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Dennis HaysbertActorCareer Highlights:Dennis Haysbert, a dependable film and television actor with a quietly commanding screen presence, has played numerous athletic roles, as well as those of authority, including portraying the President of the United States (David Palmer) in the popular FOX series “24”...Haysbert was nominated for a 2003 Golden Globe for that role…He recently played the role of Jonas Blane in CBS’s special forces drama “The Unit,” for four seasons (2006-2009)...Haysbert has appeared in numerous films including the 2002 critically acclaimed “Far From Heaven” where he played the gardener involved in a frowned-upon interracial romance…His feature break in film came in 1989 in “Major League” when he portrayed the voodoo-practicing Cuban ballplayer Pedro Cerrano – a role he reprised in “Major League 2” and “Major League: Back to the Minors”…On the big screen he also portrayed Nelson Mandela in “Goodbye Bafana” in addition to starring in “Breach” and “Jarhead”…His recent film projects include the soon-to-be-released “Kung Fu Panda 2,” “The Details,” and “Vanilla Gorilla.”Other memorable film projects include the 1992 civil rights romance “Love Field” with Michelle Pfeiffer, “Love and Basketball,” “What’s Cooking,” “The 13th Floor,” “Waiting To Exhale,” “Heat,” “Absolute Power,” “Mr. Baseball” and “Navy SEALS”…He has also done voice work for various video games, most notably as Irving Lambert in Pandora Tomorrow the second installment in “Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell” series and narrator of “Call of Duty: Finest Hour”…Haysbert also lent his authoritative, baritone voice to “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas”…He serves as the official spokesman for AllState Insurance company where his repeated phrase for the company’s commercials is “Are you in good hands?”…His early acting years were a string of episodic roles appearing on such television shows as “Lou Grant,” “Code Red,” “Off the Rack,” “Return to Lonesome Dove,” “Laverne & Shirley,” “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” and “The Incredible Hulk”...In June 2010 to late August 2010, Haysbert joined the cast of David Mamet’s “Race” on Broadway as character Henry Brown. Lou HoltzFormer NFL Great Head Football CoachCareer Highlights: One of football’s all-time most successful coaches, Lou Holtz is most recognized for his years with the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame….Holtz retired from the game in November 2004 following his sixth season at South Carolina and 33rd season overall as a head coach…His career is highlighted by 249 victories, a national championship, three national coach of the year honors and 12 bowl game victories…During his time at the University of South Carolina, he led the team to two New Year’s Day Bowl victories, back-to-back top 20 national rankings, and unprecedented national media exposure never before experienced in the program’s history…Holtz became the only coach in NCAA history to lead six different programs to bowl games and is the only coach to guide four different programs to final top 20 rankings…Prior to South Carolina, he coached at Notre Dame (1986-95) where he led the Irish to the 1988 national championship and a perfect 12-0 record…Holtz was named National Coach of the Year that season…He led the Irish to a 100-30-2 record, including an 87-20-2 mark over his last nine seasons…Holtz not only won the national championship in 1988, but won in the classroom as well with his team posting a 100 percent graduation rate and winning the 1988 CFA Academic Awards…Holtz also rebuilt programs at Minnesota (1984-85), Arkansas (1977-83), North Carolina State (1972-75), and William & Mary (1969-71)…He spent the 1976 season as head coach of the NFL’s New York Jets…Twenty-three of his 32 collegiate teams have earned post-season bowl bids and 18 have finished in the final AP top 25 and eight in the top 10…Holtz has also authored more than 10 books including two best-sellers:“The Fighting Spirit,” that chronicles Notre Dame’s 1988 championship season, and “Winning Every Day,” that focuses on 10 strategies that can assist an individual in achieving personal and professional success…In 2005, Holtz joined ESPN as a college football analyst….Holtz was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008. Oliver HudsonActorCareer Highlights:Oliver Hudson, the son of Academy Award-winning actress Goldie Hawn and musician Bill Hudson and the brother of actress Kate Hudson, plays alongside co-star David Spade in the role of Adam Rhodes in the CBS 30-something relationship sitcom “Rules of Engagement”…Hudson began his career in the entertainment industry as a production assistant on the feature films “Father’s Day” and “Executive Decision”…He later enrolled in classes at the University of Colorado where he wrote and directed a short film before he turned to acting…One of his first television roles was playing opposite Katie Holmes as her love interest Eddie Doling in several episodes of the popular program “Dawson’s Creek”…He starred in the television series “My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star” in 2002 and “The Mountain” in 2004 and 2005…Hudson also appeared in the mini-series “10.5 Apocalypse” and the television movie “Carolina Moon”…Hudson’s feature film credits include “The Out-of-Towners,” “Kill the Man,” “Smokers,” “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” “Going Greek,” “The Breed,” “Black Christmas,” and “Strange Wilderness.” Brett HullFormer NHL All-StarCareer Highlights: One of the NHL’s all-time great scorers, Brett Hull was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in November 2009…He also was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in October 2008 where Hull and his father Bobby became the first ever father-son hockey duo to achieve this honor...Hull finished his illustrious career with 741 goals (third all-time only trailing Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe) and posted 650 assists for a total of 1,391 points in 1,269 games…A 20-year NHL veteran, Hull was an eight-time NHL All-Star and was named NHL First Team three times (1990-1992)…He was the MVP of the 1992 NHL All-Star Game...Drafted by the Calgary Flames in the 1984 Draft, he debuted with the Flames in 1986 before being traded to the St. Louis Blues…He won the Dudley Garrett Memorial Award as rookie of the year in 1987…Hull spent 10 full seasons with the Blues, reaching the 100-point plateau four consecutive times (1989-93)…He holds more than 40 St. Louis team records…Hull won the 1991 Hart Trophy as the league’s most valuable player and also won the 1991 Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for best sportsmanship that same year…. He led the NHL in goals scored in 1990, 1991 and 1992…After 11 seasons with the Blues, Hull signed with the Dallas Stars in 1998 and helped bring them their first Stanley Cup in 1999 by scoring the game-winning goal in triple overtime over Buffalo…After three seasons in Dallas, Hull signed with the Detroit Red Wings and proceeded to lead them to the 2002 Stanley Cup Championship, contributing 18 points in 23 playoff games...Along with his father, Bobby, they are the only father-son duo to each record 500 career goals…He recorded 33 career hat tricks (fourth all-time) and scored 50 goals in 50 games twice in his career (only Wayne Gretzky with three 50-50 seasons has done it more often)…Hull played for Team USA at the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics, winning a silver medal in Salt Lake City in 2002, as well as the 1996 and 2004 World Cup of Hockey tournaments…Hull currently is Executive Vice President and Alternate Governor of the Dallas Stars...Hull tied for fifth at the 2008 American Century Championship. 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