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name	Les Twins
birth date	December 6, 1988 (age 22)
origin	Sarcelles, Val d'Oise, France
genre	New Style, Hip-hop dance
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Larry and Laurent Bourgeois, popularly known as "Les Twins", are a French hip-hop dancer duo, of Guadelupian origin, known for their New Style dancing. They appeared on the show Incroyable Talent and won the Juste Debout 2011 in the Hip-Hop New Style category. They come from a very large family with 18 siblings, 9 of whom dance.

Les Twins have performed with Beyoncé Knowles. They have also appeared in Jay-Z's That's Rocawear viral video.

Gallery

References

External links

Les Twins Online

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Steven David "Steve" Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is an American economist known for his work in the field of crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. Winner of the 2004 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, director of the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was co-editor of the ''Journal of Political Economy'' published by the University of Chicago Press until December 2007. He co-authored the best-selling book ''Freakonomics'' (2005) and its sequel ''Superfreakonomics'' (2009). In 2009, Levitt co-founded The Greatest Good, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was chosen as one of ''Time'' magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World" in 2006.

Career

Levitt was born in 1967 and attended St. Paul Academy and Summit School, graduated from Harvard University in 1989 with his B.A. in economics, and received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1994. He is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor and the director of The Becker Center on Price Theory at the University of Chicago. In 2004 he won the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded bi-annually by the American Economic Association to the most promising U.S. economist under the age of 40. In April 2005 Levitt published his first book, ''Freakonomics'' (coauthored with Stephen J. Dubner), which became a New York Times bestseller. Levitt and Dubner also started a blog (www.freakonomics.com).

Work

His work on various economics topics, including crime, politics and sports, includes over 60 academic publications. For example, his ''An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances'' (2000) analyzes a hand-written "accounting" of a criminal gang, and draws conclusions about the income distribution among gang members. In his most well-known and controversial paper (''The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime'' (2001), co-authored with John Donohue), he shows that the legalization of abortion in the US was followed approximately eighteen years later by a reduction in crime, then argues that unwanted children commit more crime than wanted children and that the legalization of abortion resulted in fewer unwanted children, and thus a reduction in crime as these children reached the age at which many criminals begin committing crimes.

Crime

Among other papers, Levitt's work on crime includes examination of the effects of prison population, police hiring, availability of LoJack devices and legal status of abortion on crime rates.

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime

''See The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime for a detailed discussion of the issue.''

Revisiting a question first studied empirically in the 1960s, Donohue and Levitt argue that the legalization of abortion can account for almost half of the reduction in crime witnessed in the 1990s. This paper has sparked much controversy, to which Levitt has said :"The numbers we're talking about, in terms of crime, are absolutely trivial when you compare it to the broader debate on abortion. From a pro-life view of the world: If abortion is murder then we have a million murders a year through abortion. And the few thousand homicides that will be prevented according to our analysis are just nothing—they are a pebble in the ocean relative to the tragedy that is abortion. So, my own view, when we [did] the study and it hasn't changed is that: our study shouldn't change anybody's opinion about whether abortion should be legal and easily available or not. It's really a study about crime, not abortion."

In 2003, Theodore Joyce argued that legalized abortion had little impact on crime, contradicting Donohue and Levitt's results ("Did Legalized Abortion Lower Crime?" Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38(1), pp. 1 –37.). In 2004, the authors published a response, in which they claimed Joyce's argument was flawed due to omitted-variable bias.

In November 2005, two Federal Reserve Bank of Boston economists, Christopher Foote and Christopher Goetz, published a working paper, in which they argued that the results in Donohue and Levitt's abortion and crime paper were due to statistical errors made by the authors: the omission of state-year interactions and the use of the total number of arrests instead of the arrest rate in explaining changes in the murder rate. When the corrections were made, Foote and Goetz argued that abortion actually increased violent crime instead of decreasing it and did not affect property crime. They even concluded that the majority of women who had abortions in the 1970s were middle class whites rather than low income minorities as Levitt stated; this was, they stated, because white middle class women had the financial means for an abortion. ''The Economist'' remarked on the news of the errors that "for someone of Mr Levitt's iconoclasm and ingenuity, technical ineptitude is a much graver charge than moral turpitude. To be politically incorrect is one thing; to be simply incorrect quite another." In January 2006, Donohue and Levitt published a response, in which they admitted the errors in their original paper but also pointed out Foote and Goetz's correction was flawed due to heavy attenuation bias. The authors argued that, after making necessary changes to fix the original errors, the corrected link between abortion and crime was now weaker but still statistically significant, contrary to Foote and Goetz's claims.

