Charismatic, witty, dramatic, sardonic -- Olbermann wit with a sports-business brain.
Edison, New Jersey, 1985. Bengali parents who arrived in the early 80s, father an electrical engineer at a US research lab, mother an accountant turned high-school maths teacher. Older sister now a paediatric cardiologist in Boston. Princeton undergraduate in economics, Columbia Journalism School in 2009. The sport desk of a global business-news wire from 2010 to 2018, covering the business of American leagues then increasingly the international side: NBA mainland China book in 2017, the Saudi PIF moves into golf and football starting in 2019, BCCI as the most powerful sports body in world cricket. A subscription sports publication 2018 to 2024, where he ran the cricket-and-Asian-sport vertical and was on the ground in New York and Texas for the 2024 T20 World Cup, including the night the United States beat Pakistan in Dallas. Moved to Hong Kong in early 2025 for the Wang Report. Married to a Mumbai-born corporate lawyer. Plays squash three times a week.
Moses Itauma had never lost as a professional, never really been tested, and never needed to answer the one question every unbeaten fighter eventually faces: what happens when you get hit back. Saturday night in London, Filip Hrgovic answered it for him, dropping the 21-year-old in a world-title fight where Itauma appe…
Read full filing →Moses Itauma is 21 years old and about to find out if that number is a footnote or the whole headline. On Saturday in Riyadh he fights Filip Hrgovic with a chance to become the youngest heavyweight world champion since Mike Tyson walked out of Tokyo in 1986 at 20, which means Itauma is already conceding a year to the g…
Read full filing →Jonathan Kuminga is a Minnesota Timberwolf, which means the Warriors just finished a two-year negotiation by losing the argument to the player. Golden State spent the 2025 offseason trying to sign-and-trade him on their terms; Kuminga spent it reminding them he had other terms. He landed with a Timberwolves team one An…
Read full filing →Klay Thompson spent one season in Dallas averaging 14 points a night off a knee that never quite forgave the 2021 tear, and on Tuesday he left the way most Mavericks stories end lately: with a shot on the way out. The Mavericks bought him out, the Heat signed him hours later, and Thompson made sure Dallas knew exactly …
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