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Anteater Stadium is a 2,500 seat multi-purpose stadium on the campus of University of California, Irvine in Irvine, California. Recent renovations... have added lights to Anteater Stadium, which was completed late in 2000. Anteater Stadium served as the host for the first Big West Conference men's soccer tournament which the UC Irvine Anteaters men's soccer team won. The soccer programs share use of the stadium with track and field.
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James Phillip Rome , known as Jim Rome, is an American sports radio talk show host syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks, a subsidiary of Clear... Channel Communications. Broadcasting from a studio near Los Angeles, California, Rome hosts The Jim Rome Show on radio. For a number of years Rome hosted a television show Jim Rome Is Burning , which aired on ESPN in the United States and TSN2 in Canada. In 2011, Rome ended his relationship with ESPN to join the CBS network where it is reported he will host his own show, as well as an interview-format show on the Showtime channel. His past hosting jobs included sports discussion television shows Talk2 , The FX Sports Show , and The Last Word . The Jim Rome Show is tied for the #21 most listened to talk radio show in the United States and Rome is the #29 most influential talk radio personality according to Talkers Magazine. Born in Tarzana, California, Rome graduated from Calabasas High School in 1982 and the University of California, Santa Barbara with a degree in Communications in 1987.
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John William "Will" Ferrell is an American comedian, impressionist, actor, and writer. Ferrell first established himself in the mid 1990s as a cast... member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, and has subsequently starred in the comedy films Old School, Elf, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Stranger than Fiction, Blades of Glory, Semi-Pro, and The Other Guys. He is considered a member of the "Frat Pack", a generation of leading Hollywood comic actors who emerged in the late 1990s and the 2000s, including Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Steve Carell, Vince Vaughn, and brothers Owen and Luke Wilson. Ferrell was born in Irvine, California, the son of Betty Kay , a teacher who taught at Old Mill School elementary school and Santa Ana College, and Roy Lee Ferrell, Jr., a musician with The Righteous Brothers. His parents were both natives of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, and moved to California in 1964; Ferrell has Irish ancestry. Ferrell has a younger brother, Patrick. When he was 8, his parents divorced. Ferrell said of the divorce, "I was the type of kid who would say, 'Hey Look at the bright side! We'll have two Christmases.
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Zacarías Manuel "Zack" de la Rocha is an American rapper, musician, poet, and activist best known as the vocalist and lyricist of Rage Against... the Machine. Zack de la Rocha's father, Roberto "Beto" de la Rocha, played an integral part in his son's cultural upbringing. Beto was a Jewish muralist and member of Los Four — the first Chicano art collective to be exhibited at a museum . De la Rocha's grandfather was a Sinaloan revolutionary born in Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, who fought in the Mexican Revolution and worked as an agricultural labourer in the US. Later, de la Rocha would see the hardships his grandfather endured reflected in the struggles of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.. When de la Rocha was a year old, his parents separated. He and his German-Irish mother, Olivia de la Rocha, moved from East Los Angeles to Irvine, California, where Olivia attended the University of California at Irvine and earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology. Zack described Irvine as "one of the most racist cities imaginable. If you were a Mexican in Irvine, you were there because you had a broom or a hammer in your hand.
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Timothy Robert Commerford , also known by his various monikers/stage names is the bassist/backing vocalist for American alternative metal band Rage... Against The Machine and the now-defunct supergroup Audioslave. Tim Commerford was born on February 26, 1968 in Irvine, California, and was youngest of six children. His father, an aerospace engineer, worked on the Space Shuttle and his mother was a teacher/mathematician. He is of French and Irish descent. When Commerford was in fifth grade, he met Zack de la Rocha. Around this time, his mother was diagnosed with cancer. Shortly thereafter Commerford's father divorced and remarried, his mother moved to Sacramento, California to live with her sister, while seeking treatment and Tim remained with his father. Around this time Zack introduced Commerford to bass, and Commerford soon found an outlet in music, and poetry. Commerford's mother died of brain cancer in 1988. In 1993 Commerford was introduced to mountain biking by his future father-in-law Jimbo Insko.
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Dita Von Teese is an American burlesque dancer, model, costume designer, author and actress. Dita Von Teese was born Heather Renée Sweet on... September 28, 1972, in Rochester, Michigan, the middle child of three daughters. Her mother was a manicurist and her father was a machinist at a company that made graphite. She is of partly Armenian heritage. Von Teese is well known for her fascination with 1940s cinema and classic retro style. This began at a young age and was fostered by her mother, who would buy clothes for her daughter to dress up in. Her mother was a fan of old, Golden-era Hollywood films, and it was from her that Von Teese developed a fascination with the actresses of that day, especially Betty Grable. She was classically trained as a ballet dancer from an early age, and danced solo at age thirteen for a local ballet company. Though she originally wanted to be a ballerina, Von Teese states that "By 15, I was as good as I’d ever be." She was later to incorporate this element into her burlesque shows, where she frequently goes en pointe.
