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John Wooden, America’s most successful coach who died yesterday at the age of 99, was one of the towering figures in leadership. His standard of success, excellence, and character produced record-setting achievements at UCLA that resulted in ESPN naming him “the Coach of the Century.” His accomplishments off the basketball court were equally impressive, including [...]
Chevrolet today awarded Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a 2010 Corvette convertible, recognizing his outstanding performance on and off the field.
Galarraga retired 26 consecutive Cleveland Indians batters on Wednesday evening. The 27th and final batter, Jason Donald, hit a routine ball in the hole between first and second base. Tigers’ first baseman Miguel Cabrera fielded [...]
After much anticipation, International soccer star, Oguchi “Guch” Onyewu will be representing the U.S. National Team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup taking place in South Africa, June 11th – July 11th, 2010. This announcement came after speculation on whether Onyewu would return to the playing field in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Onyewu [...]
In its 25th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPN RISE, today announced Soony Saad of Dearborn High School (Dearborn, Mich.) as its 2009-10 Gatorade National Boys Soccer Player of the Year. Saad was surprised with the news during his fifth period class at Dearborn [...]
Swedish Adventurer Tony Berglund Sets a new World Record for the Fastest Vertical Run, as he ran the 100 Meters Down the Front of a Skyscraper in Vasteras in 34.76 Seconds
VASTERAS, Sweden, May 10, 2010 — The record involved running 100 meters down the front of a skyscraper in central Vasteras, face down using a [...]
More than 1,800 amateur and professional athletes competed in the 2010 Escape from Alcatraz™ Triathlon on Sunday, May 2, with Olympian Hunter Kemper from Colorado Springs, Colo. winning the prestigious event for the second time. Leanda Cave from Tucson, Ariz., was the top finisher among the females, making her a three-time winner. Featuring a 1.5 [...]
As NFL experts speculated where college football’s most heralded player, former University of Florida Quarterback Tim Tebow would be selected in the 2010 NFL Draft in New York City, Panini America , a subsidiary of The Panini Group, the leading global publisher of sports and entertainment collectables and an NFL/NFLPA licensee was prepared to print [...]
Rocky Balboa couldn’t have told a better story than Evander Holyfield. Saturday night, the 47-year-old Holyfield became the oldest man to capture the World Heavyweight Championship, the fifth time in his storied career that the “Real Deal” has captured world title honors. With the crowd at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas chanting, [...]
NBA Champion and bad boy, Dennis Rodman, will perform a live DJ set at Derby Pretty, a Kentucky Derby Eve celebrity concert and party on April 30, 2010 at Frazier International History Museum in Louisville.
Derby Pretty producers, Chicago-based entertainment and marketing company Global Adrenaline, promises to transform the museum’s event spaces into a chic, exclusive [...]
Gilbert Arenas, a 28-year-old member of the NBA’s Washington Wizards, was sentenced today in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to an 18-month suspended prison term and placed on two years of probation for a felony charge of Carrying a Pistol Without a License, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Metropolitan [...]