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New Mesa Ballpark is a description of a new stadium in Mesa, Arizona that is currently in the planning stages. Once completed in 2014 , it will be... primarily used for baseball and will be the home of the Chicago Cubs spring training facility as well as the Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team . The capacity of the facility will be 15,000 spectators. It will replace HoHoKam Stadium as the spring training facility of the Cubs and Packard Stadium as the home of the Sun Devils. 3. http://www.populous.
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Keri Russell is an actor and dancer.

Todd Benjamin Heap is an American football tight end for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Baltimore... Ravens in the first round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football at Arizona State. At Mountain View High School, in Mesa, Arizona, he was Mountain 5A Player of the Year. In the state championship game, he threw a 26-yard touchdown pass. Heap played college football at Arizona State University, majoring in pre-business. His 115 receptions broke the school record for tight ends, previously held by Ken Dyer. The Baltimore Ravens selected Heap with the 31st overall pick in the 2001 NFL Draft. Through the end of the 2009 NFL season he has played 120 total career games, starting 115. Heap recorded 16 receptions for 206 yards and one touchdown in his rookie season, playing behind eight-time Pro-Bowler Shannon Sharpe. He became the starting tight end for the Ravens in 2002 after Sharpe left in free agency. The Ravens were 7-9 in Heap's second season. He caught 68 passes for 836 yards and 6 touchdowns and was voted to his first Pro Bowl.
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James Christopher Adkins is the lead singer and guitarist in the American band Jimmy Eat World. Born in Mesa, Arizona, Jim was a member of the... regional band "Dream" while still in high school, before forming Jimmy Eat World with childhood friends Tom Linton, Mitch Porter, and Zach Lind. Side projects include Go Big Casino, Secret Fox, and his local record label, Western Tread Recordings. He also played acoustic guitar on The Compromise and The First Single on The Format's live DVD, At the Mayan. Jim Adkins is married to Amy McCarthy, of Fryeburg, Maine. MTV labeled Adkins "the chillest, most non-A-hole-ish guy in alt-rock", also saying he is the sort of guy they would like to have lunch with. Guitars: Pedals: Amps: "I set it up mainly on the top boost channel, maybe a little bit of the normal channel. There’s not a whole lot of saturation. I like hearing individual notes over a chord. I can control the distortion and sustain by just dynamic playing, rather than stepping on a box for a boost." http://www.voxamps.co.uk/artists/Jim_Adkins.asp Adkins has his own record label, Western Tread Recordings.
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Misty Dawn Marie Hyman is a former American swimmer who won the gold medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. In... March 1996, she just missed making the USA Olympic team for the 1996 Games, finishing third at the USA Trials in both the 100 and 200 butterflies. Hyman was only expected to contend for silver on that night , as Australian Susie O'Neill was expected to repeat her title . So shocked was Hyman over her gold, that witnesses heard Hyman yell, "Oh my God!" at least eleven times in an aquatic centre that was stunned into silence over what had happened. In fact, she also looked at the scoreboard three times just to make sure that she had won. Also in 2000, Hyman was ranked 35th in the world in the 50 m butterfly, 12th in the 100 m butterfly, and 2nd in the 200 m butterfly. Hyman failed to qualify for the 2004 Olympics after finishing a disappointing 8th place in the 200 m butterfly at the USA Olympic Trials. She retired from the sport of swimming shortly after.
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Alexandria Karlsen is a US model, actress and author. At age 18, Karlsen obtained her Series 6 and Series 63 securities licenses and worked for The... Vanguard Group before posing as Playboy Magazine's Miss March 1999. Karlsen appeared in the Summer 1997 premiere issue of Perfect 10. She was Playboy Playmate of the Month for March 1999, photographed by Arny Freytag and Stephen Wayda. Karlsen appeared in several Playboy videos and special editions, working for Playboy following her centerfold appearance. Karlsen was featured in the November 2002 issue of Stuff magazine in the layout titled "A Day in the Life of a Centerfold". Karlsen appeared in Penthouse as its Pet of the Month for July 2006. Her appearance in Penthouse made her only the third model, following Linn Thomas and Victoria Zdrok, to appear as both a Playboy Playmate and a Penthouse Pet. Karlsen also works extensively in mainstream modeling, represented by Ford/ RBA. Karlsen has appeared in numerous mainstream magazines, including Stuff , Stuff , Maxim, Beverly Hills 213, Scottsdale magazine, Phoenix magazine, and numerous other catalogs, editorial and print.
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Tammy Leitner is an investigative TV reporter and former reality television contestant. Leitner graduated from the University of California, Los... Angeles with a bachelor's degree in English, before eventually completing her master's degree in journalism from Boston University in Massachusetts. She established her reputation as a hard-nosed journalist, writing for newspapers in New York and Arizona, which includes the New York Post. Leitner was honored by the Associated Press Managing Editors for stories she did when she was a police reporter for the East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Arizona. Building a reputation as a tough-nosed journalist, Leitner has burst into a burning building, worked as a member of a NASCAR pit crew, gone one-on-one with trained attack dogs and volunteered to be shot by a Taser. Leitner has earned multiple awards in Arizona and New York for crime reporting, including Arizona Press Club Awards for coverage of a serial rapist, the Arizona angle on the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and legendary mob informant Sammy "The Bull" Gravano's arrest in Arizona. She was also honored in 1999 by the city of Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Todd Benjamin Heap is an American football tight end for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Baltimore... Ravens in the first round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football at Arizona State. At Mountain View High School, in Mesa, Arizona, he was Mountain 5A Player of the Year. In the state championship game, he threw a 26-yard touchdown pass. Heap played college football at Arizona State University, majoring in pre-business. His 115 receptions broke the school record for tight ends, previously held by Ken Dyer. The Baltimore Ravens selected Heap with the 31st overall pick in the 2001 NFL Draft. Through the end of the 2009 NFL season he has played 120 total career games, starting 115. Heap recorded 16 receptions for 206 yards and one touchdown in his rookie season, playing behind eight-time Pro-Bowler Shannon Sharpe. He became the starting tight end for the Ravens in 2002 after Sharpe left in free agency. The Ravens were 7-9 in Heap's second season. He caught 68 passes for 836 yards and 6 touchdowns and was voted to his first Pro Bowl.
