Ryan Clark confirms ESPN executives leaked his firing to Outkick (a MAGA website) so the MAGA cult can celebrate his firing.
He says ESPN executives didn’t like how he stood up for Black people, including Angel Reese.
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A group of orcas was captured on camera engaging in what scientists call "ram-to-fragment" behavior.
One whale holds a large sunfish and lets go just before another rams it at high speed, pulverizing the fish into thousands of pieces.
In a new study, scientists say the behavior could be a clever way to feed the young, a form of play, or a combination of both.
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A 20-year-old ran a $400 record out of his dorm room. It grew into a label sold for $100,000,000.
1984, an NYU dorm room. Rick Rubin, a punk kid who can't play an instrument or work a mixing board, presses a rap single with a 16-year-old named LL Cool J. Cost to make: $400.
Freight trucks back up to his dorm and unload 40,000 12-inch singles at a time. He ships them to distributors across the country from a college bedroom.
"I Need a Beat" sells over 100,000 copies. He calls the label Def Jam and brings in Russell Simmons.
1985: the major labels notice. Columbia signs a distribution deal. Rubin, still 20, mails his parents a xerox of his first advance check, $600,000, to explain why he's skipping law school.
His method breaks every rule. He tells Esquire he knows nothing about music, that his job is taste and culture, not notes. He just listens.
The roster he builds: LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Run-DMC, then Slayer. Beastie Boys' debut becomes the first rap LP to top the Billboard 200.
1999: Def Jam sells to Universal for $100,000,000. Rubin had already left in 1988 to build another label, then produced Johnny Cash, Adele, Jay-Z, and Kanye.
The audit: 9 Grammys, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, and a personal fortune near $300,000,000. He still doesn't play an instrument.
He couldn't read a note. He built hip-hop's biggest label from a dorm bed.
Gilbert Arenas finallys reveals to Carmelo Anthony and the crew what really happened with Gil’s Arena. With a executive who was tanking the show. And why he’s no longer working with Rashad McCants anymore .