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Akershus
Akershus (help·info) is a county in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo and Østfold; it also has a short border with Sweden (Värmland). Akershus, with more than half a million inhabitants, is the second largest county by population after Oslo. The county is named after Akershus Fortress. The county administration is in Oslo, which is not part of the county per se.
The county is conventionally divided into the traditional districts Follo and Romerike, which fill the vast part of the county, as well as the small exclave west of Oslo that consists of Asker and Bærum. This resulted after the transfer of the great municipality of Aker (surrounding Oslo) from Akershus county to Oslo in 1948.
Embracing numerous suburbs of Oslo, notably Bærum, Akershus is one of the most densely populated areas in the country. The main national railway lines into Oslo run through Akershus with many junctions and stations such as Asker, Sandvika, Ski and Lillestrøm. Akershus includes some of the lake Mjøsa and some of the river Glomma.
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Ireland
Coordinates: 53°20′N 08°00′W / 53.333°N 8°W / 53.333; -8
Ireland (pronounced [ˈaɪrlənd] (
listen); Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ( listen); Ulster Scots: Airlann or Airlan) is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth. To its east is the larger island of Great Britain, from which it is separated by the Irish Sea.
Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers just under five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remainder and is located in the northeast of the island. The population of Ireland is approximately 6.4 million. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just under 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
Relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain epitomise Ireland's geography with several navigable rivers extending inland. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild but changeable oceanic climate, which avoids extremes in temperature. Thick woodlands covered the island until the 17th century. Today, it is one of the most deforested areas in Europe. There are twenty-six extant mammal species native to Ireland.
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Norway
i/ˈnɔrweɪ/ (Norwegian: Norge (Bokmål) or Noreg (Nynorsk)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and the subantarctic Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of 385,252 square kilometres (148,747 sq mi) and a population of about 5 million. It is the second least densely populated country in Europe. The majority of the country shares a border to the east with Sweden; its northernmost region is bordered by Finland to the south and Russia to the east; in its south Norway borders the Skagerrak Strait across from Denmark. The capital city of Norway is Oslo. Norway's extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea, is home to its famous fjords.
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Amanda Blake
Amanda Blake (February 20, 1929 – August 16, 1989) was an American actress best known for the role of the red-haired saloon proprietress "Miss Kitty Russell" on the television western Gunsmoke.
Born Beverly Louise Neill in Buffalo, New York, she was a telephone operator before taking up acting.
Nicknamed "the Young Greer Garson," she became best known for her 19-year stint as the saloon-keeper Miss Kitty on the television series Gunsmoke from 1955 until 1974. In 1968, Blake was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. She was the third performer inducted, after Tom Mix and Gary Cooper, who were selected in 1958 and 1966 respectively.
Because of her continuing role on television, Blake rarely had time for films. She appeared in a TV comedy routine with Red Skelton and was a panelist on the long-running Hollywood Squares and Match Game 74. In 1957, she guest-starred as Betty Lavon-Coate in the episode of "Coate of Many Colors" on Rod Cameron's syndicated series western-themed crime drama, State Trooper.
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Anita Blake
Anita Blake is the main character of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of novels by Laurell K. Hamilton. Subsequently, she has also appeared in the Dabel Brothers/Marvel Comics adaptation of her first novel, Guilty Pleasures.
The series takes place in a parallel fantasy world where vampires, shape shifters, werewolves, faeries, etc. exist. Her night job, and primary source of income, is the legal profession of re-animating the dead. As an "animator" in a parallel St. Louis, her job entails using magical abilities to bring temporary life to dead bodies in order to question them for legal purposes. She is a necromancer, which allows her to control the dead, including vampires and zombies, but not ghosts and ghouls. She is also a licensed vampire hunter/executioner, with eventual empowerment as a federal marshal. In her world this profession involves tracking down and killing vampires who have murdered humans. She is also held in retainer for the Regional Preternatural Investigation Team (RPIT, pronounced Rip-it), which investigates supernatural crimes committed involving magic, vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures.
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Blake Aldridge
Blake Aldridge (born 4 August 1982) is a British synchronised diver, who dives for The Crystal Palace Diving Club. During the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics he took part in the Men's 10m Synchronised event. Aldridge and his 14-year-old diving partner, Tom Daley, finished in eighth position in the final in an event dominated by the Chinese who claimed the gold. He criticised Tom Daley during the competition, which subsequently resulted in Aldridge himself being criticised.
Aldridge's original synchro partner Gavin Brown was killed in a hit-and-run collision in Southampton on 28 April 2007.
In February 2009, Daley's father, Rob, told BBC Devon, "If it was up to me, Tom would get a new partner". Shortly afterwards it was announced that Daley would be diving with Max Brick.
In May 2009 Aldridge paid an £80 police fixed penalty for shoplifting at B&Q.
On 19 February 2010, Aldridge was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting wine and causing actual bodily harm to a male security guard at a Tesco store in Croydon, Greater London. In August 2010 the case against him was dismissed.
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Blake Alphonso Higgs
Blake Alphonso Higgs (1915, Matthew Town, Inagua, Bahamas – 1986), better known as "Blind Blake", was the best-known performer of goombay/calypso in the Bahamas from the 1930s to the 1960s. (Not to be confused with the blues singer/guitarist of the same nickname.)
For much of his career, Blind Blake was based at the Royal Victoria Hotel in Nassau. Included in his wide repertoire was "Love, Love Alone," a song (by Trinidadian calypsonian Caresser) about the abdication of Edward VIII. Blind Blake's version of this calypso is said to have been enjoyed by the former king himself, who, as the Duke of Windsor, served as Governor of the Bahamas during World War II.
Higgs played banjo and sang, releasing 4 albums during his tenure at the Royal Victoria Hotel, one with singer Lou Adams, and several other lesser albums towards the end of his career. His first 4 albums were released on Floridian label Art, including a 10" with Lou Adams. Although never famous in his own right, sadly, his music has been covered by the likes of Dave Van Ronk (Yes, Yes,Yes) Pete Seeger (Foolish frog), Lord Mouse and the Kalypso Katz (Tomatoes), The Percentie Brothers, (Goombay Drums) and perhaps most famously The Beach Boys who covered his 1952 recording of the Caribbean folk song John B Sail (Wreck of the John B) and called it Sloop John B. His style was a mix of dixieland jazz, calypso/goombay, and American folk, probably because of the close proximity the Bahamas has to the USA. For Several decades, he was arguably the most important figure in the Bahamian tourist entertainment industry. One of his most famous songs, the medley "Little Nassau/Peas and Rice," written during the US prohibition era, is about the easy access to alcoholic beverages in Nassau, then complaining of the local's frustration with a diet of peas and rice.
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Blake Carrington
Blake Carrington is a fictional character on the American TV series Dynasty. The role was portrayed by John Forsythe from the first episode of the series in 1981 until the finale in 1989. Forsythe returned for the 1991 miniseries Dynasty: The Reunion. Forsythe is the only actor to appear in every episode of the series.
Patriarch of the Carrington family, self-made CEO of monolithic Denver-Carrington, and the principal character of the series, oil tycoon Blake Carrington is initially a ruthless man in both business and family matters. The character soon softens into a more benevolent patriarchal figure due to the influence of actor Forsythe.
In the series premiere, Blake marries his secretary Krystle Jennings. Their marriage is strained by her discomfort as she learns about Blake's ruthless side, especially in business. Blake rapes Krystle when she is reluctant to have sex with him. Blake struggles with his daughter Fallon's promiscuity and his son Steven's homosexuality. He catches his son in an embrace with another man, and in a fit of anger pushes them apart. Steven's lover falls, hits his head, and dies. Blake is arrested and charged with murder. In the season finale, a mysterious witness enters the courtroom. Visibly agitated, Blake turns to his lawyer and asks, "What's she doing here?"
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Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards (July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer.
Edwards' career began in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon turned to writing radio scripts at Columbia Pictures. He used his writing skills to begin producing and directing, with some of his most well-known films including Experiment in Terror, The Great Race, and the hugely successful Pink Panther film series with the British comedian Peter Sellers. Often thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he also directed drama films, including Breakfast at Tiffany's and Days of Wine and Roses. His greatest successes, however, were his comedies, and most of his films were either musicals, melodramas, slapstick comedies, or thrillers.
In 2004, he received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of his writing, directing and producing an extraordinary body of work for the screen.
Born William Blake Crump in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His grandfather was J. Gordon Edwards, a director of silent movies, and his stepfather, Jack McEdwards, became a film production manager after moving his family to Los Angeles in 1925. In an interview with Village Voice in 1971, he said that he had "always felt alienated, estranged from my . . . father." After attending grammar and high school in Los Angeles, he began taking jobs as an actor during World War II. Edwards describes this period:
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Blake Griffin
Blake Austin Griffin (born March 16, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Griffin had a renowned high school career at Oklahoma Christian School, winning state titles each of his four years under his father, Tommy Griffin, who was the head coach. He played college basketball for the University of Oklahoma Sooners and was awarded numerous accolades in his second year including the Naismith College Player of the Year, Oscar Robertson Trophy and the John Wooden Award.
Griffin left college after two seasons to enter the 2009 NBA Draft where he was selected first overall by the Clippers. In his first season, he broke his left kneecap, which he injured during the final pre-season game, and underwent surgery missing the entire 2009–10 season. He made his NBA debut as a rookie the following season and was selected as an All-Star, won the 2011 NBA Slam Dunk Contest and was named the NBA Rookie of the Year. In 2011, Sports Illustrated ranked him as one of the NBA's 15 Greatest Rookies of All Time.
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Blake Lewis
Blake Colin Lewis (born July 21, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and beatboxer who was the runner-up on the sixth season of American Idol. His major label debut album A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream) was released on December 4, 2007 through 19 Recordings/Arista Records. On October 30, 2007, his first single "Break Anotha" was released. The album landed on number ten on the U.S. Billboard Billboard 200 as its highest peak position with 97,500 copies sold in its debut, and over 350,000 copies so far. After the release of his second single "How Many Words", which peaked at number eight on the U.S. Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs, Lewis was dropped by Arista Records. Lewis eventually signed with Tommy Boy Entertainment.
His second album, Heartbreak on Vinyl, was released on October 6, 2009. The first single "Sad Song" was released on July 21, 2009 and peaked at number ten on the U.S. Billboard Dance Radio Airplay. The album charted at number 135 on the U.S. Billboard Billboard 200, number twenty on the Billboard Independent Albums, and number seven on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums with over 4000 copies sold in the first week (1000 of those were digital downloads).
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Blake Lively
Blake Christina Lively (born August 25, 1987) is an American actress and model who stars as Serena van der Woodsen in the television teen drama series Gossip Girl. She has also starred in movies, including Accepted, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Town and Green Lantern.
Lively was born in Tarzana, Los Angeles to actors Ernie and Elaine Lively. She was raised as a Southern Baptist. The youngest of five siblings, Lively has an older brother, Eric, two half-sisters, Lori and Robyn, and a half-brother, Jason. Both of her parents and all of her siblings are, or have been, in the entertainment industry. During Lively's childhood, her parents would take her with them to acting classes that they taught because they did not want to leave her with a babysitter. Lively said that watching her parents teach acting classes helped her learn the "drills" of acting and gain confidence as she got older.
Lively was initially not particularly interested in acting, however during the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, her brother, Eric, asked his agent to send her out on a few auditions over a period of a few months. From these few auditions, she got the role of Bridget for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Lively filmed her scenes in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants between her junior and senior years at Burbank High.