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Misty Dawn Marie Hyman is a former American swimmer who won the gold medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. In... March 1996, she just missed making the USA Olympic team for the 1996 Games, finishing third at the USA Trials in both the 100 and 200 butterflies. Hyman was only expected to contend for silver on that night , as Australian Susie O'Neill was expected to repeat her title . So shocked was Hyman over her gold, that witnesses heard Hyman yell, "Oh my God!" at least eleven times in an aquatic centre that was stunned into silence over what had happened. In fact, she also looked at the scoreboard three times just to make sure that she had won. Also in 2000, Hyman was ranked 35th in the world in the 50 m butterfly, 12th in the 100 m butterfly, and 2nd in the 200 m butterfly. Hyman failed to qualify for the 2004 Olympics after finishing a disappointing 8th place in the 200 m butterfly at the USA Olympic Trials. She retired from the sport of swimming shortly after.
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Alexandria Karlsen is a US model, actress and author. At age 18, Karlsen obtained her Series 6 and Series 63 securities licenses and worked for The... Vanguard Group before posing as Playboy Magazine's Miss March 1999. Karlsen appeared in the Summer 1997 premiere issue of Perfect 10. She was Playboy Playmate of the Month for March 1999, photographed by Arny Freytag and Stephen Wayda. Karlsen appeared in several Playboy videos and special editions, working for Playboy following her centerfold appearance. Karlsen was featured in the November 2002 issue of Stuff magazine in the layout titled "A Day in the Life of a Centerfold". Karlsen appeared in Penthouse as its Pet of the Month for July 2006. Her appearance in Penthouse made her only the third model, following Linn Thomas and Victoria Zdrok, to appear as both a Playboy Playmate and a Penthouse Pet. Karlsen also works extensively in mainstream modeling, represented by Ford/ RBA. Karlsen has appeared in numerous mainstream magazines, including Stuff , Stuff , Maxim, Beverly Hills 213, Scottsdale magazine, Phoenix magazine, and numerous other catalogs, editorial and print.
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Rodney Peete is a former American football quarterback from the University of Southern California who played in the National Football League for 16... years. He retired in 2004 and is now in broadcasting. Peete was born in Mesa, Arizona. He attended Sahuaro High School in Tucson, Arizona, as a freshman, sophomore, and junior, and went to Shawnee Mission South High School in Overland Park, Kansas for his senior year. He was a three-year letterman in football, basketball, and baseball. In football, he was named the Arizona High School Player of the Year as a junior. Peete was the first player ever from USC to win the Johnny Unitas Award as the nation's best senior quarterback. . In that senior year, he also finished second to Barry Sanders in the voting for the Heisman Trophy. His USC teams would win both head-to-head matchups in the UCLA-USC rivalry against Troy Aikman's UCLA teams. The 1988 UCLA-USC game was notable in that Peete was stricken with measles the week before the game and had been to the hospital. He led USC to the 1988 and 1989 Rose Bowl games.
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Abigail Elizabeth Mavity is an American teen actress who has appeared on a number of television series and commercials, as well as in feature films.... Abigail was born in Mesa, Arizona, the youngest of ten children . She began modeling for print at age 1 in Phoenix, and her agent there immediately signed her to an acting contract when she taught herself to read at age 3. In January 1999 she moved from Arizona to Los Angeles to further her acting career. Since that time, she has appeared regularly in various films and television shows, as well as numerous commercials and voiceover roles. She was nominated for a Young Artist Award in 2003 for her role as Kathy Martin on the series Haunted with Matthew Fox, and Mark Hoppus from the group Blink-182, and is currently nominated for a Young Artist Award for her recurring role as Lisa Grubner on the Disney XD series Zeke and Luther. She currently resides in Southern California where she attends college while continuing her acting career.
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Brooke Elizabeth White is an American indie pop/folk-pop singer-songwriter and actress from Mesa, Arizona who was the fifth place finalist on the... seventh season of American Idol. In 2005, White released her first studio album, called Songs from the Attic. White's first post-Idol album High Hopes & Heartbreak was released on July 21, 2009. The first single "Hold Up My Heart" was released on February 25, 2009, and the song debuted at number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100. The second single "Radio Radio" was released on June 23, 2009. Brooke Elizabeth White was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and raised in nearby Mesa, with three younger siblings and her parents, Brad and Kaylene, and is of English descent. She also has family members in Nova Scotia, Canada. White started singing at 16, when she tried out for the high school musical, Meet Me in St. Louis, and earned the lead role. White was graduated from Heritage Academy high school in 2001. She, at one time, attended beauty school, and described herself as a "beauty school dropout," and shared on Idol that she started doing hair when she was eleven years old.
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