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You’ve probably heard of “reinventing the wheel,” but what about reinventing the ball? That’s what engineers at Wilson are up to with a new airless basketball prototype. The team leveraged additive manufacturing technology to make a new kind of basketball from a loose hexagonal lattice. You can’t buy one, but …

Photo: dsquared2 on Instagram  In breaking fashion news, Canadian-born and London-based designers DSquared2 have just announced a new partnership with Saks Fifth Avenue. Dean and Dan Caten will be collaborating with 34-year-old Chicago Bulls basketball player Dwyane Wade on an upcoming menswear line, which will be exclusively sold at the retailer.  …

Richard Pitino learned to value deflections working under his father, Rick Pitino, at Louisville. It’s a term that has been used heavily at Minnesota since Tubby Smith was coaching at Williams Arena. Smith also a former Rick Pitino assistant at Kentucky, used to make his players do extra conditioning in …