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Xolo Maridueña
Xolo Maridueña (born June 9, 2001, in Los Angeles) is an American actor of Mexican, Cuban, and Ecuadorian descent who first gained attention as a child star in the NBC drama Parenthood (2012–2015). He rose to prominence playing Miguel Diaz in the hit Netflix series Cobra Kai (2018–202...
Thea Frodin
Thea Frodin (born December 17, 2008) is a rising American tennis player from Southern California who currently holds a WTA singles ranking of No. 580 and a doubles ranking of No. 710 as of August 2026. She made her mark in junior tennis by finishing as runner-up at the Orange B...
Major League Baseball tie-breaking procedures
Since 2022, Major League Baseball (MLB) has overhauled its tie-breaking procedures, eliminating traditional one-game playoff tiebreakers to accommodate the expanded 12-team postseason format with a third wild-card team. Instead, ties between two teams are now broken mathematically by comparing head-to-head winning percentage, intradivi...
Elias Ymer
Elias Ymer (born 10 April 1996) is a Swedish tennis player who currently holds the No. 1 ranking in his country, with a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 105, achieved in June 2018. Born in Skara to Ethiopian immigrant parents, he is the older brother of fellow tennis player Mikael Ymer and ...
David Bednar (baseball)
David Bednar (born October 10, 1994), nicknamed "the Bednar Bandit" and "El Oso" (Spanish for 'the Bear'), is an American professional baseball pitcher currently playing for the New York Yankees after being traded from the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 31, 2025. Drafted by the San Diego Padres
State of Play (film)
State of Play is a 2009 political thriller directed by Kevin Macdonald, based on the 2003 British TV serial of the same name. The film stars Russell Crowe as journalist Cal McAffrey, who investigates the suspicious death of Sonia Baker, the aide and mistress of Congressman Step...
Zendaya
Zendaya (born Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman on September 1, 1996, in Oakland, California) is an American actress and singer-songwriter whose leading film roles have grossed over $9.8 billion worldwide, earning her two Primetime Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a spot on Time's 100 most influential people in 2022. S...
Luis Gil (baseball)
Luis Ángel Gil is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees, who signed with the Minnesota Twins in 2015 before being traded to New York in 2018 for Jake Cave. He made his MLB debut in 2021, making history as the first pitcher ever to throw a scoreless start in...
Bernhard Langer
Bernhard Langer (born 1957) is a German golfing legend who claimed two Masters titles (1985 and 1993) and became the first-ever world number one when the Official World Golf Ranking launched in 1986. With 42 European Tour wins (second all-time) and victories on all six continents, he is one of only five players to achi...
The Angel's Game
The Angel's Game (2008) is a prequel to Carlos Ruiz Zafón's beloved novel The Shadow of the Wind, returning readers to the atmospheric Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop in Barcelona's Raval district. Translated by Lucia Graves and published in English in 2009, the novel broke all ...
Alex McFarlane (baseball)
Alexander Jeffrey McFarlane (born June 9, 2001) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. Hailing from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, he played college baseball at the University of Miami before being drafted by the Phillies in the fourth round of the 2022 MLB draf...
Michael Conforto
Michael Conforto, nicknamed "Scooter," is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Chicago Cubs, having previously played for the New York Mets, San Francisco Giants, and Los Angeles Dodgers. After a stellar college career at Oregon State University—where he was a two-time Pac-12 Player of the Year and set ...