Ice hockey is a team sport played on ice in which skaters use sticks to shoot a hard rubber hockey puck into their opponent’s net to score points. In some countries, such as Canada, the United States and those of…
Ice hockey is a team sport played on ice in which skaters use sticks to shoot a hard rubber hockey puck into their opponent’s net to score points. In some countries, such as Canada, the United States and those of…
Sarah Burke (September 3, 1982 â January 19, 2012) was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. She was a four-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in…
Danny Granger, Jr. (born April 20, 1983) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is mainly a small forward, though he does log time at the power…
Kate Rooney Mara (born February 27, 1983) is an American television, stage and film actress. She starred in House of Cards as Zoe Barnes and appeared in 24 as computer analyst Shari Rothenberg. She made her film debut in 1999…
Bree Walker (born Patricia Lynn Nelson; February 1953) is a radio talk show host, actress, and disability-rights activist, who gained fame as the first on-air American television network news anchor with ectrodactyly. Walker worked as a news anchor and/or reporter…
Mao Asada (æµ ç° ç央, Asada Mao?, born September 25, 1990) is a Japanese competitive figure skater noted for her smooth skating skills and triple axel jumps. She is the first female figure skater to land all of the six kinds…
Kim Yuna (Hangul: ê¹ì°ì, Hanja: é姸å , IPA: [kimjÊna]; born September 5, 1990) is a South Korean figure skater. She is the 2010 Olympic champion in ladies’ singles; the 2009, 2013 World champion; the 2009 Four Continents champion; a three-time (2006â2007, 2007â2008,…
The 2014 Venezuela protests (also called 12F and The Exit) are a series of protests against the government of Venezuela and president Nicolás Maduro. Reasons for the protests include human rights violations, chronic scarcity of basic goods, and high levels…
Steven Hanson “Steve” Blake (born February 26, 1980) is an American professional basketball point guard for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Previously, he played for the Washington Wizards, Milwaukee Bucks, Denver Nuggets, Portland Trail Blazers,…
Yul Vázquez is a Cuban American actor, perhaps best known for his role as “Bob” in the Seinfeld episodes “The Soup Nazi”, “The Sponge” and “The Puerto Rican Day”. He is married to Linda Larkin.