Prison population

Levitt's 1996 paper on prison population uses prison overcrowding litigation to estimate that increasing the prison population by 1 person is associated with a decrease of fifteen Index I crimes per year (Index I crimes include homicide, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson).

Police hiring

In a 1997 paper on the effect of police hiring on crime rates, Levitt uses the timing of mayoral and gubernatorial elections as an instrumental variable to identify a causal effect of police on crime. Past studies had been inconclusive because of the simultaneity inherent in police hiring (when crime increases, more police are hired to combat crime). The findings of this paper were found to be the result of a programming error. This was pointed out in a comment by Justin McCrary published in the American Economic Review in 2002. In a response published with McCrary's comment Levitt admits to the error and then goes on to offer alternative evidence to support his original conclusions.

LoJack

Ayres and Levitt (1998) use a new dataset on the prevalence of LoJack to estimate the social externality associated with its use. They find that the marginal social benefit of Lojack is fifteen times greater than the marginal social cost in high crime areas, but that those who install LoJack obtain less than ten percent of the total social benefits.

Criminal Age

Another 1998 paper finds that juvenile criminals are at least as responsive to criminal sanctions as adults. Sharp drops in crime at the age of maturity suggest that deterrence plays an important role in the decision to commit a crime.

Finances of a drug gang

Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (2000) analyze a unique dataset which details the financial activities of a drug-selling street gang. They find that wage earnings in the gang are somewhat higher than legal market alternatives, but do not offset the increased risks associated with selling drugs. They suggest that the prospect of high future earnings is the primary economic motivation for being in a gang.

Link between drunk driving and accident rates

Levitt and Porter (2001) find that drivers with alcohol in their blood are seven times more likely to cause a fatal crash than a sober driver (those above the legal limit are 13 times more likely than a sober driver). They estimate that the externality per mile driven by a drunk driver is at least thirty cents which implies that the proper fine to internalize this cost is roughly $8,000.

Cheating in sumo wrestling and by teachers in schools

Duggan and Levitt (2002) show how nonlinear payoff schemes establish incentives for corruption and the authors use the nonlinearity to provide substantial statistical evidence that cheating is taking place in Japanese sumo wrestling. Brian and Levitt (2003) developed an algorithm to detect teachers who cheat for their students on standardized tests. They find that the observed frequency of cheating appears to respond strongly to relatively minor changes in incentives.

Politics

Levitt's work on politics includes papers on the effects of campaign spending, on the median voter theorem, and on the effects of federal spending.

Levitt's 1994 paper on campaign spending employs a unique identification strategy to control for the quality of each candidate (which in previous work had led to an overstatement of the true effect). It concludes that campaign spending has a very small impact on election outcomes, regardless of who does the spending. On the subject of federal spending and elections, previous empirical studies were not able to establish that members of Congress are rewarded by the electorate for bringing federal dollars to their district because of omitted variables bias. Levitt and Snyder (1997) employ an instrument which circumvents this problem and finds evidence that federal spending benefits congressional incumbents; they find that an additional $100 per capita spending is worth as much as 2 percent of the popular vote.

The 1996 paper on the median voter theorem develops a methodology for consistently estimating the relative weights in a senator's utility function and casts doubt on the median voter theorem, finding that the senator's own ideology is the primary determinant of roll-call voting patterns.

Other studies

Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer (2002): Chiappori, Levitt, and Groseclose use penalty kicks from soccer games to test the idea of mixed strategies, a concept important to game theory. They do not reject the hypothesis that players choose their strategies optimally.

Causes and consequences of distinctively black names (2004): Fryer and Levitt find that the rise in distinctively black names took place in the early 1970s. While previous studies found having a black name harmful, they conclude that having a distinctively black name is primarily a consequence rather than a cause of poverty and segregation.

