Vince Lombardi is regarded as one of the most legendary and greatest coaches of all time. Not only did he create winning teams, his philosophy and motivational skills were key factors to his success as a high school, college, and professional football coach. Vince was Italian and grew up in Brooklyn. His father owned a meat shop, and he made sure that Vince was a responsible young man and had him do work for him when he was not in school. Much of Vince’s philosophy and discipline as a coach was learned from his father in his younger years. His father told him as a young man that “There was only one right and wrong, and he believed that you only did the right thing all the time” (O’Brien, 1987, p. 23). Vince began playing football at the age of 15 and later got a scholarship to play at Fordham University. Although he did not have much playing time at the beginning of his career because there were players who had priority over him and the fact that he incurred several injuries in college football. He was among the linemen that became known as the Seven Blocks of Granite in his later college years. Vince believed in winning, and did not ever take losing lightly. While he was in college, he did well, but not above average in academics. He was a devout Catholic, and he did spend many hours studying to improve his academic scores. After Fordham, Vince played on several semi-professional football teams, but his small stature did not prove him to be a successful football player in the pros. Afterward, he accepted a job as an assistant football coach at St. Cecilia High School in Englewood, New Jersey. This was the start of a long coaching career that would prove Vince Lombardi to be one of the greatest coaches in history.…
Previous to these events, WWE had always been under scrutiny. From the most respectable organizations, their content was deemed violent and sexist (Consoli and Torpey-Kemph, 1999). Also, since Chairman, Vince McMahon jr, publicly stated that professional wrestling matches are booked with predetermined outcomes, a butterfly effect-like chain of other various emerging news stories slowly began to unravel. More of which attempted to reveal further secrets behind the wrestling industry; namely depicting the neglectful treatment of performers. When journalists found Benoit’s story they had plenty of choice on what to blame; drugs, roid rage, etc. However, everyone knew that the WWE must be at fault.…
World Wrestling Entertainment began its operations in 1952 under the ownership of Vince McMahon Sr. as the Capitol Wrestling Federation. Since 1952, the WWE has gone through 3 name changes.(WWWF, NWA, WWF) The WWF saw such stars as Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, Bret Hart, and countless other wrestlers. During the time of WWF, Vince McMahon brought his product to pay per view which created huge revenue for WWF at the time. The WWE can now be found on local television on Monday nights, pay per view, magazines, and consumer products. The WWE is not just the biggest wrestling company in the United States, but it is also the biggest in the world. The company has gone about this by spreading the WWE all over the world through international expansion. They have gone global to over 145 countries in the world which can accumulate to 1/6 of the world’s population.…
Vince Lombardi once stated, “Leaders aren’t born, that are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work” (Belliotti, 2008, p.8). Lombardi was a very successful National Football League coach. He defines a true leader in the coaching world through his hard work and dedication to making each individual player and the team as a whole better through transformational leadership.…
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden lived from 1957 until his death in 2011. He was the founder of Al Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the attacks on the United States and numerous other mass casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. For many years he was public enemy number one, and the most wanted man in the world. He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite. He was a very tall man who stood about 6’ 6”, and weighed approximately 160 pounds. He had an olive colored skin complexion, with brown hair and brown eyes, and for the most part always grew a long untrimmed beard.…
Mark Cuban and his unrelenting drive for success has always made him a pillar in the business world. Mark Cuban takes on the titles as one of the most influential people in sports business (Carlisle 2011) When it comes to business, Cuban is a walking brainstorming machine (kirsner 2005). His success just doesn’t come from just being the owner of the reigning NBA champs The Dallas Mavericks, it comes from other business ventures too. Mark Cuban is the owner of landmark Theatres, and magnolia pictures, and chairman of HDTV. That’s not all he also has a part time gig too, he is a “shark” investor and just recently a shoes sales man. Shares of Sketcher USA Inc. rose 8 percent on Tuesday after the maker of the shoes announced that the billionaire and Dallas Maverick owner mark Cuban would be featured in the company’s super Bowl commercial promoting their shoes. Just his name alone is capable of predicting a huge amount of sales. This would be good for the company because of the fact that sketchers would get some of Cubans die hard followers. (Crowe 2012)…
