While at Northern Michigan University, Jerry Glanville played middle linebacker. In 1964, he graduated from Northern Michigan. Glanville has also worked as an analyst on HBO'sInside the NFL, CBS's The NFL Today/NFL on CBS and Fox's coverage of the NFL. Glanville also raced on the Auto Racing Club of America circuit.... read full bio
John MacBeth Paxson is an American basketball administrator and former player. After Paxson's retirement, Bulls head coach Phil Jackson hired him as an assistant coach for the 1995-96 season. The Bulls won the title that year, fueled by Michael Jordan's return and the addition of another eventual Hall of Famer, Dennis Rodman. He has been Vice President of Basketball Operations... read full bio
Jack Arute currently covers the NFL and college sports for Sirius XM Radio and the Izod IndyCar Series and the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour on Versus as well as being president of the Stafford Motor Speedway in Connecticut. He was previously an auto racing pit reporter and college football sideline reporter for ESPN and ABC.... read full bio
Jerry Clower began a 2-year stint in the Navy immediately after graduating high school. Upon his discharge, in 1946, he was a Radioman Third Class (RMN3) and had earned the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal. During the time he was working at sales jobs after finishing school, he had developed a... read full bio
Trained as a physician in the late 1950s, Jonathan Miller first came to prominence in the 1960s with his role in the BBC comedy sketch showBeyond the Fringe with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. Despite having seen few operas and not knowing how to read music, he began stage-directing them in the 1970s and... read full bio
Jens Voigt is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI Pro Tour Team Saxo Bank. Voigt is known as being affable with a propensity to attack, and for his positive racing attitude. He is capable of repeated attacking, holding a high tempo, and breaking away from the peloton. He has worn the yellow jersey of the Tour de France... read full bio
Winner of the Bill Hicks Spirit Award for Thought Provoking Comedy, writer for Comedy Central's Indecision2008, Huffington Post, & the Independent Film Channel, cast member of Shoot The Messenger (from the creator of The Daily Show), author of Harper Collins' bestselling Get Rich Cheating," and executive editor of MY Wall Street Journal (with writers from The Daily Show, The Onion,... read full bio
Joel Chasnoff is a stand-up comedian and writer with stage and screen credits in eight countries, and author of the comic memoir The 188th Crybaby Brigade (Simon and Schuster), about his year as a combat soldier in the Israeli Army. On tour, Joel was the warm-up act for Jon Stewart and Lewis Black of The Daily Show. Joel recently returned... read full bio
Canadian comedian, actor, and writer Jay Malone is a gifted individual. Jay started stand-up comedy in college on a whim, fell in love right away, dropped out, and relocated to Toronto to devote himself fully to the art. After four years, he received an invitation to participate in Just for Laughs' Homegrown competition, where he won first place. The Montreal Newspaper... read full bio
Dr. James B. Maas is Professor and past Chairman of the Department of Psychology, and the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. An expert on the psychology of sleep, Dr. Maas teaches the nation's largest single lecture course, and is the winner of numerous teaching awards. As one of the nation's most sought after corporate speakers, Dr. Maas... read full bio
John Folse is a noted Louisiana chef and restaurant owner, and a leading authority on Cajun and Creole cuisine and culture. His philosophy of life is summed up in the quote, “Risk is the tariff paid to leave the shores of predictable misery. The best fruit is not on the trunk of a tree; it’s on the limb.”... read full bio
Janie Fricke is an American country music singer, best remembered for a series of country music hits in the early to mid 1980s. Janie Fricke was one of the most popular female country singers of the '80s, racking a string of hits and proving herself a versatile vocalist with a particular flair for ballads. She won the Country Music Association's... read full bio
He his nickname in high school was Warm Up Bouton because hed rather warm up than actually play, Jim Bouton became an all-star pitcher and World Series hero with the NY Yankees, a TV sportscaster, an actor, and author of Ball Fourthe funny, controversial, all-time bestseller. During his baseball comeback with the Atlanta Braves, Bouton helped create Big League Chew,... read full bio
At NBC, John Hockenberry served as a correspondent for Dateline, where his work ranged from an intimate portrait of a schizophrenic young adult to an investigative piece that traced internet swindlers in an international web, to the first and only interview with the brother of two of the 9/11 suicide hijackers. A four-time Emmy Award winner and three-time Peabody winner,... read full bio
No one knows more about the difficulty of running an effective aid mission than Dr. James Orbinski. The former president of Mdecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is now using his expertise to help victims in Haiti. A true humanitarian, Orbinski accepted a Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of MSF in 1999 for his leadership during the Rwandan genocide. Recently,... read full bio
Arguably the best wheelchair athlete in the world, Josh George is a remarkable paralympian, ESPYs finalist and world record holder. Considered by many to be unstoppable on his path to greatness, he has been recognized worldwide in the sports of track and field, marathon racing and basketball.... read full bio
John Shryock has performed close-up, parlor, and illusion acts all over the world, "wowing" audiences with his engaging demeanor, proficiency with the performance, and undeniable sense of humor. One of the few magicians who consistently performs in all three show rooms at the renowned Magic Castle in Hollywood, John was a fan favorite at Ceasar's Magical Empire in Las Vegas. John... read full bio
Juliana was born in Maine and grew up in the Boston suburb of Duxbury. She is daughter of Philip M. Hatfield and The Boston Globe fashion critic Julie Hatfield. She acquired a love of rock music during the 1970s, having been introduced by a babysitter to the music of the seminal Los Angeles punk rock band X. She was also... read full bio
Juice Newton known for her impact on the pop, as well as the country music scene, exhibits diversity in her music as well as her stage show. Juice keeps her performances varied with the energy of her top-notch touring band, and the intimacy of an acoustic setting. Juice Newton, through her pop and country hits, her distinctive voice and... read full bio
Jean-Luc Ponty is an innovator and unparalleled virtuoso of violin in the genres of jazz and rock. He is renowned as a pioneer who has applied his unique visionary spin that has broadened the vocabulary of modern music. Besides recording and touring globally with his own group, Ponty has also performed some of his compositions with the New Music Ensemble... read full bio
