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Age: 29
Born: Mar 16, 1981, in Blue Island, Illinois
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 185
Rookie Year: 2004
MLB Experience: 7 years

Overview
Curtis Granderson (born March 16, 1981, in Blue Island, Illinois) is a center fielder in Major League Baseball who currently plays for the Detroit Tigers. Granderson grew up in Lynwood, Illinois, a south suburb of Chicago and began his baseball career in the town's Little League.
High school career
Granderson attended high school at Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing, Illinois. As a senior in 1999, Granderson hit .427 and was selected SICA Central All-Conference, as well earning All-Area recognition from the Illinois Times and the Daily Southtown.

College career
As a freshman University of Illinois-Chicago in 2000, Granderson led the team with 7 home runs and 45 walks. He followed that with a strong sophomore season in which he hit .304, leading the team in runs, home runs and walks. Granderson was named Second-Team All-American by Baseball America and USA Today's Baseball Weekly and a Third-Team Louisville Slugger NCAA Division I All-American following his junior season. He graduated with degrees in business administration and advertising.
Professional career
Minor leagues
Having been drafted by the Tigers in the third round of the 2002 draft, Granderson started his minor league career with the Oneonta Tigers where he hit an impressive .344 in 52 games. The following season he again posted solid numbers, this time with the Erie Seawolves, hit his best minor league season, hitting .303 with 21 home runs and 93 RBI. In addition, he was named to the Eastern League's post-season all-star squad and made Baseball America's Double A all-star team, earning him a late season call-up to the Tigers where he made his major league debut on September 13 against the Minnesota Twins.
Granderson started the 2005 season with the Toledo Mud Hens where he again posted terrific numbers, hitting .290 with 15 home runs, 65 RBIs and 22 stolen bases. In September he was again called to the majors and had an inside-the-park home run September 15, a five-hit game September 18 and a walkoff homer on September 26 against the Chicago White Sox.

Detroit Tigers
Granderson became the Tigers' starting center fielder for the 2006 season after beating out then teammate Nook Logan for the position during spring training. From the start of his major league career in 2004, Granderson had the longest errorless streak by a position player to start his career since Dave Roberts went 205 games from 1999-2003. He ended up hitting 2 home runs during the playoffs.Granderson is considered one of the nicest players in the Major Leagues. On Easter Sunday 2007 Granderson pulled out a bag filled with over 100 autographed Easter eggs filled with candy and passed them out to young fans in Kansas City. Although Granderson was not listed on the 2007 All-Star Game ballot, due to the Tigers' decision to put Gary Sheffield as an outfielder on the ballot, he still received 376,033 write-in votes, the most write-in votes for any player in the Majors.
Granderson was named the American League Player of the Week on July 16, 2007, the first time he had won the award. During the week ending July 15, 2007, Granderson hit .500 (8-16) with two doubles, a triple, and a home run. Granderson slugged .938, drove in two runs, scored seven runs, and had fifteen total bases during Detroit's four-game series at Seattle.On August 7, 2007, Granderson became only the second player in franchise history to have at least 30 doubles, 15 triples, 15 home runs, and 10 stolen bases in a single season when he hit a double in a game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The other Tiger to accomplish this feat was Charlie Gehringer in 1930.

Granderson hit his second inside-the-park home run in his first at bat against the Yankees on August 26, 2007.On September 7th, 2007, Granderson became the 6th member all-time of baseball's exclusive 20-20-20 Club. Granderson joined the 20-20-20 club with Kansas City's George Brett (1979), Willie Mays of the New York Giants (1957), Cleveland's Jeff Heath (1941), St. Louis' Jim Bottomley (1928), and Frank Schulte of the Chicago Cubs (1911).On September 9th, 2007 Granderson stole his 20th base of the season and joined Willie Mays and Frank "Wildfire" Schulte as the only players in major league history to reach 20 doubles, 20 triples, 20 home runs, and 20 stolen bases in a season, a feat since accomplished by the Philadelphia Phillies' Jimmy Rollins. Schulte was the first to accomplish the feat in 1911 while playing for the Chicago Cubs and Mays did it in 1957 with the New York Giants.
In 2007, he hit .302 with 23 home runs, and was 26-for-27 in stolen base attempts. He was one of only 6 batters in the AL to have at least 20 home runs and 20 stolen bases, along with Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield, Ian Kinsler, B.J. Upton, and Grady Sizemore.

