Alex Scott
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Stephen A. Smith says marijuana should not be allowed in the NBA because he considers it a performance-enhancing drug
“I consider weed a performance-enhancing drug.”
“It helps calm your nerves.”
“Nerves are part of competition.”
“If you’re using a drug that allows you to calm your nerves and it elevates your poise, that’s a performance enhancer because you are immune to the pressure.”
“It’s Game 73 and you gotta go to the free throw line with two seconds left. You gotta make both to tie the game. That’s nerves.”
“If weed is something that helps that, that’s a performance enhancer.”
“It should not be allowed.”
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$29,000 in bills, $5,000 in the bank. He gambled the $5,000 in Vegas and built an $80,000,000,000 company.
July 1973. FedEx has run 3 months and is already dying. The oil crisis sends fuel prices soaring. Pilots are buying jet fuel on their personal credit cards.
The checking account holds $5,000. The bills due Monday read about $29,000, most of it a $24,000 fuel invoice. Without fuel, no planes fly.
Fred Smith's last shot is a pitch to the General Dynamics board for a loan. The board says no.
On the flight home he doesn't go home. He detours to Las Vegas and puts the company's final $5,000 on the blackjack tables. He learned the game in Vietnam.
He walks away with $27,000 and wires it to Memphis. Enough to cover the bills and fly 1 more week.
His partner Roger Frock later confronts him. Smith shrugs: without fuel money they couldn't have flown anyway, so what difference did it make.
His own verdict: the $27,000 wasn't decisive, but it was an omen things would improve. That week bought time to raise $11,000,000 more.
The audit: by 1976 FedEx revenue hit $75,000,000. Today it moves over 15,000,000 packages a day and has run past $80,000,000,000 in annual revenue. Smith ran it until his death in June 2025 at 80.
The board wouldn't lend him $29,000. A blackjack dealer covered it in 1 night.
The maestro@maestroslay
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@ClubShayShay @ShannonSharpe He'll do anything for a laugh I mean anything
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Charleston White trolls Mob Ties and J Prince for failing to shoot him and make him apologize 😳
“I’m gonna be so disrespectful them n*ggas gotta send the Taliban”
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Chicago rapper Lil Durk predicted federal indictment in unreleased song “High Demand”
“It’s a knock at that door. It’s the feds again.”
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@semitic_jew No no no first of all should have pulled over
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🚨 The Officer Executed John Mendoza, Jr., according to family attorney Charles Adams.
He said, “John Mendoza Jr. and his two Negro friends were followed by Brazoria County Deputies at a walking track. Mendoza was terrified and wanted to get home to his father, when he was shot and killed by police.
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Her father molested her....until her mom found out...
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@Ovomember This guy thinks he knows everything I mean everything
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I did say it was odd of Charlamagne to say he “loves” Desiree Perez…in the Akademiks interview
I hate when the OPPs say something I agree with, but Ray Daniel’s said he’s been in the industry for a long time and he’s never heard anyone say something positive about her…
MEMBERS⁶𓅓@OVOmembers
The way Charlamagne is professing how much he LOVES Desiree Perez has to be studied…💀 Him inviting Akademiks to a Jaÿ-z show is lowkey a set up IMO but Ak not gon believe that man an opp until Charlamagne publicly backdoors him in 4K 😭
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