Mark Cuban Humbles Skip Bayless

I am a big sports fan and a fan of ESPN's First Take show, but I tend to disagree with one of their hosts Skip Bayless.  Although he is an accomplished sports writer and editor with accolades to his credit, I feel as though the analyst that we see on the air is just a character. Just after the Miami Heat won the 2012 NBA championship Dallas Mavericks owner accepted an invitation to come one the show and debate Skip and eloquently humbles him.

Dream Team Documentary

Since I don't have NBA TV I missed the original airing of the Dream Team documentary but I got a chance to watch it on WSHH. I wanted to download it the next morning but it was already removed. But thankfully through hard work and diligence I found a site that had it posted. So if you didn't get a chance to check it out.. Here you go..

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Melanie Fiona x J. Cole x This Time

Check out this video from Melanie Fiona featuring J. Cole off of her sophomore album The MF Life.

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Happy Father's Day from Michelle Obama..

Check out this touching video from First Lady Michelle Obama as she let's the world know how the POTUS Barack Obama balances his life as leader of the free world and Dad to his daughters Sasha and Maliah..

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Big K.R.I.T. x Live From the Underground (Documentary)

Check out this documentary chronicling KRIT on his journey to getting his freshman debut album out to the masses..

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Jim Rome vs David Stern

The sports side of Twitter has been all abuzz about this exchange between noted writer/reporter Jim Rome and the NBA's commissioner David Stern. When asked about the lottery for the NBA Draft being fixed commissioner Stern gives an awfully distasteful response.. Check it out..

 

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20 Things I Should Have Known at 20

1. The world is trying to keep you stupid. From bank fees to interest rates to miracle diets, people who are not educated are easier to get money from and easier to lead. Educate yourself as much as possible for wealth, independence, and happiness.

2. Do not have faith in institutions to educate you. By the time they build the curriculum, it’s likely that the system is outdated– sometimes utterly broken. You both learn and get respect from people worth getting it from by leading and doing, not by following.

3. Read as much as you can. Learn to speed read with high retention. Emerson Spartz taught me this while I was at a Summit Series event. If he reads 2-3 books a week, you can read one.

4. Connect with everyone, all the time. Be genuine about it. Learn to find something you like in each person, and then speak to that thing.

5. Don’t waste time being shy. Shyness is the belief that your emotions should be the arbitrators of your decision making process when the opposite is actually true.

6. If you feel weird about something during a relationship, that’s usually what you end up breaking up over.

7. Have as much contact as possible with older people. Personally, I met people at Podcamps. My friend Greg, at the age of 13, met his first future employer sitting next to him on a plane. The reason this is so valuable is because people your age don’t usually have the decision-making ability to help you very much. Also they know almost everything you will learn later, so ask them.

8. Find people that are cooler than you and hang out with them too. This and the corollary are both important: “don’t attempt to be average inside your group. Continuously attempt to be cooler than them (by doing cooler things, being more laid back, accepting, ambitious, etc.).”

9. You will become more conservative over time. This is just a fact. Those you surround yourself with create a kind of “bubble” that pushes you to support the status quo. For this reason, you need to do your craziest stuff NOW. Later on, you’ll become too afraid. Trust me.

10. Reduce all expenses as much as possible. I mean it. This creates a safety net that will allow you to do the crazier shit I mentioned above.

11. Instead of getting status through objects (which provide only temporary boosts), do it through experiences. In other words, a trip to Paris is a better choice than a new wardrobe. Studies show this also boosts happiness.

12. While you are living on the cheap, solve the money problem. Use the internet, because it’s like a cool little machine that helps you do your bidding. If you are currently living paycheck to paycheck, extend that to three weeks instead of two. Then, as you get better, you can think a month ahead, then three months, then six, and finally a year ahead. (The goal is to get to a point where you are thinking 5 years ahead.)

13. Learn to program.

14. Get a six-pack (or get thin, whatever your goal is) while you are young. Your hormones are in a better place to help you do this at a younger age. Don’t waste this opportunity, trust me.

15. Learn to cook. This will make everything much easier and it turns food from a chore + expensive habit into a pleasant + frugal one. I’m a big Jamie Oliver fan, but whatever you like is fine.

16. Sleep well. This and cooking will help with the six pack. If you think “I can sleep when I’m dead” or “I have too much to do to sleep,” I have news for you: you are INEFFICIENT, and sleep deprivation isn’t helping.

17. Get a reminder app for everything. Do not trust your own brain for your memory. Do not trust it for what you “feel like” you should be doing. Trust only the reminder app. I use RE.minder and Action Method.

18. Choose something huge to do, as well as allowing the waves of opportunity to help you along. If you don’t set goals, some stuff may happen, but if you do choose, lots more will.

19. Get known for one thing. Spend like 5 years doing it instead of flopping around all over the place. If you want to shift afterwards, go ahead. Like I said, choose something.

20. Don’t try to “fix” anyone. Instead, look for someone who isn’t broken.

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Jay-Z x Grammy Family Freestyle

While being bored out of my mind and halfheartedly paying attention the Game 4 of the NBA Western Conference Finals, I just happen to stumble this Jay-Z freestyle. Now I'm not the biggest Jay-Z fan but I am intrigued by the days when all rappers including the upper echelon one would not only do radio and provide something worth listening to besides mind numbing promo, but actually freestyled. In this clip Jay-Z stopped by New York's HOT 97 and hung out with Funk Flex and laid what I considered to be an amazing freestyle over the Grammy Family beat.. Check it out..

