He last played with the Miami Marlins in 2013, and, as of the end of the 2014 season, remains a free agent. To date, Polanco has a 2.97 career batting average with 104 home runs, 723 runs batted in, and more than 2,000 hits. He is a two-time MLB All-Star (2007, 2011) and won the ALCS MVP Award in 2006 while with the Tigers. Polanco is also a three-time Gold Glove Award winner (2007, 2009, 2011) and a Silver Slugger Award winner (2007).
According to reports from Spain and Brazil, French club Paris Saint Germain is willing to pay a record $256.5 million (€222 million) transfer fee in order to sign Neymar. That fee would be more than double of the current record transfer fee; the $116.4 million fee paid by Manchester United in order to acquire Paul Pogba from Juventus last year. This comes in the aftermath of a report from Sport that reported that Neymar felt that his development is being stifled in Barcelona as a result of being behind Lionel Messi.
Mark Pearson was born in 1980 and grew up in a tiny council flat on the wrong side of the tracks in Liverpool. When he was 10 years old, his life took a turn for the terrifying. He was living with his mother, sister, and a violent stepfather and during the holidays his stepfather badly beat up his mother. The family had to spend the rest of the Christmas season in a woman’s shelter.
Garber is originally from Montreal and worked as PartyGaming Chief Executive before joining Caesars. He also became chair of Cirque du Soleil in 2015 when the creator, Guy Laliberté, decided to sell it. Garber grew up a long way from the Vegas strip and is a self-made millionaire. He was raised by a school teacher mother and entrepreneur father. He was one of the poorest kids in a wealthy community.
He was awarded the National Medal of Technology in 2004. He is credited for creating the first light gun and game for home TV use which was known as Shooting gallery. Baer’s ideas resulted in the video game Pong. He is credited with co-developing the electronic games Simon and Super Simon. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2010 and donated all of his hardware prototypes and documents to the Smithsonian Institute in 2006.
The show is currently in its second season on A&E. The program follows six independent shippers as they bid on shipping jobs via the online auction site for independent truckers, uShip. If their bid is accepted, they then have to complete the job within the time limit specified by the client, for the amount upon which they agreed. At the end of each episode, the actual cost of the run is displayed, so that viewers can see whether the trucker was able to deliver the goods as promised, and whether any profit was made.
Hall made his on-screen debut as Dinky Little and Mr. Bigg in 1983’s “The Littles” before appearing on “G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero”, “Class Action”, “Life Goes On”, “LA Law”, “Beverly Hills, 90210”, “Starship Troopers”, and “The Practice”. In 2000, he landed the role of coroner Dr. Al Robbins on the hit TV series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”, a part which he continues to play today. Several of Hall’s characters have shared his real-life disability.
Rockefeller was the last surviving grandchild of John D. Rockefeller, the founder of the Standard Oil Company. He passed away last year at 101 after a life filled with a long standing love for modern art. He spent the better part of his more than century long life collecting art work from Claude Money, Paul Gauguin, Diego Rivera, and Henri Matisse, just to name a few of the artists in his collection.
He attended and graduated from the University of Idaho, where he earned a degree in Television and Radio. His movie guide company Moviefone was bought by AOL in 2000. Leatherman has been a guest on many national talk shows including: The Late Show with David Letterman, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Opie and Anthony, The Howard Stern Show and The Caroline Rhea Show. He has been profiled in many major publications like Time Magazine, People, Entertainment Weekly, Life, Vanity Fair, as well as The New York Times.
For a long time, it was hard to know for sure what exactly Melnichenko was working on, since he kept the project pretty much under wraps since it began in 2012. But now, photos of the boat are starting to be made public, and it would appear that the White Pearl is the biggest sailing yacht in history so far, easily beating out the previous record-holder, venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ 289-foot Maltese Falcon.
A member of the Republican Party, he was elected to New Mexico House of Representatives in 1996 and re-elected in 1998, each time unopposed. He also joined the ranks of the Appropriations Committee and was elected as Republican Caucus Chairman before running for the United States Senate. Serving since 2011, Pearce previously held the seat from 2003 to 2009 and was an Assistant Minority Whip. Today, he is the only Republican in the New Mexico Congressional Delegation, and the only Republican Congressman who represents a district along the Mexico-United States border.
The company then created Ratchet & Clank for the PlayStation 2 and followed up with several sequels on the PlayStation 2. Installments include Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty, Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault, and Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus for the PlayStation 3. A reboot of Ratchet & Clank was released in 2016.
Mark Wahlberg brought home $68 million in 2016, landing him at the top of the list of highest-paid actors. That $68 million is more than the entire worldwide box office of Patriot Day, the Boston Marathon bombing movie the world didn’t ask for and largely didn’t turn out to see. Patriot Day isn’t Wahlberg’s only box office disappointment in 2016. Deepwater Horizon, which had a $110 million budget, grossed just under $122 million worldwide.
According to that report, there are 563 billionaires in the U.S. and 342 in Europe. There may be more billionaires overall in Asia, but American billionaires are wealthier. Of course it helps that four of the five richest people in the world are American. Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Mark Zuckerberg certainly help tip that average wealth in favor of the good ol’ USA. The total wealth of American billionaires is about $2.
As a Nationwide Series competitor, he has had two wins, six poles, and 51 Top Ten finishes. In the Sprint Cup series, he has had one win and three Top Tens. He races for Woods Brothers Racing in the Sprint Cup Series and for Roush Fenway Racing in the Nationwide Series. He won the 2011 Daytona 500.
He has two wins, 15 podiums, and two pole positions for the Formula One World Championship series. Bottas drove for Williams from 2013 to 2016. Since switching to Mercedes he reached his first Formula Ole pole position at the 2017 Bahrain Grand Prix and his first victory at the 2017 Russian Grand Prix. In 2008 he won the Formula Renault Eurocup and Formula Renault 2.0 NEC championship titles and in 2011 he won the GP3 Series.
How much of an investment is it to amass a collection of thirty islands in nine years? Lin Dong spent a little over $4.8 million on his island collection, behavior which has earned him the nickname “Lord of the Isles” (another way to earn that nickname is to crush it on Supermarket Sweep). And His Lordship isn’t limiting his island-madness to his own private purchasing habits, either – he’s also formed a coalition made up of 50 of his fellow millionaires specifically for the purpose of buying up private islands, which happens to be the latest craze among the super rich in China.
However, we’re thinking a bit differently in this article: we’re looking at guys who were paid handsomely, but just didn’t provide enough return on the field, typically in terms of games played. You may think someone like Jay Cutler is vastly overpaid, which is true, but he’s still played several seasons for the Bears, and, when you consider their past carousel of quarterbacks, he’s actually been a massive upgrade. He wouldn’t make this list.
History is littered with stories of how the winners of enormous jackpots fall down on their luck. People who win jackpots in the seven-figure and up range end up screwed with regularity. People who win large jackpots tend to commit homicide, be the victim of homicide at the hands of a family member, overdose on drugs, be kidnapped, be convicted of drunk driving, and go bankrupt at a greater frequency than the general non-lottery winning population.
Of course, that $17 billion estimate is on the higher end of things, with other analysts valuating the treasure at the much more reasonable (?) $1.5 billion. But even if the treasure were to end up having been mysteriously stolen by mermaids or Namor the Sub-Mariner, this would still be an exciting discovery, as the ship in question is the legendary San Jose, sunk by the British navy off Baru way back in 1708, and the subject of a concerted search effort for decades.