Triples
Curtis Granderson has become one of the premier triples hitters in all of baseball during the 2007 season. Through 154 team games Granderson has 23 triples which leads all of baseball. The American League and Detroit Tigers record is 26 triples, a feat achieved by the all-time triples king, Sam Crawford, in 1914. Granderson is the first player since 1949 to manage at least 23 in a single season. It is also worth noting that only 10 of his triples were at home despite the fact Comerica Park has seen more triples since it opened in 2000 than any other ballpark in baseball. Through September 25, 2007 Granderson's 23 triples is more than some entire teams have managed - the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Chicago White Sox, Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals, and Cincinnati Reds, all have no more than 23 total triples.

Awards and accolades
* American League Player of the Week (July 9-15, 2007)

Broadcasting career
Uncharacteristic in sports broadcasting, TBS employed Curtis Granderson as a color commentator alongside Cal Ripken, Jr. and Frank Thomas for its coverage of the 2007 baseball postseason games as an analyst of some aspects of the game; in his case, largely baserunning and outfield defense. Ordinarily the commentators are retired players or players near the ends of their careers... but Granderson had only two full seasons of major league baseball behind him and three altogether.
Trivia
* Granderson said on a local Detroit interview that one of his best MLB moment was a ninth inning home run against Cincinnati Reds pitcher David Weathers. The home run tied the game and the Tigers went on to win on an error by Reds shortstop Felipe Lopez. The game was played at Comerica Park on Saturday, May 20, 2006 to a sell-out attendance. * During an August, 2006 game an ESPN shot revealed that Granderson had written the words "Don't Think, Have Fun" on the underbill of his cap. * After visiting London in the off-season, Granderson is now a British baseball favorite, with Britain's Channel 5 baseball show MLB on Five now including a segment called "Granderson Watch", taking over from Weaver Watch (after Jeff Weaver got a World Series ring). The segment involves Curtis answering weekly emails and occasionally appearing live over the phone. * According to a Detroit Free Press article one of Curtis Granderson's hobbies is spending a lot of his spare time on the internet. Curtis says one of his favorite sites is youtube.com * Curtis Granderson (0-for-13), Iván Rodríguez (0-for-11) and Plácido Polanco (0-for-10) were the first group of three teammates, each with 10-or-more at-bats, to go hitless through the first three games of a World Series. * As of November 2007, more Facebook users have named Graderson as their Tiger in the Who's Your Tiger application than any other player. * Granderson often has 1990's West Coast Rap played as entrance music for each at-bat at Comerica Park. This includes "Bad Intentions" & "Nuthin' But A G' Thang" by Dr. Dre or "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" by 2 Pac & Snoop Dogg.

Camilla Belle Biography News Profile Relationships Photo Wallpaper Video.

