Tiger Woods, 31, Woods introduced his and wife Elin’s 1-week-old daughter Sam Alexis Woods on his official website, www.tigerwoods.com.
“We’re still getting settled at home and it’s important to be there for my family,” Tiger said in a personal statement last week. “I look forward to playing next year. Both are healthy and happy. I can’t describe how wonderful it is to be a father. This is something I dreamed about and I’m enjoying every minute. It’s a good thing I don’t need much sleep.”
Houston Rockets center Yao Ming seems likely to walk down the aisle this August with fiancée Ye Li, a player on the Chinese women’s basketball team.
Houston Rockets manager Daryl Morey was quoted as saying that the couple will hold their wedding after Yao has finished practices in July. The “small giant” will later join the national team for some exercises and warm-up matches in September before returning to Houston to prepare for the new season.
Glad to hear that the big guy could squeeze in a wedding between his commitments to the Rockets and the China National team. Mazeltov to the happy couple from DaDump!
[Cri]
Ever wonder what Mike Tyson has been up to these days? Neither have I. But in an effort to keep you in the loop, DaDump is letting you know that Iron Mike wants to be a Bollywood star!
Tyson said the energy on the sets of a music video he recently shot for a new comedy got him thinking about trying to do more Bollywood work.
The former heavyweight boxing champion said that
Tyson, 40, danced to Bollywood music at a two-day shoot in Las Vegas last month for a music video to promote “Fool n Final,” about a diamond heist. Afterwards Firoz Nadiadwala, the producer, had approached him with a script.
Tyson said there are similarities between acting and boxing.
“In both the fields, in order to survive and triumph, you need focus and to be highly disciplined and determined,” he said. [Y!]
The Punahou High School Class of 2007 will hold its graduation this weekend and as much as Michelle Wie would like to be there, she’s got alternate plans.
Instead of walking across the stage and receiving her diploma with her friends back home in Hawaii, the most recognizable female golfer in the world will be a continent away in South Carolina playing her first professional tournament in six months.
In a way, her participation in the Ginn Tribute, hosted by Annika Sorenstam, will be just as much a rite of passage as the commencement ceremony she’ll be skipping.
There just won’t be any caps and gowns. And instead of a band playing “Pomp and Circumstance,” there will be marshals holding up signs asking those in attendance to stand still and be quiet.
Check out the next big thing to come out of China… literally. Considered to be the next Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian is a 7 foot prospect who many believe will be taken in the Top 3 in the upcoming NBA lottery draft. If you’re curious why, click after the jump to read a comprehensive ESPN article on the boy with hops…
Apolo Anton Ohno, an Olympic champion speed skater, was declared the winner of the fourth season of the hit ABC series, Dancing with the Stars, becoming the youngest contestant to ever hoist the disco ball, as well as the third man in a row.
“I feel amazing,” said Ohno, who also happened to be celebrating his 25th birthday today. “Like I said from day one, everybody here is a champion…The lessons to be learned from this competition are amazing—if you put your mind to something and give it 100 percent, you give sacrifice and dedication, anything is possible.”
In golf tournaments. People, she’s still under-age so let’s show a little decency here.
Teen-age star Michelle Wie will concentrate on playing in LPGA tournaments and give up competing against men for the time being, her coach said.
“She hasn’t got any PGA Tour events planned at the moment,” David Leadbetter said. “She’s going to commit herself to the LPGA and play a number of events. She just needs to get her confidence going and just go play. Now is the time to establish herself.”
At 13 years of age, Wie made her debut against men’s players at the PGA Tour’s 2004 Sony Open in Hawaii. She was within a stroke of making the cut, but has suffered progressively worse outings in subsequent tournaments against men.
She finished close to last place in consecutive tournaments in Switzerland and Pennsylvania, and also struggled at the Sony Open in January.
“The thing I’ve tried to explain to (Wie and her parents) is that you have to work your way up the ladder. It’s all well and good to play a couple of (men’s) events as a novelty, now let’s look at a long-term plan.”
But Leadbetter still has a lot of confidence in Wie.
“She’s the greatest talent I’ve ever seen at 16, boy or girl. If she can keep going in that direction, and keep injury free, we’ll have an exciting time ahead.” [MSNBC]
NBA All-Star Yao Ming and actor Pu Cunxin will be appearing in 200,000 posters all over China soon in an AIDS awareness campaign entitled “We Are Friends,” launched by the United Nations Development Program. After years of denying that AIDS was a problem, Chinese leaders have shifted gears dramatically in recent years, confronting the disease more openly and promising anonymous testing, free treatment for the poor and a ban on discrimination against people with the virus. [Ecorazzi]
After years of denying that AIDS was a problem, Chinese leaders have shifted gears dramatically in recent years, confronting the disease more openly and promising anonymous testing, free treatment for the poor and a ban on discrimination against people with the virus.
Definitely a big step in the right direction to really start addressing the problem and to actually make an effort to stop stigmatizing people afflicted with the disease. Let’s hope it helps.
Thailand’s tennis hero Paradorn Srichaphan is engaged to a former Miss Universe and the couple are expected to tie the knot in Bangkok later this year.
Paradorn, 28, and Natalie Glebova, a 25-year-old Canadian beauty, have “developed a special relationship” and they will announce their engagement at a news conference in Bangkok on Tuesday.
The couple will tie the knot by the end of this year in “one of the most celebrated weddings of 2007,” to take place sometime in November.
Read more about their upcoming nuptials after the jump!
Faye Wong, a Beijing native who shot to fame in Hong Kong in the mid-90s may return next year to sing the theme song for the Beijing Olympic Games!
A staff member of Wong’s husband Li Yapeng’s company told the Chinese Businessman newspaper that the organizing committee of the Beijing Games (BOCOG) has sent invitations to the singer, hoping she will sing the theme song for the upcoming games with the price for her performance rumored to be three million yuan.
She unofficially retired from singing in recent years after marrying actor Li Yapeng and gave birth to her second daughter, Li Yan. The girl was born with cleft palate, which was corrected by surgery in the US. [Cri]
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