By NFL.com Geno Smith wants to be like Michael Jordan. The rookie quarterback of the New York Jets said he tries to emulate the NBA legend’s leadership and work ethic. …read more
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Jets’ Geno Smith wants to be like Michael Jordan
By NFL.com Geno Smith wants to be like Michael Jordan: The New York Jets’ rookie quarterback said he tries to emulate the NBA legend’s leadership and work ethic. …read more
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Charlotte Hornets Name Approved By NBA: Bobcats Are No More
By The Huffington Post News Editors
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Charlotte is the home of the Hornets once again.
The NBA unanimously approved Charlotte’s nickname change from Bobcats to Hornets on Thursday at the league’s Board of Governors meeting. The original Hornets built a supportive fan base in Charlotte from the time they entered the league in 1988 until they moved to New Orleans in 2002.
But the new owners in New Orleans have changed the team’s name to the Pelicans. That opened the door for owner Michael Jordan to bring the Hornets name back to Charlotte. The change will take place after the 2013-14 season.
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Feedback Is Overrated
By Rajeev Peshawaria, Contributor What do Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, John Lennon and the Beatles, Mahatma Gandhi, Howard Schultz, Abraham Lincoln, Michelle Kwan, Thomas Edison, Beethoven, Steven Spielberg, Marilyn Monroe, Walt Disney, Soichiro Honda, Charles Darwin and Michael Jordan have in common? …read more
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NBA owner Michael Jordan gets married
Michael Jordan got married over the weekend in front of a few hundred of his family and closest friends.
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Michael Jordan Tying the Knot—in Front of 2K Guests
By John Johnson It’s a wedding that befits royalty, even if it’s only sports royalty: Michael Jordan is marrying Yvette Prieto today in Florida in front of 2,000 of their closest friends, reports the Miami Herald . The wedding itself is thought to be taking place at the same Palm Beach church where…
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After banner year, another MVP likely for LeBron
There has never been a unanimous MVP in the history of the NBA. Not Wilt Chamberlain, not Bill Russell, not Shaquille O’Neal, not Michael Jordan.
From: http://www.nba.com/2013/news/04/18/heat-lebrons-year.ap/index.html?rss=true
Habit Formation: The 21-Day Myth
The habits of highly successful people allow them to consistently perform behaviors that breed success. Everything from eating well to responsible spending to task completion and beyond requires habits that make such behaviors part of our daily life. Michael Jordan spent his off seasons taking hundreds of jump shots a day. Cy Young award-winning Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay routinely does a 90-minute workout before practices. The young Venus and Serena Williams would wake up at 6:00 am to hit tennis balls before school. Highly successful people have learned to develop good habits, and it takes discipline, courage and hard work on a daily basis to keep those habits in place. It makes perfect sense to adopt habits that will facilitate success, yet, why are some so difficult to adopt?
From: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonselk/2013/04/15/habit-formation-the-21-day-myth/
WWE® Tops 100 Million Facebook Fans at WrestleMania
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WWE® Tops 100 Million Facebook Fans at WrestleMania
STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– WWE® (NYS: WWE) today announced it eclipsed 100 million Facebook fans across its network of pages during WrestleMania 29, further cementing itself as one of the most followed brands in the world.
WWE‘s Facebook network currently has more fans than the NFL and its 32 teams combined and MLB and its 30 teams combined. The main WWE Facebook page also has more fans than the NHL, The New York Times, ESPN, Pepsi, Burger King, NASCAR and CNN. Seventeen WWE Superstars rank in the top 100 most-followed athletes on Facebook, with John Cena ® (more than 14 million fans) as the third most-followed athlete in the U.S. behind only Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.
To drive additional fan engagement, WWE launched “Superfan Showdown,” a Facebook app exclusive to the platform that allows fans from around the world to compete in fast-paced interactive trivia challenges, rapid-fire polls, mind-bending puzzles and much more. As fans go head-to-head, they earn points, climb the global leaderboard and accumulate “WWE cash” that can be spent to purchase exclusive virtual goods, including: limited edition badges, rare Superstar trading cards, and never-before-seen WWE video content.
WWE now has more than 150 million followers across all social media platforms while ranking in the top 20 most social companies according to the Dachis Groups Social Business Index. WWE is also one of only seven brands in the world to obtain a Klout score of 99 from Klout.com, which measures a brands’ social media influence on a scale from 1 to 100. The other six brands include YouTube, The New York Times, Huffington Post, Time, Associated Press and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
About WWE
WWE, a publicly traded company (NYS: WWE) , is an integrated media organization and recognized leader in global entertainment. The company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE is committed to family friendly entertainment on its television programming, pay-per-view, digital media and publishing platforms. WWE programming is broadcast in more than 150 countries and 30 languages and reaches more than 650 million homes worldwide. The company is headquartered in
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The Greatest Business Rivalries of All Time
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There was the time Thomas Edison electrocuted an elephant to demonstrate the danger of a competitor’s technology. The day that Nike (NKE), desperate for an advantage over a surging Reebok, signed a college hoops player named Michael Jordan. And the time the Central Pacific Railroad laid an astounding 10 miles of track in 24 hours to grab government payments that the hated Union Pacific would otherwise claim.