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Blake Morrison
Philip Blake Morrison (born 8 October 1950) is a British poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has also written a study of the James Bulger murder, As If. Since 2003, Morrison has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Morrison was born in Skipton, North Yorkshire, to an English father and an Irish mother. His parents were both physicians; his mother's maiden name was Agnes O'Shea, but her husband persuaded her to change "Agnes" to "Kim". The details of his mother's life in Ireland, to which he had not been privy, formed the basis for his autobiographical novel, Things My Mother Never Told Me.
Blake Morrison attended Ermysted's Grammar School before going on to study English Literature at the University of Nottingham and UCL. He worked for the Times Literary Supplement (1978-81)' and was literary editor of both The Observer (1981-89) and the Independent on Sunday (1989-95). Morrison's early writing career outside of journalism was as a poet and poetry critic. He became a full-time writer in 1995 and has since produced novels and volumes of autobiography as well as plays, libretti, and writing for television. He has contributed articles to The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the New Statesman, the New York Times and Poetry Review and since 2001 he has written regularly for The Guardian. In 2003 he became Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, London, and in 2008 he became Chair of The Reader Organisation, the UK centre for research and promotion of reading as a therapeutic activity.
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Blind Blake
"Blind" Blake (born Arthur Blake; 1896, Newport News, Virginia – December 1, 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was an American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist.
Blind Blake recorded about 80 tracks for Paramount Records from 1926 to 1932. He was one of the most accomplished guitarists of his genre with a surprisingly diverse range of material. He is best known for his distinct guitar sound that was comparable in sound and style to a ragtime piano.
Little is known about his life. His birthplace was listed as Jacksonville, Florida, by Paramount Records but that is not firmly established. On one recording he slipped into a Geechee dialect, prompting speculation that he was from the Georgia coastal region. Nothing is definitely known of his death and even his name is not certain. According to one source, his real name was Arthur Phelps, although concrete evidence for this claim is lacking. The "Phelps" name theory was entirely based on a response given by Blind Willie McTell in an interview conducted in 1955 in Atlanta, where Blake has never been reported; nor did McTell ever reside in Chicago. Recent research has discovered that many of Blind Blake's recordings were copyrighted under the name 'Arthur Blake', and in his two-part recording with Papa Charlie Jackson, "Papa Charlie and Blind Blake Talk About It", the following dialogue is heard:
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Bud Blake
Julian W. Blake (February 13, 1918 - December 26, 2005), better known as Bud Blake, was an American cartoonist who created the popular, long running comic strip Tiger, about a group of suburban boyhood pals. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Tiger began May 3, 1965. At its peak, it was published internationally in some 400 newspapers.
Bud Blake Blake was born and grew up in Nutley, New Jersey. His father, George Blake, was art director of the Batten Co., a forerunner of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. Bud's sister became an illustrator for children's books. Dropping out of high school before his graduation, Blake worked as a demonstrator for a pen-knife company, carving portraits from balsa wood. After selling cartoons to Judge magazine, Blake enrolled in New York's National Academy of Design, supporting himself with odd jobs until 1937, when he landed a paste-up position with the Kudner Advertising Agency. He stayed there until 1954, except for his World War II military service with the U.S. Army infantry. After his return, he eventually rose to become an executive art director with Kudner.
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Casey Blake
William Casey Blake (born August 23, 1973, in Des Moines, Iowa) is a retired Major League Baseball third baseman.
Blake previously played with the Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Dodgers. He had alternated between playing at third base and first base before becoming a full-time third baseman with the Indians. In 2005, Blake moved to right field to accommodate the Indians' signing of third baseman Aaron Boone, and stayed there for two seasons before moving back to third base.
Blake was drafted twice prior to signing with the Blue Jays: in 1992, he was selected during the 11th round by the Philadelphia Phillies and in 1995, he was taken by the New York Yankees during the 45th round.
Blake was a four-sport standout at Indianola High School in Indianola, Iowa where he played baseball, football, basketball, and participated in track. He was named one of the top ten high school athletes in the history of Iowa.
Blake attended Wichita State University, where he was a three-time All-American, two-time Academic All-American and participated in the College World Series. He batted .320 with 22 home runs and 101 RBIs during his senior year.
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Catherine Blake
Catherine Blake (née Catherine Boucher) (1762–1831) was the wife of the poet, painter and engraver William Blake (1757–1827), and a vital presence and assistant throughout his life as an artist.
Catherine was born the daughter of a market gardener in Battersea, then just outside London on the other side of the Thames. She met William here in 1781, during his brief visit to the area while recovering from an emotional upset following the failure of an earlier relationship. Their courtship was brief. According to early biographers of Blake, Catherine immediately recognised him as her future husband and when she sympathised with him over his earlier emotional troubles he replied "do you pity me? Then I love you." Blake married Catherine – who was five years his junior – on 18 August 1782 in St. Mary's Church, Battersea. Illiterate, Catherine signed her wedding contract with an 'X'. They remained together until his death in 1827. Blake taught her to read and write, and also to use his printing-press.
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Darcy Blake
Darcy James Blake (born 13 December 1988 in New Tredegar) is a Welsh professional footballer currently playing for Cardiff City in the Football League Championship. He is also a Welsh international, having made his debut in October 2010.
Blake joined the Cardiff City youth side at the age of 10 and as a youngster he supported both Liverpool and Cardiff. Darcy attended Blackwood Comprehensive school, the same school as Alex Evans who has recently signed a professional contract for Cardiff City. He signed his first professional contract at the club in 2006 along with fellow academy graduate Chris Gunter.
He made his first team debut on the 17 April 2006 against Crewe Alexandra in the Football League Championship, but had to wait until 20 February 2007 to make his first league start for the club in a match against West Bromwich Albion, Cardiff losing the match 1–0. Blake also received a man of the match award in the semi final of the FAW Premier Cup against The New Saints after playing in the centre back position with his strength and tackling earning him the man of the match award
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Dave Blake
David Robert Blake (March 20, 1925 – February 25, 2008) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1971 to 1988, serving as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Born in Rapid City, Manitoba, Blake served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a navigator from 1943 to 1945, and was in the Sixth Forward Regiment of the Royal Canadian Engineers from 1948 to 1964. He was also active in the Royal Canadian Legion, freemasonry and the Manitoba Wildlife Association.
Blake was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in a by-election on November 15, 1971, replacing former Progressive Conservative Premier Walter Weir in the rural riding of Minnedosa. He defeated his nearest opponent Emil Shellborn of the New Democratic Party, by over 1,000 votes. He was later re-elected in the provincial elections of 1973, 1977, 1981 and 1986, usually by about the same margin as in his initial victory. He was the husband of Gwen Bergman of Flin Flon and they had 5 children together.
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Dennis Blake
Dennis Anthony Blake (born September 6, 1970 in Saint Elizabeth Parish) is a retired male sprinter from Jamaica. He is a two-time Olympian, winning the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he ran in the qualifying heats.
Blake also claimed a silver medal at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina in the men's 4x400 metres relay, alongside Orville Taylor, Roxbert Martin, and Michael McDonald. Blake set his personal best in the men's 400 metres (45.68) on 2000-06-18 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Blake is currently coaching track at Edgemont High School.
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Derek Blake
Dr Derek Blake was, until 2007, the Isobel Laing Post-Doctoral Fellow in Biomedical Sciences, and the Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science, Oriel College, Oxford.
He holds a doctorate (D.Phil.) and a Bachelor's (B.Sc. from Liverpool). Dr Blake graduated in Biochemistry and worked on his D.Phil. studies in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, taking post-doctoral research on the molecular basis of muscular dystrophy.
His research interests lie in the molecular basis of neuronal dysfunction in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and congenital muscular dystrophies (CMD). This led to the discovery of components of the dystrophin protein complex in neurons and identified new genes and pathways that are involved in the pathogenesis of CMD. He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship in 1996 and a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship in Basic Biomedical Science in 2000. Dr Blake is a Member of the American Society for Cell Biology and an editor of the Journal of Nanobiotechnology. Blake's research interests include molecular aspects of neuronal function in muscular dystrophies, glycosyltransferases in neurons and muscle cells, the neuromuscular junction and molecular architecture of the sarcolemma.
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Donovan Blake
Donovan Livingston Blake (born 4 December 1961 in Jamaica) is an American cricketer. Blake first represented the United States in the 2001 ICC Trophy and he went on to represent the States in a first-class game in the 2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup and then in their second ever One Day International, when they lost to the Australia at the Rose Bowl, Southampton, England in 2004.
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Edward Blake
Dominick Edward Blake, PC, QC (October 13, 1833 – March 1, 1912), known as Edward Blake, was the second Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1871 to 1872 and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1880 to 1887. He is one of only three federal Liberal leaders never to become Prime Minister of Canada, the others being Stéphane Dion and the latter's immediate successor Michael Ignatieff. He may be said to have served in the national politics of what developed as the affairs of three nationalities: Canadian, British, and Irish. Blake was also the founder, in 1856, of the Canadian law firm now known as Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.
Blake was born in 1833, in Adelaide Township, Upper Canada (Ontario) the son of William Hume Blake and Catherine Honoria Hume, and was educated at Upper Canada College.
In 1856, after Blake was called to the bar, he entered into partnership with Stephen M. Jarvis in Toronto to practice law. When his brother Samuel Hume Blake joined soon thereafter, it was Blake & Blake and today the firm is known as Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.
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Edward Edson Lee
Edward Edson Lee (September 2, 1884 in Meriden, Illinois – September 28, 1944 in Rockford, Illinois), who wrote under the pen name of Leo Edwards, was a popular children's literature author in the 1920s and 1930s.
Lee had a difficult childhood, dropping out of school to go to work in his early teens. He got his start as a writer writing serialized stories, most notably in American Boy magazine. His first book, Andy Blake in Advertising, was published in 1922 (reprinted in 1928 as the first volume in the Andy Blake series).
He wrote five series of books: the Jerry Todd series of sixteen books; the Poppy Ott series of eleven books; the Trigger Berg series of four books; the Andy Blake series of four books; and the Tuffy Bean series of four books. All of the series were interrelated in some way; the Todd and Ott stories took place in the town of Tutter, Illinois, a fictional town modeled on the town of Utica, which Lee experienced in his childhood. The supporting characters in the Todd and Ott books — "Red" Meyers, "Scoop" Ellery, and "Peg" Shaw — were real boys that Lee befriended around the time he began writing the stories while living in Shelby, Ohio.[citation needed]
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Eubie Blake
James Hubert Blake (February 7, 1887 – February 12, 1983) was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, Blake and long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans. Blake's compositions included such hits as, "Bandana Days", "Charleston Rag", "Love Will Find A Way", "Memories of You", and "I'm Just Wild About Harry". The musical Eubie! featured the works of Blake and opened on Broadway in 1978.
Blake was born at 319 Forrest Street in Baltimore, Maryland to former slaves John Sumner Blake (1838–1917) and Emily "Emma" Johnstone (1861–1917). He was the only surviving child of eight, all the rest of whom died in infancy. In 1894 the family moved to 414 North Eden Street, and later to 1510 Jefferson Street. John Blake worked earning US$9.00 weekly as a stevedore on the Baltimore docks.
In later years Blake claimed to have been born in 1883, but his Social Security application and all other official documents issued in the first half of his life list his year of birth as 1887. Many otherwise reliable sources mistakenly give his year of birth as the earlier year, reprinting the false information that had been printed before these official documents and census records came to light.
