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Give LaVar Ball, the outrageously outspoken father of Lonzo Ball — the former UCLA point guard who’s sure to be a top pick in June’s NBA draft — some credit. He said that if the major sneaker companies weren’t interested in partnering with his nascent startup as Lonzo prepared for his rookie season, he’d reject a traditional endorsement deal for his son. Instead, Lonzo would sell his own shoe. The Balls followed through on this pledge.

Here is how it all happened After young Crowther (at the time his name was Ajayi) was captured along with his mother, baby brother, and other family members, he was sold and put on a ship going to America to be resold. The vessel was intercepted by the British Navy’s Anti-slave trade patrol and taken to Freetown, Sierra Leone. There, all the slaves on board were set free.

What we talk about when we talk about Minecraft for the Nintendo Switch should be as simple as this: It took the Kyoto purveyor of mustachioed plumbers and barrel-chucking gorillas years to get Minecraft on the Wii U, but all of two months for it to find a home on Nintendo’s new flagship console-handheld. Minecraft is available on the Nintendo Switch eShop for $30 as I type this. Having tooled around with it (versus nearly all of Minecraft‘s other incarnations), I can say it’s arguably the finest iteration of Swedish studio Mojang’s magnum opus yet.

The mother of the boy made famous by the “success kid” meme has filed a cease-and-desist letter against Iowa Rep. Steve King after learning that he had used her son’s image to fundraise for his reelection campaign. Last Thursday, Media Matters reporter Eric Hananoki tweeted a photo of King’s Facebook page, which at the time included a photo of the“success kid” meme with the caption, “QUESTION: Do you enjoy our memes?

In one of Nepal’s oldest quarters, the largest of three Newar kingdoms in Kathmandu valley, Bhaktapur’s beauty has drawn hundreds of thousands of tourists each year. Today, however, the ancient, brick-walled city lies in ruins. Amid collapsed roofs, crumbled and bent aluminum awnings, and snapped wooden beams, residents of this ancient town roam the streets, some still looking for family members trapped under the rubble, as relief workers and aid teams slowly file into town.

Cleveland.com reports that Uloma who was 44 at the time of the murder, and her firefighter husband, Lt. William Curry Walker, had been married for just four months when she contracted the trio of Chad Padgett, 21, Christopher Hein, 22, and Ryan Dorty, 23, to kill him so she could collect on his life insurance policy and cover up financial fraud she committed in her husband's name. She was convicted of aggravated murder in a scheme that was flawed from the start, according to the court reports because Walker's ex-wife was still the beneficiary of his policy.

Pat Summitt, the winningest Division 1 college basketball coach of all time, died Tuesday at the age of 64. In remembrance of the transformative coach, her peers and athletes have shared their tributes, calling her courageous, loving and passionate, and saying that she helped put women’s basketball on the map and get female athletics coaches the salaries they deserved. Summitt’s former colleague Joan Cronan said, “the legacy she leaves is immense.

I’ve spent the last few days flying, coptering and driving around northern Alberta with the director James Cameron, taking a close look at the massive oil sands developments in the Canadian province. (As this 2008 piece from TIME shows, Alberta’s underground oil sands reserves have made Canada a world player on the global energy stage—it’s now the number one exporter of petroleum to the U.S.—but mining the oil has a heavy environmental cost, locally and globally.

Tom DeLay, the Texas republican representative and former House Majority Leader, and his wife, Christine, sat down at their kitchen table in Sugar Land, Texas, on Monday with TIME White House correspondent Mike Allen to explain DeLay’s decision not to seek reelection, and to give up his Congressional seat in the next few months. Joining the discussion were his campaign manager, Chris Homan, and his House press secretary, Shannon Flaherty. TIME: Thank you for sitting down with TIME.