- Mario Lemieux
Mario Lemieux (born October 5, 1965, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a retired professional ice hockey centre who played 17 seasons for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League between 1984 and 2006. He is also the Penguins' principal owner and chairman of the board, having bought the team out of bankruptcy in 1999. Lemieux is generally regarded as one of the greatest players to ever play in the NHL. - Darren Rovell
Darren Rovell is CNBC's Sports Business Reporter. He is responsible for both analyzing and reporting on the sports business world on all of CNBC's programming including "Squawk Box," "Power Lunch," "Closing Bell," and "On the Money." He also writes a blog at CNBC.com (http://sportsbiz.cnbc.com). Prior to joining CNBC, Rovell served as sports business writer for ESPN.com and reported on the world of agents, stadium deals, endorsements and contracts on ESPN's flagship, … - Mike Bellotti
Robert Michael Bellotti (b. December 21, 1950 in Sacramento, California) has been the head coach of the University of Oregon football team since 1995. He has led the Ducks to nine winning seasons in ten years, missing a bowl game for the second time in 2004. His accomplishments at Oregon include an 11-1 season and #2 national ranking in 2001. He was previously the head coach at Chico State University in California and Woodland High School in Woodland, CA. - Kerri Strug
Kerri Allyson Strug (born November 19, 1977) is an American gymnast from Tucson, Arizona. - Charley Casserly
Charley Casserly is an NFL football analyst for CBS Sports, who has previously served as General Manager for the Washington Redskins and the Houston Texans. He is known in Houston as the decisionmaker in choosing Mario Williams in the 2006 NFL Draft over Vince Young or Reggie Bush. The Houston Texans only won 23 games in 5 years during his term as General Manager. Previously, he was very successful with 3 Super Bowl wins. - Anson Dorrance
Anson Dorrance is the head coach of the women's soccer program at the University of North Carolina. He has one of the most successful coaching records in the history of athletics. Under Dorrance's leadership, the Lady Tar Heels won 18 of the 25 NCAA Women's Soccer Championships. The Lady Tar Heels soccer record under Dorrance is an amazing 603-27-18 in the 28-year history of the program, or a .930 winning percentage. - Tom Heckert
Tom Heckert (born July 17, 1967) was promoted to General Manager of the Philadelphia Eagles January 2, 2006. Before being GM, Heckert was Vice President of Player Personnel. Even though Heckert has the title of "General Manager", Eagle coach Andy Reid has full control and the final say involving all player-personnel decisions. - Ross Greenburg
Ross Greenburg is most well known for his work as President of HBO Sports. HBO Sports is famous for its series "Sports of the 20th Century" a series of sports documentaries produced by Greenburg, as well as the leading sports magazine show "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel," a football studio show led by Bob Costas, Dan Marino, Cris Carter, and Chris Collinsworth titled "Inside the NFL" and Championship Boxing. - Jeff Trepagnier
Jeffery (Jeff) Trepagnier (born July 11 1979 in Los Angeles, California) is an African American professional basketball player. - John Fashanu
John "Fash" Fashanu (born September 18, 1962 in Kensington, London) is a British television presenter and ex-footballer. In his former career, he was a centre-forward. - Hazel McCallion
Opening comments and opinions - more at end. It is Hazel's standard MODUS OPERANDI to have articles about her in major magazines or news papers during an election year. I think her friends in the media like to save her the cost and need to actually running an election campaign. If they can hype the dear old lady enough, people will not ask intelligent questions about how she wheels power and just re-elect her out of habit (no thinking required). - Ralph Beard
Ralph Milton Beard (born December 2 1927 in Hardinsburg, Kentucky) is an American former college and professional basketball player. He was a member of Adolph Rupp's "Fabulous Five" University of Kentucky basketball team. After the 1951 NBA season, Alex Groza and Beard were suspended from the NBA for life by commissioner Maurice Podoloff when the players admitted point shaving during their college careers. - Bill Cleary
William "Bill" Cleary (born August 19, 1934 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a former ice hockey player from the United States, who helped shape the current climate of American College Hockey. - Sports Illustrated: Exposure
- Stefani Dailly
Stefani Dailly is a sports reporter on STV North's news programme, "North Tonight". She also occasionally reads the news for the Tayside and North-east Fife opt-out bulletins from the Dundee studios. Dailly, born and brought up in Dundee, was educated at Harris Academy where she was Head Girl and attained a Master of Arts degree at Dundee University before completing a professional writing course at Dundee College. - Jan de Vos
- Terry Paxton Bradshaw
Terry Paxton Bradshaw (born September 2, 1948), is a former American football quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL). He is currently a football analyst and co-host of "FOX NFL Sunday". In a six-year span, he won an unprecedented four Super Bowl titles with Pittsburgh (1975, 1976, 1979 and 1980), becoming the first quarterback to do so, and led the Steelers to eight AFC Central championships. - Yoshua Daely
Green Property and Resort Management. Has 30 years experience in Hospitality Industry, previously working with various hotels and resorts. Involved with The HITA properties. It is a luxury traditional home concept that will feature all exclusive private villas in a design that respects the surrounding environment, offer an enriching lifestyle experience that is based on local art, culture and community spirit. - Louis-Serge Real del Sarte
European Sales Director at GLOBAL EQUITIES since 2001, Inventor of the Cylindrical analysis approach, deputy vice-Chairman of the HEC Finance Club in charge of external relations, XING Ambassador to Paris, Vice-Chairman of the European Circle, Co-founder of the Financial Web Site EASYBOURSE.com, Blog with 650 000 unique visitors : http://www.absolute-trading-method.com - Amanda Moore
Amanda Moore (born in Idaho on September 10, 1979) is an American supermodel. - Graham Webb
Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm - Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar (born September 8, 1922) is an Emmy-winning American comic actor and writer, best known as the leading man on the 1950s television series "Your Show of Shows", and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in "Grease" and "Grease 2". - Tom Merilahti
