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· Benny Luo
NBA All-Star Turned VC Reveals How to Get Him to Invest in Your Startup
With the NBA playoffs upon us, who better than former NBA star and playoff performer Baron Davis for NextShark to interview? After a two-year stint playing at UCLA, Davis was drafted as the third overall pick by the Charlotte Hornets in 1999. Over the course of his 15-year…
· Editorial Staff
Here’s Kobe Bryant’s Answer to Why He Has 5 NBA Championships
In a recent trip to China, Kobe Bryant was asked what drives him to succeed. While many might assume it’s the championships, Bryant gave an interesting answer that we all should take note. For many of us, it’s common to define success as reaching a certain destination in life,…
· Riley Schatzle
How a College Dropout Became One of the World’s Top Male Models
Brad Kroenig, named one of the top male models of all time by Vogue, managed to push his career into the stratosphere by snagging the attention of legendary fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Kroenig, at 36, is no spring chicken in the modeling game, but because of his talents…
· Riley Schatzle
Why Women Who Win the World Cup Earn $2 Million While Men Earn $8 Million For Losing
The pay gap between male and female workers doesn’t just exist at the office — it’s also present in sports. The Women’s World Cup championship game kicked off Sunday evening in Vancouver, Canada at BC Place Stadium. Millions worldwide watched a game that would eventually end…
· Riley Schatzle
Catcalling Women Tell Men: ‘I Want to Destroy Your D*ck’
Recent exposure to catcalling has influenced two New York comedians to take action.
· Augustine Reyes Chan
Kim Kardashian Rented Out the Entire Staples Center For Kanye West’s Birthday Party
Reality star and businesswoman Kim Kardashian shelled out a steep $110,000 to rent out the entire Staples Center in Los Angeles for a day for husband Kanye West’s 38th birthday. Kardashian chose the Staples Center as the location for West’s birthday party so that West, a team of…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
Vet Student Plans to Drop out to Be a Model After Lebron James ‘Liked’ Her Booty Pic
So you post a hot photo of yourself and your booty on Instagram, and someone “likes” it. So what’s next? Move on, right? Or how about throwing away all your ambitions and studies to become a model? That’s exactly what Josett Latrice plans on doing after a bootylicious pic of her…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
Everyone is Buying This Bruce Lee DJing T-Shirt After Watching the ‘Avengers’ Sequel
Disney and Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Age of Ultron” smashed the box office this weekend, pulling in $191.3 million in the U.S. and giving it the second-best domestic opening weekend ever. It’s no surprise, then, that a T-shirt with an image of Bruce Lee that Robert Downey Jr.…
· Alan Van
This One Adidas Mistake May Have Cost Them the Chance to Be Bigger Than Nike
You never, ever doubt Michael Jordan. OK, maybe as an NBA team owner, but as a basketball player or a brand pitchman? Never. (OK, fine! … You doubt him if he’s sporting a Hitler ‘stache.) Adidas made the mistake of doubting Jordan once, and the German sportswear company’s value…
· Jacob Wagner
Michael Jordan Wanted to Win So Bad He Even Talked Trash to ‘Space Jam’ Movie Extras
Everyone knows by now that legendary basketball star Michael Jordan is ultra-competitive. His drive to win and be the best is unparalleled. Part of how he displayed his drive was through his trash talking. After being dominated on the court by Jordan as a rookie, Reggie Miller…
· Editorial Staff
Legendary Coach Dean Smith Willed $200 to Each of His Former Players After He Died
Legendary basketball coach Dean Smith never stopped giving back, even in death. The former University of North Carolina coach, who died last month, willed his trust to give $200 to each letter winner who played under him, according to a Sports Illustrated report.
· Max Chang
Mark Cuban Explains Why Most of Today’s Startup Investors are Idiots
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban, the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks, posted a warning of sorts on his weblog about why the current tech bubble is worse than the last dotcom bubble of 2000. In his piece, he compares investors from then and today, highlighting one…
· Editorial Staff
How Two Rivals Teamed Up to F*ck Cancer After Tragedy Struck
In 2009, Yael Cohen Braun, then only 22, was working in finance while Julie Greenbaum, then 19, was a student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Neither of them were aware of the other’s existence, but parallel tragedies that had struck their lives — Braun’s mother had…
· Jacob Wagner
Here’s an Uncomfortable Look at What a Facebook Commercial Would’ve Looked Like in 1995
Remember those lame commercials for America Online back in the 90s? What would Facebook — or “The Facebook” as it was known back then — have looked like during the days of dial-up? Comedian Brent Weinbach created a fake commercial to show us how hilarious and uncomfortably…
· Benny Luo
Jeremy Lin Works Undercover at an Adidas Store, Asks Shoppers if They Know Jeremy Lin
Editor’s Note: The video is in Mandarin, so click on the “CC” button at the bottom right corner to show English subtitles
· Max Chang
10 Ways to Prepare For Entrepreneurship in College
While nowadays, seems cool to skip college to launch a startup, there are still quite a bit of aspiring entrepreneurs who still choose to go to college first. Their reasons can range from wanting the degree safety net, maybe they don’t have a solid idea yet, or their parents…
· Editorial Staff
Trainer Reveals the Key Reason Kobe Bryant is So Successful — You’re Not Going to Like Doing it
Last year, a professional athletic trainer by the name of Rob wrote a story on reddit recounting the time he worked with Kobe Bryant during their midnight training sessions. Here, you’ll see exactly why Kobe Bryant was able to become one of the basketball players of all-time and…
· Waylae Gregoire
This Teen Made Tens of Thousands of Dollars Off His First App Just By Googling It
We swear, with how fast the tech world moves, it seems entrepreneurs are getting younger… every month. When Michael Sayman was 12-years-old, he taught himself to code through tutorials he found on Google. At age 13, he created his first app, priced at one dollar, which made him…
· Benny Luo
This Entrepreneur is Trying to Crowdfund $600 Million to Buy the L.A. Clippers
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that the biggest news in basketball right now is about L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s lifetime ban from the NBA and the forced sale of his team due to his racist remarks against black people earlier this week. Among the…
· Waylae Gregoire
College Student Reveals How He Mines Bitcoins in His Dorm Room — The Cheap Way
Nothing in the tech world confuses us as much as Bitcoin it seems. What we do know about it is that it’s volatile and it can be worth a ton of money, but we hardly understand where it comes from, who invented it apparently, or what it is past being a crypto-currency- even that…
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