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Award-Winning Broadcaster • 📻 & 📺 Reporter • Podcast Host • Virgo ♍ • #MadeInDetroit 🦁 🚙• #SpartanStrong 🟢⚪️• Hope ≠ Strategy • ΦΒΣ 🤘🏾

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@JayScottSmith
Jay Scott Smith
8 months
So yeah. That 🐈‍⬛’s out of the bag. 😂 Just 6 months after my unceremonious exit from radio — and 3 months after getting my first taste of TV — I’ve snagged my first full time TV job and I’m looking forward to getting started.
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Steve Kraycik
8 months
CONGRATS to my @TopNewsTalent client Jason Smith ( @JayScottSmith )! He’s the new weekend anchor at Hearst’s @WGAL in Lancaster PA. Great talent, great station. Very happy for you Jason! And glad you’ll be working with the awesome @KristinKayNews #TVnews #TVagent #journalism
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@JayScottSmith
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4 years
None of this energy was evident when people showed up with whole AR-15s 2 weeks ago
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1 year
This is embarrassing behavior on air from Skip here. And when Shannon takes the glasses off…we’ve all been there…
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@JayScottSmith
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4 years
Here’s the clip of @JoeBiden quoting @DocRivers during his speech in Gettysburg today. It was, in all honesty, pretty powerful.
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4 years
This needs to be framed
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@JayScottSmith
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3 years
Bruh. What!?
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4 years
Ahmad Rashad had such an incredible TV career that people forget that he played in a damn Super Bowl and was a 4 time Pro Bowl WR. #TheLastDance
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@YaBoiKennyKen Hall of Famer. 3 time Champ. One of the best to EVER play your position. And dude says " So..."
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@JayScottSmith
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7 years
It's cute how many of the people who a month ago were screaming "free speech" to defend Charlottesville suddenly want Jemele silenced.
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@JayScottSmith
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2 years
Draymond headed home after he got kicked out of practice.
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@JayScottSmith
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2 months
7 years ago, Indiana declined an opportunity to host an NIT Game in Bloomington because they didn’t want to “Devalue” the court. The head coach of those Hoosiers: Tom Crean.
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Tom Crean ( @TomCrean ) just went in on teams electing not to play in the NIT. And he’s spot on.
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@JayScottSmith
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4 years
The word icon gets tossed around a little too willy-nilly at times. @RepJohnLewis was an icon.
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@JayScottSmith
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5 years
We don’t deserve Dogs, man.
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@JayScottSmith
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3 years
Devin Booker scored 42 points and committed 9 fouls
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@JayScottSmith
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4 years
“I think about what it takes for a Black person to love America. That is a deep love for this country that has — for far too long — never been recognized.” My 77-year-old mother just called me and said “I don’t think I’ve ever heard a White politician say something like that.”
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@JayScottSmith
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1 year
Justin Jackson grabbing Brock Wright and saying “WE BELIEVE IN YOU!” is beautiful. (And, a spectacular catch by the microphone)
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@JayScottSmith
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3 years
“Prominent members of the Detroit community: Diamond and Silk...” Actual Detroiters:
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@JayScottSmith
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1 year
Grant Wahl had become so well known and respected for his soccer ⚽️ work, it should be noted that he was an A+ basketball writer 🏀, including writing the piece that was behind one of @SInow ’s most iconic covers 20 years ago of a 17 year old @KingJames .
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@JayScottSmith
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2 years
The fact that Steve Kerr was there when Reggie Miller, Ray Allen, and @StephenCurry30 each broke the 3PT record is Forrest Gump level wild.
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@JayScottSmith
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3 years
“Died in the Blast” hits different when you leave out “while committing a terrorist suicide bombing on Christmas morning”
@AP
The Associated Press
3 years
BREAKING: Federal authorities say a man named Anthony Quinn Warner was responsible for the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville. Officials say Warner died in the blast.
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@JayScottSmith
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4 years
Wait for it.
