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‘You Beat #Cancer by How You Live’ #StuartScott

Stuart Scott’s Moving ESPY Awards Acceptance Speech

“I also realized something else recently,” Scott said. “You heard me kind of allude to it in the piece. I said, ‘I’m not losing. I’m still here. I’m fighting. I’m not losing.’ But I gotta amend that. When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer, by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.”

“So live. Live. And fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, then lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you. That’s also very, very important. I can’t do this ‘Don’t give up’ thing all by myself.”

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‘Affirmative Action’ In Law: The Four-Letter Phrase

Business Professionals“If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?”

— Kendrick Lamar

How come law professors avoid speaking about affirmative action? Are law professors banned from discussing these type of issues? Did Randall Kennedy corner the market on this policy? How come we as a society can’t civilly debate the merits of affirmative action? The 2007 plurality opinion in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (aka the PICS case) has influenced and will continue to influence desegregation/integration efforts of schools. However, it may be Chief Justice Roberts’s famous quip that could keep PICS and its repercussions at the forefront of many peoples’ minds. I wonder if Roberts regrets stating, “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Ironically, Justice Thomas added in a concurring opinion that “if our history has taught us anything, it has taught us to beware of elites bearing racial theories.”

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“It’s hard to talk years when you live day to day.” -Troy Polamalu

“It’s hard to talk years when you live day to day. That’s the thing football has taught me more than anything. Anybody who’s ever tried to make plans with me understands that. If you want to meet me in two weeks for lunch, I’m not making those plans. I live day to day. I’m not going to plan for our playoff game [next weekend] because I don’t know what’s going to happen to me this week. I respect time. I respect life enough not to make those plans … There definitely are aspects of my game that I can’t rely on anymore. I’m not as perky or as bouncy as I was in my early years. [But] the reality of getting old in this game is beautiful to me. The evolution of it. The spiritual struggle behind it. All of that is wonderful and beautiful.”

—Troy Polamalu, who played the final game of his 12th NFL regular season with the Steelers last night, to Ron Cook of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. At 33, Polamalu has missed 13 games due to injury in the last three years, and this could be his last NFL season.

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/12/29/what-happened-with-harbaugh-and-the-niners/7/