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Eugene Carson Blake
Eugene Carson Blake (November 7, 1906 – July 31, 1985) was an American Protestant Church leader in the 1950s and 1960s, and President of the National Council of Churches in the United States, 1954—1957. He was General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, 1966—1974.
Blake was a powerful Protestant leader in the 1950s and 1960s. He graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1932 with a Bachelor of Theology. He taught at a Christian missionary school in Lahore, India (now Pakistan), held pastorates at churches in New York City and Albany[disambiguation needed
], and served as the pastor of the Pasadena Church in Pasadena for eleven years. In 1951, he was elected stated clerk of the General Assembly of the UPCUSA, a post he held until 1966. Blake demonstrated against segregation and was in the vanguard of the ecumenical movement. He served as the president of the National Council of Churches from 1954–1957 and the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches from 1966–1974. Blake became a trustee of Princeton Seminary in 1954.
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Francisco Blake Mora
José Francisco Blake Mora (22 May 1966 – 11 November 2011) was a Mexican lawyer and politician who served as the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of Felipe Calderón from 2010 to 2011. He was Mexico's top cabinet secretary and key figure in the battle against the drug cartels and corruption in the country. Blake Mora was also an important official in the dialogues of Felipe Calderón's drug policy, where he constantly traveled to meet with governors and victims of the drug war.
Blake Mora was born in a humble, working-class family in Tijuana, Baja California. He obtained a degree in law from the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) and a diploma in strategic planning and public policy from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM). He was elected to the office of Alderman of the City of Tijuana from 1995 to 1998, and later served as a federal deputy for the Fifth Federal Electoral District of Baja California in the LVIII Legislature from 2000 to 2003. He then served as a member of the Congress of Baja California from 2004 to 2007. According to Fox News, Blake Mora gained popularity as a public official because he had promoted the cooperation of military forces and civil authorities to combat the drug cartels in his homestate of Baja California before becoming Secretary of Interior.
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George Blake
George Blake (born George Behar, 11 November 1922) is a former British spy known for having been a double agent in the service of the Soviet Union. Discovered in 1961 and sentenced to 42 years in prison, he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966 and fled to the USSR. He was not one of the Cambridge spies, although he is often grouped with them.
George Blake was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1922. Blake was the son of a Dutch mother and a Turkish/Jewish father who was a naturalized British subject. He was named George after King George V. His father, Albert Behar, fought against the Ottoman Empire in the First World War despite his origins in Constantinople (now Istanbul) and received awards from the French and British for his gallantry. The Behars lived a comfortable existence in Holland until Albert's death in 1936. The thirteen year-old George was sent to live with relatives in Egypt, where he continued his education at the English School in Cairo. While in Cairo, he was close to his cousin Henri Curiel, who was later to become a prominent member of the Communist Party of Egypt. In 1991 Blake said that his encounter with Curiel, who was a decade older and already a communist, shaped his views in later life.
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Gerald Blake
Gerald Blake (3 December 1928 – 5 April 1991) was a television director during the 1960s to the 1980s.
His numerous credits include The Gentle Touch, The Omega Factor (the episode After-Image), Blake's 7, Survivors, The Onedin Line, Out of the Unknown, Doctor Who (the stories The Abominable Snowmen (1967) and The Invasion of Time (1978)), Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Compact, Z-Cars, Mr. Palfrey of Westminster, and Coronation Street.
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Gillian Blake
Gillian Blake (born 10 May 1949, Buckingham) is a retired British actress who became well known in the early 1970s as Dora in Follyfoot.
Blake studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and began her professional career in the late 1960s. She appeared in the 1969 film, Goodbye Mr. Chips and some other television work. In 1971 she landed the lead role in a Yorkshire Television Production Follyfoot, which ran for three series until 1973. Her last role of note was in two episodes of the BBC2 Playhouse series in 1980.
Since then she has retired from acting, having spent some years concentrating on motherhood. She made a rare television appearance on This is Your Life in 1995, celebrating the career of Desmond Llewelyn (her co-star in Follyfoot). She married and had a son and now lives in Dereham in Norfolk.
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Gordon Blake
Gordon Aylesworth Blake (July 22, 1910 – September 1, 1997) was a U.S. Air Force lieutenant general who served from 1962-1965 as director of the National Security Agency (NSA).
Gordon, son of George and Cecelia Blake of Charles City, Iowa, was born in Charles City in 1910, and graduated from high school there in 1927. He was appointed in 1927 to the United States Military Academy by the late Gilbert N. Haugen and graduated on June 11, 1931. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps and detailed as a student officer to pilot training.
In October 1932, General Blake completed Primary and Advanced Flying Schools. He was transferred to the Air Corps on January 25, 1933, and was assigned with a pursuit squadron at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. Entering the Signal School at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, in July 1934, he completed the Communications Officers' Course the following June and was assigned as communications instructor at the Air Corps Technical School, at Chanute Field, Illinois.
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Hamish Blake
Hamish Donald Blake (born 11 December 1981) is a Gold Logie Award winning Australian comedian, actor, and author from Melbourne, Australia. Since 2003, he has worked with Andy Lee as part of the comedy duo Hamish and Andy. The pair have performed live and on television and radio, most notably with their drive-time radio program Hamish & Andy. As a solo performer, Blake has appeared on various Australian television programs, including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's televised 2008 Great Debate, and has been a regular guest on Spicks and Specks, Rove and Thank God You're Here. In April 2012, Blake and co-star Andy Lee won a Logie Award for their television program Hamish and Andy's Gap Year. Individually, Blake also won the Gold Logie for "Most Popular Personality on Television".
Blake grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Glen Waverley. He is a middle child; his older brother, Lachlan, is a solicitor and his sister, Sophie, has completed an arts degree. His parents, Noel and Kerry, separated when Blake was 17, with his father eventually remarrying. As a child, Blake says he was a fan of British comedy such as Monty Python, Fawlty Towers and Blackadder; as a teenager he "worshipped" comedians Tony Martin and Mick Molloy. Blake was a member of the National Boys Choir of Australia during the late 1980s. He attended school at Caulfield Grammar School and later at St Leonard's College, graduating in 1999.
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Harris Blake
Harris Blake is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's twenty-second Senate district, which includes constituents in Harnett, Lee and Moore counties. Blake is a real estate agent from Pinehurst, North Carolina.
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Henry Arthur Blake
Sir Henry Arthur Blake GCMG, DL (Chinese name: 卜力; 1840–1918) was a British colonial administrator, Governor of Hong Kong from 1898 to 1903.
Blake was born in Limerick, Ireland on 8 January 1840. He was the son of Jane Lane and Peter Blake, a Galway-born county Inspector of the Irish Constabulary. Blake started out as a draper's assistant at a haberdashery, but joined the Irish Constabulary in 1859, where he worked as an inspector and Resident Magistrate of Duff Hill.
In 1876 he was appointed RM to Tuam, an especially disturbed district in the west of Ireland, where he was noted as judicious and active. In 1882, he was promoted to Special Resident Magistrate.
In 1884, Blake was made Governor of Bahamas, a position he held until 1887. In this year, he moved to Newfoundland, where he was governor until 1889. In 1886 he was appointed to Queensland, but resigned without entering the administration. In 1889 he became the Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of Jamaica. His term was extended in 1894 and 1896, at the request of Legislature and public bodies of the island.
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Howard Blake
Howard Blake, OBE is an English composer (born 28 October 1938 in London), particularly noted for his film scores, although he is prolific in several fields of classical and light music. His most popular work includes music for The Bear and The Duellists but he receives most acclaim for the orchestral scores he provided for the 1980 film Flash Gordon and his highly successful work for the Channel 4 production The Snowman in 1982.
Blake did not come from a family of professional musicians although his mother played piano and violin and his father sang tenor in the church choir. At grammar school he sang lead parts in Gilbert and Sullivan operas and was recognised as a good pianist, but few were aware that he was also writing music.
At the age of 18 years Blake won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music as both pianist and composer but found himself at odds with his contemporaries in regard to musical style. He virtually stopped composing and became interested in film and on leaving the Academy briefly worked as a film projectionist at the National Film Theatre. Missing music he played piano in pubs and clubs for a couple of years until being discovered and signed by EMI to make a solo album and work as a session musician on many recordings. This led him to work as an arranger and a composer, a role which gradually became his full-time occupation.
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James Blake
James Riley Blake (born December 28, 1979) is an American professional tennis player. Blake is known for his speed and powerful, flat forehand. As of April 2012, Blake is ranked World No. 74 among active male players with 24 career finals appearances (10–14 record), whilst his career-high singles ranking is World No. 4. His career highlights include reaching the final of the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup, the semifinals of the Beijing Olympics and the quarterfinals of the Australian Open (2008) and US Open (2005, 2006). His two titles for the United States at the Hopman Cup are an event record. Blake was a key performer for the United States 2007 Davis Cup championship team, going 2–0 in the championship tie vs. Russia at second singles. In 2005, Blake was presented with the Comeback Player of the Year award for his remarkable return to the tour. Later, in 2008, Blake was awarded another honor by the ATP where he was named the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year. On July 3, 2007, Blake's autobiography Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life, which discussed his comeback after his unlucky 2004 season, was released and debuted at No. 22 on the New York Times Best Seller list. He co-wrote this book with Andrew Friedman.
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James Carlos Blake
James Carlos Blake (born May 26, 1947) is an American writer of novels, novellas, short stories, and essays. His work has received extensive critical favor and several notable awards. He has been called “one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life” as well as “one of the most original writers in America today and … certainly one of the bravest.” He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.
Blake has written about his boyhood in a memoir essay entitled “The Outsider” and has discussed his life and work in a profile in Texas Monthly and in a wide-ranging interview in Firsts. He was born in Tampico, Mexico, a third-generation Mexican descended from American, English, and Irish ancestors—including a British pirate who was executed in Veracruz, Mexico—and is a naturalized American citizen. His father, Carlos Sebastian Blake Hernandez, was a civil engineer. His mother, Estrella Maria Lozano Cano, was the daughter of a horse rancher and grew up on the family's ranch near Matamoros. Blake received his elementary education at St. Joseph’s Academy in Brownsville, Texas, and graduated from high school in Miami, Florida. After service in the U. S. Army airborne, he earned BA and MA degrees from the University of South Florida (Tampa) and an MFA degree from Bowling Green State University (Ohio), where he attended on a fellowship. He has worked as a snake-catcher, Volkswagen mechanic, swimming pool maintenance man, and county jail properties officer, but his primary occupation has been as a college instructor. He has taught at the University of South Florida, Bowling Green State University, Edison State College (Florida), the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Saudi Arabia), and Miami Dade College. In 1997 he left teaching to write full-time. He was married and divorced three times before he was forty and has since remained single.
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Jeff Blake
Jeff Bertrand Coleman Blake (born December 4, 1970) is a retired American football quarterback who played in the National Football League. Although he finished his career with the Chicago Bears, he was formerly a quarterback for the New York Jets, Cincinnati Bengals, New Orleans Saints, Baltimore Ravens, Arizona Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles. He was drafted in the sixth round of the 1992 NFL Draft by the Jets out of East Carolina University. His only Pro Bowl appearance came with the Bengals, when he was selected for the AFC team. In that contest, Blake threw a Pro Bowl record-long 92-yard touchdown pass to Yancey Thigpen.
Blake finished seventh in the 1991 Heisman Trophy voting, while leading East Carolina to an 11–1 record and the #9 ranking at season's end. He was inducted into the East Carolina Hall of Fame in 2007.
