Ernie Johnson, Jr. is the lead television voice for the Major Leagues on TBS. He also hosts Inside the BA for TNT and does some of the joint coverage of the NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Tournament for both CBS Sports and CBS. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2003 and has been continuing his chemotherapy ever since.... read full bio
Former NBA player Baron Davis goes by the rap moniker Bart Oatmeal. Baron drew on his passion for hip-hop, which he discovered when he was six or seven years old, shortly after learning how to spell, to produce this project. Top producers and emcees were all around him during his NBA career and even earlier. Raekwon from the Wu-Tang Clan,... read full bio
Ben Griffin is currently 6 under after 36 holes at TPC Sawgrass, and by the end of the day, he ought to be near the top of the leaderboard. However, he would not have considered a post like this a few years ago. A while back, Griffin started working a desk job, taking a big step back from his PGA Tour... read full bio
A two-time Stanley Cup champion and former professional ice hockey center from Canada, Derek Michael Sanderson (born June 16, 1946), well known by the moniker "Turk," was instrumental in changing the perception of professional athletes throughout the 1970s. The legendary overtime goal by Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins, which won the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals and is regarded as... read full bio
Gerry Cheevers is a retired ice hockey goaltender who spent 19 years in the NHL and World Hockey Association. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Boston Bruins, and many other teams in other leages such as the World Hockey Hockey Association, the American Hockey League, and more. He is most famous for his two Stanley Cup wins with... read full bio
Bob Sweeney is a former American professional ice hockey player who played as a center in the NHL for fifteen years. He played for the Boston Bruins, the Buffalo Sabres, the New York Islanders, and the Calgary Flames. He was chosen in the sixth round of the 1982 draft and was123rd overall. He spent six years with Boston but then... read full bio
Yael Deckelbaum is an activist and singer-songwriter who is Canadian and Israeli with a platinum award. She is regarded as one of the original members of the Israeli folk group Habanot Nechama, whose self-titled CD sold over 40,000 copies and went platinum in Israel. Yael has shared the stage with a number of notable performers, including Gregory Porter, Bobby McFerrin,... read full bio
The Pickle Family Circus was a small circus founded in 1974 in San Francisco, California, USA. The circus formed an important part of the renewal of the American circus. They also influenced the creation of Cirque du Soleil in Montreal. Neither circus features animals or use the three-ring layout like the traditional circus. The Pickle Family Circus is now a... read full bio
Judge Greg Mathis was elected to Michigan's 36th District Court in 1995. His election became a national success story and a symbol of hope for urban youth who are struggling to overcome the modern-day pressures and hardships of poverty, drugs and violence. A former street youth and high school dropout, Mathis' lawlessness brought him before a judge who cared, a... read full bio
One of the most influential futurists in modern business, Watts Wacker helps the world's top corporations navigate the extraordinary sea of change that is taking us into the next century. He has advised such powerhouse companies as Nike, General Motors, MCI and Bank of America, and headed the Yankelovich Monitor for a decade. As founder and director of FirstMatter LLC,... read full bio
Peter Gruber is the founder, chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, as well as a Number One New York Times bestselling author. Guber's most recent films from Mandalay Entertainment include The Kids Are All Right, Soul Surfer, Bernie, Horns, The Voices, and Drawn of the Dead. He has also produced Rain Man, Batman, The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Gorillas in... read full bio
George Brett is a retired American baseball third baseman who played 21 years in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals. Brett's 3,154 career hits are the most by any third baseman in major league history and 16th all-time. Brett is one of only four players in MLB history to accumulate 3,000 hits, 300 home runs, and a career... read full bio
Former American basketball player George Karl has now made a successful career in becoming the head coach of five NBA teams. Born in Pittsburgh, California Karl signed with the San Antonio Spurs in 1973. He spent his entire professional career with the Spurs, but in 1978 he retired from playing the sport and became the Spurs’ assistant coach. He continued... read full bio
Legendary running back LaDainian Tomlinson, also known as L.T., retired from the NFL after eleven successful seasons. At the NFL Draft, the San Diego Chargers selected Tomlinson 5th overall, and the rest is history. Tomlinson went on to play nine record-breaking seasons with the Chargers, followed by two seasons with the New York Jets. He was selected to five Pro... read full bio
Terrell Owens is an American football wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. Popularly known by his initials, T.O., Owens has established himself as one of the NFL's most productive and outspoken players. Owens is known for his flamboyant celebrations after scoring touchdowns, some of which have resulted in fines by the NFL front office. Prior... read full bio
Michael Fertik is the Executive Chairman and Founder of Reputation.com in addition to being the Managing Director and Founder of Heroic Ventures. Among other companies, he founded and served as CEO of b4.ai, WaveShift, and Sightglass Vision. One of the top venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, Heroic Ventures focuses nearly entirely on first-money and formation investments. The... read full bio
Best selling author of the groundbreaking book BANK 2.0, Brett King is the founder of the first direct mobile bank in the US and UK (Movenbank) and a strategic advisor to the worlds leading financial services organizations. He is an International Judge for the GSMA Global Mobile Awards, the Asian Banker Retail Excellence Awards and for the MiddleEast Business Achievement... read full bio
Isabel Aguilera is the former President of General Electric in Spain and former CEO of Google Spain and Portugal. She is one of the most successful businesswomen in Spain. Not only does she have an impeccable record both in marketing and sales, but she is also a leading expert on the Iberian market. Today, she is on the board of... read full bio
The Yardbirds legend and music has graduated three of rock's greatest guitar players: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. They created hard rock out of standard twelve-bar blues, doubling the tempos and whacking the amps up to ten. On the British club scene, the Yardbirds, the Animals, and the Rolling Stones ruled the stages. The Yardbirds are best known... read full bio
"Flyleaf is an American Christian rock band from Texas, and their eclectic genre has been dubbed a blend of Christian metal, hard rock, post grunge, and new metal. Their debut self-titled album went platinum after selling more than one million copies. They won an online poll on yahoo.com that stated that they were Yahoo!'s Who's Next band of the month... read full bio
