Jordan, whose own father was murdered on the side of the highway back in 1993 in North Carolina, has always been all business in the public eye. He’s always been willing and ready to talk basketball, but when it comes to social and political issues, he has rarely tipped his hand. On July 25th Jordan joined the deluge of athletes who are speaking out about the recent violence between police and African-Americans in the United States and the need for positive social reform....

From there, he launched the Mike Gallagher Show in 1998. The show has gone on to become one of the most popular conservative radio programs on the air. He is a frequent guest and occasional host for Fox News Channel, and he has also written a New York Times Bestseller, called “Surrounded by Idiots: Fighting Liberal Lunacy in America”. He has given frequent public readings of the book since it was published in 2005....

He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and reached the semifinals. Lane starred on the court television series Judge Mills Lane from 1998 to 2001. Lane’s likeness was used for the MTV TV series Celebrity Deathmatch. He has authored the books Let’s Get It On: Tough Talk from Boxing’s Top Ref as well as Nevada’s Most Outspoken Judge. In 2013 he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame....

Believe it or not, over the past 15-20 years Max Martin has been the brains, ears and talent behind virtually every hit pop song that has been released to the screaming masses. He’s personally responsible for churning out more Billboard singles than Michael Jackson and Madonna COMBINED. And since he is essentially unrecognizable to the average person, that might make him the most famous, non-famous person on the planet. This is his story....

It peaked at #1 on the Canadian Country and #14 on the US Country charts. The album also contained the #1 Canadian Country singles “I Do”, “I Meant to Do That”, and “Take It from Me”. Brandt’s second album Outside the Frame released in 1997 and his third album That’s the Truth released in 1999 both reached #1 on the Canadian Country chart. The albums contained the #1 hit singles “A Little in Love” and “That’s the Truth”....

Richard Marvin DeVos was born on March 4, 1926 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He attended Calvin College and then joined the military during World War II as a member of the US Army Air Corps. Upon returning from the war, Richard and a childhood friend named Jay Van Andel set out to start a business together. The first business was a hamburger stand. They then ran a sailing business and a air charter service....

Williams first rose to fame in the early 1990s as a member of the boy band Take That, which was one of the most successful groups in British pop history at the time. However, it was his solo career, launched in 1996, that catapulted him to global stardom. Williams’s debut solo album, “Life thru a Lens,” released in 1997, featured the hit single “Angels,” a song that has since become his signature tune and a perennial favorite....

Salary In December 2013, Robin reportedly signed a new contract with GMA that will pay her an estimated $14 million per year. In 2016, her pay jumped to $18 million. Early Life Robin Rene Roberts was born on November 23rd, 1960, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her father, Colonel Lawrence E. Roberts, was once a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen. She was raised in Mississippi in a household that stressed the importance of discipline, determination, and religion....

Early Life and Education Scotty McCreery was born on October 9, 1993 in Garner, North Carolina to Judy and Michael. He has Puerto Rican ancestry through his father, and has an older sister named Ashley. As a youth, McCreery was educated at Timber Drive Elementary School, West Lake Middle School, and Garner Magnet High School. He sang in the choruses at all three schools, and sang in a touring vocal ensemble called Die Meistersingers while in high school....

Several players have performance bonuses in their contracts. These bonuses give them a chance to earn more money than their base salary. Sometimes, the bonuses are basic: play a certain number of snaps in a season; other times, they’re more specific: win the Super Bowl. In some cases, players didn’t reach their goal until the final week. As we say goodbye to the 2018 regular season, let’s take a look at some last-minute bonuses – and a handful of players who came agonizingly close, but fell short....

January 20th was a particularly brutal day for Dorsey. Both of the tech companies he helped found took a beating. Just 90 minutes after the stock market’s opening bell, Twitter stock was down 6% and Square was down 11%. On Wednesday, Square’s share price fell to $8.46, which is below the $9 debut it was set at when the company went public in November of 2015. It has since rebounded a bit, to $9....

He was named Best New Act at the Norwegian Grammys and his album Faces Down was in Rolling Stone magazine’s top 50 albums of 2002. Lerche is a multi-instrumentalist who plays the guitar, bass, keyboard, piano, glockenspiel, percussion, and Hammond organ. His cousin is Norwegian rapper Lars Vaular and the two collaborated in 2012.

Even though Smith has two years left on his current contract, ESPN is looking to lock him up long-term. The sports entertainment giant is preparing to offer a deal that will pay Smith $8 to $10 million per year to remain at ESPN. Smith currently makes $5 million per year. Regardless of where Smith’s deal ends up in that $8 to $10 million range, he would become the richest ESPN personality ever....

He has also appeared in episodes of the TV series Wildfire, In Plain Sight, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Last Ship, and Hand of God. Fletcher has also don’t stunts for the films Jonah Hex, Paul, Thor, Avengers Assemble, Red Dawn, Gambit, The Last Stand, The Lone Ranger, the Guest, and Transcendence. Fletcher won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Breaking Bad in 2014.

Betting on sports is quite common in the United States and Europe. A report from ESPN forecasted that roughly $95 billion would be bet on NFL and NCAA football alone this season. Despite the amount of bets put on sports such as football, basketball, and soccer, it seems that tennis is one of the most, if not the most scrutinized sport as it pertains to potential match fixing. What are some of the factors that may contribute to this?...

Sandra Bullock – $77 million After Sandra Bullock won the Oscar for “The Blind Side” in 2010 she was in the right place to strike while that proverbial iron was hot. The “Gravity” producers knew they’d have to really sweeten Bullock’s deal, especially considering production on the film was going to take YEARS instead of the average 2-3 months a film shoot usually is. For “Gravity” Bullock received $20 million upfront plus the aforementioned $15% of first-dollar gross....

Early Life Elizabeth Stamatina Fey was born on May 18th, 1970, in Pennsylvania. Her father wrote grant proposals and worked as a University administrator. Her mother was a retired brokerage employee of Greek descent. Fey’s parents allowed her and her brother to watch comedy shows like Saturday Night Live at a young age. Tina Fey also watched Second City Television at the age of 11, and actress Catherine O’Hara became an early role model....

Early Life Tina Sinatra was born as Christina Sinatra on June 20, 1948 in Los Angeles, California as the youngest child of singer and actor Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato. She has an older sister named Nancy Sinatra, who also became a singer, and had an older brother named Frank Jr., a singer, actor, and conductor who passed away in 2016. When Tina Sinatra was three, her parents divorced....

Early Life War Machine was born on November 30, 1981, in Los Angeles, California, and given the name Jonathan Paul Koppenhaver. His father worked as a police officer while his mother was a nurse before becoming a work-at-home mother. His childhood was challenging as his mother had substance abuse problems, requiring Koppenhaver to take care of his younger brother and sister. He suffered a major loss at the age of 13 when he tried to perform CPR on his father after he suffered a heart attack....

If you didn’t already know, Wu-Tang Clan has a top-secret album entitled Once Upon A Time In Shaolin. News of the album first broke in 2014, when Wu-Tang cofounder RZA and Wu-Tang affiliate/producer Cilvaringz confirmed the album’s existence. What makes the album so unique is that there is only one physical copy of the album. The album is encased in an engraved, silver-and-nickel box that was constructed by Yahya, a British-Moroccan artist....