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Convocation Center is a 10,563-seat multi-purpose arena in Jonesboro, Arkansas. It was built in 1987. It is home to the Arkansas State University Red... Wolves basketball team.
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Tomlinson Stadium–Kell Field is a baseball venue located in Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA. It has been home to the Arkansas State Red Wolves college... baseball team of the Division I Sun Belt Conference since 1993. The venue has a capacity of 1,000 people. The stadium is named after former Arkansas State baseball coach and athletic director J.A. "Ike" Tomlinson, who coached ASU baseball from 1944-1976. His tenure set a record for longest-serving athletic coach in Arkansas State history which still stands today. The field is named after brothers George and Skeeter Kell, both of whom played baseball at Arkansas State and went on to play in the Major Leagues. In 1996, lights were added at the facility, allowing night games to be played there for the first time. In 2003, a new batter's eye was constructed past the center field fence. A deck and picnic area, Barton's Baseball Deck, was added in 2007. In 2008, new chairback and handicap seats were added behind home plate, moving the backstop closer to the field. A record 1,019 people attended Arkansas State's March 11, 2008, game against the Memphis Tigers. The Tigers defeated Arkansas State 3-0.
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Wesley Cook "Wes" Bentley is an American film actor known for his roles of Ricky Fitts in American Beauty and Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games.... Bentley was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the son of Cherie and David Bentley, who are United Methodist ministers. In 1996, he graduated from Sylvan Hills High School in Sherwood, Arkansas. Bentley then attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division but left the school after one year to pursue his acting career. Bentley has starred in several films, including the Oscar-winning film American Beauty, The Four Feathers, P2, and Ghost Rider. He starred in the thriller Dolan's Cadillac, based on the short story by Stephen King, and There Be Dragons by director Roland Joffé. Bentley is one of the main subjects in the documentary My Big Break, directed by Tony Zierra, which follows Bentley and three of his former roommates, Chad Lindberg, Brad Rowe and Greg Fawcett, as they pursue their dream to become successful actors in Hollywood. In the 2007 film Ghost Rider, Bentley played Blackheart, a demonic being that was the main antagonist.
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Rodger Albert Bumpass is an American character actor and voice actor, who is noted for his long-running-roles as Squidward Tentacles on the hit... series SpongeBob SquarePants, and The Chief from Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?. He also voiced Professor Membrane on Invader Zim. Bumpass has many other credits in animated films, animated television series,[1] and video games.[2] Bumpass was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on November 20, 1951. He attended Little Rock Central High School where he received his first training in theater. He attended Arkansas State University where he majored in radio–TV and minored in theater. He worked at the campus radio station and also at the Jonesboro’s ABC television affiliate, KAIT-TV, where he had multiple duties as announcer, film processor, cameraman, audio technician, and technical director.[1] While at KAIT, he also wrote, produced, and performed in a late-night comedy program called Mid-Century Nonsense Festival Featuring Kumquat Theater.[3] He graduated from ASU in 1976, and when encouraged by an ASU professor to consider professional theater, he went to New York in June 1977.
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Benjamin E. Murphy is an American actor. He is known for his role in the ABC television series Alias Smith and Jones, co-starring as Kid Curry,... first with Pete Duel and later with Roger Davis. Though born in Arkansas, Murphy grew up in Clarendon Hills, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. An alumnus of Benet Academy in Lisle, Illinois, he attended eight different colleges before deciding to pursue an acting career. Murphy appeared in a supporting role in The Name of the Game, a series featuring a rotating leading cast including Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack. From 1971 to 1973, he starred in Alias Smith and Jones with Pete Duel and Roger Davis . After Alias Smith and Jones, Murphy joined Lorne Greene in the 1973 ABC crime drama Griff. He played detective S. Michael "Mike" Murdock, assistant to Greene's character, Wade "Griff" Griffin, a Los Angeles retired police officer turned private eye. The series had some notable guest stars but folded after thirteen weeks. In the 1983-1984 season, Murphy co-starred with Marshall Colt in the ABC drama series Lottery!.
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Craig Roe is a former American stage actor and radio personality. Craig currently is a comedian, writer, and sales performance coach. He was born in... Jonesboro, Arkansas, was raised in Bossier City, Louisiana, and currently lives in Birmingham, AL. He is known to his comedy fans as AC. As AC he has performed at many of the most presetegious comedy clubs in the country includuing: The Comedy Club at the Stardome and The Funny Bone Comedy Club. He can be seen most weekends performing excerpts from "I've Got Piss on my Shoes." In addition to his work as an entertainer, Craig has a unique insight into sales and the world of business. He has authored two sales books titled The Only Thing Worse than a Cold Toilet Seat is a Warm One and A Letter to My Sales Manager.
