Vitale was drafted #195 by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. He then played for the Northeastern University Huskies and was named Hockey East Rookie of the Week and won the Ed Arrington Memorial Rookie of the Year Award. Vitale signed a one year deal with the Penguins in 2009 and made his NHL debut in 2011. He was re-signed for a two year deal worth $1....
Kirsty Roper was born on June 30, 1971 in Staffordshire. Her family owns Churchill China, one of the world’s major china manufacturers. She grew up comfortably. As a kid she rode horses, played tennis, and wrote poetry. Those poems laid the foundation for her future songwriting career. When she was 17 years old, Kirsty signed with a modeling agency in Manchester. The agency entered her in the Miss UK beauty pageant....
Jonathan Reckford is the CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, and he says his organization received $25 million of that massive sum. The rest will be distributed among local Habitat chapters to use as they see fit in their mission to build affordable housing for poor and working-class families. “We could not be more excited to get the gift at a time when, in some ways, the state of housing affordability is the worst that it has been in modern times,” said Reckford in a statement to the press....
While millions of people tuned in to the game, one viewer was probably sweating a bit more than others. That’s right, Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale made another big bet on the NCAA Tournament. On Thursday night, before the Final Four started, he took a helicopter flight to beat traffic and make his moves — placing two bets totaling about $5.56 million on Kansas to win at +190. During the game, he added another $3....
Earlier this week we chronicled how an alleged girlfriend of Vladimir Putin has amassed a $100+ million portfolio of real estate and other assets. Yesterday we reported on the King of Jordan’s secret $140 million American real estate portfolio that includes three side-by-side clifftop Malibu mansions. In today’s hot seat? The ruling family of Azerbaijan. Ilham Aliyev has been president of Azerbaijan since October 31, 2003. He was elected after his father Heydar, the former president, died....
He made his adult film debut in 2004 and has gone on to have an impressive 400 acting credits including films and TV series. Strong also worked as a director from 2006 to 2008. From 2008 to 2012 he received 10 award nominations including AVN Awards for Unsung Male Performer of the Year and Male Performer of the Year. Rico Strong was also nominated for an XBIZ Award in 2009 for Male Performer of the Year....
Sara did not set out to become the most famous and successful “shapewear” mogul on the planet. In fact, she initially wanted to be a lawyer. Unfortunately, low LSAT scores “inspired” Sara to go a different route. Inventing A Product Category After abandoning her legal dreams, Sara worked at Walt Disney World in Florida for a period while performing standup comedy at night. To make ends meet better she eventually went corporate, accepting a job selling fax machines door-to-door....
When she was studying on her eighth grade, she succeeded in winning the attention of a talent agent who then would help to obtain the role on Saved by the Bell: The New Class in the year 1933. While she was appearing on the series, she took taking tuitions on the set and also studied at the University of California. She also appeared in NBC comedy-spy series Chuck where she played the character Ellie Bartowski....
The same year he was traded to the Montreal Expos where he played until being released in 2004. He was then signed by the Toronto Blue Jays and agreed to a one year deal worth $1.025 million. He was re-signed in 2008 to a three year deal worth $10 million. He signed a three year deal worth $15 million with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim where he played from 2011 to 2013....
McLaughlin won a gold medal at the World Youth Championships in 2015 in the 400 meter hurdles event. She qualified for the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics which made her the youngest athlete to make the US Olympic track and field team since both Carol Lewis and Denean Howard in 1980. McLaughlin holds many records for her age group. She turned professional in October 2018 and soon thereafter signed an endorsement contract with shoe company New Balance....
Spreitler has also had recurring roles on the TV series Never Fade Away in 2012 and Casual in 2015. She appeared in the movies 3 Day Test, The Contractor, Girl on the Edge, and Amityville: The Awakening. Taylor Spreitler has also appeared in episodes of the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Never Fade Away, Bones, and Criminal Minds. She won multiple awards for Best Actress for Girl on the Edge and was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Days of Our Lives....
Throw in the deals for rookies — the NBA Draft did just happen, after all — and sign and trade deals and you’ve got the recipe for plenty of excitement. Per Spotrac, teams dished out a total of $3.45 billion in new signings, contract extensions, and rookie deals in the first five days of free agency. That’s a lot of money changing hands, so it’s easy to miss some of the deals that went on....
Don’t worry too much about this, however, as it isn’t expected to happen until 2091 when it returns to the inner solar system and passes Earth. This information was made public in a very technical research paper by a group of astronomers titled: The Random Walk Of Cars And Their Collision Probabilities With Planets. Juicy reading, folks! The authors are Hanno Rein, an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, his colleague Dr....
This led to an offer to cover the Baltimore Orioles for the Baltimore Sun. He then became a Senior Writer for Sports Illustrated and a reporter for CNN/Sports Illustrated. He is currently a Major League Baseball analyst for ESPN’s “Baseball Tonight” and “Sports Center”, as well as a writer for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com. He is the author of two books, “America’s Game” and “Is This a Great Game, or What?...
Vilhena also has an accomplished international career at his young age, winning the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Championship as part of the Netherlands squad. He finished with three goals, tied for the most in the tournament. His goal in the penalty shootout against Germany also won the 2012 UEFA European Under-17 Championship. He has one goal to date with the Netherlands Under-21 team and was called up in early 2013 to the Dutch national team for the first time....
He won the Junior National Outstanding Dancer Scholarship Award in 1999 and at 12 years old he starred in The Music Man on Broadway for two years. Wall was named the New York City Dance Alliance’s Teen Outstanding Dancer of the Year in 2006. The same year he competed on So You Think You Can Dance and finished 2nd. He has danced on Dancing with the Stars and was in the 2008 Disney movie Bedtime Stories....
Twink has more than 70 acting credits to her name, including the films “Pennies from Heaven” (1981), “A Night at the Roxbury” (1998), “Loser” (2000), and “I Could Never Be Your Woman” (2007) and the television series “Fast Times” (1986), “Who’s the Boss?” (1987), “Quantum Leap” (1989), “Just Shoot Me!” (1999), “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2006), and “Community” (2010). Caplan served as a producer on the “Clueless” film and television series, “Loser,” and “I Could Never Be Your Woman” as well as the 1991 film “Curly Sue” and the 2008 TV movie “Secrets of a Hollywood Nurse....