Discrimination in game shows (2004): Levitt uses contestant voting behavior on the US version of the television show ''Weakest Link'' to distinguish between taste-based and information-based theories of discrimination. Levitt found no discrimination against females or blacks, while finding taste-based discrimination against the old and information-based discrimination against Hispanics.

Controversy

Defamation suit

On April 10, 2006, John Lott (another economist) filed suit against Steven Levitt and HarperCollins Publishers for defamation. In the book ''Freakonomics'', Levitt and coauthor Stephen J. Dubner claimed that the results of Lott's research in ''More Guns, Less Crime'' had not been replicated by other academics. Also, in a series of email communications to an economist, John McCall, who pointed to a number of papers in different academic publications that had replicated Lott's work, Levitt said that Lott's work in a special 2001 issue of the ''Journal of Law and Economics'' had not been peer reviewed, that Lott had paid the University of Chicago Press to publish the papers, and that papers with results opposite of Lott's had been blocked from publication in that issue.

A federal judge found that Levitt's claim in ''Freakonomics'' was not defamation, but required that Levitt admit in a letter to John McCall that he himself was a peer reviewer in the 2001 issue of the ''Journal of Law and Economics'', that Lott had not engaged in bribery, and that he knew that "scholars with varying opinions" had been invited to participate.

Lott appealed the ruling regarding the ''Freakonomics'' passage, citing new evidence that the passage damaged him professionally. On February 11, 2009, the appeals court upheld the dismissal of the defamation claim, ruling that "any reasonable, innocent interpretation" of Levitt's claim about replication "sounds the death knell to a ''per se'' defamation claim" and that Lott's failure to document pecuniary loss did not support his ''pro quod'' defamation claim.

Quotations

"Regression analysis is more art than science."

"An expert doesn't so much argue the various sides of an issue as plant his flag firmly on one side. That's because an expert whose argument reeks of restraint or nuance often doesn't get much attention. An expert must be bold if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom."

"....if you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is."

"Of course, ocean acidification is an important issue. Now, there are ways to deal with ocean acidification, right, it's actually, that's actually, we know exactly how to un-acidifiy the oceans, is to pour a bunch of base into it, so, so if that turns out to be an incredibly big problem, then we can deal with that."

"That's the nature of modern business -- to be inundated with data. Your people don't have the time to analyze it, or the specialized training, but we do. There is nothing we love more than finding things in data that no one else can see."

Selected bibliography

Academic publications (in chronological order)

"Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House." ''Journal of Political Economy'', 1994, ''102''(4), pp. 777–98.

"How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senator Ideology." ''American Economic Review'', 1996, ''86''(3), pp. 425–41.

"The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation." ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', 1996, ''111''(2), pp. 319–51.

"The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes." ''Journal of Political Economy'', 1997, ''105''(1), pp. 30–53. (with Snyder, James M., Jr.).

"Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime." ''American Economic Review'', 1997, ''87''(3), pp. 270–90.

"Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack." ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', 1998, ''113''(1), pp. 43–77 (with Ayres, Ian).

"Juvenile Crime and Punishment." 1998, ''Journal of Political Economy'', ''106''(December): 1156-1185.

"An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances." ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', 2000, ''115''(3), pp. 755–89. (with Venkatesh, Sudhir A.).

"The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime." ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', 2001, ''116''(2), pp. 379–420. (with Donohue, John J., III).

"How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers?" ''Journal of Political Economy'', 2001, ''109''(6), pp. 1198–237. (with Porter, Jack) .

"Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer." ''American Economic Review'', 2002, ''92'', pp. 1138–1151 (With Chiappori, Pierre-Andre and Groseclose, Timothy).

"Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling." ''American Economic Review'', 2002, ''92''(5), pp. 1594–605. (with Duggan, Mark).

"Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply." ''American Economic Review'', 2002, ''92''(4), pp. 1244–50.

"Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating" ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', 2003, ''118''(3), pp. 843–77. (with Jacob, Brian A.).

"The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names." ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', 2004, ''119''(3), pp. 767–805. (with Fryer, Roland G., Jr.)

