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Michael Jordan: Athletes
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[T]he elevation to cultural icons of black athletes such as Michael Jordan is itself a double-edged sword. On one hand, Jordan is a spectacle of color who elevates difference to sublimity and who raises blackness to dignity and respect. An icon of the sports spectacle, Michael Jordan is the black superstar and his prominence in sports has made him a figure that corporate America can use to sell its products and its values. Yet such are the negative representations and connotations of blackness in American culture, and such is the power of the media to define and redefine images, that even the greatest black icons and spectacles can be denigrated to embody negative connotations. As Michael Jackson, O.J. Simpson, and Mike Tyson have discovered, those who live by the media can die by the media, and overnight their positive representations and signification can become negative.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time since 1993, an athlete has stepped up to claim the number one spot from Michael Jordan as the nation's favorite sports star: Tiger Woods. Venus Williams returns as the nation's favorite female sports star after a one-year absence, and sister Serena Williams is right behind her in the number two spot.
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Other popular athletes that made the list include Michael Jordan (#3), Tiger Woods (#4), and Lance Armstrong (#6). However, top paid athletes like Alex Rodriguez and Maria Sharapova did not make the list. "It takes a certain type of personality to be comfortable with giving a keynote speech or schmoozing with clients in a business setting. When you are interacting with executives it's nice that you can hit a baseball 500 feet, but you ... have to be able to hit it off with your audience," says Tuchman.
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As you should be able to clearly see, the heliocentric CAC of Jordan's natal chart (February 17, 1963) and his Marriage Chart (September 2, 1989) has several OVERLAPPING GRAND TRINES. (We have expanded our normal 3 degree orb just a little bit here but we had explained in our books and on this website that it is permissible to increase the orb a little bit when there are more than two planets involved. In this case, there are five planets involved: the red Chiron, Pluto and Earth and the black Chiron and Neptune.) The Grand Trine is the most powerful Planetary Geometry you can have. When several Grand Trines are formed, it is a truly remarkable occurrence and an extraordinary blessing. We believe Michael Jordan owes his super success to his hard work, to his determination and unique athleticism, and to a lot of good luck that came to him through the Grand Trines illustrated above.
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Many of Jordan's contemporaries label Jordan as the greatest men's professional basketball player of all time [5]. ESPN conducted an detailed survey of media members, athletes and other sports figures to rank the greatest athletes of the 20th century. Jordan was at the top of the list above sports icons such as Babe Ruth and Muhammad Ali.[6] Jerry West once stated that the thing that amazed him most about Jordan was that for all the records and statistics he had put up he was "still the best defensive player in the league [7]."
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