From a prolific childhood acting career in family entertainment and made-for-TV movies, Camilla Belle went on to become a star with edge-of-your-seat teen date offerings "When a Stranger Calls" (2006), and "The Quiet" (2005). But Belle simultaneously cultivated art house street cred with a mature performance opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" (2005), even as she rocketed into "It" girl status playing a cave woman in "10,000 B.C." (2008) and a psychic government operative in the sci-fi thriller "Push" (2009). A radiant but natural beauty who avoided the trappings of young Hollywood, Belle entered her twenties with a string of dramatic, multi-dimensional leading characters - including the Virgin Mary - that suggested the actress had a long and promising career beyond multiplex entertainment.Camilla Belle hot nude picture collection.
Born Camilla Belle Routh in Los Angeles on Oct. 2, 1986, Belle was named after actress Renata Sorrah's character, Camila, on the Brazilian soap opera "Cavalo de Aço" (1973). Belle headed immediately for the spotlight herself, landing her first modeling gig for a national print ad at the age of nine months.
The ambitious youngster segued smoothly into acting, appearing in minor roles in television movies such as "Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth" (NBC, 1993), "Empty Cradle" (ABC, 1993) and "Deconstructing Sarah" (USA Network, 1994). After a supporting role in the direct-to-video family feature "Annie: A Royal Adventure" (ABC, 1995), Belle hit the big screen playing a fellow orphanage-dweller of the beloved literary character "A Little Princess" (1995) in Alfonso Cuaron's 1995 remake of the 1939 film classic starring Shirley Temple. The young actress found steady work with roles in "Poison Ivy 2" (1996) and the Jimmy Smits' vehicle "Marshal Law" (Showtime, 1996), returning to theaters in her first major studio film, Steven Spielberg's "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" (1997). In the Nicole Kidman/Sandra Bullock chick-flick "Practical Magic" (1998), Belle had a plum role as the young version of Bullock's character.
Meanwhile, Belle attended the elite, all-girls Marlborough school, taking time off to play Steven Seagal's daughter in the HBO thriller "The Patriot" (1998). In her downtime, Belle studied classical piano and became actively involved in charities, including becoming an international spokesperson for "Kids With a Cause," a program created to provide help for children suffering from poverty, hunger, neglect and abuse. She was in her late teens when she landed her next major film outing, starring in the critically acclaimed indie, "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" (2005), as the commune-dwelling daughter of a single father (Daniel Day-Lewis) whose nontraditional family lifestyle leads to complicated relationships. The same year, Belle portrayed another non-conformist teen in the dark ensemble comedy "The Chumscrubber" and took first billing in the campy horror thriller "The Quiet," where she played a traumatized teen taken in by relatives who shakes up her adopted household.
In 2006, the actress finally got a profile boost when she was cast in the remake of the 1979 slasher classic "When a Stranger Calls (2006), in which she gave an appropriately sympathetic portrayal of a young babysitter being harassed on the phone by an unknown killer who is closer proximity-wise than she knows. The film opened at No. 1 at the box office. The 20-year-old acting veteran went on to star as a kidnapped cave girl opposite Steven Strait in Warner Bros. "10,000 B.C." (2008), a critically lambasted but money-making prehistoric epic directed by Roland Emmerich and starring many a computer animated dinosaur. "Push" (2009), a sci-fi thriller about a group of paranormally gifted subjects trying to overthrow the government agency that controls them, was similarly dismissed by critics but also failed to bring in big box office. That year, the low-key, spotlight-shunning actress uncharacteristically wound up in the gossip blogs when she was spotted at a number of events with teen heartthrob Joe Jonas, after having appeared in a music video of Jonas' pop band, The Jonas Brothers.
Amid rumors about relationships with Jonas and "Twilight" (2009) heartthrob Robert Pattinson, Belle began to break away from broad genre pics with a starring role in Bruce Willis' directorial debut "Three Stories About Joan" (2009), a romantic drama co-starring Owen Wilson and Kieran Culkin. In 2010, Belle was a surprising casting choice to play the title character in "Mary, Mother of Christ" (2010), a historic chronicle of the life of Mary co-starring heavy-hitting thespian Peter O'Toole and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

    * Also Credited As:
      Camilla Belle Routh
    * Born:      Camilla Belle Routh on October 2, 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA
    * Job Titles:      Actor

Family
    * Father: Jack Routh.
    * Mother: Christina Routh. Designed a fashion line in her native Brazil; currently manages daughter s career

Significant Others
    * Boyfriend: Joe Jonas. Met while filming the video of the band s single Lovebug in 2008; began dating shortly after; ended relationship in July 2009
    * Companion: Max Minghella.

Education
    * Marlborough School, Los Angeles , California

Milestones
    * 1987 Made debut at age nine months in a national print commercial
    * 1993 TV acting debut in Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth
    * 1995 Cast as the orphan Molly in the ABC TV-movie Annie: A Royal Adventure!
    * 1995 Feature film debut, A Little Princess
    * 1996 Portrayed Jimmy Smits young daughter in the Showtime movie Martial Law
    * 1997 Appeared in The Lost World: Jurassic Park
    * 1998 Played a young Sandra Bullock in the feature Practical Magic
    * 1999 Appeared alongside Mary McDonnell in Replacing Dad (CBS)
    * 1999 Co-starred as Steven Seagal s daughter in the thriller The Patriot ; aired on HBO before its release
on video
    * 2001 Garnered glowing reviews for work in the Showtime film Back to the Secret Garden
    * 2001 Played the young incarnation of Phoebe (who grows up to be Jordana Brewster) in The Invisible Circus
    * 2005 Co-starred in Arie Posin s darkly satiric ensemble The Chumscrubber
    * 2005 Portrayed Daniel Day-Lewis daughter in The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    * 2006 Played a deaf-mute teenage orphan in the indie film, The Quiet
    * 2006 Starred in Simon West s remake of the 1979 thriller, When a Stranger Calls
    * 2008 Cast in Roland Emmerich s prehistoric epic, 10,000 BC
    * 2009 Co-starred in the supernatural thriller, Push, along with Dakota Fanning and Chris Evans

Jessica Simpson Biography News Profile Relationships Photo Wallpaper Video.

Jessica Ann Simpson was born on July 10, 1980 and she is an American pop music singer who rose to fame during the late 1990s. In the following decade, she starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey, in the MTV reality show Newlyweds, released her own line of beauty products and started a career as an actress whilst continuing her music career nude photo.

