la fitness
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Stoppage? What Stoppage? NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Says There Are No Plans To Pause Season As COVID-19 Runs Through the League
The NBA ain’t missing out on Christmas Day network money as they plan to move ahead with games
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It Doesn't Feel Like It's Been a Year
So I was soft-hedging off my man because I knew that the ball-hander would be coming off the screen looking to pass, not shoot. I’d played with him—and most of the rest of the people on the court that evening at LA Fitness—enough to know his tendencies. Whether he liked to turn to his right…
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Post-COVID, Is Indoor Pickup Basketball…Done?
“The era of “drop-in” workouts may be over,” writes VICE’s Maggie Puniewska in a sobering piece about what gyms will likely look like in a post-COVID America. The brim and bustle of a peak-hour LA Fitness won’t be returning any time soon, as even those willing to chance visiting a gym once they reopen will…
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#FlagrantFreddy: White Man Calls Police After Hard Foul in Pickup Basketball Game
In what might be the most egregious display of Trump’s American punkishness, which includes calling the cops on people doing the most to live their best lives, cops in Virginia were actually called by a grown, white man after another player reportedly knocked him to the floor with an “aggressive screen.” The man who called…
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Report: LA Fitness Called the Cops on a Black Man Because He ‘Fit a Profile’
A North Carolina LA Fitness franchise called on the brave police officers who protect and serve (and sometimes shoot black people) after accusing a member of the gym of breaking into lockers and stealing credit cards, only to discover that they had the wrong guy. According to WCNC-TV, Realtor Ralston Masaniai was at the LA…
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Do You Shower at the Gym After Working Out, or Do You Wait Until You Get Home?
On Wednesday night I read a very, very, very early (and very, very, very explicit) excerpt from my book at the Brillobox as a part of their monthly Bridge Series. I wanted to get a workout and a sweat in before the reading (which started at 8:15 p.m.), so I went to LA Fitness at…