Blake's best seasons came with Cincinnati in the mid-to-late 1990s (when he was often referred to as "Shake-N-Blake" by local media and fans); he established great rapport with Bengal receivers Carl Pickens and Darnay Scott, helping the former vie for the receiving title in 1995.
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Jeremy Blake
Jeremy Blake (October 4, 1971 – July 17, 2007) was an American digital artist and painter. His work included projected DVD installations, Type C prints, and collaborative film projects.
A graduate of the both School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA '93) and (California Institute of the Arts (MFA 95), he was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, 2002 and 2004. His "Winchester" series, inspired by the story of Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House, was shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005. He also was selected to participate in the Renaissance Society group exhibition, "All the Pretty Corpses", in 2005.
Blake also created the painted abstract hallucination scenes in the 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson film Punch-Drunk Love, and contributed artwork and video for Beck's album Sea Change. Blake was also involved in creating and commissioning a soundtrack album called The Forty Million Dollar Beatnik with Neil Landstrumm and Mike Fellows in 2000 on Scandinavia Records and Pork Salad Press to accompany an LA drawings/script show by Blake of the same title.
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Jerome Blake
Jerome Blake (born 1956) is an English actor.
Blake spent twenty years as a musician and at 36 became a model. Blake started with some small roles in commercials, which led to him to a small part in First Knight alongside Sean Connery. This eventually paid off when he was recruited to play seven different parts in the 1999 film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, including Rune Haako.
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Julia Blake
Julia Blake (born 1936) is a British-born actress based in Australia.
Blake was born in London, England. She is married to Terry Norris. She is the mother of actresses Sarah and Jane Norris.
She is possibly best known to television audiences for her three roles in the cult series Prisoner – Evelyn Randall in 1981, Alice Dodds in 1983 and Nancy McCormack in 1986.
Blake has also worked extensively in Australian cinema, with appearances in:
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Karen Blake
Karen Blake is a Radio Disc Jockey from Boston, Massachusetts. She has been on the Boston airwaves since the late 1970s and early 1980s.
She began her career with six years at Kiss 108. She then joined WZOU 94.5 where she was also known as "The Madam" doing Mornings, Evenings and Afternoon Drive for nearly a decade. Blake was also heard on WKLB for 2 years in Afternoons. She then spent 9 years on Star 93.7 (WQSX) doing Mornings. The show was known as "Ralphie and Karen's Morning Show". In October 2005 Blake joined 103.3 WODS - Boston, hosting the Afternoon Drive slot from 2 pm to 6pm. In September 2008 she moved to the Morning Drive position on WODS and currently can be heard on-the-air weekdays from 6-9am.
Blake was voted Boston's most popular DJ by the Boston Herald Readers' Poll. She was also voted Boston's most popular DJ by the Rhode Island Journal. She has received accolades in many national magazines. Blake also received a nomination as "Major Market Air Personality of the Year"
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Karl Blake
Karl Blake (born 1956 in Reading, Berkshire, England) is a vocalist, bassist, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Most of his own music can be described as progressive-experimental and sometimes psychedelic.
Blake is most noted, in addition to his solo work, for his work with Lemon Kittens, Danielle Dax, Shock Headed Peters, Sol Invictus, Current 93, Left Hand Right Hand, Seven Pines and Gaë Bolg and the church of Fand. Other past projects include Alternative TV, The Underneath, Evil Twin, British Racing Green and various other solo and session work.
He began playing and self-recording in 1973/4, and his first band to have a commercially released record, Lemon Kittens, was formed by Blake and Gary Thatcher on April 5th 1978. It went through numerous line-up changes before it again became a two-piece group consisting of Blake and Danielle Dax, with the addition of others for live performance (the group only played around 22 concerts during their entire existence). Between 1979 and 1981, Lemon Kittens released two albums as well as two EPs, described by Simon Reynolds as "aggressively absurdist records". Cassette-only Lemon Kittens recordings were made under the name Gland Shrouds in 1980.
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Madge Blake
Madge Blake (May 31, 1899 – June 19, 1969) was an American character actress best remembered for her role as Aunt Harriet Cooper on ABC's Batman TV series (1966-68).
Madge Blake's father, Albert Cummings, was a Methodist who discouraged her entry into acting. As such, she stayed out of acting until later in life. During World War II, she and her husband worked in Utah on construction of the detonator for the atomic bomb and performed such jobs as testing equipment destined for the Manhattan Project.
Though she was five years his senior, she was a niece of actor Milburn Stone. She took advantage of his influence to help her land acting roles. In the middle 1950s, she appeared on Rod Cameron's City Detective crime drama and in Ray Milland's sitcom, Meet Mr. McNutley, renamed in the second season as The Ray Milland Show. Blake also appeared in four episodes of the NBC sitcom It's a Great Life, which aired from 1954-56.
In addition to her Batman role, Blake portrayed the baffled Margaret Mondello, mother of Larry Mondello (played by Rusty Stevens) on Leave It to Beaver (1957), gushy gossip columnist Dora Bailey in Singin' in the Rain (1952), and was a model for one of the fairies in Disney's animated version of Sleeping Beauty (1959). Blake appeared as the babysitter, Mrs. Porter, in the pilot of Dennis the Menace (1959). In 1961, she guest starred in the episode "A View of Murder" of the crime drama The Brothers Brannagan.
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Mervyn Blake
Mervyn Alexander Clifford Blake, CM (30 November 1907 – 9 October 2003) was a Canadian stage actor.
Born in Dehradun, India, he joined the Stratford Festival of Canada in 1957. He was the first Stratford actor to appear in Shakespeare's entire canon of plays.
In 1995, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada for "his dedication to his craft and to the development of the Stratford Festival". [1]
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Nathan Blake
Nathan Alexander Blake (born 27 January 1972, Cardiff) is a Welsh former professional footballer, who played in the Premier League for several clubs and also represented his country at international level. Blake has been relegated from the Premier League five times, a record he holds jointly with Hermann Hreiðarsson.
Blake was a trainee at Chelsea but was released in 1990, without graduating to the first team. He moved back to his home-city club Cardiff City after this, where he quickly made his senior debut against Bristol Rovers in March. He quickly rose to being a first team regular in 1990/91 and went on to become a firm favourite with fans.
He helped the club to the Third Division title in 1992/93, scoring 11 times, and made a strong start to life in the third tier the next season, scoring 14 goals in 20 games. It was during this season that he rose to national prominence when he scored a spectacular goal against Manchester City to send them crashing out of the FA Cup. This form attracted Premier League Sheffield United to snap him up for £300,000 in February 1993. In total, he scored 40 goals in 164 appearances for the Welsh side.
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Noel Blake
Noel Blake (born 12 January 1962) is a retired footballer and current head coach of the England national under-19 football team. He played in the Football League for Aston Villa, Shrewsbury Town, Birmingham City, Portsmouth, Leeds United, Stoke City, Bradford City and Exeter City, and in the Scottish Football League for Dundee.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Blake moved to England and played football with non-league side Sutton Coldfield Town. He was spotted by scouts at Aston Villa who signed Blake a year later. He struggled to force his way into the Villa side and went out on loan to Shrewsbury Town in 1982. He left Villa upon his return and joined local rivals Birmingham City. He quickly became a fan favourite with Birmingham as he scored against Villa in December 1982. He spent two years with Birmingham before signing with Portsmouth on the south coast. Whilst he did enjoy some success at 'Pompey' winning promotion in 1987, Blake had problems with racial abuse from his own supporters. After making over 150 appearances with Portsmouth, Blake joined Leeds United on a free transfer and he helped to club to promotion in the 1988–89 season. However his opportunities were limited the following season and so he was sold to Stoke City.
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Nzinga Blake
Nzinga Blake (born 1981) is an American / Sierra Leonean actress.
Blake was a host on Current TV and starred on the TV series Fridays on Cartoon Network, Culture Click on Litton's Weekend Adventure, as well as in national television commercials for Sprite and Kinkos. Her father, Cecil Blake, is the former Minister of Information in Sierra Leone.
Nzinga has done a couple of television series, including a recurring role, as Vivian, on the Showtime series Barbershop, |Recently, she was listed in the credits under "Special Thanks" for the E! True Hollywood Story, "Tropic Thunder".
In 2009, she began hosting for BET and is the LA Entertainment correspondent for a talk show on Australia's Network 10, titled The Project (previously known as The 7PM Project).
Blake was named after Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, a 17th century Queen and folk heroine of the Mbundu people of southwestern Africa. She is a 1999 graduate of Munster High School in Indiana, and a 2003 graduate of UCLA as a Film & Television Major.
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Prince Alla
Prince Alla aka Prince Allah or Ras Allah (b. Keith Blake, 10 May 1950, Denham Town, Kingston, Jamaica) is a roots reggae singer whose career began in the 1960s, and has continued with a string of releases into the 2000s.
Blake's career began in the vocal group The Leaders with Milton Henry and Roy Palmer, who recorded three tracks for producer Joe Gibbs in the late 1960s. When The Leaders broke up, Blake continued to work with Gibbs, who issued his debut solo release, "Woo Oh Oh". Blake had been interested in the Rastafari movement since he had a vision as a child, and in 1969, Blake's Rastafarian faith saw him get heavily involved in Jamaica's camp community, withdrawing from the music scene and living in Prince Emmanuel Edwards' camp at Bull Bay. He re-entered the music scene in the mid-1970s, releasing a single "Born a Fighter" for producer Teddy Powell, before working with Bertram Brown's Freedom Sounds, with a series of recordings, now under the name Prince Alla, that are now regarded as roots reggae classics, such as "Sun Is Shining", "Bucket Bottom", "Lot's Wife", and "Stone". He also recorded for producer Tapper Zukie, including the album Heaven Is My Roof. Continuing interest in his work saw the release of two albums of material from the 1970s on Blood & Fire records, "Only Love Can Conquer" and "I Can Hear The Children Singing", which brought his work to a new audience. Alla continued to release records occasionally through the 1980s and 1990s, including an album with Jah Shaka. Alla has continued to be in demand with digital roots producers, and has released several albums with the likes of Jah Warrior.
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Quentin Blake
Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, RDI, (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl.
Blake was born in 1932 in Sidcup, Kent and was evacuated to the West Country during the war. He went to Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School, where his English teacher, J H Walsh, influenced his ambition to become involved in literature. His first published drawing was for the satirical magazine Punch, at the age of 16. He read English Literature at Downing College, Cambridge (1953-6), received his postgraduate teaching diploma from the University of London, and later studied at the Chelsea School of Art. He gained another teaching diploma at the Institute of Education before working at the Royal College of Art. His full name is Quentin Saxby Blake. He is not married and has no children.
Blake gained a reputation as a reliable and humorous illustrator of more than 300 children's books. As well as illustrating the books of others, including Joan Aiken, Roald Dahl, Elizabeth Bowen and Dr. Seuss, Blake has written numerous books of his own. As of 2006, he has participated in the writing and/or illustrating of 323 books (of which he wrote 35 himself, and 18 were by Dahl). He taught at the Royal College of Art for over twenty years, and was head of the Illustration department from 1978 to 1986. He recently illustrated David Walliams's debut book, The Boy in the Dress and his more recent book Mr Stink.
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Ran Blake
Ran Blake (born April 20, 1935) is an American pianist and composer from Springfield, Massachusetts. In a career that spans five decades, Blake has created a unique niche in improvised music as an artist and educator. With a characteristic mix of spontaneous solos, modern classical tonalities, the great American blues and gospel traditions, and themes from classic film noir, Blake's singular sound has earned a dedicated following all over the world. His dual musical legacy includes more than 30 albums, as well as nearly 40 years as a groundbreaking educator at Boston’s New England Conservatory.
