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...commissioner Tonya Antonucci has promised to keep costs in check. WPS players will earn an average of $32,000 for a seven-month contract, which frees the players to suit up overseas, or hold down another job, in the off-season to supplement their income. The average salary of WUSA players was around $40,000 a year; stars like Mia Hamm were paid as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Women's Pro Soccer Really Coming Back Now? | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

...evolve from writing about vampires to writing about the life of Jesus? -Tonya Solomon Flushing, Mich.It was a personal conversion. After 38 years of being an atheist, faith came back to me. I had to stop writing about vampires, because they had been a metaphor for lost souls. Instead, I made up my mind to concentrate on Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Anne Rice | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...clubbing of Nancy Kerrigan's knee by a compatriot of rival figure skater Tonya Harding was one of the weirdest and ugliest moments in sports history. The man who hatched the plan with Harding's ex-husband Jeff Stone: her beefy bodyguard, Brian Sean Griffith. Griffith confessed days after the attack, helping to nab the hired assailant, and spent more than a year in prison. He later changed his name (from Shawn Eckhardt) in an attempt to put the events behind him. He was 40 and died of apparently natural causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

...anything Clooney-style cool, like filling each otherā€™s trailers with dog poop,ā€ she says with a tone of regret. MEAN GIRLIn a movie about competitive figure skating, itā€™s hard not to draw parallels to the real life stories of Tonya Harding or Nancy Kerrigan, especially given that Kerrigan actually makes an appearance in the film. However, Poehler claims she didnā€™t use any figure skating greats as inspiration for her character, Fairchild van Waldenberg.ā€œI based my character more on, like, a great Bond villain...

Author: By Jun Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ā€˜Bladesā€™ Star Poehler Reveals Comedian Trash-Talking | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...Jimmy might be a kind of blond Boitano, while Chazz is from the butch, Elvis Stojko school. But the enmity is surely a gender-bending version of the 1994 feud between Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. In the movie, skating's criminal underside is personified by Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg, a borderline-incestuous brother-sister pair whose long-skate routine has the theme "Forbidden Love," with Stranz skating as JFK and Fairchild as Marilyn Monroe. Arnett and Poehler's turn doesn't quite match Baron Cohen's as the French driver in Talladega, but Arnett gets points for smarming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Ferrell's Glory | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

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