Posts Tagged ‘CHAMP’
‘X Factor’ champ Melanie Amaro signs $5 million deal
Melanie Amaro put her “X” on the dotted line.
The 19-year-old winner of the inaugural season of the American version of “The X-Factor” officially signed a $5 million record contract with Epic Records, her prize for finishing first, the label announced Tuesday.
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Ex-heavyweight champ Frazier has liver cancer
Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier has liver cancer and is under hospice care. The 67-year-old boxer was diagnosed four or five weeks ago,
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Lupica: Indy champ dies too young
This wasn’t Dale Earnhardt’s death in the world of fast cars 10 years ago, an icon of his sport dying in that great American race in Daytona. But this was still the death of the Indy 500 champ, Dan Wheldon, at a race in Las Vegas Sunday. So this wasn’t just another driver who didn’t make it out of Lap 11 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. This was the Indy champ dying tragically and suddenly and young.
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Smith: Hopkins aims to be boxing’s oldest champ
Bernard Hopkins will attempt to become the oldest man to win a boxing world championship when he steps into the ring in a rematch against WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal at the Bell Centre on on HBO on Saturday night.
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World’s Best Beard: Champ shaped facial hair into moose, flag of Norway
Elmar Weisser, a 47 year-old hairdresser, beat 160 hopefuls from 15 countries to take first prize in the 2011 World Beard and Moustache Championship.
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‘Idol’ champ Fantasia tries to kill herself with overdose
Dogged by reports she wrecked another woman’s marriage, “American Idol” Fantasia Barrino tried to kill herself with an overdose of pills, cops said.
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Eating champ leaves NY jail after hot dog fracas (AP)
AP – Japanese eating champion Takeru Kobayashi, arrested at a July Fourth hot dog-eating contest, was freed Monday after a night in jail, looking a little weary and saying he was hungry.
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