Blake first discovered the dark, image-laden and complex character-driven films that would so influence his music at age 12 when he saw Robert Siodmak’s The Spiral Staircase. "There were post-World War II musical nuances that if occasionally banal and as clichéd as yesterday’s soap operas, were often so eerie, haunting and unforgettable," Blake would later write. "After more than 18 viewings in 20 days, plots, scenes, and melodic and harmonic surfaces intermingled, obtruding into my day life as well as my dreams."
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Rob Blake
Robert Bowlby Blake (born December 10, 1969) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was originally drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in 1988, appearing in the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals, winning the James Norris Memorial Trophy and serving as team captain for five seasons in his initial 11 season-stint with the club. In 2001, Blake was traded to the Colorado Avalanche and won a Stanley Cup championship. After a two-season return to Los Angeles, Blake signed with the Sharks in 2008, retiring as its captain after the 2009-10 season.
Internationally, Blake has played for Team Canada in three consecutive Winter Olympics in 1998, 2002 and 2006, winning gold in 2002 and becoming the eleventh member of the Triple Gold Club.
Blake was selected 70th overall in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft by the Los Angeles Kings. He had completed his freshman year with Bowling Green State University of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) when he was drafted and went on to play three years total in the college ranks, earning CCHA and NCAA West First All-Star Team honours in 1990. Foregoing his final season of college eligibility, Blake joined the Kings for the final four games of the 1989–90 season before tallying 46 points in his NHL rookie campaign in 1990–91 to be named to the NHL All-Rookie Team.
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Robbie Blake
Robert James "Robbie" Blake (born 4 March 1976) is an English footballer who is currently a free agent after being released by Bolton Wanderers. He began his career as a striker but has increasingly been used as midfielder in the latter part of his career.
He began his professional career with Darlington in 1994 and went on to make more than 500 appearances in the Football League and Premier League playing for Bradford City, Nottingham Forest, Burnley, Birmingham City, Leeds United and Bolton Wanderers. Blake has been the subject of many transfers throughout his career, with career total transfer fees reaching £3.6 million.
Born in Middlesbrough, England, Blake began his professional football career at Division Three side Darlington in the 1994–95 season after signing on from the youth academy. He spent the first few seasons of his career playing at Feethams, and also was loaned out to Waterford United during the 1995–96 season, making some 68 league appearances and scoring 21 goals before the club received an offer, from then Division One side, Bradford City in March 1997. Bradford made a £300,000 offer for the player which Darlington accepted.
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Robert Holdstock
Robert Paul Holdstock (2 August 1948 – 29 November 2009) was an English novelist and author best known for his works of Celtic, Nordic, Gothic and Pictish fantasy literature, predominantly in the fantasy subgenre of mythic fiction.
Holdstock's writing was first published during 1968. His science fiction and fantasy works explore philosophical, psychological, anthropological, spiritual, and woodland themes. He received three BSFA awards and won the World Fantasy Award in the category of Best Novel of 1985.
Robert Holdstock, the oldest of five children, was born in Hythe, Kent. His father, Robert Frank Holdstock, was a police officer and his mother, Kathleen Madeline Holdstock, was a nurse. At the age of seven years, Robert started attending the Gillingham Grammar School in the Medway Towns. As a young adult he had jobs including banana boatman, construction worker, and slate miner.
As an adult he earned a Bachelor of Science from University College of North Wales, Bangor, with honours in applied Zoology (1967–1970). He continued his education, earning a Master of Science in Medical Zoology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1971. He conducted research at the Medical Research Council in London from 1971 to 1974 while also doing part-time writing. He became a full-time writer during 1976 and lived out the rest of his life in North London.
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Rodney Blake
Rodney Blake (born 29 April 1983 in Tonga) is a professional Australian rugby union footballer. He plays prop for the Melbourne Rebels. He previously played for Bayonne in France. He is sometimes referred to as Rodzilla. His father Paul is a former Otago flanker. In June 2006, Blake made his debut for the Wallabies.
Blake moved to Sydney with his family when he was 13. He played for the West Harbour RFC Juniors and was educated at Homebush Boys High School. Blake was a member of the Australian Schools side, and he represented Australia under-21 world cup in Scotland.[citation needed]
He made his Queensland Reds Super Rugby debut against the Otago Highlanders . He was a regular in the Reds' line-up during the 2006 Super 14 season. He was named in John Connolly's Wallaby side, and made his test debut against England at Telstra Stadium, playing the full 80 minutes. In the closing minutes of the match Blake charged over to score the final try of the game which saw Australia win 34 to 3. He was injured in the subsequent victory over England, and thus missed the following match against Ireland. Blake missed the opening matches of the 2006 Tri Nations Series but played for the Wallabies in a Bledisloe Cup match against the All Blacks in Brisbane.
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Ronald James Blake
Ronald James Blake (Chinese: 詹伯樂, born 1934), OBE, JP, is a civil engineer, and a former Secretary for Works in the government of colonial Hong Kong. He has been appointed to the post of acting CEO of KCRC on 16 March 2006 to replace the outgoing Samuel Lai.
James Blake was born in the UK in 1934. He studied structural engineering part-time whilst working as a draftsman for an engineering firm after leaving school.
While serving with the Royal Engineers in Her Majesty's Armed Forces he arrived in the Territory for the first time in 1958. He qualified as a Chartered Engineer two years later. He settled in Hong Kong in 1965 and worked in various private companies, participating in the construction of the Cross Harbour Tunnel as well as the MTR amongst other projects. Prior to coming to the Territory, he had worked for Boulton and Paul in the UK. He had also worked for Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Partners in Hong Kong, before being appointed as Secretary for Works.[1]PDF (179 KiB)
He was appointed Secretary for Works by the Hong Kong Government in 1991, a post he held until 1995. He later joined the KCRC as its Senior Director of capital projects.
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Sarah Blake
Sarah Blake (born August 21, 1980 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA) is a pornographic actress who entered the industry in around 2003, and specializes in fetish work.
When Blake first entered the adult scene she only intended to dabble in the area for thirty days. Blake also worked for Steve Lightspeed for a couple years under the name "Little Troublemaker" and also did work for FTV Girls. She stated in an interview that "My plan was to go to LA, have a wild adventure, and come back home and go to college. When I went to LA, everything was fantastic and I ended up staying and moving out there." In a May 14, 2008 post on her website, Blake indicated that she had taken a several month hiatus to have breast augmentation surgery.
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Sophie Blake
Sophie Blake (born 9 November 1972), is an English television presenter and former model.
Blake studied drama, and then travelled working in bars and restaurants for a few years. She did some modelling, and put a home-made show-reel together which United Sports picked up, and got her interviewing footballers in the back of limousines. She then worked on Sport on Five on Five, including presenting Techno Games.
Blake used to work for Sky Sports presenting speedway, she stood down from this role at the end of the 2007 season. She has also interviewed for the Mosconi Cup and the Super Bowl coverage. She has recently used this higher exposure and her looks to appear in a series of "lads mags" including Maxim and Nuts as well as appearing topless in Page Three.
Blake has 1 younger sister Lucy and 2 half-sisters Charlotte (14) and Nia (4).Sophie Blake and her husband Scott Nicholls have a daughter born in May 2007, Maya. In 2009 Blake was diagnosed with Asherman's syndrome where due to complications from the birth of her first child the formation of scar tissue causes adhesions in the womb. In November 2010, against all odds, Sophie announced that she and partner Nicholls were expecting their 2nd child.
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Steve Blake
Steven Hanson "Steve" Blake (born February 26, 1980) is an American professional basketball point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers. Previously, he played for the Washington Wizards, Milwaukee Bucks, Denver Nuggets, Portland Trail Blazers and the Los Angeles Clippers.
Blake spent his freshman and sophomore year at Miami Killian High School and then transferred to Miami High School, where he played with another future NBA player, Udonis Haslem. Miami won consecutive state championships, but after the Miami New Times exposed the fact that Blake and other players, under current South Carolina head coach Frank Martin, were using fake addresses to enroll in the school, the Stingarees were forced to forfeit their entire 1998 schedule. After being banned from playing again anywhere in the FHSAA, he then attended Oak Hill Academy before coming to Maryland.
After high school, he attended the University of Maryland. Blake was the team's starter from the first game of his freshman year and was the first ACC player to compile 1,000 points, 800 assists, 400 rebounds and 200 steals. He finished his career 5th in NCAA all-time career assists with 972. Widely known for his superb passing ability, Blake helped lead the Terrapins to a Final Four appearance (2001) and the 2002 NCAA championship; less well known for his scoring, Blake did average eleven points per game in his senior year. He averaged over six assists per game in each of his four years, including averages of 7.9 and 7.1 in 2002 and 2003, respectively. For his efforts, he was named to a variety of all-ACC teams during his career, including the rookie and defensive squads, capped by a first-team All-ACC spot his senior year. At the start of the 2003–04 basketball season, Blake's uniform number (25) became only the 15th to be retired to the rafters of Maryland's Comcast Center.
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Tchad Blake
Tchad Blake (born 1955) is an American record producer, audio engineer, mixer and musician.
He has worked with numerous artists and musicians, including State Radio, Apartment 26, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel, Pearl Jam, Tom Waits, Richard Thompson, Brazilian Girls, Sheryl Crow, November 2nd, Travis, Marike Jager, Crowded House, Finn Brothers, The Pretenders, Bernard Fanning, Los Lobos, The Bad Plus, Sam Phillips, Suzanne Vega, Stina Nordenstam, Phish, Bonnie Raitt, Lisa Germano, Al Green, Tracy Chapman, Phantom Planet, Gomez, The Dandy Warhols, American Music Club, Jed Davis, Blitzen Trapper, Cibo Matto, Haley Bonar, David Rhodes, The Black Keys, Nico Vega, Halloween, Alaska, Cheese People, Kula Shaker and Soul Coughing, among others.
He often partners with Mitchell Froom, with whom David Hidalgo and Louie Pérez of Los Lobos formed Latin Playboys.
Blake is noted for creating original and at times awkward sonic textures (usually with unorthodox gear), constantly shifting mixes, and use of binaural recording.
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Thomas Blake Glover
Thomas Blake Glover, Order of the Rising Sun (6 June 1838 – 16 December 1911) was a Scottish merchant in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan.
Thomas Blake Glover was born at 15 Commerce Street, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire in north east Scotland on 6 June 1838, the fifth of eight children to Thomas Berry Glover and Mary Findlay. His father, was a coastguard officer. Six years later the family moved to Bridge of Don, near Aberdeen his father having been promoted to Chief Coastguard Officer. Upon leaving school, Glover entered into employment with a trading company and travelled widely.
In 1859, Glover crossed from Shanghai to Nagasaki and worked initially for Jardine Matheson buying Japanese green tea. Two years later, he founded his own firm, Glover Trading Co. (Guraba-Shokai). His first major success was as a merchant for ships, guns and gunpowder sold illegally to the rebellious Satsuma, Chōshū and Tosa clans in Japan during the 1860s. His business was based in Nagasaki, and it was here that he had his home constructed, the first Western-style building in Japan. His association with the samurai clans above, and his interest in samurais generally seems to have contributed to his gaining the nickname the "Scottish Samurai". A Scottish Samurai award has been initiated by Aberdeen Sports Council.
