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Category: Greatness
The Best Way to Overcome Failure

Whether personally, professionally, or creatively, you’ve probably had a project or plan fail miserably, even beyond your wildest fears and worst-case scenarios. In fact, you’ve probably had more than one. I certainly have.
In Defense Of Tom Cruise
“Cruise hadn’t hurt his box-office draw — his movies continued to be successful. But Hollywood was convinced he was poison, a religious fanatic, and possibly unhinged.”
– Amy Nicholson, L.A. Weekly
Tom Cruise is an all-time great actor. Don’t believe it? Look at how many people have won or been nominated for Oscars playing opposite him. He makes every actor that shares the screen with him better.
The Fallacy of “Legacy”

It’s common in popular culture to claim that someone is ruining their legacy.
In Appreciation Of: Sticky Fingaz
“Who had the last verse you was always waitin’ for?”
Every time you heard an Onyx song, you knew it was coming.
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Compton to Long Beach: The Ultimate Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg Mixtape
Technically speaking, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg have never made an album together.
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Kevin Durant Put Winning Above All Else – So Why Is He Getting Criticized For It?
Kevin Durant, deputy publisher of The Players Tribune, who has averaged 27 points and 7 rebounds per game in his second career as a member of the Seattle SuperSonics/Oklahoma City Thunder, announced his decision to join the Golden State Warriors today.
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The Fallacy of the LeBron vs. Jordan Finals Argument
Sports punditry and analysis is always full of bad arguments and poorly thought-out opinions. The roster that Fox Sports 1 is assembling is proof of that. But the worst sports argument, at least at the moment, concerns LeBron James.
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I Was There: Seeing LeBron Play in High School
I haven’t been to very many historical sporting events. No World Cup. No Super Bowl. No championship-clinching win. I was there for the final Philadelphia Eagles win at Veterans Stadium in 2002, went to a few NLDS and NLCS games in 2008 as the Phillies rolled towards a title, and attended a few NBA Playoff games, but they were appetizers. The biggest event I’ve ever attended was the final game of Michael Jordan’s career and while that was great, it’s not like it was the 63-point game at the Boston Garden in 1986 or Game 6 of the ’98 Finals in Utah.