Early Life Mark Steven Kotsay was born on December 2, 1975, in Whittier, California. He was raised in Santa Fe Springs and attended Santa Fe High School, where he played baseball, football, and basketball. In his senior year in baseball, he hit .408 and pitched his way to a 4-0 record with a 3.18 ERA. Kotsay enrolled at Cal State Fullerton to continue playing baseball. He was an all-star in 1994 for the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League, won the Golden Spikes Award, and was the Most Outstanding Player of the College World Series in 1995 as Fullerton won their third Series championship....

Because of his versatility and consistency, Michael is generally considered one of the best sprinters in the history of track and field. He is the only male athlete to have won both the 200-meter and the 400-meter event at the same Olympics. He is also the only male athlete to successfully defend his title at the 400-meter event. Along with Carl Lewis, he holds the most Olympic gold medals won by any runner....

Pat Patterson was born Pierre Clermont in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on January 19, 1941. He began training to wrestle when he was 14 years old. He made his wrestling debut in 1958, when he was 17. In his first few years wrestling he performed as “Killer Pat Patterson”. In 1962 Pat moved to the United States to pursue a professional wrestling career full-time. At this point in his life he only spoke his native French....

In November 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Scott to be his Secretary of Treasury. In the hedge fund industry, Bessent is respected for his consistent track record and his ability to maintain strong relationships with key figures like George Soros. His success in transitioning from managing one of the world’s most famous investment portfolios to building his own successful firm has cemented his position as a significant figure in the global investment community....

Hillenburg is, of course, remembered for creating the much-loved animated TV series “SpongeBob SquarePants.” For the first three seasons, Stephen served as a showrunner with Nickelodeon. Today, the show has become the fifth-longest-running animated series in the United States. Before he ventured into the world of cartoons, Hillenburg was a professionally trained marine biologist. He once served as an instructor for the Orange County Marine Institute. During this period, he wrote a picture book about tide-pool animals....

Her experience writing for children’s television, including “Clarissa Explains It All” and “Little Bear,” influenced her transition to young adult literature. She began with “Gregor the Overlander” (2003), but achieved global success with “The Hunger Games” (2008). The trilogy, completed with “Catching Fire” (2009) and “Mockingjay” (2010), addressed themes of war, poverty, and media manipulation. Collins returned to the series with “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” (2020), a prequel following young President Snow....

Thyne made his acting debut in 1998 on an episode of “Dharma and Greg” and followed it up with an appearance on an episode of “Friends”. He has worked regularly in show business since then, with appearances on “Kenan and Kel”, “Walker, Texas Ranger”, “My Wife and Kids”, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”, “The Sky is Falling”, “Erin Brokovich”, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, “What Women Want”, “That 80’s Show”, “Something’s Gotta Give”, “NCIS”, “Cold Case”, and “Without a Trace” before landing a part on the main cast of the hit series “Bones”....

Manning was in the band Boomkat with her brother, and they released the studio albums “Boomkatalog.One” (2003) and “A Million Trillion Stars” (2009). Taryn has released several singles as a solo artist, and 2012’s “Send Me Your Love” (featuring Sultan and Ned Shepard) and 2017’s “Gltchlfe” reached #1 on the “Billboard” Dance Club Songs chart. Manning launched the clothing line Born Uniqorn with her friend Tara Jane in 2005....

It’s The Macallan 40, so named for its 40 years of aging before being bottled. And even though eight grand may seem like a lot to pay for a bottle of Scotch, unlike most other things you’re likely to spend that kind of money on, The Macallan 40 will only go up in value – or so says the brand’s manager of brand education and prestige whisky Charlie Whitfield in the Robb Report story on the special edition release: All in all, 500 bottles The Macallan 40 were produced, and even if you don’t get to taste the elusive nectar you can still enjoy the story of its making, also courtesy of Charlie Whitfield: Be that as it may, The Macallan 40 isn’t even the rarest, or most valuable, product released by The Macallan as of late – they also recently came out with a 65-year-old Scotch that went for $65,000!...

Chase Coleman, III.: $1.9 billion Chase Coleman founded Tiger Global Management in 2001. The fund oversees more than $11 billion. Tiger Global Management owes its success to making a bunch of smart investments like selling a big chunk of its stake in Facebook in the IPO. Israel Englander: $3.4 billion Israel Englander is best known as the founder of Millennium Management LLC, a global investment management firm he founded in 1989....

