPNEWS (6 to 10 a.m.).
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QUOTA of QUOTES
November 2020 -
Quotes by Arush Mehrotra, a senior at University High School in Irvine, California, who created a nonprofit organization / Balachandran Gopalan, uncle of Democratic vicepresidential nominee Kamala Harris / Author Avni Doshi, whose debut novel, Burnt Sugar, was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction / Tweet from actress Mindy Kaling, who
gave birth to a baby boy on Sept. 3.
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DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN?
November 2020 -
How much do you know about current events in India and the U.S.? Try this short quiz!
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Fun Time : ENJOY YOUR LIFE, BUT DON’T BE ADDICTED
November 2020 -
A matrimonial ad placed by a 37-year-old man from West Bengal recently went viral on Twitter. It was first shared by Nitin Sangwan, an IAS officer in Ahmedabad, who made this intriguing comment: “Prospective brides/grooms, please pay attention. Matchmaking criteria are changing.”
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YOUNG FARMER GROWS MANGOES IN CALIFORNIA
November 2020 -
Some day in the future, if you find California Gold mangoes in your grocery store, you’ll have Rishi Kumar to thank. A self-described fruit fanatic, the 31-year-old farmer grows mangoes and many other fruit on his farm in Pomona, California.
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ARE PEOPLE BEING PAID TO WATCH TV IN INDIA?
November 2020 -
Celebrities and others who want to appear popular have been known to pay for social media “likes” and views. For just a few dollars, they can get hundreds of people or bots to click on their Facebook posts or YouTube videos.
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Good Sports: INDIA SHARES GOLD IN CHESS AFTER INTERNET OUTAGE
October 2020 -
An internet outage during the final of the 163-nation Chess Olympiad prompted Fide, the international chess federation, to declare Russia and India as joint winners and gold medalists.
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Good Sports: GOLD MEDAL FOR HYDERABAD MATH GENIUS
October 2020 -
Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash,the Hyderabad man recently became the first Asian (and first non-European) to win gold at the Mental Calculation World Championship at the Mind Sports Olympiad (MSO) in London.
