Sneakers and you keep Sidney Poitier.

Paintballing with Hezbollah We figured they'd cheat; they were Hezbollah, after all. But none of us—a team of four Western journalists—thought we'd be dodging military-grade flash bangs when we initiated this.

Saddened by the loss of Vice News and with it, all the weird stories I've read since I was a young twenty-something, but there's one story that has lived in my brain for more than a decade. Yes, it is Paintballing with Hezbollah. www.vice.com/en/article/e...

Final salute to Fire In The Hole: Thousands of guests say goodbye to the 51-year-old ride The new, second-generation Fire In The Hole is expected to open in March 2024. The ride will be the largest indoor coaster at Silver Dollar City.

Nat N. Kinney in 1883, probably: 'I am going to create a militia that will one day be heavily featured in an Ozarks amusement park. Children will create and wear versions of our raiding masks to celebrate this.'

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Thrilled to have contributed to this piece on the often-underappreciated threat posed by malicious soft power in U.S. professional sports. www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/u...