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Shawn David Green is a former Major League Baseball player. Green was a 1st round draft pick and a two-time major league All-Star. He drove in 100... runs four times and scored 100 runs four times, hit 40 or more home runs three times, led the league in doubles, extra base hits, and total bases, won both a Gold Glove Award and a Silver Slugger Award, and set the Dodgers single-season record in home runs. Green was also in the top five in the league in home runs, RBIs, intentional walks, and MVP voting. Green holds or is tied for the following major league records: most home runs in a game , most extra base hits in a game , most total bases in a game , most runs scored in a game , most home runs in two consecutive games , most home runs in three consecutive games , and most consecutive home runs . He hit his 4 home runs, 5 extra base hits, and 19 total bases against the Milwaukee Brewers in 2002. Green broke the record of 18 total bases set by Joe Adcock of the Milwaukee Braves in 1954.
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Timothy Robert Commerford , also known by his various monikers/stage names is the bassist/backing vocalist for American alternative metal band Rage... Against The Machine and the now-defunct supergroup Audioslave. Tim Commerford was born on February 26, 1968 in Irvine, California, and was youngest of six children. His father, an aerospace engineer, worked on the Space Shuttle and his mother was a teacher/mathematician. He is of French and Irish descent. When Commerford was in fifth grade, he met Zack de la Rocha. Around this time, his mother was diagnosed with cancer. Shortly thereafter Commerford's father divorced and remarried, his mother moved to Sacramento, California to live with her sister, while seeking treatment and Tim remained with his father. Around this time Zack introduced Commerford to bass, and Commerford soon found an outlet in music, and poetry. Commerford's mother died of brain cancer in 1988. In 1993 Commerford was introduced to mountain biking by his future father-in-law Jimbo Insko.
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Aaron Wells Peirsol is a former American swimmer who specialized in the backstroke. He is a three-time Olympian and seven-time Olympic medalist . As... part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay . Individually, he currently holds the world record in the 100 and 200-meter backstroke . In February 2011, Peirsol announced his retirement, saying, "I ended up doing everything I set out to do." Peirsol's success have earned him the American Swimmer of the Year Award once. He has won a total of thirty-six medals in major international competition, twenty-nine gold, six silver, and one bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, Pan American, and the Pan Pacific Championships. In his Olympic debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics, at the age of seventeen, Peirsol won a silver medal in the 200-meter backstroke. Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Peirsol won gold in the 100 and 200-meter backstroke and the 4×100-meter medley relay.
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Nicole Parker is a film actress.

Jason Edward Lezak is an American Olympic swimmer, winner of 4 Olympic gold medals. He formerly swam for Irvine Novaquatics. He graduated from... Irvine High School in 1994, and then from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999. He is a member of the Rose Bowl Aquatics swim club. The head coach, Jeff Julian, is a good friend. He is 193 cm tall and weighs 93 kg . Lezak is a specialist in the 50 and 100 m freestyle races. He also owns long-course world records in the 400m freestyle and medley relays, as well a former American record holder in the 100 Free. Lezak is one of the few elite swimmers not to have a personal coach. Despite this, Lezak enjoys team sports and fellow American Gary Hall, Jr. dubbed Lezak as a "professional relay swimmer" at the 2004 Olympic Trials before their matchup in the 100m freestyle. Lezak was born in Irvine, California, and is Jewish. The name Lezak, pronounced Leh-Zhack , probably comes from the Polish word root meaning 'to lie, to recline'. Lezak attended El Camino Real Elementary School, which is now known as Woodbury Elementary.
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Hayley Reide Peirsol is an American long-distance swimmer. She swam under Brent Lorenzen with Irvine Novaquatics prior to attending Auburn... University. She has also trained with Club Wolverine at the University of Michigan under Bob Bowman. Hayley was the third woman in history to ever break 16 minutes in the 1500 meter freestyle. However, she has recently retired from swimming and now hopes to compete in the 2012 Olympic Games in the triathlon. Hayley is currently training under former World Champion triathlete Siri Lindley in San Diego and Malibu California for different parts of the year. In May 2009 she took second place in her first ITU race which was in her brother's hometown of Austin, Texas. Her brother, American backstroker Aaron Peirsol, is an Olympic gold medalist.
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Justin Jitae Chon is a Korean American actor. Chon was born in Garden Grove, California and was raised in Irvine, California. He started acting in... 2005 in shows such as Jack & Bobby and Taki & Luci. He came to fame in 2006 when he played Peter Wu in the Disney Channel film Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior. He also played Tony Lee in the Nickelodeon sitcom Just Jordan. In 2008, he played Eric Yorkie in the film Twilight, based on the book by Stephenie Meyer. Justin reprised his role as Eric Yorkie in Twilight's sequel, New Moon. He also acts in many youtube videos for a comedy group called YTF.
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