When I picture someone reading a book a day, I imagine them devouring slim mystery paperbacks or other stereotypical leisurely reads, but Daskal’s choices of reading material trends toward the expected places – business and psychology are two topics one can easily imagine her applying over the course of her job – as well as stuff like poetry and biographies. But in her recent interview on the subject, she singled out one book as being more important than any other, so much so that she rereads it every year on her birthday: Man’s Search for Meaning, a memoir by Holocaust survivor and author Viktor Frankl....

Scott has some family history at two of those institutions. His mom attended Grambling State and his grandfather went to Prairie View A&M, and it’s his grandfather who also serves as the namesake for Scott’s Waymon Webster Scholarship. The scholarship will cover tuition for students facing financial difficulties related to COVID-19 or otherwise, and according to TMZ, Scott will choose the winning applicants himself. Scott also said a few words to TMZ about his motives in focusing his new non-profit on the cause education to start with:

When Money Isn’t Really Money Let’s say Player X signs a four-year contract that comes with a $10 million signing bonus. The player makes $2 million in year one, $4 million in year two, $6 million in year three and $12 million in year four. On paper, the media reports this is a four-year contract worth $34 million. That’s technically accurate, though there are several catches: • Only the signing bonus, in this case $10 million, is guaranteed....

Early Life Vanessa Ferlito was born on December 28, 1977 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. She is of Italian descent. When Ferlito was two years of age, her father died from a heroin overdose; she was subsequently raised by her mother, who eventually remarried. Ferlito’s stepfather owned a hair salon in Brooklyn. Television Career Ferlito had her first television role in 2001, playing the guest role of Tina Francesco in a season-three episode of HBO’s “The Sopranos....

Zoe Saldana Salary as a Dancer: approx. 3000 DOP per month ($69 USD) Salary as an Actor: $2,000,000+ per film Before she was busy kicking butt in films like “Star Trek”, “The Losers”, and “Avatar”, Zoe Saldana was, well, just kicking. She was a student at the well-respected ECOS Espacio de Danza Academy in the Dominican Republic, where she lived for six years. She took daily ballet, modern, and jazz classes....

According to a recent report from Realtor.com, in the weeks after the fight, Mike bought two pieces of real estate in Florida — one a $13 million Palm Beach megamansion and the other a much more modest cottage with airstrip access priced at $1.69 million. The $13 million, 12,286-square-foot waterfront mansion is a slice of heaven on Earth for the now-retired-for-real boxer, with six bedrooms and 11 bathrooms across both the main house and the guesthouse....

Earlier this month, 11 year old Naomi Oakes, a devoted Swiftie, was diagnosed with acute myelogenous Leukemia, an insidious blood disease. To make matters worse, Naomi was absolutely devastated when she realized her long hospital confinement would force her to miss Taylor’s concert in Phoenix, Arizona on August 17/18. So in an effort to cheer her up, Naomi’s dad made a video of her singing Swift’s song “Bad Blood” which Naomi has declared her new anthem (remember, Leukemia is a blood disease)....

Amy Locane was born in Trenton, New Jersey in December 1971. From 1984 to 1985 she starred as Andrea Winger on the television series Spencer. Locane starred as Sandy Louise Harling on the TV series Melrose Place in 1992. She starred as Allison Vernon-Williams in the movie Cry-Baby in 1990 and as Sally Wheeler in the film School Ties in 1992. Amy Locane starred as Alex Marshall in the 1994 movie Blue Sky and was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Performance by a Young Actress Co-Starring in a Motion Picture....

Early Life Bailee Madison Riley was born on October 15, 1999, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is the youngest of seven children. Her sister Kaitlin Vilasuso is also an actress. Bailee started her acting career at just two weeks old, appearing in an Office Depot commercial. She went on to be featured in national commercials for companies such as Disney, SeaWorld, and Cadillac. Movie Career Bailee Madison made her film debut in the 2006 film “Lonely Hearts....

Bevy Smith was born, raised, and still lives in Harlem, New York. She rose to fame writing and talking about pop culture, fashion, and entertainment. She has contributed to Vibe, Essence, Rolling Stone, Latina, Glamour, and Interview, among other publications, and has also appeared on pop culture programs on VH1, E!, Bravo, TV One, BET, HLN, Access Hollywood, and Oxygen. Smith was the senior director of fashion advertising at Rolling Stone and fashion and beauty advertising director for Vibe magazine....