Humans did not kill Osama Bin Laden, intelligence did. Osama Bin Laden the believed leader of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda, was assassinated during a raid on May 2nd 2011. Osama Bin Laden conspired many attacks against the US during his reign as leader of Al-Qaeda. He was the one who planned the three fatal attacks on September 11th 2001, also known as 9/11. Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the death of over three thousand people, ranking him as the number one most wanted terrorist in the world. The assassination of Osama Bin Laden codenamed Operation Neptune Spear, was a mastermind plan that took several years to construct. One critical idea people seem to forget when they think of the death of OBL, is the brilliant use of US intelligence…
Rob Dyrdek is a guy who has had some tough times but has always had a great outlook on life and a great personality! I look up to this guy and wish to someday be like him! Dyrdek is an inspiring person do to his outlook on charities and how much he truly gives!…
Cesar Chavez was born March 31, 1927 in a small town near Yuma, Arizona. Cesar was born in a very poor family. During his childhood, Cesar did not only see the injustices of life, but he also saw how most farm workers were mistreated and overworked. Also Cesar saw how many people lost their jobs and homes, and basically had to walk around the country in order to find a new job. When Cesar was 10, his parents were forced to become migrant workers because of the Great Depression.…
“One of the heroic figures of our times,” Senator Robert F. Kennedy once said as Cesar E. Chavez was honored the “Presidential Medal of Freedom & the Aguila Azteca” due to his extraordinary achievements. Cesar E. Chavez was born March 31, 1927, on the small farm near Yuma, Arizona. Upon his youth growing into his manhood, Chavez was forced to migrate southwest to work in the fields and vineyards, where he was open tot he sufferings and inequalities of a homestead laborer. Chavez was able to become of himself a labor leader: a nonviolent activist: a community servant; and a spiritual figure before he passed away on April 23, 1993 (Cesar E. Chavez Foundation 1). To this day, Chavez is still remembered for the integrity vision, and courage Chavez depicted through his nuisance of becoming a catalyst for change.…
Tyler Perry was born Emmitt R. Perry Jr. on September 13, 1969 to Emmitt and Maxine Perry in New Orleans, Louisiana. One of four children, Perry grew up with a very strict father. His father was big on sports, and had plans for Perry to be a professional basketball player. At times his father would beat him for hours telling him that he needed to man up. Being woke up at all times of the night hearing his father slap his mother around he had enough. Perry dropped out of high school at sixteen years old to…
Embodying the rags-to-riches rap dream, Jay-Z pulled himself up by his bootstraps as a youth to eventually become the reigning rapper of New York City and, in turn, a major-label executive following his short-lived retirement from music-making. In the wake of his 1996 debut, Reasonable Doubt, Jay-Z's albums sold millions upon millions with each release, and his endless parade of hits made him omnipresent on urban radio and video television. He retained a strongly devoted fan base and challenged whatever rivals attempted to oust him from atop the rap game, sparring most memorably with Nas. Jay-Z and his Roc-a-Fella associates greatly influenced the industry and established many of the trends that pervaded during the late '90s and early 2000s. He consistently worked with the hottest producers of the day (Clark Kent, DJ Premier, Teddy Riley, Trackmasters, Erick Sermon, Timbaland, Swizz Beatz), and if they weren't hot at the time, they likely would be afterward (the Neptunes, Kanye West, Just Blaze, 9th Wonder). He similarly collaborated with the hottest rappers in the industry, everyone from East Coast contemporaries like the Notorious B.I.G. ("Brooklyn's Finest") and DMX ("Cash, Money, Hoes"), to the best rappers from the South (Ludacris, Missy Elliott) and the West Coast (Snoop Dogg, Too Short). After his self-declared retirement from rapping in 2003, he assumed the presidency of the seminal rap label Def Jam and, as an industry executive, embarked on another phase in his illustrious career.…
The sport of wrestling is extremely Global, and more than 200 countries world participate in sport. Just in the US there are over 250,000 thousand young men and women who wrestle. Also there were 70 country’s represented in the Olympic Games, 29 of those country’s came home with at least one medal. “We are a diverse sport that young kids participate in everywhere -- all you need is a mat and some shoes” (Coleman…
Steve Harvey got his start in stand-up comedy, which led to TV roles such as host of Showtime at the Apollo and the star of a WB sitcom. He was one of the four comedians featured in the Spike Lee Film The Original Kings of Comedy. He now hosts a syndicated radio show and the TV game show Family Feud. "Steve Harvey." 2013. The Biography Channel website. Feb 21 2013, 06:28 http://www.biography.com/people/steve-harvey-20631517.…
When people think of great leaders, they think of those who accomplish incredible feats. A football coach may not be the first to come to mind for most, but Vince Lombardi is the very first name to come to my mind when reflecting on great leaders. He was perhaps the most inspiring coach of all time, and is honored with Super Bowl trophy is his name. Vince Lombardi epitomized everything great about the game of football, he defined what it takes to win and he offered clear illustration for how a team should be lead.…