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@JayScottSmith
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4 years
This is...stunning. The #Lions canceled practice in honor of #JacobBlake . Bravo, fellas.
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Detroit Lions
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The world can't go on
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3 years
Cities that have no problem pulling up if you come with the Disrespect (in no particular order): 1. Detroit 2. Philadelphia 3. Chicago
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@JayScottSmith
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1 year
@solomonmissouri My guy said we START with some Everclear. Nothing good was ever gonna come from this
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@JayScottSmith
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1 year
This is what I was referring to earlier. Here’s Lisa Salters, a veteran sports journalist — and former athlete — fighting back tears describing the scene on the field. It’s a level of humanity that news reporters should be afforded when covering tragedy
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@JayScottSmith
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@JayScottSmith
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1 year
@Dez_Bracy Man, when he took those glasses off, I said "Oh No!"
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@JayScottSmith
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5 years
“Constant Context.” Good Lord. That phrase and how @TheRock describes it here just blew my mind. Powerful stuff here, especially for those of us still on a journey.
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“I fell into depression.” @TheRock overcame a broken NFL dream to become the world’s biggest movie star. 👊 Watch the Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw actor open up about his life. 👇 @HobbsAndShaw
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@JayScottSmith
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6 years
Welp. I know who I want to go 0-16 this year
@YahooSportsNFL
Yahoo Sports NFL
6 years
#Breaking : Miami #Dolphins players who protest on the field during the national anthem could be fined and suspended for up to four games under a team policy.
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@JayScottSmith
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7 years
Have a great weekend, y'all.
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@JayScottSmith
Jay Scott Smith
5 years
To add a little extra perspective to this picture: Future Hall of Famer James Worthy was a freshman at UNC in 1979. Michael Jordan was there 2 years later. This is what they were experiencing in college.
@RaleighReporter
Colin Campbell
5 years
Randomly flipped through the 1979 UNC-Chapel Hill yearbook today just to kill some time, and found this photo on one of the fraternities' pages. Holy shit.
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@JayScottSmith
Jay Scott Smith
2 years
On the @LeBatardShow today, they said that the sound and smell of Fajitas coming to your table is the "Dad version of champagne bottles with sparklers coming toward you at the club" and I can't stop thinking about it.
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@JayScottSmith
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4 years
I know this is tough for a lot of the Younger Millenials and Gen Z, but Black People REALLY used to be into Baseball. #TheLastDance
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@JayScottSmith
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6 years
#Michigan has apparently legalized the marijuana and taken down gerrymandering. It’s on the same night a woman retakes the Governor’s office, a black man is Lt. Gov, and Black Trumpster goes down in flames. My home state had itself a night. #ElectionDay
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@JayScottSmith
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5 years
The match ended before the sponsor graphic was off the screen. #SmackDown
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@JayScottSmith
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4 years
This is one of the toughest yet most needed things to watch. @MikeTyson having this moment of honesty and clarity about this internal battle of being an aging warrior is something else, man.
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@JayScottSmith
Jay Scott Smith
5 years
Had a hotep in a bow tie on IG try the old “You coming for R. Kelly but do you have that sane energy for the white man” razzle dazzle 🙄 Look here: The reason I go after dudes like Kelly is because guys like him have preyed on Black women & girls for decades. #SurvivingRKelly
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1 year
All of you losers who love to say "Oh No. Not Detroit. Ewww!" Whenever Detroit gets something nice are more than welcome to not be welcome there when it happens. Every major event that happens in the city has gone off w/out a hitch or problem & I'm really sick of the slander.
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@JayScottSmith
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4 years
Don Lemon expressing what a lot of Black, Brown, and LGBT journalists have experienced for the last few years
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@JayScottSmith
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5 years
I quit drinking when I was 30 years old. When I have told people this, far too often, I get looked at like there’s something wrong with me. Stop that shit.
