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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson was a college football player for the University of Miami, winning a national championship on the 1991 Hurricanes football team. Johnson is widely considered one of the all-time greatest professional wrestlers. He had seventeen championship reigns in WWE, including ten as world champion, winning the WWF/E Championship eight times and the WCW/World Championship twice. He won the WWF Intercontinental Championship twice and the World Tag Team Championship five times. He is the sixth WWF/E Triple Crown Champion, and won the 2000 Royal Rumble. He's had a prolific film career appearing in The Fast and the Furious film series, G.I. Joe Retaliation and Tooth Fairy.
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Buffalo Bills running back OJ Simpson, starred in the Naked Gun movies, numerous TV shows and commercials . (AP Photo)
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Merlin Olsen is shown in a scene as Jonathan Garvey on "Little House on the Prairie" saying farewell to his son Andy, played by Patrick Laborteaux, Oct. 21, 1977. Olsen played his entire 15-year career with the Los Angeles Rams and was selected to the Pro Bowl in 14 of those seasons. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame. (AP Photo)
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played the center position and is regarded as one of the best of all time. He is the all-time leading NBA scorer with 38,387 points, having collected six championship rings, six regular season MVP and two Finals MVP awards, fifteen NBA First or Second Teams, a record nineteen NBA All-Star call-ups and averaging 24.6 points, 11.2 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.6 blocks per game. He is ranked as the NBA's third leading all-time rebounder (17,440). He is also the third all-time in registered blocks (3,189), which is even more impressive because this stat had not been recorded until the fourth year of his career (1974). Abdul-Jabbar appeared in numerous films and TV shows including the satirical comedy Airplane and was in the memorable fight scene against Bruce Lee in the film 'Game of Death.' (AP Photo)
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Former Oakland Raiders great Howie Long poses with his bust after enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Saturday, July 29, 2000, in Canton, Ohio. Long starred in several films including War Games (2001), Broken Arrow 91996) and Firestorm (1998). (AP Photo)
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Gina Carano is an actress, television personality, fitness model, and former mixed martial artist. Carano began her training with straight Muay Thai to competitive MMA where she had tenures in organizations such as Strikeforce and EliteXC and has been featured in ESPN The Magazine as well as Maxim. Her popularity with fans and audiences has helped her garner the title of being the "Face of Women's MMA" and was ranked on the "Top Ten Influential Women of 2008" list on Yahoo!. Carano landed the leading role in the spy thriller movie Haywire (2011), directed by Steven Soderbergh as well as the film In the Blood.
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Carl Weathers is best known for portraying Apollo Creed in the Rocky series of films, Dillon in Predator, Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore and Little Nicky, and an exaggeratedly frugal semi-fictionalized version of himself in the television series Arrested Development. Weathers played linebacker for for San Diego State University, which led to a brief professional career with the Oakland Raiders.
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Olympian Bruce Jenner won the gold medal in the Decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Following his victory, his career led to a new success in television. By 1981, he had starred in several made-for-TV movies and was Erik Estrada's replacement briefly on the top-rated TV series CHiPs. In 1991, he married Kris Jenner. Since the 2007 debut of the cable television reality series, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, he is seen as the stepfather of the Kardashian siblings: Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, and Rob Kardashian as well as the father of Burt, Casey, Brandon, Brody, Kendall, and Kylie Jenner (AP Photo)
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Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Yasiel Puig hits a double against the Cleveland Indians during the first inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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In this May 10, 2008, file photo provided by the National Ethnic Coalition, 91-year-old World War II veteran and member of the U.S. Olympic team during the 1936 Berlin Olympics Louis Zamperini, left, shares a moment with actor and founder of "Operation Iraqi Children" Gary Sinise before the start of the 2008 Ellis Island Medals of Honor ceremony on Ellis Island. (AP Photo/National Ethnic Coalition, Tina Fineberg, File)
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Washington Performing Arts Society Children of the Gospel Choir perform a dance routine as they sing gospel music at the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., Sunday, August 4, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Fireworks light up the Empire State and Chrysler buildings along the Manhattan skyline during Macy's 37th Annual Fourth of July fireworks show in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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The USS Constitution's fighting top greets visitors as they enter the National Museum of the United States Navy at the Washington Navy Yard. (Tim Comerford/U.S. Navy)