Status: Montreal Canadiens center.
Ht: 5-9 Wt: 185
DOB: June 8, 1982 In: Richmond Hill, Ont.
Hockey Inspirations: “I would say Wayne Gretzky, the obvious one. Maybe Joe Sakic, Pavel Bure.”
Nicknames: “Cammy. It’s been Cammy pretty much all along.”
Hobbies/Interests: “Golf and real estate.”
Favorite Movies: “Raging Bull, A Bronx Tale.”
Favorite TV Show: “Right now it’s The Office.”
Musical Tastes: “Van Morrison. [...]
Status: Grappling champion, winner of 88 championship titles.
Ht: 5-8 Wt: 215
DOB: October 6, 1968 In: New York, NY
Inspiration/Motivation: A good, peaceful, comfortable life with my family.
First Fighting Memory: Rolf Strom beat me up in second grade. I was eight and scared.
Hobbies/Interests: Writing.
Last Book Read: The Last Great Fight (Tyson vs Douglas).
Favorite Movies: Breaking Away (1979) [...]
Status: 1970 French Open doubles champ (with Nastase). Promoter of ATP Madrid Masters Series 1000 event. Former coach/manager of Boris Becker, Ilie Nastase, Guillermo Vilas. Member of Romania’s 1964 Olympic hockey team. Started an orphanage and first private bank in Romania. Worth a net $1.1 billion according to Forbes Magazine in 2007.
DOB: May 9, 1939 [...]
Have you ever had a memorable experience meeting a Philadelphia Flyer player? Thought it would be interesting to hear from Flyer fans about their memorable personal encounters with Flyers. To start the feature off, here’s mine:
During high school, it was always a huge thrill to go see Devils games at the Brendan Byrne Arena. At the [...]
Mike Tyson graced Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Star Jones on ABC’s daytime talk show “The View” with a gentlemanly grace and admirable sincerity. Read on to learn how the former champ handled a wide variety of questions with the utmost class, humility and stunning honesty…
Barbara Walters: We showed that clip, I remember [...]
Status: NHL right winger, played from 1983-96 with Vancouver and Boston. Currently serves as vice-president for the Boston Bruins.
Ht: 6-1 Wt: 220
DOB: June 6, 1965 In: Comox, B.C.
First Hockey Memory: “Backyard rinks.”
Early Hockey Memory: “One year I got to play with my brother, Scott. I was 14, he was 12, so we were always two [...]
Status: 1994 Olympic gold medalist in figure skating.
DOB: November 16, 1977 In: Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
Favorite Movies: “I like as a director Tim Burton. And as character working a lot with Tim Burton, is Johnny Depp. I like all kind of movies and I really love to go to the movies here, by myself, not with anybody [...]
(This article was originally published at Tennisweek.com on June 20, 2006.)
“No two men can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.” — Samuel Johnson
“To be the best in the world you have to get blood on your hands.” — Philip H. Anselmo
What is Roger Federer feeling now? [...]
Status: Three-time Super Welterweight champion boxed as a pro from 1986-1998. Retired with a record of 47-9 (31 KO’s).
Ht: 5-9 Wt: 154
DOB: June 17, 1967 In: Lubbock, TX
Nicknames: “T-Bone, Terrible, Tino.”
Childhood Heroes: “Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Reggie Jackson, J.R. Richard – great players, great people.”
Hobbies/Interests: “Bowling, time with family.”
Favorite Movies: “Scarface, The Godfather, The [...]
[The great actor Bela Lugosi is remembered in this very special Biofile by his son Bela Lugosi Jr.]
DOB: October 20, 1886 in Lugos, Hungary. Died in 1956
Hobbies/Interests: “He liked snow skiing in Europe. He was a ski patrol soldier in World War I on the Russian front. He liked canoeing, hiking in the Hollywood Hills [...]
