actor, former professional football playerBorn: 1/14/1948Birthplace: New Orleans Having turned a professional football career into a successful acting career, he is probably best known as Rocky's…
owner of the RamsDied: January 18, 2008 (unspecified location) Best Known as: first female to own a National Football League team Georgia Frontiere was the first…
WHAT WERE THE FIRST GREAT COMPETITIONS? WHY ARE SOME COMPETITIONS SO FAMOUS? THE WORLD CUPSUPER BOWLSPONSORSHIPFIND OUT MORECompetitions define the highest level of achievement, and exist in every…
Name at birth: Edson Arantes do NascimentoPelé was a Brazilian sports icon and the most famous world footballer of his generation. Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pelé joined the Santos Football…
Name at birth: Victoria AdamsVictoria Beckham (then Victoria Adams) was an original member of The Spice Girls, the British pop supergroup of the 1990s. Victoria was "Posh Spice," the elegantly…
American football quarterback Colin Kaepernick led the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl in the 2012 season. He has since become better known for being unofficially banned from the league since…
business leaderBorn: 12/7/1942Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland Growing up in a middle class Baltimore neighborhood, Lewis won a football scholarship to Virginia State College (now Virginia State…
TV star Mark Harmon is known for his leading roles in the series St. Elsewhere, Chicago Hope and, since 2003, NCIS. He grew up in southern California, the son of Hollywood actress Elyse Knox and…
Michael Sam is the college football player who announced in 2014 that he was gay and hoped to play in the NFL. If he were to make a team, he would become the first openly gay active player in NFL…
