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Bernie Mac loved sports … and learned from sports

By Scoop Jackson
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

It was he who gave me some of the best advice I've ever received. It was then that I learned comedians use their life experience as material, but when they want to educate and say something profound to teach a lesson -- they use sports. We were sitting in a club, a club he called home, when he said something he learned from Muhammad Ali. A life lesson. "I'm not afraid of failure," he said then, circa 1996. "If I fail -- man, so what. First of all, I ain't gonna disappoint nobody because that' ...

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