Before the Los Angeles Lakers drafted Earvin “Magic” Johnson with the first overall pick in 1979, the league was on the verge of a fate worse than death — irrelevancy. Read more…
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The Fiat Chrysler-Peugeot merger gets the OK from shareholders
Enlarge (credit: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) For the past few years, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has been looking to get married. After its advances were spurned by the likes of General Motors and Volkswagen, a merger with France’s Renault looked possible, until the death of FCA boss Sergio Marchionne in 2018. Then, in October, news […]
A fond farewell to the Bizarre and Lovely Nintendo DS
Expand (charge: Aurich Lawson) Back in December 2004, my boyfriend showed up in my flat door carrying out a box. “I gave you a gift!” He explained, obviously excited. ‘Tis your very year , I believed it. I flipped the box. “A.. . Is this, for example… that a Game Boy type of matter?” As […]