legends
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Long before RZA and the GZA became musical legends – when their friends called them Robert Diggs and Gary Grice – martial arts cinema was relegated to cinematic margins.
From Salon • May 31, 2026
Before he was an international sports mogul, he was Enos Stanley Kroenke from rural Missouri with sporting heritage scrawled right on his birth certificate—his namesakes were St. Louis Cardinals legends Enos Slaughter and Stan Musial.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Alice Keys and Grandmaster Flash are among the first batch of music legends set to be honored with the Black American Music Assn.’s new ICE Medal of Honor.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
The rate which Sinner is achieving greatness - before he turns 25 in August - is comparable to the legends who went before him.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
Otto looked about, this way and that, refusing to give up, because giving up was something else legends didn’t do.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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