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@JayScottSmith
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5 years
It’s the @Lions , so we know the @NFL won’t do shit about the 🦓 in this case. But let’s be real: If Trey Flowers were still wearing a @Patriots uniform, you know good and damn well those flags stay in that ref’s pocket.
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@JayScottSmith
Jay Scott Smith
5 months
The Pistons also have 19 wins over the last 2 seasons. How about that.
@LionsPR
Detroit Lions PR
5 months
The @Lions have totaled 19 wins over the last two seasons.   This ties for the most victories the team has had in a two-season span. #OnePride
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5 years
I am legit stunned (which says a lot about our faith in the system). Amber Guyger was found GUILTY in the murder of #BothamJean .
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@JayScottSmith
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2 years
It should also be noted that Steve Kerr lost his father to gun violence. This is coming from a real place.
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@JayScottSmith
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4 years
@ChrisJr_NYYST @ShellyStaples10 This just makes me sad. This young lady had her whole life in front of her. And she had IT on the floor. It was obvious too.
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5 years
This might be my favorite
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Bruce Maxwell. Remember that name. Of all the veteran black players in @MLB , a dude who has played in 104 career games, stepped up.
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@JayScottSmith
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4 years
Rex about to air out racists like he’s pulling up from 25 feet. And I’m here for it
@RexChapman
Rex Chapman🏇🏼
4 years
I opened my DM’s up about 6-months ago for anyone to send me direct messages even if I don’t follow them. The racist garbage, threats, ignorance, and ugliness is going to make a fascinating book. Names and faces and accounts.
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@DavidDTSS The trajectory that Dave has headed down the last 5 years is something
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1 year
I’m retrospect, Skip’s disrespectful treatment of Shannon was the curtain being fully pulled back on this show.
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@JayScottSmith
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6 years
Serious question, is @WWEDanielBryan ’s #Yes chant the first pro wrestling related to chant to have truly morphed into a cultural phenomenon? It has literally become the go-to chant for anything positive and celebratory - from sports to politics to graduations, etc.
@CNN
CNN
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Voters in Ireland chant "yes" in Dublin Castle on Saturday while awaiting the results of the country's historic referendum on abortion. Ireland voted overwhelmingly in favor of overturning a 35-year-old ban on abortion. (Video: @karadaniellefox /CNN)
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1 year
The 2022 Detroit @Lions First 7 Games Last 7 Games
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@JayScottSmith
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6 years
After 20 years, Jeff Hardy stays finding new ways to nearly kill himself with top rope moves. Salute. #SummerSlam
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@BrookeOnAir The fact that this e-mailer stressed how she is supposedly a “black woman” makes me wonder of she’s actually a black woman.
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@JayScottSmith
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4 years
This, man. Geez. This is why I’m not a member of the “Journalists can’t have feelings” club.
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@TyJohnsonNews Take the rest of the Month off. Come back on Jan. 2
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4 years
December 21, 2019. #SNL
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John King basically lets it be known
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2 years
Ja Morant. 😳
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@JayScottSmith
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4 years
The Detroit Tigers have drafted more Super Bowl MVPs than the Detroit Lions. 🙃
@tigers
Detroit Tigers
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Congratulations to #Tigers 2014 37th-round pick Patrick Mahomes on winning MVP of his football game.
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1 year
We need this entire video, because Jamal Williams cut an all time promo after the @Lions ended the Packers
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@BenjaminSRaven The scariest part of that sentence is the “22-years-old.” He’s only going to get nastier.
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@JayScottSmith
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@DragonflyJonez Paul Bunyan here claims he was “raised by a different generation of men.” He’s from Detroit like I am and younger than me. The generation of men who raised me in Detroit all used chainsaws or called someone else 😂
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@JayScottSmith
Jay Scott Smith
7 years
How did we get to a place where that parenthetical statement would be needed in a caption in 2017?
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3 years
How it Started. How it Ended.
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R. Kelly is blaming Social Media. Social media wasn’t around in 1994, bro.