Biography and Career :
Jessica Simpson was born in Abilene, Texas and raised in Richardson, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. Jessica Simpson is the daughter of Joe Truett Simpson ( a former Baptist youth minister ) and Tina Ann Drew ( a former Sunday School teacher).She has a younger sister, Ashlee, who launched her own music career in mid-2004. Jessica Simpson started singing at the age of twelve as a part of her Baptist church choir. At t
he same age, she made an unsuccessful application for The New Mickey Mouse Club, which starred fellow pop singers Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, among other future stars.
 
Jessica Simpson attended J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas. She was discovered singing at a church camp by a head of a small contemporary Christian record label and recorded an album over the next three years; however, the label folded before the record could be released.She dropped out in her senior year in order to tour and promote her demo album, which was funded by her grandmother, Joyce (thus the reason for the name of her 2004 holiday album, ReJoyce: The Christmas Album); she later earned her GED.During this time, Jessica Simpson toured with the Christian Youth Conference circuit performing with Kirk Franklin, God's Property and CeCe Winans. She and her father sold copies of the album after her performances.
Tommy Mottola of Columbia Records obtained a copy of the album and, thinking Jessica Simpson had potential as a pop singer, signed her as such. Christian influences can still be found in much of her music. Jessica Ann Simpson was born on July 10th, 1980 in Texas. Jessica is the oldest of two girls born to Tina and Joe Simpson. She was raised in the Dallas area with her sister Ashlee Simpson. Jessica was brought up in the Baptist faith and sang in her church as a child. During this time she also tried out for the Mickey Mouse Club, but was not chosen due to a poor audition. The show went on to cast Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Justin Timberlake.Jessica attended Richardson North Junior High and then J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas. She was a cheerleader and very involved in the school's drama program.

While singing in a church summer camp, she was discovered by a Christian music label. She was signed to a record deal. For young Jessica, this was a dream come true. She worked for three years on her debut Christian album, however, the label folded and her album was never released. Her grandmother then put forth the funding in order for Jessica to have a demo album. Jessica dropped out of high school her senior year in order to pursue her music career. (She would later get her GED.) She toured with the Christian Youth Conference and shared the stage with Christian music greats God's Property, CeCe Winans, and Kirk Franklin. Jessica's father, Joe Simpson, would help her sell her demo albums after the shows.

Jessica caught the attention of Tommy Mottola from Columbia Records, who signed her to a record deal. He had heard Jessica's demo album and thought that she could make it big in the pop world. Her first album, Sweet Kisses, was released in 1999. This album was certified double platinum. Her single, "I Wanna Love You Forever" reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs. This was Jessica's first Top 10 hit. The single also was a success internationally, garnering Top 10 status in several European countries. In 2000, she was offered a role in the film "Coyote Ugly" but she turned it down.
Jessica stayed close to her Christian roots during the initial releases of her album. She dressed much more conservatively than her pop star counterparts. However, with the release of her second album, "Irresistible," Jessica began to show more of a sexier image. The title single, "Irresistible," contained somewhat suggestive language and even showed Jessica questioning her famous decision to remain a virgin into marriage. This change in image was largely due to the influence of Tommy Mottola. Although Jessica had been successful with her first album, he had been disappointed with the results. He felt that Jessica had the ability to be competitive with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, but the image was holding her back. He decided that Jessica needed to lose a little weight and dress sexier, both in her videos and while out in public. The "Irresistible" video is the first one to show this side of Jessica, and she is rumored not to be too fond of it. While she gained some new fans, she alienated some of her early fans who looked up to her as a Christian role model.

The next year Jessica married her long time boyfriend, Nick Lachey. The two met in 1998 when they both performed at a charity event. Nick was there to perform with his group, 98 Degrees. For her wedding, Jessica wore a beautiful strapless beaded Vera Wang gown. She carried a stephanotis bouquet that was made up of 500 stems and took the florists over twelve hours to make. After the wedding, Jessica wrote a book called, "I Do: Achieving Your Dream Wedding." The book included details regarding her own wedding to Nick as well as tips on how readers could plan their own wedding. Jessica and Nick also agreed to star in a MTV reality show, entitled "Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica."