Other publications

''Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything'' William Morrow, May 2005 (with Stephen Dubner)

''SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance'', co-author (2009) (ISBN 0-060-88957-8)

See also

Freakonomics

SuperFreakonomics

Stephen J. Dubner

References

External links

Prof. Levitt's Home Page at the University of Chicago

Who is Steven Levitt

Official Freakonomics site and Levitt's Blog

The Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory

Author bio on publisher website

Ubben Lecture at DePauw University, November 30, 2009

TED Talks: Steven Levitt analyzes crack economics at TED in 2004

TED Talks: Steven Levitt on child carseats at TED Global in 2005

Video of Steven Levitt on Colbert Nation, Dec. 5, 2006. Duration: 6 mins.

Audio of Steven Levitt on NPR's The Motley Fool, April 29, 2005. Duration: 12 mins.

Press

Stephen Dubner (2003), ''New York Times Magazine'', The Economist of Odd Questions: Inside the Astonishingly Curious Mind of Steven D. Levitt

Bold textview-with-freakonomist-steven-levitt/ Profile of Steven Levitt in the Financial Times, 23 April 2005

"When Numbers Solve a Mystery," Review of Freakonomics in the Wall Street Journal, by Steven E. Landsburg. 13 April 2005.

"Oops-onomics" critical review of the Donohue and Levitt (2001) published in ''The Economist'' based upon the Foote and Goetz working paper.

"The crime rate is falling, Why?" Column about Levitt in the Potomac News, Prince William County, Virginia

20 Questions with Levitt in CEO Magazine

"Don't guess, experiment", Financial Times, by Hal Weitzman, April 19, 2009

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Christopher J. "Chris" Chambers (born August 12, 1978 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football at Wisconsin.

Chambers has also played for the San Diego Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs.

Early years

Chambers attended Bedford High School in Bedford, Ohio. While there, he was a three-sport letterman in football, basketball and track. In football, he won All-America accolades and was a two-time all-state selection. In basketball, he was a third-team all-state performer as a senior. In track, he won the state championship in the 400-meter dash as a senior with a time of 47.1 seconds He also went to willowbrook with Mr. Gary Raike. He was a high school teammate of former Wisconsin Badgers teammate and current Buffalo Bills wide receiver Lee Evans.

College career

Following high school, Chambers was a four-year letterman at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Chambers played in 43 games during his career, starting the final 33. He was also a backup guard on the Badgers basketball team during his freshman year in 1997-98.

Chambers topped the football team in receiving his sophomore season when he totaled 28 catches for 563 yards and seven touchdowns, including an 80-yard grab against Michigan. He missed two games as a junior with a broken finger, but still led the team in receiving with 41 catches for 578 yards and four scores, and was an honorable mention All-Big Ten selection. Despite playing in only nine games as a senior because of a stress fracture in his right foot, Chambers put together the most productive season of his career with 52 receptions for 813 yards and five touchdowns. He was a second-team All-Big Ten Conference selection. He had the best game of his career when he hauled in 11 passes for 191 yards against Iowa. That game came one week after he had 11 receptions for 173 yards and a touchdown against Purdue.

He finished his collegiate career with 127 receptions for 2,004 yards and 16 touchdowns. He also rushed for 17 yards on two carries, returned one kickoff for 15 yards and fielded five punts for two yards. He currently ranks fourth on the school's all-time list for receptions and yardage, and fifth in receiving touchdowns. He was part of Badger teams that won the Rose Bowl following the 1999 and 2000 seasons.

Professional career

2001 NFL Draft

Chambers was drafted by the Dolphins 52nd overall in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft.

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Miami Dolphins

2001

Chambers turned in one of the most productive seasons of any rookie wide receiver in club history. He started seven of the 16 games in which he played, and finished with 48 receptions for 883 yards and seven touchdowns. His yardage and touchdown totals both led the team, as did his 18.4-yards per reception average. His reception figure ranked third on the team behind those of fellow receivers Oronde Gadsden and James McKnight. Chambers finished the year ranked 18th in the AFC in receiving yards, while his average per catch was first among the top 20 receivers in both the AFC and NFC. Chambers topped the 100-yard receiving mark three times. He also returned 36 kickoffs for a 22.5-yard average with a long of 47. Chambers missed the team's first-round playoff game on January 13, 2002 against the Baltimore Ravens due to a sprained ankle suffered the last week of the regular season.