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Toe Blake
Hector "Toe" Blake, CM (August 21, 1912 – May 17, 1995) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League (NHL).
His nickname came out of his childhood for his younger sister was unable to pronounce his name. When she said it, it often sounded like Hec-toe, hence Toe as his nickname which later replaced the nickname he had been given as a scorer, the Old Lamplighter, because he often activated the light behind the goal.
Born in what is now the ghost town of Victoria Mines, he was raised playing outdoor hockey in the town of Coniston near the city of Sudbury in Northern Ontario. Blake played junior and senior hockey in the Sudbury area and was part of the 1932 Memorial Cup champions, the Sudbury Cub Wolves. He played for the Hamilton Tigers of the Ontario Hockey Association before joining the NHL club with which he won his first Stanley Cup, the Montreal Maroons, in 1935, then playing for the Montreal Canadiens until his retirement in 1948. For the last eight seasons, he was team captain, and led the Canadiens to Stanley Cups in 1944 and 1946.
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Vivian Blake
Vivian Blake (11 May 1956 – 21 March 2010) was a Jamaican drug kingpin who founded and operated the American operations of the Jamaican Shower Posse.
Blake was born to a poor family in West Kingston, but was granted a scholarship to a private high school, St. George's College. He moved to New York in 1973, where he started distributing marijuana and cocaine, eventually expanding his network nationwide.
According to New York Daily News columnist Patrice O'Shaughnessy, in a column printed on 30 March 2010, Blake is credited with the dubious distinction of being "one of the creators of crack."
During the 1980s, also according to O'Shaughnessy, Blake was responsible for flooding Bronx neighborhoods such as Soundview, Crotona Park and Bronx River with tons of cocaine and crack cocaine.
Blake and other gang members were charged in a multiple killing in Miami, but he escaped apprehension by traveling to Jamaica. After later charges were added, he was extradited to the United States in 1999. In 2000, he pleaded guilty to charges including racketeering and conspiracy, and admitted to his role in the gang. He was sentenced to 28 years, but was released on parole after eight.
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Walter Blake
Sir Walter Blake, (bef. 1672–May 1748), 6th Bt., was a minor Irish aristocrat and politician from County Galway.
Blake was the son of Sir Thomas Blake and Maria French. In October 1686, Walter Blake succeeded to the title of 6th Baronet Blake of Menlough. During the Williamite war in Ireland, he was captain in Colonel Dillon's Regiment of Foot of King James II's Irish Army.
Blake was Member of Parliament for Galway County in the Patriot Parliament of 1689. He was the first Roman Catholic of distinction to join William of Orange's forces, where he raised and maintained a regiment at his own expense.
Blake lived in Menlough, County Galway. In 1687, he married Anne Kirwan, daughter of Sir John Kirwan. In 1706, he married Agnes Blake, daughter of John Blake.
Blake died in May 1748 in Marlborough Street, Dublin. He was succeeded as Baronet Blake by his son, Thomas Blake.
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Whitney Blake
Whitney Blake (February 20, 1926 — September 28, 2002) was an American film and television actress, director and producer.
Blake was born as Nancy Ann Whitney in 1926 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, the first child of Harry C. Whitney, a Secret Service man who had guarded, among others, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, and his wife, Martha Mae Whitney (née Wilkerson). Blake's childhood was spent traveling across the country with her family, during which time she attended 16 different schools. While attending Pasadena City College, she worked in small-theater groups in the Los Angeles area. In the summer, she worked at her mother's ice cream stand in McMinnville, Oregon.
After her appearance in an amateur Hollywood production of The Women caught the attention of talent scouts, she appeared on a number of television programs, including the syndicated Johnny Midnight, Sheriff of Cochise, and twice on Rod Cameron's State Trooper. In addition, she guest-starred on Mike Connors's Tightrope detective series, in the 1960 episode "High Bridge" of the NBC western series Overland Trail starring William Bendix and Doug McClure. She appeared in the first episode of the syndicated western series Pony Express in the episode "The Good Samaritan". Her guest appearance in the short-lived series The D.A.'s Man garnered her an Emmy nomination in 1959.
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William Blake
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry has led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". Although he lived in London his entire life except for three years spent in Felpham he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "Human existence itself".
Considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of both the Romantic movement and "Pre-Romantic", for its large appearance in the 18th century. Reverent of the Bible but hostile to the Church of England – indeed, to all forms of organised religion – Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American revolutions, as well as by such thinkers as Jakob Böhme and Emanuel Swedenborg. Despite these known influences, the singularity of Blake's work makes him difficult to classify. The 19th-century scholar William Rossetti characterised Blake as a "glorious luminary," and as "a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors".
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William Blake Herron
William Blake Herron is a film screenwriter, director and actor who contributed to the screenplay for The Bourne Identity. He also contributed to the screenplay for Eye of the Widow.
Mr. Herron grew up in Chicago, Illinois of Texan parents, which provided inspiration for his film, "A Texas Funeral".
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William Hume Blake
William Hume Blake, QC (10 March 1809 – 5 November 1870) was an Irish-Canadian jurist and politician. He was the father of Edward Blake, an Ontario Premier and federal Liberal party of Canada leader.
He was born at his grandfather's home, Humewood Castle, Kiltegan, County Wicklow, Ireland, the son of the Rev. Dominick Edward Blake, and Ann, daughter of William Hume (1747-1798) M.P., of Humewood Castle. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1832 he emigrated to Canada and settled on a farm in Middlesex County. In a few years he removed to Toronto, studied law, and was called to the bar in 1838. He soon distinguished himself in the profession, but was strongly interested in the political issues which agitated the province. In 1848 he was elected to the Legislature for East York (now Ontario County) and in the same year was appointed Solicitor-General for Upper Canada in the Lafontaine-Baldwin ministry. In 1849 he prepared the act reforming the practice and organization of the Court of Chancery in Upper Canada and resigned from the ministry in order to become in 1849 the first chancellor of the court. In March, 1862, he resigned on account of failing health, and eight years later he died in Toronto. He was named a QC in 1848.
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William Phipps Blake
William Phipps Blake (June 1, 1826 – May 22, 1910) was an American mineralogist and geologist. He was born in New York City, graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale in 1852, one of seven to get the newly created Ph.B. degree. He was mineralogist and geologist of the Pacific Railroad Exploring Expedition of 1853, and author of several of its reports. From 1856-1859, he investigated mineral resources in the area of North Carolina. He edited the Mining Magazine (1859–1860). In 1861 traveled to Japan with another early Arizona geologist, Raphael Pumpelly, to introduce western technology to the shogunate. In 1863, Blake returned to California and was appointed professor of mineralogy in the College of California and geologist to the California State Board of Agriculture.
In 1867 he was appointed as a commissioner representing California at the Exposition Universelle (Paris Exposition). His report on the precious metals, forming one of the government volumes on the Paris exposition of 1867, is full of valuable information. He was the first to recognize the tellurides among the products of California, and was also the first to draw attention to the platinum metals associated with the gold-washings of that state. In 1871, he was chief of the U.S. scientific corps that visited Santo Domingo. Selected by the Smithsonian, he collected and installed the government exhibit on the mineral resources of the United States for the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.
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Blakely, Don Filmography
- You Are So Going to Hell! (2004)
- George Wallace (1997)
- Persons Unknown (1996)
- Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Strapped (1993)
- 29th Street (1991)
- Prime Suspect (1989)
- Harlem Nights (1989)
- The Telephone (1988)
- The Telephone (1988)
- Wired to Kill (1986)
- In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro (1986)
- Vigilante (1983)
- Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige (1981)
- Defiance (1980)
- Brubaker (1980)
- PSI Factor (1980)
- On the Yard (1978)
- Short Eyes (1977)
- Beacon Hill (1975)
- Strike Force (1975)
- The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
- Pueblo (1973)
- Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
- Parades (1972)
- The Cross and the Switchblade (1970)
- All My Children (1970)
Blake Filmography
Blake Filmography
- Hallelujah - Blake
- God Only Knows - Blake
- Come Alive - Blake
- Closest Thing To Crazy - Blake
- Chasing Cars - Blake
- Bringer Of Insanity - Blake
- Bring Him Home - Blake
- Bridge Over Troubled Water - Blake
- And So It Goes... - Blake
- Live To Die - Blake
- Jerusalem - Blake
- I Vow To Thee My Country - Blake
- With or Without You - Blake
- Nessun dorma - Blake
- Moon River - Blake
- Wild Mountain Thyme - Blake
- When A Child Is Born - Blake
- Up Where We Belong - Blake
- Swing Low - Blake
- Start Over - Blake
- Spirit Of Cain - Blake
- All Of Me - Blake
- Abide With Me - Blake
- Blake - Cobalt Skies
I heard there was a secret chord
that david played and it pleased the lord
but you don't really care for music, do you
well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth
the minor fall and the major lift
the baffled king composing hallelujah
hallelujah...
well your faith was strong but you needed proof
you saw her bathing on the roof
her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
she tied you to her kitchen chair
she broke your throne and she cut your hair
and from your lips she drew the hallelujah
hallelujah...
baby i've been here before
i've seen this room and i've walked this floor
i used to live alone before i knew you
i've seen your flag on the marble arch
but love is not a victory march
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah
hallelujah...
well there was a time when you let me know
what's really going on below
but now you never show that to me do you
but remember when i moved in you
and the holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was hallelujah
well, maybe there's a god above
but all i've ever learned from love
was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
it's not a cry that you hear at night
it's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah
I may not always love you
But long as there are stars above you
You never need to doubt it
Ill make you so sure about it
God only knows what Id be without you
If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would living do me
God only knows what Id be without you
God only knows what Id be without you
If you should ever leave me
Well life would still go on believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would living do me
God only knows what Id be without you
God only knows what Id be without you
God only knows
God only knows what Id be without you
God only knows what Id be without you
God only knows
God only knows what Id be without you
God only knows what Id be without you
God only knows
God only knows what Id be without you
God only knows what Id be without you
God only knows
God only knows what Id be without you
God only knows what Id be without you
God only knows
God only knows what Id be without you
God only knows what Id be without you
God only knows
I don't need to learn the rules
Learn the way among the fools
Come alive, my queen of sorrow
You're the one that makes me shine
Won't you come and turn back time
Show the way and I will follow
I don't want to go too deep
I don't need to know what's real
The world aroudn is turning hollow
burning inside, last in line
Back to days when you were mine
what is left beyond tomorrow
am i still alive?
I don't want to make you bleed
Oh, I don't need to know what's real
Turn back time...
Come alive and tell me why
I don't want, I don't need to drown in memories
Turn back time..
Come alive and tell me why
Evil power's changing gear
Tripping heart feeds inner fear
One more lie is left to swallow
I won't let you take me far
Use my will then suck me dry
Come alive, my queen ...of sorrow
Am I still alive?
I don't want to make you bleed
Oh, I don't need to know what's real
Turn back time...
Come alive and tell me why
I don't want, I don't need to drown in memories
Turn back time...
How can I think I'm standing strong,
Yet feel the air beneath my feet?
How can happiness feel so wrong?
How can misery feel so sweet?
How can you let me watch you sleep,
Then break my dreams the way you do?
How can I have got in so deep?
Why did I fall in love with you?
CHORUS:
This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been
Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen,
This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known,
I was never crazy on my own:
And now I know that there's a link between the two,
Being close to craziness and being close to you.
How can you make me fall apart
Then break my fall with loving lies?
It's so easy to break a heart;
It's so easy to close your eyes.