It was this reality show that shot Jessica into superstardom. Although it had a somewhat slow start, the show soon became a smash hit, and Jessica and Nick became household names. She was often portrayed in the show to be a dumb blonde, but Jessica's mother told Vanity Fair magazine that Jessica's IQ is 160, which would put her in the genius category. The show was a ratings winner for MTV. It averaged 1.4 million viewers per episode. Along with the reality show, she also released her third album, "In This Skin." The album debuted at #10 on the charts and wasn't selling well. However, after "Newlyweds" became successful, radio stations began to play her second single, "With You" frequently. Jessica capitalized on that success by releasing a music video that parodied some of her "blonde moments" on "Newlyweds." A second version of the album was released, with several new tracks. It shot to #2 on the charts and sold 150,000 copies in one week. The album ended up selling over 3 million copies in the United States alone. Jessica also appeared on "That 70's Show" three times between 2002 and 2003. In addition, Jessica won three 2003 Teen Choice Awards.

In 2004, Jessica released ReJoyce: The Christmas Album, named for her grandmother who had funded her demo album. It was certified gold. Also that year, Jessica and Nick had a television special, "The Nick and Jessica Variety Hour." Jessica released a line of beauty products called "Dessert" which featured lotions and body sprays in flavors such as "cupcake" and "candy." She earned the distinction of being chose as #1 on Maxim magazines "Top 100 Hot List." She also went on her "Reality Tour Live" which was a series of concert dates which featured footage from "Newlyweds." The show was opened by Ryan Cabrera, who was romantically linked to her sister, Ashlee. The tour was also released on DVD.

Filming on "Newlyweds" wrapped in 2005. Later that year it won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Reality Show. Jessica also appeared as Daisy Duke in the motion picture "The Dukes Of Hazzard." It debuted at #1 in the United States. Her cover of Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" appeared on the soundtrack. It hit #14 on the Billboard charts and won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Song from a Movie. Jessica appeared in multiple television commercials related to her work on this film. She was named one of People's 50 Most Beautiful People of 2005.

Although Jessica was enjoying public success, her personal life was in trouble. In November of 2005, Nick and Jessica separated. The next month she filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Jessica purchased her own home in Beverly Hills for $3 million dollars. The divorce was finalized in June of 2006. The couple sold the house made famous in the "Newlyweds" series to "Malcolm in the Middle" star, Justin Berfield. Jessica did not let her divorce slow her down, however.

Her fourth album, "A Public Affair," was released in August of 2006 on Epic Records. Jessica was credited with writing 10 of the 13 songs on the album. The video for "A Public Affair" was full of celebrities including Ryan Seacrest, Andy Dick, Christina Applegate and Eva Longoria. Jessica released a second single "I Belong to Me" on her website and later added to her CD. Jessica did a poll on her website to determine what her second single should be. "I Belong To Me" received over 14,000 votes, beating out the other five possibilities. In October, Jessica's second movie project, "Employee of the Month" was released. The film stars Dane Cook and Dax Shepard. Jessica started filming her third film "Blonde Ambition" with Luke Wilson in November of 2006. The film is expected to come out in theatres in 2007.

During filming of Employee of the Month, Jessica was rumored to have dated Dane Cook and Luke Wilson during early filming of Blonde Ambition. Her current boyfriend is singer John Mayer. The couple appear to be very happy together. Jessica's one true love is her dog Daisy, who she is often seen carrying with her while out and about. Daisy is a Maltipoo, which is a mix between a Maltese and a Poodle. Jessica also loves the movie "Pretty Woman" starring Julia Roberts, hot pink roses, and Mexican food. She's a big fan of sour skittles, vanilla ice cream and chicken-fried steak. She drives a 2005 Mercedes Benz SL500.

Jessica is very involved in charity work. She serves as Operation Smile's International Youth Ambassador. Operation Smile works to help children with facial deformities receive surgery. Jessica also has been involved with the USO, which provides entertainment to American troops stationed throughout the world. She's traveled to visit the troops in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Oman, Germany and Iraq, as well as visiting several ships which were stationed in Southwest Asia. She also toured military bases and provided screenings of "The Dukes of Hazzard" to military members in the United States.
There have been some rumors that Jessica might be recording an album with friend Liv Tyler. Jessica is planning to start work on another film soon, which will be in theatres sometime in 2008. Filming for that movie will begin in June and is titled "Major Movie Star." Jessica was scheduled to begin filming "The Witness" in June but filming has been pushed back. As for her plans for the future, Jessica had indicated a desire to adopt a child.

Jessica's hard work and perseverance have paid off and now she is considered one of the top female pop singers in the United States. You may find more Jessica Simpson News here and we also have a Jessica Simpson Forum for you to enjoy.

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