2002

In 2002, Chambers started all 15 games in which he played. He missed the team's October 20 contest against the Buffalo Bills while recovering from a concussion suffered on a hit by then-Denver Broncos safety Kenoy Kennedy. Chambers led team with 52 receptions for 734 yards and also scored three touchdowns. He totaled 78 rushing yards on six carries, including a long run of 45 yards. He had seven catches of 25 yards or longer (second-most on the team), trailing only James McKnight (9). Chambers led the team in receptions five times and in receiving yards on five occasions as well. His rushing total on the year was the fourth-highest single-season total by a Dolphins wide receiver at the time, and it was the highest figure since Nat Moore had 89 yards in 1977.

2003

Chambers started all 16 games in 2003, becoming the first Dolphins wide receiver to do so since Oronde Gadsden in 2000. He finished the season with 64 catches for 963 yards and 11 touchdowns, leading the team in all three categories. His reception total tied for 14th in the AFC, while his yardage figure ranked seventh. He tied for fifth in the conference in overall touchdowns and was first in the AFC and third in the NFL in receiving scores. Chambers accounted for the most catches by a Dolphin since 1999 when Tony Martin had 67 receptions. Chambers' yardage total was the most by a Dolphin since Martin had 1,037 yards in 1999, and his 11 touchdowns were the most since Mark Clayton hauled in 12 receiving scores in 1991. Of Chambers' 64 receptions, eight went for 25 yards or longer, topping the team. Over the course of the season, he led the team in receptions nine times and in receiving yards on nine occasions. His average per reception of 15.0 tied for the ninth-highest figure among the top 50 receiving yardage leaders in the AFC. He also rushed for 30 yards on four attempts on the year.

2004

Chambers started 15 games in 2004, missing only an October 3 contest against the New York Jets with a knee injury. He led Miami in both receiving yards and touchdowns with 898 yards and seven scores. His 69 receptions were second on the team only to tight end Randy McMichael’s 73. It marked the fourth straight year in which Chambers led the team in receiving yardage, which made him just the third Dolphin ever to achieve this feat, joining Paul Warfield (1970–1973) and Nat Moore (1974–1977). Chambers had six receptions of 25 yards or longer - the most on the team. He also rushed for 76 yards on nine attempts during the course of the season, including a season-long 24-yard run against the Arizona Cardinals on November 7. He led team in receptions seven times and in receiving yards on five occasions during the course of the season. His reception total was 15th in the AFC while his yardage figure ranked 18th. Chambers accounted for four 100-yard receiving games on the year, tied for the sixth-highest single-season figure in club history and the most by a Dolphin since Tony Martin had five in 1999.

2005

In 2005, Chambers started all 16 games in which he played. He led Miami with 82 receptions for 1,118 yards and 11 touchdowns - figures which earned him his first Pro Bowl selection. His reception total tied for sixth in the AFC and 13th in the NFL, while his yardage figure was third in the conference and 12th in the league. His eleven touchdown catches tied for the second-highest figure in the conference and third in the NFL, trailing only Indianapolis’ Marvin Harrison (12) and Carolina’s Steve Smith (12). Chambers set career highs for both receptions and receiving yards, while his touchdown total equaled his career best from 2003. Over the final six games of the season, he recorded 43 catches for 620 yards and six touchdowns. With 82 catches on the year, Chambers became the first wide receiver to increase his receiving totals in each of his first five NFL seasons since Muhsin Muhammad did it from 1996-2000 with the Carolina Panthers. In addition, Chambers became just the second Dolphins wide receiver to do it, joining O.J. McDuffie (1993–1997). He became the first Dolphin to record 1,000 or more receiving yards since Tony Martin had 1,037 receiving yards in 1999. Overall, it marked the 14th time a Dolphin had a 1,000 receiving yard season, and he is the sixth different Dolphin player to reach that plateau, joining Mark Clayton (five times), Mark Duper (four), Irving Fryar (two), O.J. McDuffie (one) and Tony Martin (one). Chambers also rushed for 92 yards on 12 attempts during the course of the season, good for third on the team in rushing.

