Brian Urlacher not only played for the Chicago Bears, but he carried on the tradition of the great linebackers before him. He won the NFL Rookie of the Year Award in 2000, elected to eight Pro Bowls, and won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year award in 2005. [...]
Barry Alvarez knows a thing or two about what it takes to win. Alvarez started out as a high school coach before he became the head coach at the University of Wisconsin. Now Barry is the athletic director at the same university. Before college, Alvarez led the 1978 Mason City, [...]
Veteran stage and screen actor Sterling K. Brown most recently starred as prosecutor Christopher Darden in FXs highly-rated television event series The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story for which he won an Emmy Award. His performance was praised as riveting by Deadline.com and excellent by The Hollywood Reporter. [...]
I remember when I was my daughters age I would be begging my parents for more time to play outside. In the summertime it seemed we would be out playing sports, kick the can, hide and seek, and riding bikes until the street lights came on. Now it is different. [...]
Carlo's Bakery, featured on the TLC hit show Cake Boss, is known for its delicious pastries, desserts and cakes. Carlo Guastaffero originally opened the family bakery in 1910, and Bartolo Valastro Sr. acquired it in 1964. Since the untimely passing of Bartolo Sr. in 1994, matriarch Mary Valastro and her [...]
Brad Meltzer is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of adult thrillers including The Inner Circle and The Fifth Assassin. His two nonfiction gift books, Heroes for My Son and Heroes for My Daughter were New York Times Bestsellers as well, and he has won the prestigious Eisner Award [...]
Believe it or not there are some similarities to coaching an NBA team and being a father. At least one head coach thinks so. Recently I was able to chat with Boston Celtics head coach, Brad Stevens about fatherhood. We also talked about what the transition was like from coaching [...]
With over 30 years of experience in the industry, Jermaine Dupri has been a staple in the entertainment industry. He is a CEO of So So Def Records, a Grammy Award winning song writer and producer as well as a DJ and an author. He is also the star and [...]
Actor, writer, and producer Greg Grunberg is best known for his acting role as Matt Parkman in the award-winning TV series Heroes, and he recently reprised that role in the NBC series Heroes Reborn. He is also known for the role of Pilot Seth Norris on Lost, Agent Weiss on [...]
Tom Angleberger is the author of the bestselling Origami Yoda series, as well as Horton Halfpott and Fake Mustache, both Edgar Award nominees, the Qwikpick Papers series, and the Inspector Flytrap series. He lives in Virginia, with his wife, who is also an author and illustrator, Cece Bell and their [...]
