Juan Martin del Potro is an Argentine professional tennis player, whose greatest feat was winning the US Open, defeating Rafael Nadal in the semifinal and Roger Federer in the final. He became the first to defeat both Federer and Nadal during a major and was the only man outside the Big Four to win a major between the 2005 French... read full bio
Jason Spezza is a Canadian ice hockey centre. He plays for the Dallas Stars as the centre position and as alternate captain in the National Hockey League. Spezza began his hockey career at the young age of 15. He has won the Les Cunningham Award, represented Team Canada in the World Junior Championships and World Championships (twice). At the World... read full bio
Patrick Marleau is a professional ice hockey player from Canada. He plays for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League. Prior to playing for the Maple Leafs, he was a member of the San Jose Sharks team as a captain for five years. Marleau is a hockey star, winning Gold medals with Team Canada two times in the... read full bio
Patrick Roy is a former professional hockey player from Canada. He was selected as the greatest hockey goaltender in National Hockey League history, named on the 100 Greatest NHL Players list, and inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Roy used the butterfly style of goaltending, making the technique popular around the world. Roy was also the vice-president of hockey... read full bio
Charles David “Chuck” Liddell is a retired American wrestler. He is a mixed martial artist and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. He has 20 wins in kickboxing, and 21 wins in mixed martial arts. Liddell has been inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame. Liddell’s grandfather was the one that paved his career. His grandfather taught Liddell and his siblings... read full bio
Eric Staal is a professional hockey player from Canada. He currently plays for the Minnesota Wild team of the National Hockey League. Staal has won the Stanley Cup, World Championships for hockey, and the Winter Olympics. This makes him a member of the Triple Gold Club. He has played for the New York Rangers, Carolina Hurricanes and Team Canada. Staal... read full bio
James van Riemsdyk is an American hockey player. Van Riemsdyk is currently playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He began his career with the Philadelphia Flyers, and later was traded to the Maple Leafs. Van Riemsdyk also participated in the Winter Olympics as part of the United States Olympic team. The team placed fourth in the competition. Van Riemsdyk has... read full bio
Nazem Kadri is a professional hockey player from Canada. He currently plays centre for the Toronto Maple Leafs. When he was drafted, he was drafted seventh overall. When he was playing during his junior career, he played in the Ontario Hockey League, the Kitchener Rangers, and then the London Knights. Kadri has won the J. Ross Robertson Cup and represented... read full bio
Antonio Brown is an American football wide receiver and punt returner for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played college football at Central Michigan University, earning an All-American honors in 2008 and 2009. Brown was selected 195th overall by the Steelers in the sixth round of the NFL Draft in 2010. Brown was named First Team All-Pro three times in a row.... read full bio
Calvin Johnson Jr. is former Detroit Lions wide receiver. Johnson was drafted second overall in the NFL Draft and played for the Lions for his entire professional career. Previous to his addition to the Lions team, he played college football at Georgia Tech where he was recognized twice as an All-American. In 2016, Johnson retired from the NFL. Among those... read full bio
Deshaun Watson is an NFL quarterback with the Houston Texans. He got his start playing college football for Clemson University. Watsons second year with the team led them to an undefeated regular season and to win the ACC Championship. He was named the ACC Championship Game MVP, ACC Offensive Player of the Year, and was a finalist for the Heisman... read full bio
Erik Compton is a Norwegian-American professional golfer. Compton has played on the Palmer Cup and Walker Cup teams and went to college at the University of Georgia. Compton grew up in Miami, Florida, and started to learn golf when he was 12. Only six years after he started playing he was already the number 1 junior golfer in the United... read full bio
Jay Cutler is a football quarterback for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. Cutler played college football for Vanderbilt, and later was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the first round of the NFL draft. After playing three seasons for the Broncos, Cutler was traded to the Chicago Bears and played eight seasons with the Bears team. In... read full bio
Odell Beckham Jr. is National Football League wide receiver for the New York Giants. Beckham got his start playing football at Louisiana State University. An all-around outstanding athlete, Beckham was also a basketball player in high school and a standout in track and field. His recruit ranking was four-star by both Rivals.com and Scout.com, Beckham was ranked the number 6... read full bio
The head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team is presently Avery Johnson. Johnson played for 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association before taking on the role of head coach for the Dallas Mavericks and the New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets. He guided the Mavericks to three straight seasons with 50 or more wins, as well as their first... read full bio
Dicky Eklund is an American former professional boxer who is also known as “The Pride of Lowell”. He has previously held the USA New England welterweight title and is the half-brother of Micky Ward. The film “The Fighter” is based on their rise and fall in boxing. Eklund began his amateur career with 200 bouts, winning 194. After turning professional,... read full bio
Penny Hardaway is an American college basketball coach and a former professional NBA basketball player who played shooting guard/point guard. As a basketball coach, Hardaway started his career with East HS and is currently coaching the Memphis Tigers. He started his career playing for Memphis State University and went on to be selected by the Golden State Warriors in the... read full bio
Royce Gracie is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist. He is the son of Helio Gracie and learned Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu from him and his older brothers. He is a UFC Hall of Famer, has had 15 wins in his career, 2 losses, and 3 draws. He is a 7th degree red/black coral belt in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu and is the tournament... read full bio
Udonis Haslem is an American professional basketball player who plays power forward for the Miami Heat of the NBA. He was born in Miami, Florida and started gaining attention while playing basketball for Miami Senior High School. From there, he went to the University of Florida with an athletic scholarship and during his time playing there he averaged 13.7 points... read full bio
Ben Gordon is a British-American former professional basketball player who played in the NBA for 11 seasons. Gordon was born in London, England but was raised in Mount Vernon, New York. He began his basketball career playing for Mount Vernon High School and went on to play college basketball at UConn where he helped lead the Huskies to the NCAA... read full bio