Chambers' best game of the season (and his career) came on December 4 against the Buffalo Bills. In the game, which the Dolphins trailed by 20 points entering the fourth quarter, Chambers caught 15 passes for 238 yards and a touchdown. Key receptions included a 57-yard grab on the final drive with under two minutes left, as well as the game-winning touchdown on a pass from Sage Rosenfels with only six seconds remaining. His impressive performance earned him AFC Offensive Player of the Week honors. His yardage total was the highest for any player in the NFL in 2005, and the most by any player since Plaxico Burress had 253 yards for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2002.

A high school and college teammate, Bills wide receiver Lee Evans, also had a career day during the game with 117 receiving yards and three touchdowns - both personal bests.

2006

Chambers suffered a down season in 2006 after a Pro Bowl performance the year before. The Dolphins' offense struggled as a whole, and he never seemed to be a favorite target for quarterback Joey Harrington, and finished third on the team in both receptions and receiving yards. He also ranked third on the team in rushing with eight rushes for 95 yards. Chambers led the team in receptions four times and in reception yardage four times during a season in which he started all 16 games. He was held without a catch on December 17 at the Buffalo Bills, breaking his streak of making at least one reception in 60 consecutive games.

San Diego Chargers

2007

Just before the October 16, 2007 NFL trade deadline, the San Diego Chargers acquired wide receiver Chris Chambers from the Miami Dolphins for a 2nd round pick in the upcoming 2008 NFL Draft. Signed through 2009, Chambers was reunited with Chargers coach Norv Turner, who was Miami's offensive coordinator in 2002-03. The Chargers hoped that Chambers' experience this season with Dolphins head coach Cam Cameron, whose offense is a derivative of the Norv Turner offense, would help make the transition to the Chargers smoother. The decision to go after Chambers was made after the team realized that receiver Eric Parker's toe injury was not healing fast enough for him to have an impact in 2007 and he was subsequently placed on injured reserve to make room on the roster for Chambers.

The Chargers are responsible for $3.5M of Chambers' $5.4M 2007 salary. Chambers was scheduled to earn $5.1M and $4.55M in 2008 and 2009 respectively.

In Chambers' first games with the Chargers, he caught two passes for 35 yards and a touchdown. On the season, Chambers had 66 receptions for 970 yards and 4 touchdowns. While with the Chargers, Chambers produced 35 receptions, 555 yards, and 4 touchdowns, in addition another 16 catches for 268 yards, and one more score in their three playoff games that year.

2008

As of Week 15 in the 2008 season with the San Diego Chargers, Chambers had 26 receptions for 357 yards with 5 touchdowns, and 1 rushing yard on 1 rushing attempt. Chambers' was inactive in weeks 6 and 7 due to an ankle injury sustained during a game against the Miami Dolphins.

2009

Chambers was released by the Chargers on November 2 At the time of his release, Chambers had only 9 receptions for 122 yards with 1 touchdown.

Kansas City Chiefs

Chambers was claimed off waivers by the Kansas City Chiefs on November 3. He took number 11. He made his Chiefs debut in week 9, catching 3 passes for 70 yards and 2 touchdowns. On November 22, Chambers helped the Chiefs upset the defending Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers with 119 receiving yards, including a 61-yard catch and run in overtime that set up the Chiefs' game-winning field goal.

On March 8, 2010, Chambers re-signed a 3-year, $15 million contract with the Kansas City Chiefs. He changed his number from 11 to 84, which he previously wore in Miami.

He was released on July 28, 2011.

Personal

Chambers majored in sociology and law at Wisconsin. He did a commercial for Reebok to boost his fantasy football value by catching three footballs, one with each hand, then caught the third one between the two.

Marriage

In 2010, Chambers wed Stacey Bernice Saunders. The marriage surprised some observers, as a year earlier, Chambers had filed charges against Saunders for stalking him.

Arrest

On the morning of Saturday, July 14, 2007, Chambers was arrested in Charlotte, North Carolina and charged with driving while impaired and speeding. He was arrested around 2:30 a.m. and later released on $1,750 bond.

References

External links

Chris Chambers Football Skills Camp

San Diego Chargers bio

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