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Andre Agassi

American tennis player Andre Agassi of the few male singles won the Wimbledon, United States open, French open, and Australian open tournaments and also won a gold medal at the Olympics of 1996.

Critics generally consider this now retired professional and former world number-1 of the greatest of all time and call him the best service returner in the history of the game.

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L. Jon Wertheim

L. Jon Wertheim is the executive editor of Sports Illustrated. A sports journalist with a passion for psychology and economics, he is the author of such New York Times bestsellers as Scorecasting (written with Toby Moskowitz) and You Can’t Make This Up (written with Al Michaels).

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Robert M. Gates

Robert Gates is a former U.S. Secretary of Defense and former Director of the CIA. Between those stints he was president of Texas A&M University, and he currently serves as chancellor of the College of William & Mary in addition to running a consultancy, Rice Hadley Gates LLC.

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Marcia Angell

Marcia Angell is an American physician, author, and the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Umberto Jara

Es escritor, periodista y abogado. Estudió en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, donde se graduó en Letras y Derecho y luego se desempeñó como catedrático en la Facultad de Derecho. Ha ejercido el periodismo en prensa gráfica, radio y televisión realizando coberturas sobre terrorismo, narcotráfico y campañas electorales.

Ha sido editor de las revistas "Debate" y "Semana Económica" del Grupo Apoyo (1988-1990), editor de la revista cultural "El Suplemento" (1990-1992), editor general del diario "Expreso" (1991-1992), director del programa televisivo "Panorama" (1993-1996) y director del quincenario "Cero" (2006). Ha ejercido también el periodismo deportivo dirigiendo las coberturas de los Mundiales de Futbol Estados Unidos 94 (Paname

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John McEnroe

John McEnroe is a American former world professional tennis player. He grew up in Queens, NY and began playing tennis at age 8. McEnroe is often rated as the greatest in the sport. He is also well known for his on court behavior that got him in trouble with tennis authorities and umpires.

McEnroe is also an expert tennis commentator and occasionally makes guests appearances in TV shows. He was married to actress Tatum O'Neal for eight turbulent years and is currently married to singer Patty Smyth. He has five children between both marriages.

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Jane Sherron De Hart

A specialist in U.S. women's history, Jane S. De Hart is Professor Emerita in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Zlatan Ibrahimović

A Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Swedish national team for which he is captain. Ibrahimović started his career at Malmö FF in the late 1990s under Roland Andersson. He was signed by Ajax, and made a name for himself under Ronald Koeman. He later signed with Juventus for €16 million. Ibrahimović gained fame in Serie A, benefiting from his strike partnership with David Trezeguet.

In 2006, Ibrahimović signed with league rival Inter Milan, where he won individual awards such as the Italian Oscar del Calcio and the Swedish Guldbollen, and was named in the 2007 and 2009 UEFA Team of the Year, in addition to finishing as the league's highest scorer in 2008–09 while winning three s

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Margot Morrell

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Michael Phelps

Michael Fred Phelps II is an American former competitive swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23),Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16). In winning eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, Phelps broke fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four gold and two silver medals, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he won five gold medals and one silver. This made him the most successful athlete of the Games for the fourth Olympics in a row.

Phelps is the

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W. Timothy Gallwey

W. Timothy Gallwey is an author who has written a series of books in which he has set forth a methodology for coaching and for the development of personal and professional excellence in a variety of fields that he calls "the Inner Game". Since he began writing in the 1970s, his books include The Inner Game of Tennis, The Inner Game of Golf, The Inner Game of Music (with Barry Green), Inner Skiing and The Inner Game of Work. Gallwey's seminal work is The Inner Game of Tennis, with more than one million copies in print.

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David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace was an acclaimed American writer known for his fiction, nonfiction, and critical essays that explored the complexities of consciousness, irony, and the human condition. Widely regarded as one of the most innovative literary voices of his generation, Wallace is perhaps best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which was listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. His unfinished final novel, The Pale King, was published posthumously in 2011 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Born in Ithaca, New York, Wallace was raised in Illinois, where he excelled as both a student and a junior tennis player—a sport he later wrote about with sharp insight and humor. H

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Robert M. Gates

Robert Gates is a former U.S. Secretary of Defense and former Director of the CIA. Between those stints he was president of Texas A&M University, and he currently serves as chancellor of the College of William & Mary in addition to running a consultancy, Rice Hadley Gates LLC.

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Andre Agassi

American tennis player Andre Agassi of the few male singles won the Wimbledon, United States open, French open, and Australian open tournaments and also won a gold medal at the Olympics of 1996.

Critics generally consider this now retired professional and former world number-1 of the greatest of all time and call him the best service returner in the history of the game.

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Alex Ferguson

a former Scottish football manager and player who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. His time at the club has led to Ferguson being regarded as one of the most successful, admired and respected managers in the history of the game.
Ferguson managed East Stirlingshire and St. Mirren before a highly successful period as manager of Aberdeen. After briefly managing Scotland following the death of Jock Stein, he was appointed manager of Manchester United in November 1986.

Ferguson is the longest serving manager of Manchester United, overtaking Sir Matt Busby's record on 19 December 2010, eventually completing more than 26-and-a-half years as the club's manager. He has won many awards and holds many records including winning Manager of the

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L. Jon Wertheim

L. Jon Wertheim is the executive editor of Sports Illustrated. A sports journalist with a passion for psychology and economics, he is the author of such New York Times bestsellers as Scorecasting (written with Toby Moskowitz) and You Can’t Make This Up (written with Al Michaels).

