Ryan Whitney played for the Anaheim Ducks from 2008 to 2010 and for the Edmonton Oilers from 2009 to 2013. He played for the Florida Panthers from 2013 to 2014. Whitney was named to the All-Hockey East Rookie Team in 2001-02 and the 2007 NHL YoungStars Team. He represented the United States in international competition and won a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He is now an analyst for the NHL Network.
McKenzie’s best known song “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” was released in 1967 and used to promote the Monterey International Pop Music Festival. The song has been called the “unofficial anthem” of the counterculture movement of the 1960s. The song stayed at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for four weeks in a row and hit #1 in the UK. The single has sold more than seven million copies worldwide.
Terrelle Pryor was born in Jeannette, Pennsylvania on June 20, 1989. Terrelle excelled at athletics as a child. He led his high school basketball team to its first championship in 20 years. He also became the first football player in Pennsylvania’s history to run for 4,000 yards and throw for 4,000 yards. He won multiple honors during his high school years, including being named Pennsylvania Player of the Year twice, and being chosen as the MVP of the U.
He released his debut studio album Seasons in the Sun in 1974. Jacks went on to release the albums Y’Don’t Fight the Sea in 1975, Pulse in 1983, Just Like That in 1987, and Starfish on the Beach in 2015. He also had some success with the singles “I’m Gonna Capture You”, “Concrete Sea”, “I’m Gonna Love You Too”, “If You Go Away”, “Rock ‘N’ Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)”, “Christina”, “Holly”, “Y’Don’t Fight the Sea”, “In My Father’s Footsteps”, “Hey Country Girl”, “Greenback Dollar”, “You Fool Me”, and “Just Like That”.
Susanne Klatten and Stefan Quandt are the billionaire siblings who together own nearly half of BMW. The notoriously private Klatten and Quandt recently gave an interview with Manager Magazine and said: “Many people believe that we are permanently sitting around on a yacht in the Mediterranean. The role as a guardian of wealth also has personal sides that aren’t so nice.” OK, sure we can buy that, but we’re also sure that the not so nice side of having a multi-billion dollar fortune aren’t as strenuous as say, opting to not have health insurance so that you can pay the rent, just sayin’!
All that’s to say that if you missed a free agent signing here or there, it’s completely understandable. But don’t head into the regular season feeling left out. We’re here to help you get up to speed with the five best free agent signings this offseason, starting with one that impacted the entire landscape of the league. Note: This list only includes players that signed with new teams, not ones that re-signed with their current squads (like Klay Thompson with the Warriors) or were acquired in a sign-and-trade (like Kevin Durant with the Brooklyn Nets).
In 1931, Elly Kadoorie had the foresight to buy a plot of land near Mong Kok. It cost about $200,000 based on the exchange rate at the time. The plot was large and there wasn’t much on it other than a few trees. Today, that same plot of land is filled with homes and is right next to one of the most densely populated neighborhoods on Earth in the least affordable city in the world.
The group had four UK #1 singles, a #1 UK album, and many hits. The group recorded four studio albums, had 11 singles, and sold more than 10 million albums worldwide. Their debut studio album S Club was released in 1999 and was certified 2x Platinum by BPI and hit #1 in the UK and New Zealand. Their second studio album 7 in 2000 was BPA 4x Platinum and reached #1 in the UK.
Instead, the fashion designer and filmmaker’s ranch sprawls over New Mexico land, and after first listing the property back in 2016 for $75 million, he’s cut the asking price by some $27 million down to $48 million. Ford first purchased the ranch for an undisclosed sum way back in 2001, after which he hired famed architect Tadao Ando to build the ranch’s impressive single-story modernist main house as well as a serene and tranquil reflecting pool.
Tommy Lee’s three-level house sits on a lot that sprawls across 12,000-square-feet, and is distinguished by some incredible views of the surrounding hillside and Los Angeles skyline, but it’s also got plenty of features inside, like a home movie theater and (naturally) a recording studio. Then there’s the “lush central atrium,” that features an honest-to-God retractable roof.
Here’s how the house is described in its official listing:
“Set atop a spectacular hillside against the extended city light views lies this architectural compound which brings the perfect balance of a tropical escape and artistic functionality…Uniquely modeled with flow and scale far and wide…This magnificent compound is truly a unique offering for the creative lifestyle it demands.