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Debbye Turner-Bell is an American veterinarian, talk show host, former beauty queen and winner of the 1990 Miss America pageant three days before... her 24th birthday. Debbye Turner, raised in Jonesboro, Arkansas, was first runner-up at the Miss Arkansas Pageant, a state preliminary competition for the Miss America program in 1988. In the summer of 1989, she won the Miss Missouri title and went on to win the 1990 Miss America crown. Turner was the third African-American national titleholder and the first Miss Missouri to be crowned Miss America. Turner transferred from Arkansas State University, and attended Columbia University in MO. In 1991, she received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine. She became a spokesperson for Purina and pursued a career in veterinary medicine before going into television. Turner's first hosting job came at St. Louis' NBC affiliate KSDK, on a show called Show Me St. Louis in 1995. Six years later, Turner joined CBS News as a reporter and contributor on The Early Show, a position she still holds on its current incarnation CBS This Morning.
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Wesley Cook "Wes" Bentley is an American film actor known for his roles of Ricky Fitts in American Beauty and Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games.... Bentley was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the son of Cherie and David Bentley, who are United Methodist ministers. In 1996, he graduated from Sylvan Hills High School in Sherwood, Arkansas. Bentley then attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division but left the school after one year to pursue his acting career. Bentley has starred in several films, including the Oscar-winning film American Beauty, The Four Feathers, P2, and Ghost Rider. He starred in the thriller Dolan's Cadillac, based on the short story by Stephen King, and There Be Dragons by director Roland Joffé. Bentley is one of the main subjects in the documentary My Big Break, directed by Tony Zierra, which follows Bentley and three of his former roommates, Chad Lindberg, Brad Rowe and Greg Fawcett, as they pursue their dream to become successful actors in Hollywood. In the 2007 film Ghost Rider, Bentley played Blackheart, a demonic being that was the main antagonist.
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Rodger Albert Bumpass is an American character actor and voice actor, who is noted for his long-running-roles as Squidward Tentacles on the hit... series SpongeBob SquarePants, and The Chief from Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?. He also voiced Professor Membrane on Invader Zim. Bumpass has many other credits in animated films, animated television series,[1] and video games.[2] Bumpass was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on November 20, 1951. He attended Little Rock Central High School where he received his first training in theater. He attended Arkansas State University where he majored in radio–TV and minored in theater. He worked at the campus radio station and also at the Jonesboro’s ABC television affiliate, KAIT-TV, where he had multiple duties as announcer, film processor, cameraman, audio technician, and technical director.[1] While at KAIT, he also wrote, produced, and performed in a late-night comedy program called Mid-Century Nonsense Festival Featuring Kumquat Theater.[3] He graduated from ASU in 1976, and when encouraged by an ASU professor to consider professional theater, he went to New York in June 1977.
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Benjamin E. Murphy is an American actor. He is known for his role in the ABC television series Alias Smith and Jones, co-starring as Kid Curry,... first with Pete Duel and later with Roger Davis. Though born in Arkansas, Murphy grew up in Clarendon Hills, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. An alumnus of Benet Academy in Lisle, Illinois, he attended eight different colleges before deciding to pursue an acting career. Murphy appeared in a supporting role in The Name of the Game, a series featuring a rotating leading cast including Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack. From 1971 to 1973, he starred in Alias Smith and Jones with Pete Duel and Roger Davis . After Alias Smith and Jones, Murphy joined Lorne Greene in the 1973 ABC crime drama Griff. He played detective S. Michael "Mike" Murdock, assistant to Greene's character, Wade "Griff" Griffin, a Los Angeles retired police officer turned private eye. The series had some notable guest stars but folded after thirteen weeks. In the 1983-1984 season, Murphy co-starred with Marshall Colt in the ABC drama series Lottery!.
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Craig Roe is a former American stage actor and radio personality. Craig currently is a comedian, writer, and sales performance coach. He was born in... Jonesboro, Arkansas, was raised in Bossier City, Louisiana, and currently lives in Birmingham, AL. He is known to his comedy fans as AC. As AC he has performed at many of the most presetegious comedy clubs in the country includuing: The Comedy Club at the Stardome and The Funny Bone Comedy Club. He can be seen most weekends performing excerpts from "I've Got Piss on my Shoes." In addition to his work as an entertainer, Craig has a unique insight into sales and the world of business. He has authored two sales books titled The Only Thing Worse than a Cold Toilet Seat is a Warm One and A Letter to My Sales Manager.
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Clint Catalyst is the nom de plume of an American author, actor, spoken word performer, and stylist. Catalyst has covered music, fashion, LGBT... issues, and popular culture for magazines including LA Weekly, Frontiers, Out, Surface and Swindle. Born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Catalyst was raised an only child to Southern Baptist parents. Other than a year in Germany on scholarship, he remained there until he attended Hendrix College, where he started As If magazine and received a Bachelors in English with honors distinction. British journalist Mick Mercer describes As If as an "excellent magazine in terms of its international content, the artwork and contributions. Normally poetry-based things can cause your spleen to explode with fury at wasted space but Clint knows who means what." Upon graduation, Catalyst went to San Francisco, where he earned a Master of Arts in Writing degree from the University of San Francisco. He said he knew he was gay from a young age, but identifies with the term queer in regards to his orientation. Writing in the LA Weekly, Linda Immediato called Catalyst a "Midwestern ex–meth head who came to L.A.
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