Wasalu Muhammad Jaco (born February 16, 1982), better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco (pron.: /ËluËpeɪ/ LOO-pay), is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He rose to fame in 2006 following the success of his debut album, Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor. He also performs as the frontman of rock band Japanese Cartoon under his real name. As an entrepreneur, Fiasco is the chief executive officer of 1st and 15th Entertainment.
Ray Anthony Lewis (born May 15, 1975) is an American football linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Miami.
Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an American poet and teacher. He was the inaugural poet for Barack Obama’s second inauguration, the fifth person to play that role. He was the first immigrant, first Latino, the first openly gay person and the youngest to be the U.S. inaugural poet.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School before returning to Chicago to work at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her future husband. Subsequently, she worked as part of the staff of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago Medical Center.
John Harbaugh (born September 23, 1962) is the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens. Previously, he coached the defensive backs for the Philadelphia Eagles and served as the Eagles special teams coach for nine years. Harbaugh and his younger brother, San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh, are the first pair of brothers to serve as head coaches in NFL history. John and the Ravens will face off against Jim and the 49ers at Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans on February 3, 2013.
James Joseph “Jim” Harbaugh (/ËhÉrbÉË/; born December 23, 1963) is an American football coach and former quarterback who is the head coach for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). Jim Harbaugh played college football at the University of Michigan and was a quarterback in the NFL from 1987 to 2000. Harbaugh has been a football coach since 1994 and first served as a head coach in 2004 for the University of San Diego. After coaching Stanford football from 2007 to 2010, Harbaugh became San Francisco 49ers head coach in 2011.
As with all sports leagues, there are a number of significant rivalries in the National Football League. Rivalries are occasionally created due to a particular event that causes bad blood between teams, players, coaches, or owners, but for the most part, they arise simply due to the frequency with which some teams play each other, and sometimes exist for geographic reasons.
Quintorris Lopez “Julio” Jones (born February 3, 1989) is an American football wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Falcons with the sixth overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide. During his sophomore season with Alabama in 2009, he helped lead the Tide to an undefeated 14-0 season including a victory in the 2010 BCS National Championship Game.
Mega- (symbol M) is a prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of million (106 or 1000000). Confirmed in 1960, it comes from the Greek μÎγαÏ, meaning great.
Stanley Frank “Stan” Musial (pron.: /ËmjuËziÉl/ or /ËmjuËÊÉl/; November 21, 1920 â January 19, 2013) was an American professional baseball player who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals (1941â1963). Nicknamed “Stan the Man”, Musial was a record 24-time All-Star selection (tied with Willie Mays), and is widely considered to be one of the greatest hitters in baseball history. He compiled 3,630 hits (ranking fourth all-time and most in a career spent with only one team). With 1,815 hits at home and 1,815 on the road, he is also considered to be the most consistent hitter of his era. He also compiled 475 home runs during his career, was named the National League’s (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times, and won three World Series championship titles. Musial was a first-ballot inductee to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969.