Verónica Castro has starred on stage, in film, fotonovelas, and telenovelas. She has won a Silver Goddess “Leopoldo Meraz” Award in 2002 and a Silver Goddess for Best Comedic Performance in 1988 from the Mexican Cinema Journalists. Her handprints are imbedded at the Paseo de las Luminarias in Mexico City for her work in television, movies, theater, and the recording industry. In 2017, Castro appeared in the Netflix series The House of Flowers as the matronly Virginia.
Young first appeared in the film A Modern Affair in 1995 and has also appeared in the movies Knuckle Sandwich in 2004, Adult Film: A Hollywood Tale in 2009, Eagles in the Chicken Coop in 2010, What Death Leaves Behind in 2018, and Escape Plan 2: Hades in 2018. He has also appeared in episodes of the TV series Pacific Blue, JAG, CSI: NY, NCIS, and Chase Street.
A family in London posted a job description on Childcare.co.uk looking for a full-time nanny. They’re willing to pay £75,000, or about $96,000, to the right candidate. But this nanny job is a bit unusual: Applicants must be former soccer coaches or players with childcare experience. Why? As the ad says, the family’s parents have been working for more than 20 years in jobs they don’t particularly enjoy. They don’t want their kids to suffer the same fate and hope to help them follow their dreams of becoming professional soccer players.
It’s been a wild ride to get here. The Raptors have trailed in every playoff series this year but ultimately prevailed. There was a bizarre loss to the Orlando Magic to start the playoffs. Then we witnessed Leonard’s four-bounce buzzer beater in the second round to knock out the Philadelphia 76ers – the first Game 7 buzzer beater in NBA history. Finally, the Raptors blew a golden opportunity to defeat the Bucks in Game 1, and after a blowout loss in Game 2, it looked like their season was all but over.
In December 2017, Disney announced that it was buying Fox’s film studio and much of its TV assets for a staggering $71 billion. The three Murdoch family members holding executive positions at 21st Century Fox will each get huge golden parachutes – the compensation an executive is paid if they are fired or laid off after a company is sold – once the deal is final and Disney moves in and takes over.
Tatyana Bakalchuk started Wildberries a month after her first child was born. At the time, she just wanted to get back to her job as an English teacher (just like Jack Ma!), but found the baby required a lot of her attention. She came up with the idea and she and her husband Vladislav invested $700 to launch Wildberries and an additional $70 per day on advertising. She envisioned the company as a place for people like her – a mom on a budget with limited time for shopping.
Tony Murray was born Gaston Jacques Kalifa on February 8, 1920 in Paris, France. His father ran a construction company that worked on infrastructure projects such as building bridges. Murray was accepted to study architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris before the start of World War II. When the Germans invaded France, he escaped from Paris and got to Biarritz, where he boarded a Polish ship bound for England.
A source told Women’s Wear Daily that Coty – the global brand that owns CoverGirl, OPI and Sally Hansen among others – is looking to buy half of Kylie Cosmetics for $600 million. If the rumors are true, Kylie would retain 49% of her brand. This basically means she’d wouldn’t give up all control or profits from the company. It appears that Kylie has been looking for a buyer for a while now but she’s not in a hurry.
Dewji is credited with taking the family business—a wholesale and retail company established by his father in the 1970s—and turning it into a pan-African conglomerate. MeTL has a valuation of more than $1 billion and employs 24,000 people. MeTL has interests in beverages, financial services, mobile phones, textile manufacturing, energy, real estate, edible oils, and flour milling in at least six African countries. Dewji also served in Parliament as a ruling party MP from 2005 to 2015.
He then starred in the Bollywood blockbuster “Pallavi Anu Pallavi” in 1984. He also starred in many other critically and commercially successful films, including “Woh Saat Din”, “Meri Jung”, “Janbaaz”, “Karma”, “Mr. India”, “Virasat” for which he won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor, “Biwi No.1”, “Taal”, for which he won his second Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award, “Pukar” for which he won a National Film Award for Best Actor as well as “No Entry”, “Welcome”, “Race”, and “Race 2”.