LOS ANGELES — On the opening day of the video game industry’s largest annual convention, fans queued up for hours, then stood shoulder to shoulder inside Nintendo’s massive exhibition area, eager to sample one of the most anticipated game releases of 2018, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. A little over a half-mile away in the Belasco Theater, some of the top professional Smash Bros. players in the world competed in a rare invite-only tournament put on by the company. Read More...
Major U.S. news organizations took a short while to post their initial stories on the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump on Saturday evening in Butler, Pa. Though their journalists fully suspected that such an attack had taken place, there was only so much they could nail down right away.
So the initial headlines were tiptoeing works of lawyerly circumspection. The Post’s early offering: “Trump escorted away after loud noises at Pa. Read More...
In 1976, when the founders of the Black Athletes Hall of Fame put together that year’s class of inductees, they decided to honor Ora Washington, the preeminent Black female athlete of the early-20th century.
But they ran into a problem — they couldn’t find her. They optimistically engraved the customary silver bowl and placed a chair for her on the presentation stage, hoping she would appear. She did not. “We just don’t know what to think,” Hall of Fame founder Charlie Mays told the New York Times. Read More...