Now I normally don't give a damn about the comments that are posted on the videos but something prompted me to take a peek and other Jay-Z enthusiasts were in awe of the freestyle and also provided some insight on the knowledge and bars Jay was dropping.. I'll post some of the interesting/informative posts below..

"The 76th-floor Time Warner Center penthouse once owned by telecom mogul Michael Hirtenstein has a history dotted with boldface names. Hirtenstein rented the place to Jay-Z before selling it to Todd Wagner, billionaire and Mark Cuban's business partner, for $27 million.
"in this spirit I'm evoking kurt with...basquiat."
(two heroin addicted artists who could not handle the dizzying heights of fame they had achieved)."

"the yankees shortstop phil rizzuto in the ads for the moneystore?

jigga sitting with the ad agencies up on madison and then sitting with the investors on wall. (the corporate takeover).
converse all stars? that's what the doc wore. no need to "converse" further?
it's insane
mind on pluto. mercury was in aspect to pluto on 10.30.06
this aspect affected a subject born 12.4.69 very strongly that day.
trust me i looked all this shit up.
it's crazy."

"that's what i be trying to decipher. the mind of jay z. to decode it as the book says. the internal syllables alliteration and rhyme schemes employing false rhyme and crazy metaphors, it's enough to make you dizzy. plus the dude's subliminal wit this shit.
he the GOAT. sorry em, pac, big l, biggie, rakim, nas, sorry. Jigga the GOAT."




Check out the lyrics..

I been crushing the buildings since Izod socks
I'm so independent, shit I might buy Koch
I might not stop, places to cop
76 floors you can call me the Doc...

Inspired by Basquiat, my chariots of fire
Everybody took shots hit my body up I'm tired
Build me up, break me down, to build me up again
They like Hov we need you back so we can kill your ass again
Hov got flow though he's no Big and Pac but he's close
How I'm supposed to win they got me fighting ghosts.....

Same sword they knight you they gone good night you with
Shit that's only half if they like you
That ain't even the half what they might do
Don't believe me, ask Michael.

See Martin, see Malcolm
You see Biggie, see Pac, see success and it's outcome
See Jesus, see Judas
See Ceasar, see Brutus
See success is like suicide
Suicide, it's a suicide
If you succeed prepare to be crucified
Hmm, media meddles, niggas sue you you settle
Every step you take they remind you, you ghetto
So it's tough being Bobby Brown
To be Bobby then, you gotta be Bobby now
Now the question is is to have had and lost
Better than not having at... man.

Everybody want to be the king til shots ring
You laying in the balcony with holes in your dream
Or you Malcolm Xed out getting distracted by screams
Everybody get your hands off my jeans!
Everybody look at you strange, say you changed
Uh, like you work that hard to stay the same
Uh, game stayed the same, the name changed
So it's best for those to not overdose on being famous
Most kings get driven so insane
That they try to hit the same vein that Kurt Cobain did
New dangers, so strangers invited to the inner sanctum of your chambers
Low chained them, the enemy's approaching so raise your draw bridge and
drown him in the moat
In the spirit I'm evoking kurt with...(unintelligible)

Everybody screaming they want the old Hov
But the new and improved Hov hit like Albert Pujols
Everybody wanna hear me talk that money like Phil Rizzuto
But my mind is on Pluto
Bills that I do fold I now invest
on trying to find some loopholes in the IRS
So where I used to have a few hoes I am just
Concentrating on making a new Hov through sex
I've awaken just to try to school those putos
Trying to follow in my shoes with jewels-froze
Better adhere to this text 'fore you go
Broke spending more than you accrued on silly baguettes
I know silly begets, silly you learn on your own
At least my conscience is clear I'm no longer steering you wrong
Ain't nothing wrong with baguettes after you get a home
Take care of your home, you can go back and um....

I'm getting courted by the bosses, the Edgars and Doug Morrises-sss
Jimmy I and Lyor's-sss
Gotta be more than choruses-sss
They respecting my mind now, just a matter of time now
Operation take over corporate
Make Oval offices-sss
Then take over all of it
Please may these words be recorded
To serve as testimony that I saw it all before it
Came to fruition, sort of a premonition
Uh, uncontrollable hustler's ambition
Alias superstitition like Stevie,
The writing's on the wall like my lady, right BB?
Saw it all before so they all thought I was crazy
Maybe, like a fox I'm cagey
Ah, ah, the more successful, the more stressful
The more and more I transform to Gordan Gekko
In the race to a billion, got my face to the ceiling
Got my knees on the floor, please Lord forgive him
Has he lost his religion, is the greed gonna get him?
He's having heaven on earth, will his wings still fit him?
I got the Forbes on my living room floor
And I'm so dope to the core, fucker I want more
Time's most influential was impressive
Especially since I wasn't in the artist's section
Had me with the builders and the titans
Had me right with Rupert Murdoch
The billionaire boys and some dudes you never heard of
Word up on Madison Ave is I'm a cash cow
Word down on Wall St. homie you get the cash out
IPO Hov no need for reverse merger
The boy money talk no need to converse further
The baby blue Maybach like I own Gerber
Boardroom I'm lifting your skirt up
The corporate take ....nigga.


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