My name is Tom Merilahti, living in Helsinki, Finland and in the virtual space. I am an INBORN Lateral Thinker, Synergist, Integrator, Connector, Coordinator, Navigator, Ideator, Creator, Contractor, Inspirator, Motivator, Activator and a Global Networker. More than 20-years of Experience as a Marketing Integrator, Communication Coordinator and Contractor. - Tom Braatz Real Estate
Waukesha County Real estate, Waukesha County Real estate agents, Waukesha County Lake homes. Proud Parent of Spencer, Musician, Realtor, traveler, likes to be on water, or flying. Had an extensive science background prior to getting into Real Estate. Admires people that step up to the plate and accept responsibility, and not passing the buck on to someone else. Enjoys Goal oriented people that live out their dreams in life, and live each day as if it were their last. - Dave McClure
Dave McClure has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for almost twenty years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, blogger, & internet marketing nerd. He is an advisor or investor for Mint, Mashery, Simply Hired, TeachStreet, Oortle, CrazyEgg, SlideShare, Eventvue, RichRelevance, HealthUnity, & Canopy Financial. Dave is the conference chair for Graphing Social Patterns, and a co-chair for Web 2.0 Expo. - David Beckham
David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE (pronounced) (born 2 May 1975) is an English professional football (soccer) midfielder who plays for Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy. He is also currently a member of the England national team. He was twice chosen runner-up for FIFA World Player of the Year, and as recently as 2004 was the world's highest-paid footballer. He was Google's most searched of all sports topics in both 2003 and 2004. - Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell (born May 22 1970) is an English supermodel, actress, singer, businesswoman, and author. - Beyoncé Knowles
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4 1981) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, dancer, fashion designer, and model. Knowles rose to fame as the creative force and lead singer of R&B girl group Destiny's Child, the world's best-selling female group of all time. After a series of commercially successful releases with the group, Knowles released her debut solo album, "Dangerously in Love", in 2003. - Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum (born June 1, 1973) is an actress, TV presenter, fashion designer, television producer and singer hailing from Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. - Anna Kournikova
Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (Russian: Анна Сергеевна Курникова, "Anna Sergeevna Kurnikova;" born June 7, 1981) is a retired Russian professional tennis player and model. Although she never won a major singles tournament, she became one of the best known tennis players worldwide. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name (or misspellings of it) one of the most common search strings on Google. - Trish Stratus
Trish Stratus (born Patricia Anne Stratigias on December 18 1975 in Richmond Hill, Ontario), is a former Canadian fitness model and semi-retired professional wrestler. Formerly working for World Wrestling Entertainment, Stratus retired from WWE on September 17 2006 after winning her seventh WWE Women's Championship. Stratus is the first in WWF/E history to have held the WWE Women's Championship seven times. - Tyra Banks
Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973) is an American supermodel, television personality and a talk show hostess. She first emerged to prominence on the runways of Paris, Milan, London, Tokyo, and the U.S., but her work in the commercial world was her breakthrough. She is best known as hostess/judge of the reality television show "America's Next Top Model", since its 2003 debut on UPN (later CW), … - Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. She is currently the second ranked player in the world. At the end of 2006, she was the world's highest-paid female athlete. Sharapova has won two Grand Slam singles titles. She is the reigning U.S. Open champion, having defeated Justine Henin in the final of the 2006 U.S. Open. Two years earlier, she defeated Serena Williams in the final at Wimbledon. - Tiger Woods
Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently the World No. 1, Woods was the highest paid professional athlete in 2006, having earned an estimated $100 million from winnings and endorsements. - Cindy Crawford
Cynthia Ann Crawford is an American supermodel, MTV television personality, celebrity endorser, cover girl, and actress. - Valentino Rossi
Valentino Rossi born is an Italian professional motorcycle racer and multiple MotoGP World Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest motorcycle racers of all time, with 7 Grand Prix World Championships to his name. In 2006, he narrowly missed an 8th title by scoring a second place in the Championship, and now continues in the 2007 season as one of the title favourites. - Nick Lachey
Nicholas Scott Lachey (born November 9, 1973) is an American pop singer and actor who rose to fame in the late-1990s as a writer and joint lead-vocalist along with founding member Jeff Timmons of the boy-band, 98 Degrees. The group also included Lachey's brother Drew Lachey and classmate Justin Jeffre. They have sold over ten million records worldwide and charted top-forty singles. - O. J. Simpson
Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson (born July 9, 1947) (also known by his nickname, The Juice) is a retired American football player who achieved stardom at the collegiate and professional levels, and was the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season. He later worked as an actor, spokesperson and broadcaster. Simpson is infamous for having been tried for the murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994. - Marisa Miller
Marisa Miller (born August 6, 1978) is an American supermodel. She is known for her many appearances in the "Sports Illustrated" Swimsuit Issues and Victoria's Secret catalogs. - Amanda Beard
Amanda Ray Beard (born October 29, 1981, Irvine, California) is an American Olympic swimmer and model. Beard made her first Olympic appearance at the 1996 games at the age of 14. She won silver medals in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststrokes, and a gold in the medley relay. Her young-teen manner captured the attention of the media, and she was often photographed clutching her teddy bear which joined her on the medal stand.
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