Rivalries make great stories, and the greatest rivalries make the greatest tales — reason enough to read the following portraits of brilliance, skullduggery, nobility, mendacity, victory, and failure. But if you’re the driven type who demands more practical benefits, you’ll find those here too. After all, monumental business battles have changed the world. We cannot imagine life without cellphones or the Internet, but if tiny MCI hadn’t challenged the titanic AT&T (T) (the No. 4 rivalry in our ranking), the communications revolution would have played out much differently. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (No. 6) ended up selling few competing products yet contended for 35 years to impose radically different visions on the world of computing. And a global economy that couldn’t function without air travel is far faster and better because Airbus and Boeing (BA) (No. 9) have had to fight each other every day for 40 years.
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But powerful rivalries can be blinding, obscuring events beyond the combatants’ battlefield. Coke (KO) and Pepsi (PEP) (No. 1) were so busy pounding the daylights out of each other that they missed an entirely new notion, and today, inconceivably, the bestselling energy drink in U.S. convenience stores isn’t made by either company. (It’s Red Bull.) General Motors (GM) and Ford (F) obsessed over each other until one day Toyota (TM) had stolen the bulk of their profits.
What comes through most strongly in these stories is each conflict’s sheer human intensity. Only a brave novelist would have imagined the brother vs. brother saga of Adidas vs. Puma (No. 20). Venice vs. Genoa (No. 7) may look like a dusty tale of feuding city-states, but it set the tone for hundreds of years of European competition. The rivalry between the railroads was economic, ethnic, and spectacular, involving sabotage, deception, and death.
Who needs such lessons? Oh, right, you do. So think of these dramas as guilt-free pleasures. Then, well prepared for the task, go forth and pulverize your rivals.
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Will Manny Pacquiao Join Team Jordan Brand?
A few weeks ago BoxingScene.com noted that welterweight boxing champion Manny Pacquiao and his team were in talks with Nike to make a transition to Nike’s Jordan Brand. While an official announcement still hasn’t been made, the internal brand representation change would make sense for the boxer whose fans in the Philippines already compare him to the legendary basketball star Michael Jordan. …read more
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Does Michael Jordan Have a Lovechild?
A woman has filed a paternity lawsuit against basketball legend Michael Jordan, according to reports surfacing early Friday. The suit was filed by Pamela Smith on Feb. 6 in Fulton County, GA, alleging that Jordan is the father of now 16-year-old Grant Pierce Jay Jordan Reynolds — who goes by Taj. …read more
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Michael Jordan Buys House in Hometown
He’s best-known for his time in Chicago, but Michael Jordan is also a North Carolinian; he spent most of his childhood there, played for the North Carolina Tar Heels and is now majority owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats. …read more
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Isiah: LeBron likely better athlete than MJ was
By ESPNChicago.com Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas said Tuesday the debate over whether LeBron James is better than Michael Jordan hinges on a few criteria, but as far as who is the better athlete, Thomas said it’s probably James. …read more
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Why LeBron James Will Beat Michael Jordan
We honestly shouldn’t compare Michael Jordan and LeBron James on the court. It’s a debate that can’t be settled. MJ versus Kobe Bryant—maybe. But LJ? Not so much. LJ’s size, speed and game IQ make him a very different player at a very different time. …read more
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Managing MJ: Francona recalls summer with Jordan
By Jordan Bastian Terry Francona was not going to miss the opportunity to send some birthday wishes to an old friend. He pulled out his phone on Sunday, found Michael Jordan‘s number and shot a text message to the basketball legend. …read more
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Kidd-Gilchrist: I lost to MJ in one-on-one game
By ESPN.com news services Nineteen-year-old Bobcats rookie Michael Kidd-Gilchrist confessed Friday that Michael Jordan, almost 50, beat him in a one-on-one game. …read more
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Jordan Says LeBron Has One Big Flaw
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LeBron James is on one of the greatest hot streaks in NBA history, but Michael Jordan still thinks there’s a major flaw in his game. Jordan’s criticism that data backs up
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LeBron says it's unfair to judge players on titles
By Michael Wallace LeBron James respects his elders among the NBA‘s greatest players of all time. Right now, he just doesn’t agree with two of them: Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson. …read more
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Peers see LeBron for his own greatness
LeBron James changed his jersey number, won an NBA championship and still gets inevitably compared to Michael Jordan at nearly every opportunity. …read more
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