Michelle Kwan Figure Skater

Born: July 7, 1980 – Torrance, California
Height: 5'2"
Level: Senior
Home Club: Los Angeles FSC
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Training Town: Artesia, California
Coach: Rafael Arutunian
Choreographer: Tatiana Tarasova


Michelle Wingshan Kwan(born July 7, 1980) is an American figure skater. She is a two-time (1998 & 2002) Olympic medalist, a five-time (1996, 1998, 2000, 2001 & 2003) World champion (a record bested only by Sonia Henie) and a nine-time (1996, 1998-2005) U.S. champion (the all-time record, as tied with Maribel Vinson-Owen).

She competed at a high level for over a decade and is the most decorated figure skater in U.S. history.Known for her consistency and expressive artistry on ice, she is widely considered one of the greatest figure skaters of all time.

For well over a decade, Kwan maintained her status not only as America's most popular figure skater but as one of America's most popular female athletes, consistently making the top ten on many such polls and lists (often as the only figure skater) even years after she had stopped competing.During the decade of her reign Kwan enjoyed unprecedented popularity and amassed numerous multi-million dollar endorsement deals, starred in multiple TV specials and was the subject of extensive media coverage.She has also enjoyed similar fame in China.

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Dara Torres American international swimmer

Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967) is an American international swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. Torres is the first swimmer from the United States to compete in five Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008), and, at age 41, the oldest swimmer ever to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 50-meter freestyle, 4×100-meter medley relay, and 4×100-meter freestyle relay and won the silver medal in all three events.

Torres has won twelve Olympic medals (four gold, four silver, four bronze), five of which she won in the 2000 Summer Olympics, a feat made all the more impressive by the fact that, at age 33, she was the oldest member of the 2000 U.S. Olympic Swim Team. She has also won at least one medal in each of the five Olympics in which she has competed, making her one of only a handful of Olympians to earn medals in five different Games.

On August 1, 2007, at age 40 (just 15 months after giving birth to her first child), she won gold in the 100-meter freestyle at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, her fourteenth national championship. On August 4, she broke her own American record in the 50-meter freestyle, twenty-six years after she first set the American record at just 15 years old.

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Michael Jordan Biography

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player and active businessman. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time."[1] Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s

After a stand-out career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly emerged as one of the stars of the league, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, illustrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line at Slam Dunk Contests, earned him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness." He also gained a reputation as one of the best defensive players in basketball. In 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a "three-peat." Though Jordan abruptly left the NBA at the beginning of the 1993-94 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball, he rejoined the Bulls in 1995 and led them to three additional championships (1996, 1997, and 1998) as well as an NBA-record 72 regular-season wins in the 1995–96 season. Jordan retired for a second time in 1999, but he returned for two more NBA seasons in 2001 as a member of the Washington Wizards.

Jordan's individual accolades and accomplishments include five MVP awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances and three All-Star MVP, ten scoring titles, three steals titles, six NBA Finals MVP awards, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award. He holds the NBA record for highest career regular season scoring average with 30.12 points per game, as well as averaging a record 33.4 points per game in the playoffs. In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN, and was second to Babe Ruth on the Associated Press's list of athletes of the century. He will be eligible for induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.

Jordan is also noted for his product endorsements. He fueled the success of Nike's Air Jordan sneakers, which were introduced in 1985 and remain popular today. Jordan also starred in the 1996 feature film Space Jam. He is currently a part-owner and Managing Member of Basketball Operations of the Charlotte Bobcats in North Carolina.

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Goodbye Harvey, Sugar & Alex...

Cult comic author Harvey Pekar, creator of American Splendor, has died at the age of 70.
Cult American Splendor comic author Harvey Pekar dies



Jamaican singer and producer Sugar Minott has died at the age of 54. His wife said he died at University Hospital, Kingston, but did not say how he died.
Sugar Minott dies aged 54



Former world snooker champion Alex Higgins has died aged 61 after a long battle against throat cancer. The 1972 and 1982 world champion, a heavy smoker, was found dead in his flat in Belfast on Saturday.
Snooker legend Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins dies at 61



Grim news of late - all these men were legends in their respective professions, and their passing leaves this world a more sadder place.
RIP

Jana Defi retires...

A few pics of Czech glamour model Jana Defi (aka Maria Swan, aka Princessa), who recently retired from active modeling...
I'm not going to speculate on Jana's reason(s) for retiring - all I can do is wish her the best for the future.
Jana Defi (Boobpedia entry - NSFW)

Murray Headlines ATP LA; Gstaad, Umag, Stanford, Istanbul Previews

Farmers Classic
Los Angeles, Calif., USA
Surface: hard

Seeds: Andy Murray, Sam Querrey, Marcos Baghdatis, Feliciano Lopez, Ernests Gulbis, Janko Tipsarevic, Horacio Zeballos, Mardy Fish

Floaters: Lukas Lacko, Xavier Malisse

Notes: wildcards went to James Blake and Ryan Sweeting, and Kevin Anderson received a special exempt after reaching the semis at Atlanta; (5) Gulbis could face an opening tester against the hot-handed Lacko; Murray debuts at the event; among the seeds, only Querrey and Fish have winning records in LA; last year Querrey won the title, beating Aussie Carsten Ball in the final; the five-time champion Bryan brothers are the top seeds in doubles; Querrey is the lone former singles champ in the field.

Iveta Benesova professional Tennis player

Iveta Benesova (born on February 1, 1983 in Most, Czechoslovakia) is a professional tennis player. She began playing tennis at age of 7 and turned professional in 1998 in Prague. She has won two WTA Tour events.

In singles, she defeated Romanian Simona Halep 6-4, 6-2 in the final of 2010 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem to win her first WTA Tour trophy since 2004.

In doubles, she has won three titles. Along with Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, she grabbed the titles in Paris as their opponents Cara Black and Liezel Huber withdrew and Monterrey defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Vania King. Partnering with Anabel Medina Garrigues, she won Fes, making her winning both singles and doubles in the tournament.

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