YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter are the main sites used by musicians in order to display their talents and have proven to transform average ‘joes’ into worldwide celebrities. For instance, rapper and producer Soulja Boy, known for his 2007 hit single “Crank That (Soulja Boy),” is a prime example of the power of YouTube – revolutionizing the way artists gain a massive online appeal from a cheap video that turned out to earn him a number one spot on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Bradley played for the German men’s national team alongside fellow Mavs teammate Dirk Nowitzki. After his retirement, Bradley started coaching in Utah. He ran for the Utah House of Representatives as a Republican in 2010, but lost to incumbent Democrat Tim Cosgrove. Bradley has six children with his wife, Annette: four daughters named Cheyenne, Chelsea, Charity, and Ciera, and two sons named Chance and Chase. The family lives in Utah and all are practicing Mormons.
In February 2014, Brightoil Petroleum made a deal to buy $1.1 billion of oil and gas assets in eastern China’s Bohai Bay from Anadarko Petroleum of Texas. Aside from chairing his group, Sit Kwong Lam is a vice president of the China Chamber of Commerce for Petroleum Industry, as well as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
However, the majority of his wealth comes from the land he owns in Northern Cyprus and Turkey. When it comes to Gunsel’s private life, he is married with three children and except from spending his free time with his family, he is also fond of jogging, riding horses and playing tennis. Besides, he is a passionate collector of stamps and antique cars.
Rybolovlev wants to expose the alleged criminal activity of art dealer Yves Bouvier. Rybolovlev claims to have experienced a “personal act of betrayal” and wants Bouvier to face justice. He is accusing the Swiss art dealer of fraud and money laundering. This is just the latest shenanigan in a long running feud between these two men. Rybolovlev and Bouvier worked together for years to build Rybolovlev’s $1.8 billion art collection.
Normally, the complaint is that athletes make too much. In this case, WNBA players may not make enough. Diana Taurasi is arguably the best player in WNBA history. She won’t play in 2015. It’s not because of injury. Her team in Russia payed her more to not play in the WNBA than the league could offer her to play. Taurasi is one of 42 players making near or over $100,000.
Thomas H. Lee Partners, the corporation that he supported in 1974 is among the leading non-public equity corporations globally. Lee is presently the managing partner of Lee Equity Partners, a personal equity firm that he started to support in 2006 as he was leaving the Thomas H. Lee Partnership. In 1974, Lee supported a replacement investment company to specialize in deed firms through buyout transactions. By the mid-1980s, Thomas Lee Partners was firmly established among the highest tier of a replacement category of personal equity investors, whereas taking a friendlier approach than the questionable company riders of the age.
At least in theory, the idea of “drafting” a player is alive and well. Scouts and analysts scour the pitches and spreadsheets, looking for that player who will put their squad over the edge. Players cannot become professionals until they reach the age of 16, but they technically join the transfer-eligible pool as soon as they attach themselves to a club, regardless of level. For example, Mario Gotze, who scored the winning goal in the World Cup final, joined Borussia Dortmund when he was only eight years old.
He was a defensive coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1986 to 1988 and for the Denver Broncos from 1989 to 1992. Phillips was the head coach of the Broncos from 1993 to 1994 and then the defensive coordinator of the Buffalo Bills from 1995 to 1997. He became the head coach of the Bills from 1998 to 2000 and then was the defensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons from 2002 to 2003 and interim head coach in 2003.
Hallelujah! One of the dumbest and silliest controversies in recent NFL history can finally fade away into the past where it belongs! Not so fast. Brady and the NFLPA are going to take the NFL to court. They claim that the punishment is ridiculous since there is no hard evidence that Brady did anything wrong. To a point, they are right. The evidence is flimsy and would not be enough in a court of law, but the NFL does not have the same administrative rules as the United States Judicial System.