How can you treat me like a child
Yet like a child I yearn from you?
How can anyone feel so wild?
How can anyone feel so blue?
We'll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lay with me and just forget the world?
I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lay with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lay with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all
If I lay here
If I just lay here
(Mother nature tell me, where's my god)
Mother nature tell me, where's my god
I'm a hunter, a searching star
I'm right here surrounded by my fears
(oh no)
I've been down there baby, a thousand times
Reading signs, between the lines
Dry your tears, it's time to face our fears
(oh right)
Buried alive i wish you'd be mine
Star of The slavery
the Best you can find the one of a kind
Bringer of insanity
Holy maker help me, one more time
Deal the future and make me shine
I'm still here, after all these years
(oh ye)
Sorrowmaker I've been down too long
Take me stranger, make me strong
Face your fears after wasted years
(oh right)
Buried alive i wish you'd be mine
Star of the slavery
Best you can find the one of a kind
God on high, hear my prayer
In my need, you have always been there
He is young, he's afraid
Let him rest, Heaven blessed
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home
He's like the son I might have known
If God had granted me a son
The summers die, one by one
How soon they fly on and on
And I am old and will be gone
Bring him peace, bring him joy
He is young, he is only a boy
You can take, you can give
Let him be, let him live
If I die, let me die
Let him live
Bring him home
Bring him home
When you're weary
Feeling small
When tears are in your eyes
I will dry them all
I'm on your side
When times get rough
And friends just can't be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
When you're down and out
When you're on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you
I'll take your part
When darkness comes
And pain is all around
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Sail on Silver Girl,
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way
See how they shine
If you need a friend
I'm sailing right behind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind
Like a bridge over troubled water
In every heart there is a room
A sanctuary safe and strong
To heal the wounds from lovers past
Until a new one comes along
I spoke to you in cautious tones
You answered me with no pretense
And still I feel I said too much
My silence is my self defense
And every time I’ve held a rose
It seems I only felt the thorns
And so it goes, and so it goes
And so will you soon I suppose
But if my silence made you leave
Then that would be my worst mistake
So I will share this room with you
And you can have this heart to break
And this is why my eyes are closed
It’s just as well for all I’ve seen
And so it goes, and so it goes
And you’re the only one who knows
So I would choose to be with you
That’s if the choice were mine to make
But you can make decisions too
And you can have this heart to break
And so it goes, and so it goes
I was born to play with a fire
Burned the bridges, like no other
Gaining some, just to loose it all
Number thirteen's back for more
can you taste? can you feel?
Lost again, now that's real?
From dream to reality
Six feet of luxury!
I won't try, well I won't live for misery
Oh, my soul won't shine, from here to eternity
Don't you cry there's a reason why
No one lives forever
I was raised to walk my ways
Without luck, to live these days
Come to me, before I'm gone
Number thirteen's growing strong
Can you trust, can you bleed
In my arms, all you need
One to give, ten to take
This deal's the last we'll make
I won't try well I won't live for misery
Oh, my soul won't shine, from here to eternity
Don't you cry there's a reason why
no one lives forever
Don't cry , please don't you try
to fade away again
togetehr no one lives forever
this time, walk down this line
till the end my friend
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among those dark Satanic mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold
Bring me my arrows of desire
Bring me my spear! Oh, clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire
I will not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Til we have built Jerusalem
I vow to thee, my country
All earthly things above
Entire and whole and perfect
The service of my love
The love that asks no questions
The love that stands the test
That lays upon the alter
The dearst and the best
The love that never falters
The love that pays the price
The love that makes undaunted
The final sacrifice
And there's another country
I've heard of long ago
Most dear to them that love her
Most great to them I know
We may not count her armies
We may not see her King
Her fortress is a faithful heart
Her pride is suffering
And soul by soul and silently
Her shining bounds increase
And her ways are ways of gentleness
See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you
Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you
With or without you
With or without you
Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And Im waiting for you
With or without you
With or without you
I cant live
With or without you
And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away
My hands are tied
My body bruised, shes got me with
Nothing to win and
Nothing left to lose
And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away
With or without you
With or without you
I cant live
With or without you
With or without you
With or without you
I cant live
With or without you
Nobody shall sleep!...
Nobody shall sleep!
Even you, o Princess,
in your cold room,
watch the stars,
that tremble with love and with hope.
But my secret is hidden within me,
my name no one shall know...
No!...No!...
On your mouth I will tell it when the light shines.
And my kiss will dissolve the silence that makes you mine!...
(No one will know his name and we must, alas, die.)
Vanish, o night!
Set, stars! Set, stars!
Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossin' you in style some day
Old dream maker, you heartbreaker
Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way
Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend
My huckleberry friend, Moon River, and me
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Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend
Oh, the summer time is coming,
And the trees are sweetly blooming,
And the wild mountain thyme
Grows around the purple heather.
Will you go, lassie, will you go?
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the purple heather,
Will you go, lassie, go?
I will build my love a bower
By yon clear and crystal fountain,
And all around the bower,
I'll pile flowers from the mountain.
If my true love, she won't have me,
I will surely find another
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather.
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the purple heather,
Will you go, lassie, go?
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the purple heather,
Will you go, lassie, go?
Will you go, lassie, go?
A ray of hope
Flickers in the sky
A tiny star lights up
Way up high
All across the land
Dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass
When a child is born
A silent wish
Sails the seven seas
The winds of change
Whisper in the trees
And the walls of doubt
Tumble tossed and torn
This comes to pass
When a child is born
A rosy hue
Settles all around
You start to feel
You're on solid ground
For a spell or two
No one seems forlorn
This comes to pass
When a child is born
It's all a dream
An illusion now
It must come true
Sometime soon somehow
All across the land
Dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass
When a child is born
A ray of hope
Flickers in the sky
A tiny star lights up
Way up high
All across the land
Dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass
Who knows what tomorrow brings
In a world, few hearts survive
All I know, is the way I feel
When it?s real, I keep my pray alive
The road is long
There are mountains in our way
But we climb steps every day
Love lift us up where we belong
Where the eagles cry, on a mountain high
Love lift us up where we belong
Far from the world we know
Up where the clear winds blow
Some hang on to "used-to-be"
Live their lives locking behind
All we have is here and now
All our lives, out there to find
The road is long
There are mountains in our way
But we climb steps every day
Love lift us up where we belong
Where the eagles cry, on a mountain high
Love lift us up where we belong
Far from the world we know
Up where the clear winds blow
Time goes by
No time to cry
Life?s you and I, alive, baby
Love lift us up where we belong
Where the eagles cry, on a mountain high
Love lift us up where we belong
Far from the world we know
Up where the clear winds blow
Love lift us up where we belong
Where the eagles cry, on a mountain high
Love lift us up where we belong
Far from the world we know
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Coming for to carry me home,
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Coming for to carry me home.
I looked over Jordan, and what did I see?
Coming for to carry me home,
A band of angels coming after me,
Coming for to carry me home.
If you get there before I do,
Coming for to carry me home,
Tell all my friends I’m coming, too.
Coming for to carry me home.
I’m sometimes up and sometimes down,
Coming for to carry me home,
But still my soul feels heavenly bound,
Coming for to carry me home.
The brightest day that I can say,
Coming for to carry me home,
When Jesus washed my sins away,
Wherever you are look at the stars tonight
Whatever you do don't forget to shine
The second you feel like you don't know what's real
And you're running to stand still
You know you can stand still and let me reach you in time
Where do we go?
Where do we go to now?
A place where I know that our lives can start over, start over
Don't let the light go out
Where do we go? (Start over, start over, start over)
Everyone knows tomorrow's another day, the sun will rise
But everyone knows it won't be the same
The rain may fall, but the weight of it all could never break us
No matter where this will take us
I won't let it fade
Where do we go?
Where do we go to now?
A place where I know that our lives can start over, start over
Don't let the light go out
We're not alone
We're not alone tonight
With the world in our arms we start over, start over, start over
How can I be so sure we're only a breath away?
Here in a world where everything changes
Only a breath, only a breath away
Wherever you are, look at the stars
Where do we go?
Where do we go to now?
A place where I know that our lives can start over, start over
Don't let the light go out
We're not alone (We're not alone)
We're not alone tonight (We're not alone)
With the world in our arms we start over, start over, start over
We're not alone tonight
I feel it's rising, hard as stone
Something hiding, pain is gone
Getting much wiser, you took the most
Two will follow, spirit and ghost
One way dealer
Bringer of rain, wash away the pain
New way leader
Turning insane, in the spirit of cain
Spirit of the Cain
The one is guiding, now after all
One day flying, at dawn you'll fall
Getting too hazy, think you need a rope?
Two will follow, spirit and ghost
One way dealer
Bringer of rain, wash away the pain
New way leader
Turning insane, in the spirit of Cain
Spirit of the Cain
The first day that I met you
I think I always knew
That you were meant to be the one
And then the feeling grew
With God and friends my witness
Our love will never die
I take the gift you gave me
Don't need to question why
For all the faults I'm made of
For all the wrongs I do
I'm not asking you to judge me
Just be true
All of me
Is what I give to you
And everything I have
I wanna share with you
And with this ring
For all eternity
I make this vow
When I give you all of me
This life is short and precious
A one way ticket ride
I thank you for the journey
I know you're on my side
And we are only here once
I'm glad we shared this day
Of knowing something special
That will never go away
For all the faults I'm made of
And all the wrongs I do
I'm not asking you to judge me
Just be true
All of me
Is what I give to you
And everything I have
I wanna share with you
And with this ring
For all eternity
I make this vow
When I give you all of me
All of me
That's what I give to you
And everything I have
I'm gonna share with you, yeah
And with this ring
I give for all eternity
My love
I make this vow
All of me
Is what I give to you
And everything I have
I wanna share with you
And with this ring
For all eternity
I make this vow
When I give you all of me
Abide With Me, Fast Falls The Evening Tide.
the Darkness Deepens, Lord With Me Abide.
when Other Helpers Fail And Comforts Flee,
help Of The Helpless, O, Abide With Me.
swift To Its Close, Ebbs Out Life's Little Day.
earth's Joys Grow Dim, Its Glories Pass Away.
change And Decay In All Around I See,
thou Who Changest Not, Abide With Me.
if Fear No Foe With Thee At Hand To Bless.
ills Have No Weight And Tears No Bitternes.
where Is Death's Sting? Where, Grave, Thy Victory?
i Triumph Still If Thou Abides With Me.
hold Thou Thy Cross Before My Closing Eye
shine Through The Gloom And Point Me To The Sky.
as Morning Breaks And Earth's Vain Shadows Flee,
It's gonna be a long winter time for you and I
It's gonna be a long winter time for you and I
This is the part that you never want happening,
So take it from me that it's hard to fake feelings,
Feelings, feelings
Two weeks is not enough to become what you want,
What you want, what you want, what you want
Take your time, take your time, take your time,
Take your time, take your time,
Take your time, take your time, take your time,
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- With or Without You
- Bring Him Home
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Abide With Me
- La Califfa
- She
- I Vow to Thee My Country
- She Was Beautiful (Cavatina)
- Ave Maria
- Nessun Dorma
- Unsung Hero
- Titans
- When a Child Is Born
- Spirit of Cain
- More I Live
- Outsider
- Live to Die
- Ghost of Tomorrow
- Bringer of Insanity
- Come Alive
- Let Me Be Dead
- My Machine
- Union / Freeride Sister
- Look to the Mountains (intro)
- And So It Goes
- Chasing Cars
- Wild Mountain Thyme
- Because We Believe
- Up Where We Belong
- Steal Away
- Heaven Can Wait
- Closest Thing to Crazy
- Fantasia Prelude (interlude)
- Nella Fantasia
- Time to Say Goodbye
- Sancta Maria
- Yo Te Voy a Amar (I'll Make Love to You)
- In Paradisum (Gladiator)
- Moon River
- 1492: Conquest of Paradise
- God Only Knows
- I Knew I Loved You (Deborah's Theme)
- Hallelujah
- Ashokan Farewell
- Celebration
- Vide Cor Meum
- E Sara Cosi
- Toglimi Il Respiro (take My Breath Away)
- Two Ways
- Dryland
- Come Dawn
- 12 Steps to Hell
- Reborn
- Reaching
- Serpent Stare
- Devil May Care
- Hold
- Bad Luck Ladder
- To the Stars...
