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First lady Michelle Obama waves to supporters as she arrives on stage prior to speaking during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Bao Bao will leave the Smithsonian's National Zoo, where she has been charming visitors since her birth on Aug. 23, 2013. As one of fewer than 2,000 giant pandas in the world, she will enter a breeding program in China. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at Florida Memorial University, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, OCT. 23, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Sept. 22, 2016 photo, Jim Dickson starts a meeting of the Toastmasters in Sterling, Ill., with a speech about a camping trip taken out west many years ago. The men and women of Toastmasters work to become more competent communicators, improve their listening skills, and learn the importance of speech "icebreakers" and visual aids. Extra credit is given by using the word during presentations. (Alex T. Paschal/Sauk Valley Media via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, OCT. 23, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - This Oct. 6, 2016 photo shows Lynn Potter in her home in Decatur, Ill., holding a portion of one of the love letters that was the basis of her new novel. Potter, writing under the name Mary Lynn, has just published the novel based on the discovery by her husband Duane of a 2-foot-by-2-foot cardboard box in their attic, filled with letters dated between 1915 and 1920. The book called, The Forgotten Life of Sarah Grady, has naughty sexual liaisons, deep passion, domestic violence, mystery and death. (Jim Bowling/Herald & Review via AP)
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National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis in shown in a photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016, at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. Jarvis says the agency needs to attract younger and more racially diverse visitors if it wants to remain relevant. Jarvis, who is retiring in January, was in Boise to give a speech for the Andrus Center for Public Policy. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler)
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This Oct. 12, 2016 photo provided by the Oakland Zoo shows one of two female Puerto Rican Crested Toads that bred almost 3000 tadpoles at the Oakland Zoo in Oakland, Calif. Thousands of critically endangered baby toads bred at the zoo flew to Puerto Rico to re-establish a population of technicolor native toads that had long been thought extinct. (Erin Harrison/The Oakland Zoo via AP)
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In this Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016 photo workers rebuild an historic stone cabin on Mount Mansfield in Stowe, Vt. The building was gutted in a fire last Christmas Eve when the founder of Burton Snowboards' two sons accidentally caused a fire. The family donated $150,000 to help rebuild the Stone Hut, which will be open for overnight guests starting on Dec. 1. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
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This cover image released by Sony Legacy shows, "The Wonder of You: Elvis Presley with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra." (Sony Legacy via AP)
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FILE - In this July 1, 2012, file photo, Kanye West, left, and Jay-Z accept the award for best group for "The Throne" at the BET Awards in Los Angeles. West told the crowd during his show in Seattle on Oct. 19, 2016, that his kids haven't played with Jay Z's daughter. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - In this June 9, 2013 file photo, Laura Osnes arrives on the red carpet at the 67th Annual Tony Awards, in New York. "The Bandstand," the story of six WWII veterans who join together in Cleveland to compete in a radio contest with dreams of stardom, has secured a Shubert theater and has an opening night of April 26, 2017. It will co-star Osnes, who has been attached to the show since a reading 2½ years ago. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
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In this Monday, July 2, 2007, file photo, the MetLife Snoopy Two blimp comes in for a landing at the Park Township Airport in Holland, Mich. Snoopy has been handed the pink slip. After 31 years, almost 170 dog years, as the face of insurance giant MetLife Inc., the company said Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016, that it is launching a new global branding effort, marking the end of a long relationship with Charlie Brown's beagle and the Peanuts crew. (Cory Olsen/The Grand Rapids Press via AP) **FILE**
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FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2016, file photo Chicago Bulls' Dwyane Wade drives against the Cleveland Cavaliers during an NBA preseason basketball game in Chicago. The Bulls figure to be a whole lot more interesting this season with the additions of Wade and Rajon Rondo. (AP Photo/Kamil Krzaczynski File)
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Jim Thorpe - A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for his home country. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, played American football (collegiate and professional), and also played professional baseball and basketball. He lost his Olympic titles after it was found he had been paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the amateurism rules that were then in place. In 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) restored his Olympic medals. Thorpe grew up in the Sac and Fox Nation in Oklahoma. He played as part of several all American Indian teams throughout his career, and barnstormed as a professional basketball player with a team composed entirely of American Indians. From 1920 to 1921, Thorpe was nominally the first president of the American Professional Football Association (APFA), which would become the National Football League (NFL) in 1922. He played professional sports until age 41, the end of his sports career coinciding with the start of the Great Depression.
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee was a track and field athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the heptathlon as well as long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals, in those two events at four different Olympic Games. Sports Illustrated for Women magazine voted Joyner-Kersee the Greatest Female Athlete of All-Time. (AP Photo)
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Bo Jackson is a former baseball and American football player. He is one of the few athletes to be named an All-Star in two major sports, and the only one to do so in both baseball and football. He is widely considered one of the greatest athletes of all time. While at Auburn University, Jackson won the 1985 Heisman Trophy, annually awarded to the outstanding collegiate football player in the United States. In 1989 and 1990, Jackson's name became known beyond just sports fans through the "Bo Knows" advertising campaign, a series of advertisements by Nike, starring Jackson alongside Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician Bo Diddley, promoting a cross-training athletic shoe named for Jackson. (AP Photo)
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Michael Jordan - His biography on the NBA website states: "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984 as the third overall draft pick. He quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, demonstrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line in slam dunk contests, earned him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness". He also gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive players in basketball. In 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in1992 and 1993, securing a "three-peat". Although Jordan abruptly retired from basketball before the beginning of the 199394 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball, he returned to the Bulls in March 1995 and led them to three additional championships in 1996, 1997, and 1998, as well as a then-record 72 regular-season wins in the 199596 NBA season. Jordan retired for a second time in January 1999, but returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Wizards. Jordan's individual accolades and accomplishments include five Most Valuable Player (MVP) Awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances, three All-Star Game MVP Awards, ten scoring titles, three steals titles, six NBA Finals MVP Awards, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award. Among his numerous accomplishments, Jordan holds the NBA records for highest career regular season scoring average (30.12 points per game) and highest career playoff scoring average (33.45 points per game). In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN, and was second to Bab
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Jim Brown is best known for his record-setting nine-year career as a fullback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) from 1957 through 1965. In 2002, he was named by Sporting News as the greatest professional football player ever. (AP Photo)
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Muhammad Ali is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century. He remains the only three-time lineal heavyweight champion; he won the title in 1964, 1974 and 1978. Between February 25, 1964, and September 19, 1964, Ali reigned as the undisputed heavyweight champion. He is the only boxer to be named The Ring magazine Fighter of the Year six times. He was ranked as the greatest athlete of the 20th century by Sports Illustrated and the Sports Personality of the Century by the BBC. ESPN SportsCentury ranked him the 3rd greatest athlete of the 20th century. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he was involved in several historic boxing matches. Notable among these were the first Liston fight; the "Fight of the Century", "Super Fight II" and the "Thrilla in Manila" versus his rival Joe Frazier; and "The Rumble in the Jungle" versus George Foreman. (AP Photo)
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Babe Ruth - his career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed The Bambino and The Sultan of Swat, he began his MLB career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees. Ruth established many MLB batting (and some pitching) records, including career home runs (714), runs batted in (RBIs) (2,213), bases on balls (2,062), slugging percentage (.690), and on-base plus slugging (OPS) (1.164); the latter two still stand today. Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. In 1936, Ruth was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its "first five" inaugural members. (AP Photo)