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2 years
Whatup Doe
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@r0bato @thatladyj I’m guessing this is what a Knicks Championship parade would look like
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9 years
1 of these is a KKK Rally in S. Carolina. The other is how @POTUS was greeted in OKC. Which is which? http://t.co/RqC2it8HGa
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@johnlegend Having her lead an anti-cyber bullying campaign is like having a drug addict lead the CDC
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The @NHL has come to Seattle before the @NBA came back. Go figure. Fun fact: Seattle has never had an official NHL team, yet the city was home to the first American team to win the #StanleyCup . The 1917 Seattle Metropolitans won the Cup, beating @CanadiensMTL in 4 games.
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@JayScottSmith
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3 years
1993. Not 1943. Not. 1893. NINETEEN. NINETY-THREE.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
3 years
BREAKING: Gwinnett County removes Confederate monument erected in 1993
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@RexChapman
Rex Chapman🏇🏼
3 years
If you refuse to say the words Black Lives Matter, then take that MLK quote off your Facebook page.
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It’s official. The Detroit @Lions are America’s Team.
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BTW: I see a lot of people referencing Michigan’s protests. Y’all. Michigan and Minnesota are 2 different places. At least use an actual picture from Minneapolis like this:
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3 years
Post a movie you’ve seen more than 5 times. No explanations.
@RexChapman
Rex Chapman🏇🏼
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Post a movie you’ve seen more than 5 times. No explanations.
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Hell, they did Beadle and Rachel Nichols a favor by banning them from this snoozer. #MayPac
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4 years
Gonna tell my kids this was Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg.
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10 days. We made it 10 damn days, man. 14 kids. Plus a Teacher. That's per Texas Gov. Greg Abbot
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4 years
Derrick Henry really stiff armed this man into a Street Fighter II Still Photo.
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@RexChapman That smoothie came with a shot of wheatgrass and some smoke.
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She just stood there and cut a Dusty Rhodes promo, y’all. She was spittin. And this is the type of energy I’m on these days.
@BleacherReport
Bleacher Report
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“Understand your worth. You can not allow one person to tell you who you are and who you can not become…” Pels assistant Teresa Weatherspoon tells an amazing story how she got the last laugh on a coach 🙏 (via @pelicansnba , @AshleyAmoss )
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@DevInTheLab FOUR steps!?!?
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@JayScottSmith
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I think we have found out exactly where the Buck stops...
@RexChapman
Rex Chapman🏇🏼
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Plot twist...
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@JayScottSmith
Jay Scott Smith
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This moment from Jamal Williams on Hard Knocks hits WAY different tonight.
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@Travon Looking like they lost a bet
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Growing? This Russian problem is past puberty and about to graduate high school
@Slate
Slate
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What Jeff Sessions' recusal means for the Trump administration's growing Russia problem
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Jamal Williams. National Treasure.
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@jemelehill I just appreciate how so many people who waste their days coming at you will have zero understanding of that Don Quixote reference.
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Piers Morgan continues to be terrible.
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They are not WHAT?
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@JayScottSmith
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FWIW: This is how you handle things, admit you were wrong, and recognize times have changed without whining about "PC culture"
@okayplayer
Okayplayer
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Eddie Murphy expresses remorse for "ignorant" jokes in 'Raw' & 'Delirious.'
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“We pulled your column because what you wrote could be offensive to supporters of Mr. Trump.” What I was told by an editor in Nov. 2016 after writing a column outlining why POC, Immigrants, and the LGBT were upset after the election. We Warned You!
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@johnlegend @MorganJerkins This is why I have always rocked with you, man.
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Also: Dave Roberts becomes the second African American manager to win a #WorldSeries (Cito Gaston being the first.)
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Shad Gaspard and Naya Rivera. Twice this summer we’ve seen the the best of humanity in the worst of moments. Giving your life to save your child is...wow.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shot a film with BRUCE LEE a year after winning his first title w/the Bucks. Man. Listen. #BeWater
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Look at Keenan’s face in this picture. He is all of us.
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