During the recent summer meetings for the Premier League, the 20 clubs that make up the league made the decision not to pursue a title sponsor after their current sponsorship deal with Barclays expires at the end of the 2015-16 season. Though the league was fielding an offer of nearly $70 million from alcoholic beverage brand Diageo, the league decided against it and will be known simply as ‘The Premier League," starting with the 2016-17 season.
Earlier this week, YouTube and AMRA; the collection society owned by Kobalt, announced a global licensing agreement, which excludes the United States and Canada, that covers over 100 territories across the globe. According to Kobalt, the goal of the YouTube deal is to “significantly improve and ultimately resolve the value chain and income flow to music creators.” AMRA says that it has the ability to uniquely track the songs that are played via streaming video in real-time, which in theory, would make it much easier to pay artists whose songs are being streamed.
He launched his company Iliev in 1993, managing 15 hectares of Moscow’s Cherkizovsky market. Several years later, Iliev gained 57% of wholesale-retail shopping center “Moscow”, a former Lablino’s ball-bearing factory that was transformed into trading market center “Moscow” with 200 000- square meters area. Moreover, Iliev is the co-owner of Radisson Royal Ukraine Hotel, European Shopping Center and Radisson SAS Slavyanskaya Hotel, as well as several huge shopping centers placed in Moscow’s suburbs.
One player that sort of slipped under the radar, though, was former Tennessee Titans quarterback Jake Locker, who was selected eighth. We say “former” because Locker just stunned the sports world by announcing his sudden retirement from football at the young age of 26. His reason? He simply didn’t have a burning desire to play the game anymore. Thanks to poor health throughout his career, Locker only played in 30 games in his four NFL seasons, and never more than 11 in a year.
Some of his more notable appearances include Pyro in X2, as well as X-Men: The Last Stand, Doug in 2006’s The Hills Have Eyes, and Birkhoff in Nikita. The latter aired from 2010 until 2013. For his work in The Hills Have Eyes, he earned a Young Hollywood Award for “one to watch.” He also did voice work for the 2012 video game, Call of Duty: Black Ops II Zombies Mode.
Nagarjuna represented Cinema of South India at the 2013 Delhi Film Festival’s 100 Years of Indian Cinema. He co-owns the Mumbai Masters of the Indian Badminton League and Mahi Racing Team India. Akkineni started producing films in 1995. He co-owns the production company Annapurna Studios with his brother Venkat. Nagarjuna is also the president of non-profit film school Annapurna International School of Film and Media. He is also the co-founder of Blue Cross of Hyderabad.
He has directed the movies Palookaville in 1995, The Emperor’s New Clothes in 2011, Kill the Poor in 2003, Thor: The Dark World in 2013, and Terminator Genisys in 2015. Taylor has also directed episodes of the TV series Six Feet Under, Lost, Law & Order, Big Love, Boardwalk Empire, and The Playboy Club. He won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2007 for The Sopranos.
in Economics from the University of Chicago, he has started his involvement in the Chilean financial and real estate sector in his early youth. As Corpbanca’s investor relations director, Claudia Labbe Montevecchi, stated Alvaro Saieh Bendeck has accumulated a fortune estimated at $2.6 billion, through his various stakes in retail, media, real estate and insurance companies; his retail unit, SMU, being only one of them. Apart from rising big in the world of business, he is also a husband and a father of five.
The members of INXS wrote many of their early songs collectively, but songwriting duties eventually became the sole responsibility of Farriss and Hutchence. In addition to writing, touring, and recording with INXS, Farriss has also written and/or produced tracks for Jenny Morris, Yothu Yindi, and GUN, among other artists. He also participated in the reality series, “Rock Star: INXS”, which followed the group as they looked for a new lead singer following the death of Michael Hutchence.
Arnold Palmer, who came in at No. 5 after earning $40 million. Wait, isn’t Palmer 86 years old? Wasn’t the last time he played a round on tour back in 2006? How can he possibly be on that high on the list? Well, when you are a living legend with an ingenious marketing plan, it is not that hard. Palmer played in over 1,000 tournaments on the PGA Tour and Champions Tour (Senior PGA) over the course of his career, and made just over $3.