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Raul Gonzalez Biography

Jul 292010

Raúl González Blanco (born 27 June 1977 in Madrid, Spain), known simply as Raúl, is a Spanish footballer who plays as a striker. He currently plays for German club Schalke 04, in the Bundesliga. Raul has spent most of his career playing for Spanish club Real Madrid until 2010 and is the club’s all-time top goalscorer. Raúl is a three-time winner of the UEFA Champions League and has long been the competition’s all-time leading goal scorer. He left Real Madrid on the 25th July 2010, having scored 323 goals in 740 appearances. He is also the all-time top goalscorer for the Spanish national side.

Raul Gonzalez

Full name: Raúl González Blanco
Date of birth: 27 June 1977
Place of birth: Madrid, Spain
Height: 1.82 m
Playing position: Striker
Club Career: San Cristóbal de los Ángeles / Atlético Madrid / Real Madrid (Youth career) / 1994–2010 – Real Madrid – 550 – (228) / Schalke 04

Real Madrid: Although he started out with cross-town rivals Atlético Madrid, he began the 1994-95 season in Madrid’s C-team, but was promoted…

Dunga Biography

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Jul 252010

Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri (born October 31, 1963 in Ijuí, Rio Grande do Sul), commonly known as Dunga, is a Brazilian former football defensive midfielder, of Italian and German descent, and a World Champion for Brazil in the 1994 World Cup. Dunga coached the national team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup and was dismissed by the Brazilian Football Confederation following the team’s elimination in the quarter finals.

His nickname is derived from the portuguese translation of Dopey dwarf from Snow White tale, and was given to him by an uncle due to his short height.

: Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri

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Tiger Woods Biography

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Jul 252010

Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently the World No. 1, he is the highest-paid professional athlete in the world, having earned an estimated $90.5 million from winnings and endorsements in 2010.

Woods has won 14 professional major golf championships, the second highest of any male player (Jack Nicklaus leads with 18), and 71 PGA Tour events, third all time. He has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to win 50 tournaments on tour. Additionally, Woods is only the second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, to have achieved a career Grand Slam three times. Woods has won 16 World Golf Championships, and has won at least one of those events each of the 11 years they have been in existence.

: Tiger Woods

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Natalie Gulbis Biography

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Jul 252010

Natalie Anne Gulbis (born January 7, 1983) is an American professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.

Golf career: Gulbis started finding interest in the game at the early age of 4.By the time she reached 7 years old, she had won her first tournament.In three years, at age 10, she was breaking par.

She played in her first LPGA tour event as an amateur at the age of 14 (handicap of 2). She attended Granite Bay High School and graduated when she was 16. She turned professional at age 18 after playing for one season on the women’s golf team at the University of Arizona.

: Natalie Gulbis

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Maria Sharapova Biography

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Jul 192010

Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Шара́пова / born April 19, 1987) is a former World No. 1 Russian professional tennis player. She has won 3 Grand Slam titles (2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open, and 2008 Australian Open). She was also runner-up at the 2007 Australian Open. She is currently ranked World No. 15.

Maria Sharapova GQ Magazine

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Katie Uhlaender Biography

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Jul 182010

2010 U.S. Olympic Team Media Summit

Katie Uhlaender (born July 17, 1984) is an American skeleton racer who has competed since 2003. She won four medals at the FIBT World Championships with one silver (women’s skeleton: 2008) and three bronzes (women’s skeleton: 2007, mixed bobsleigh-skeleton team event: 2008, 2009).

Uhlaender won the women’s Skeleton World Cup title twice (2006-7, 2007-8). She also finished sixth in the women’s skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino. She earned a medical waiver to compete in the 2009-10 Skeleton World Cup season following surgery in the wake of an April 2009 snowmobile accident where Uhelander shattered her kneecap, and broke it again in August 2009 (having a total of four surgeries).

A native of Vail, Colorado, Uhlaender now lives in nearby Breckenridge. She is the daughter of the late Major League Baseball outfielder (and former Cleveland Indians coach) Ted Uhlaender. In memory of her father, she wears around her neck his ring of the 1972 Cincinnati Reds season in which the Reds won the National League pennant.

It was announced on 16 January 2010 that Uhleander qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver where she finished 11th.

Allison Stokke Biography

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Jul 182010

Allison Stokke, born on 1989, is an American pole vaulter from Orange County, California. In 2004, Stokke won a California state championship at age 15, and broke several national records in her age division. Her 2005 season was hampered by an injury, as she broke her right tibia in May. As a senior at Newport Harbor High School, her personal best was 13′ 7″ (4.14 m), the second-best mark in the nation for a female senior in that calendar year.

: Allison Stokke

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