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Houston Dynamo's Kei Kamara
08 July 2009 — Kei Kamara of the Houston Dynamo celebrates a goal @ Kansas City
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Michael Jordan, Kris Kross and Heavy D all made appearances in the song Michael Jackson’s song JAM produced by Teddy Riley
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*NSYNC’s Challenge for the Children VI – Day 3 – Basketball Game
July 25, 2004 – Office Depot Center
Sunrise, Florida United States
The Daze beat the Knights, with a score of 41-34.
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Abdul was born with in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, the daughter of Lorraine (née Rykiss), a concert pianist and Harry Abdul, a former livestock trader and owner of a sand and gravel business.
Her father, a Syrian Jew, was born in Syria, raised in Brazil, and subsequently emigrated to the United States; Abdul’s mother, also Jewish, is originally from Saint Boniface (now part of Winnipeg), Manitoba, Canada, and Abdul derives Canadian citizenship through her.
An avid dancer, Abdul was inspired towards a show business career by Gene Kelly in the classic film Singin’ in the Rain as well as Debbie Allen, Fred Astaire, and Bob Fosse.
Abdul began taking dance lessons at the age of eight and showed a natural talent. She did classes of tap,jazz,and ballet while she was growing up. She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was a cheerleader and an honor student. At 15, she received a scholarship to a dance camp near Palm Springs, and in 1978 appeared in a low-budget Independent musical film, Junior High School.
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Quincy Jones also wanted to change the track’s title to “Not My Lover”, believing that people would think the song referred to the tennis player Billie Jean King. Michael Jackson refused to change the title.
Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California) is a tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles.
She is known for the “The Battle of the Sexes” in 1973, in which she defeated Bobby Riggs, (picture above) a former Wimbledon men’s singles champion.
King is the founder of the Women’s Tennis Association, the Women’s Sports Foundation, and World Team Tennis, which she founded with her former husband, Lawrence King.
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Jackson stated in his autobiography, Moon Walk, that the song was based on the groupies he and his brothers encountered while part of The Jackson 5.
“There never was a real Billie Jean. The girl in the song is a composite of people my brothers have been plagued with over the years. I could never understand how these girls could say they were carrying someone’s child when it wasn’t true.”
Jackson biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli promoted the theory that “Billie Jean” was derived from a real life experience the singer faced in 1981. The Magic & The Madness documents how a young woman wrote a letter to Jackson, informing the singer that he was the father of one of her twins.
Jackson, who regularly received letters of this kind, had never met the woman in question and ignored it. The woman sent more letters to Jackson, claiming that she loved him and wanted to be with him. She wrote of how happy they would be, bringing up the child together. She pondered how Jackson could ignore his own flesh and blood. The letters disturbed the singer to the extent that he suffered nightmares.
Following the letters, Jackson received a parcel containing a photograph of the fan, as well as a letter and a gun. Jackson was horrified—the letter asked that the pop star kill himself on a certain day and at a specific time. The fan would do the same once she had killed their baby. She wrote that if they could not be together in this life, then they would be in the next. Afterward, the Jacksons discovered that the female fan had been sent to a psychiatric hospital.
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A special TV show called ‘The Rock ‘N’ Roll Sports Classic’ was originally aired on Wednesday, May 3rd 1978. Basically, 2 teams of entertainers from the seventies compete against each other for charity. The Jacksons were on the Blue Team (East). The Jackson’s team won with 332 points. The losing team, which wore yellow (West) lost with 265 points. Apparently, a charitable contribution of $20,000 was given to the University of California, U.S.A.
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