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)

World Champion hot dog eater Joey Chestnut celebrates his win at the Famous Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest eating 54 hot dogs Sunday, July 4, 2010 in the Brooklyn borough of New York.(AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)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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