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Tuesday Notes for March 11th, 2025

Tuesday's Uristocrat Notes rounds up the sharpest stories in culture, sneakers, sports, and technology for the week of March 11, 2025.

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Monday Notes for March 10th, 2025

Josh Allen signs a record-setting $220M extension with Buffalo, while Nike x Bode drops the Astrograbber in green and black and New Balance's size? Protection Pack trio lands simultaneously.

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Friday Notes for March 7th, 2025

FIFA is exploring a 64-team World Cup format for 2030, the Celtics run over the 76ers, and Mistral launches a PDF-to-Markdown API — all in the March 7 notes.

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Thursday Notes for March 6th, 2025

Roy Ayers, the Godfather of Neo Soul, passes away at 84 on Ghana's Independence Day — as SGA puts up a big scoring night and Harden's adidas 'Sun Devils' colorway surfaces.

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Wednesday Notes for March 5th, 2025

LeBron James crosses 50,000 combined regular-season and playoff points, a milestone no player has reached, as the Under Armour Curry 12 'Spark' colorway makes its first appearance.

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Tuesday Notes for March 4th, 2025

The March 4th, 2025 edition of Uristocrat Notes

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Monday Notes for March 3rd, 2025

The March 3rd, 2025 edition of Uristocrat Notes

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Friday Notes for February 28th, 2025

Jalen Brunson reveals his Kobe 4 Protro NCAA Championship PE, Black women who built NYC's most iconic dining rooms, and OpenAI drops GPT-4.5.

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Thursday Notes for February 27th, 2025

Huge crowds turned out for the 60th anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination at the Shabazz Center. Also: Jermaine Dupri's So So Def legacy heads to Emory, and Shaedon Sharpe throws down a Dunk of Year candidate.

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Wednesday Notes for February 26th, 2025

Nike officially unveils the Vaporfly 4, its lightest super shoe yet, alongside the race-focused Streakfly 2. Black borrowers face fresh uncertainty over student loan repayment timelines.

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Tuesday Notes for February 25th, 2025

An 1887 opera by a Black composer finally surfaces this Black History Month, alongside new reporting on the ghostly secrets of slave ships and the great resegregation.

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Monday Notes for February 24th, 2025

Hazel Scott's meteoric rise as a jazz talent — and her eventual erasure from the spotlight — headlines this Monday's edition. The Disappearance of Miss Scott is this week's must-read.