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John McEnroe

John McEnroe is a American former world professional tennis player. He grew up in Queens, NY and began playing tennis at age 8. McEnroe is often rated as the greatest in the sport. He is also well known for his on court behavior that got him in trouble with tennis authorities and umpires.

McEnroe is also an expert tennis commentator and occasionally makes guests appearances in TV shows. He was married to actress Tatum O'Neal for eight turbulent years and is currently married to singer Patty Smyth. He has five children between both marriages.

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Bob Rotella

Full name: Robert J. Rotella

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Christopher Clarey

Christopher Clarey has covered global sports for The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune for more than 30 years from bases in France, Spain and the United States. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on tennis and the Olympics, reporting from more than 100 Grand Slam tournaments and from seven Summer Olympics, seven Winter Olympics and nine world track and field championships. In 2021, Clarey’s in-depth biography of Roger Federer was published and became a New York Times bestseller and international success.

The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer was excerpted in The New York Times Magazine, the Times of London and the Sydney Morning Herald. It received favorable reviews from The Wall Street Jou

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John Toland

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John^Toland - 17th century theologian, Philosopher & Satirist
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John Willard Toland (June 29, 1912 in La Crosse, Wisconsin - January 4, 2004 in Danbury, Connecticut) was an American author and historian. He is best known for his biography of Adolf Hitler.[1]

Toland tried to write history as a straightforward narrative, with minimal analysis or judgment. This method may have stemmed from his original goal of becoming a playwright. In the summers between his college years, he travelled with hobos and wrote several plays with hobos as central character

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Toni Nadal

Antonio Nadal Homar es un entrenador y preparador físico de tenis español.

Ha entrenado, desde el inicio de su carrera hasta 2017, a su sobrino el jugador de tenis profesional Rafael Nadal.

Aparte de su capacitación deportiva, cursó estudios de Geografía e Historia y Derecho –inacabados–. Es padre de tres hijos.

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Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant was an Academy Award–winning storyteller and content creator. He spent his days building stories to inspire the next generation of athletes to be the best versions of themselves. Kobe was a five-time NBA champion, two-time NBA Finals MVP, NBA MVP, and two-time Olympic gold medalist. He hoped to share all he learned with young athletes around the world.

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Michael Phelps

Michael Fred Phelps II is an American former competitive swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23),Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16). In winning eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, Phelps broke fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four gold and two silver medals, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he won five gold medals and one silver. This made him the most successful athlete of the Games for the fourth Olympics in a row.

Phelps is the

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Maria Sharapova

Born in Nyagan, Russia, Maria Sharapova moved to the United States when she was six years old. At seventeen, Sharapova beat Serena Williams to win Wimbledon. She reached the number-one world ranking at eighteen, and has held that ranking a number of times since. To date, she has won five Grand Slams. She lives in Manhattan Beach, California.

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Novak Djokovic

Famed tennis player.

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Novak Djokovic

Famed tennis player.

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Christopher Clarey

Christopher Clarey has covered global sports for The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune for more than 30 years from bases in France, Spain and the United States. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on tennis and the Olympics, reporting from more than 100 Grand Slam tournaments and from seven Summer Olympics, seven Winter Olympics and nine world track and field championships. In 2021, Clarey’s in-depth biography of Roger Federer was published and became a New York Times bestseller and international success.

The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer was excerpted in The New York Times Magazine, the Times of London and the Sydney Morning Herald. It received favorable reviews from The Wall Street Jou

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James Blake

James Blake has been a professional tennis player since 1999, when he left Harvard to join the professional tennis circuit. He grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut, and currently resides in Tampa, Florida.

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Cat Cora

Born Catherine Ann Cora.
Both on-and off-screen, Chef Cat Cora has made a lasting impression on the culinary community. In 2005, Cora was the first and only female Iron Chef on Food Network's Iron Chef America. The following year she was named Executive Chef of Bon Apptit along with their Teacher of the Year Award.

In 2008, Cora launched CCQ (Cat Coras Que) at Macys new Signature Kitchen restaurant in Californias South Coast Plaza location. Inspired by her own unique barbeque traditions, CCQ defines her passion for global BBQ. Last year, Cora opened Kouzzina (Greek for kitchen) at Walt Disney Worlds Boardwalk Resort, which offers Mediterranean-style cuisine that pays tribute to her Greek roots. She has also authored two cookbooks.

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Toni Nadal

Antonio Nadal Homar es un entrenador y preparador físico de tenis español.

Ha entrenado, desde el inicio de su carrera hasta 2017, a su sobrino el jugador de tenis profesional Rafael Nadal.

Aparte de su capacitación deportiva, cursó estudios de Geografía e Historia y Derecho –inacabados–. Es padre de tres hijos.

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Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor was one of India's most popular film stars, known for his work in Hindi cinema.

Born into the Kapoor family, he made his debut, as an adolescent, in his father Raj Kapoor's film Mera Naam Joker (1970), for which he won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist. As an adult, his first lead role was opposite Dimple Kapadia in the teen romance Bobby (1973), which won him the Filmfare Award for Best Actor.

Kapoor is one of the most successful actors in the history of Bollywood. Between 1973 and 2000, Kapoor starred as the romantic lead in 92 films. Some of his notable films during this period include Khel Khel Mein (1975), Kabhi Kabhie (1976), Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), Karz (1980), and Chandni (1989). Since the 2000s, he played

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