Bubble

Crystal Cox/Business Insider More than two hundred years ago in Napoleonic France, the business world was walled off to women, and champagne was a luxury reserved for the ruling class. So then how did a young widow take over her husband's struggling wine business and turn champagne into an international…

Edie, the 23-year-old resident of a mouse-infested Bushwick walkup and the narrator of Raven Leilani’s debut novel Luster, has an editorial position at a children’s book publisher until she loses it by sleeping with one too many of her colleagues. Like Meursault, the protagonist in Camus’s The Stranger, she seems…

Lakers coach Frank Vogel, right, and forward Anthony Davis talk to a referee during the Lakers' loss to the Indiana Pacers on Saturday.  (Kim Klement / Getty Images)A month in the NBA bubble has presented the Lakers with some mental hurdles, causing them to get what center JaVale McGee described…

By choosing “I agree” below, you agree that NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media features, and analyze NPR’s…

The WNBA has dedicated its 2020 season to social justice, supporting "Black Lives Matter" on shirts and courts, stitching "#SayHerName" onto the backs of jerseys, and giving players a platform to speak up for an urgent cause. In June, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a co-owner of the Atlanta Dream, wrote to…

Kim Klement/Associated PressSome NBA players have acclimated immediately to the Orlando bubble, quickly adjusting to life without fans of the non-virtual variety.For LeBron James, it's still taking some time."I am getting more and more used to being out there. It's a very weird dynamic. I haven't played in an empty…

The following is a partial transcript of a podcast episode from the mini-series, Podding the Bubble. Listen to the original audio on the Crossover NBA Podcast, the Open Floor podcast, or the Coronavirus + Sports podcast. Subscribe to all SI podcasts for free wherever you listen to shows.Jarrel Harris: The…

This week’s Twitter villain hails, like many of his kind, from the Bay Area. Jason Calacanis is a podcaster and talking head on the subject of investment (he leads The Syndicate, “a group of 4,122 accredited investors ... that invests in world-class founders,” according to its website), but on Sunday…

When NHL players departed the homes they’d spent the last four-and-a-half months confined to by the COVID-19 pandemic, and ventured to the NHL’s hub sites in Toronto and Edmonton, the options for how to pass the time were restricted. For five days, teams had to stay amongst themselves, dining together…

Tyler Kaufman/Associated PressBleacher Report's Taylor Rooks highlighted NBA practices, scrimmages and spoke with players on their experiences in her second "Life in the NBA Bubble" vlog from the Disney World complex near Orlando, Florida.  Rooks traveled from New York City to the Orlando area and took part in a seven-day quarantine…