Name at birth: Reginald Alfred Bush IIReggie Bush won the 2005 Heisman Trophy as college football's best player while he was a running back at the University of Southern California. He had gained 6,…
Gisele Bündchen appeared four times on the cover of Vogue in 1999, becoming one of the year's most celebrated models in the process. The next year Rolling Stone magazine labeled her "The Most…
NBA center Jason Collins announced in 2013 that he was gay, becoming the first player in one of the "big four" American sports (baseball, basketball, football and hockey) to say publicly during his…
Hannah Davis is the curvy, plush-lipped Victoria's Secret model who appeared as a helpful genie in a series of ads for Direct TV in 2013. She married baseball hero Derek Jeter in 2016. Hannah Davis…
The younger brother of actor Dick Van Dyke, Jerry Van Dyke was a journeyman actor before scoring a TV hit with Coach. Jerry Van Dyke joined the Air Force in 1952, where he entertained troops and…
1949 World | US | Economics | Sports | Entertainment | Deaths | Year in Science World Events World StatisticsPopulation: 2.554 billion (!not right!)population by decademore world…
Mayor: Steve Adler (to 2019)2010 census population (rank): 790,390 (14); Male: 399,738 (50.1%); Female: 390,6523 (49.9%); White: 539,760 (68.3%); Black: 64,406 (8.1%); American Indian and Alaska…
Rankings for the 2011–2012 television season. For the first time, a sports show—Sunday Night Football—reigns supreme among adults 18–49. Rank Programs Network Rating 1. NBC Sunday Night…
Nick Hornby is the author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and other novels of early-21st-century British manhood. Hornby's first book, Fever Pitch (1992), described his obsession with the football…
GRIFFITHS, Percy Wilfred, a Representative from Ohio; born in Taylor, Lackawanna County, Pa., March 30, 1893; attended the public schools and Bloomsburg (Pa.) Normal School 1913-1916; was…