- Starbringer
- Call Her Name
- Evil Remains Evil
- Walk In
- Circles of Light
- Other Side
- Beggars Farm
- Crawl
- Son of Fire
- Black Spirit
- Junkie Is Coming
- Dark Side of the Planet
- Welcome
- Man Is a Planet
- Fireroot
- Above
- Healer
- Where the Stars Grow
- I'll Take You
- Talking to Gods
- Planetizer
- Not the One
- Ground
- Sister Universe
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Blake Shelton - Honey Bee (Official Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Red River Blue: budurl.com iTunes: budurl.com In Stores July 12th, 2011. www.blakeshelton.com © 2011 WMG | Honey Bee (Video)
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Red River Blue: budurl.com iTunes: budurl.com In Stores July 12th, 2011. www.blakeshelton.com © 2011 WMG | Honey Bee (Video)
Blake Shelton - God Gave Me You (Official Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:12
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Get the official "God Gave Me You" T-shirt in Blake's YouTube store!: youtube.com Red River Blue: budurl.com iTunes: budurl.com In Stores Now! The official music video for Blake Shelton's "God Gave Me You" featuring Miranda Lambert. www.blakeshelton.com
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Get the official "God Gave Me You" T-shirt in Blake's YouTube store!: youtube.com Red River Blue: budurl.com iTunes: budurl.com In Stores Now! The official music video for Blake Shelton's "God Gave Me You" featuring Miranda Lambert. www.blakeshelton.com
- published: 07 Sep 2011
- views: 16341940
- author: blakeshelton
Blake Shelton - Sure Be Cool If You Did (Official Audio)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:36
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Sure Be Cool If You Did on iTunes: smarturl.it www.blakeshelton.com © 2013 WMG
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Sure Be Cool If You Did on iTunes: smarturl.it www.blakeshelton.com © 2013 WMG
- published: 08 Jan 2013
- views: 463817
- author: blakeshelton
Blake Shelton - Who Are You When I'm Not Looking (Official Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:08
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
© 2010 WMG Who Are You When I'm Not Looking Get Loaded: budurl.com When Blake's not looking, be sure to give a thumbs up, or leave a comment. Thanks! www.blakeshelton.com
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© 2010 WMG Who Are You When I'm Not Looking Get Loaded: budurl.com When Blake's not looking, be sure to give a thumbs up, or leave a comment. Thanks! www.blakeshelton.com
- published: 04 Oct 2010
- views: 12958164
- author: blakeshelton
Blake Shelton - "Sure Be Cool If You Did" (Official Lyric Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:44
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Sure Be Cool If You Did on iTunes: smarturl.it Produced by The Uprising Creative (theuprisingcreative.com) Directed by Laban Pheidias www.blakeshelton.com © 2013 WMG
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Sure Be Cool If You Did on iTunes: smarturl.it Produced by The Uprising Creative (theuprisingcreative.com) Directed by Laban Pheidias www.blakeshelton.com © 2013 WMG
- published: 10 Jan 2013
- views: 255269
- author: blakeshelton
Blake and Christina: "Just a Fool" - The Voice
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:18
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Christina enlists Blake for a powerful duet on "Just a Fool," as featured on her new album, "Lotus." Download This Song: www.nbc.com Subscribe to The Voice: full.sc Mondays and Tuesdays 8/7c on NBC Get more of The Voice The Voice: NBC.com Full Episode: www.nbc.com Like The Voice: Facebook.com Follow The Voice: Twitter.com The Voice Tumblr: nbcTheVoice.Tumblr.com The Voice Pinterest: Pinterest.com Get more NBC: NBC YouTube: full.sc Like NBC: Facebook.com Follow NBC: Twitter.com NBC Google+: plus.google.com NBC Pinterest: Pinterest.com NBC Tumblr: NBCtv.tumblr.com Blake and Christina: "Just a Fool" - The Voice www.youtube.com
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Christina enlists Blake for a powerful duet on "Just a Fool," as featured on her new album, "Lotus." Download This Song: www.nbc.com Subscribe to The Voice: full.sc Mondays and Tuesdays 8/7c on NBC Get more of The Voice The Voice: NBC.com Full Episode: www.nbc.com Like The Voice: Facebook.com Follow The Voice: Twitter.com The Voice Tumblr: nbcTheVoice.Tumblr.com The Voice Pinterest: Pinterest.com Get more NBC: NBC YouTube: full.sc Like NBC: Facebook.com Follow NBC: Twitter.com NBC Google+: plus.google.com NBC Pinterest: Pinterest.com NBC Tumblr: NBCtv.tumblr.com Blake and Christina: "Just a Fool" - The Voice www.youtube.com
- published: 20 Nov 2012
- views: 1254168
- author: NBCTheVoice
Blake Shelton - Ol' Red (Official Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:41
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
© 2006 WMG Ol' Red (Official Video) iTunes: budurl.com Amazon: budurl.com Check out Blake's official website at www.blakeshelton.com
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© 2006 WMG Ol' Red (Official Video) iTunes: budurl.com Amazon: budurl.com Check out Blake's official website at www.blakeshelton.com
- published: 12 Nov 2009
- views: 6751979
- author: blakeshelton
Blake Shelton - Over (Official Music Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:10
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
© WMG 2012 blakeshelton.com | Download "Over" - http
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© WMG 2012 blakeshelton.com | Download "Over" - http
- published: 18 Jun 2012
- views: 2413794
- author: blakeshelton
Blake Griffin's Top 10 Dunks of Nov.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:50
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Check out Blake Griffin's top 10 dunks from the season thus far.
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Check out Blake Griffin's top 10 dunks from the season thus far.
- published: 30 Nov 2010
- views: 5326126
- author: NBA
Blake Shelton - Drink On It (Official Audio)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:34
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Download: budurl.com Official Video Coming Soon! Thanks to the Tin Roof Nashville!
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Download: budurl.com Official Video Coming Soon! Thanks to the Tin Roof Nashville!
- published: 12 Jan 2012
- views: 3667010
- author: blakeshelton
Blake Griffin's Top 10 Plays of 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:44
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Catch the best plays from a year in the life of NBA superstar Blake Griffin. Visit nba.com/video for more highlights.
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Catch the best plays from a year in the life of NBA superstar Blake Griffin. Visit nba.com/video for more highlights.
- published: 04 Jan 2013
- views: 415103
- author: NBA
Blake Shelton - Hillbilly Bone [feat. Trace Adkins] (Official Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:43
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
© 2009 WMG Hillbilly Bone [feat. Trace Adkins] Download on iTunes: budurl.com Download on Amazon: budurl.com Thumbs up for Blake and Trace if you love the vid! www.blakeshelton.com
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© 2009 WMG Hillbilly Bone [feat. Trace Adkins] Download on iTunes: budurl.com Download on Amazon: budurl.com Thumbs up for Blake and Trace if you love the vid! www.blakeshelton.com
- published: 16 Nov 2009
- views: 8490795
- author: blakeshelton
Blake Griffin's Social Media Profile
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- Duration: 2:00
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Clippers' Blake Griffin makes his social media profile come to life. Visit nba.com/video for more highlights.
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Clippers' Blake Griffin makes his social media profile come to life. Visit nba.com/video for more highlights.
- published: 17 Jan 2013
- views: 46498
- author: NBA
Blake Checks on Young Fan After Dive
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:55
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Blake Griffin takes out a couple seats in the front row after a dive, then checks on the young casualties. Visit nba.com/video for more highlights.
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Blake Griffin takes out a couple seats in the front row after a dive, then checks on the young casualties. Visit nba.com/video for more highlights.
- published: 05 Jan 2013
- views: 146143
- author: NBA
Blake Shelton - She Wouldn't Be Gone (Official Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:38
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
© 2008 WMG She Wouldn't Be Gone (Official Video) iTunes: budurl.com Amazon: budurl.com Tell Blake you love the video by giving him a thumbs up! www.blakeshelton.com
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© 2008 WMG She Wouldn't Be Gone (Official Video) iTunes: budurl.com Amazon: budurl.com Tell Blake you love the video by giving him a thumbs up! www.blakeshelton.com
- published: 12 Nov 2009
- views: 3773038
- author: blakeshelton
James Blake - Limit To Your Love
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- Duration: 3:19
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
The album out now - CD: bit.ly iTunes: bit.ly Vinyl: bit.ly Limit To Your Love - Out Now - iTunes: bit.ly Vinyl: bit.ly Video for James Blake's track 'Limit To Your Love'. Directed by Martin de Thurah. Watch the ASCII version here: asciimeo.com You asked for a repeat button - try this: bit.ly
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The album out now - CD: bit.ly iTunes: bit.ly Vinyl: bit.ly Limit To Your Love - Out Now - iTunes: bit.ly Vinyl: bit.ly Video for James Blake's track 'Limit To Your Love'. Directed by Martin de Thurah. Watch the ASCII version here: asciimeo.com You asked for a repeat button - try this: bit.ly
- published: 07 Oct 2010
- views: 12149486
- author: jamesblakeproduction
Sure be cool if you did - Blake Shelton Lyrics
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:37
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Sure be cool if you did by: Blake Shelton *** I DO NOT OWN THIS SONG *** There is no copyright infringement intended.
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Sure be cool if you did by: Blake Shelton *** I DO NOT OWN THIS SONG *** There is no copyright infringement intended.
- published: 09 Jan 2013
- views: 129300
- author: tachomnzvs3
Blake Shelton - Austin (Official Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:48
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
© 2006 WMG Austin (Official Video) iTunes: budurl.com Amazon: budurl.com Check out Blake's official website at www.blakeshelton.com Love the vid? Give Blake a thumbs up!
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© 2006 WMG Austin (Official Video) iTunes: budurl.com Amazon: budurl.com Check out Blake's official website at www.blakeshelton.com Love the vid? Give Blake a thumbs up!
- published: 12 Nov 2009
- views: 5441728
- author: blakeshelton
Blake Griffin's Insane DUNKS at USA Basketball practice
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:28
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
Blake Griffin added 2 more impressive dunks to his career during USAB practice. Check out the insane dunk off the wall and off the backboard.
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Blake Griffin added 2 more impressive dunks to his career during USAB practice. Check out the insane dunk off the wall and off the backboard.
- published: 08 Jul 2012
- views: 1169498
- author: NBA
PlentaKill feat. Brother Blake - Don't You Worry Bot (SHM - Don't You Worry Child LoL Parody)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:33
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Visit Brother Blake: www.facebook.com www.youtube.com Download and Support Us: PlentaKill.com Follow us on facebook www.facebook.com I roam the Rift Just ping the map I promise I'll be quick Ready to own I'm running over don't go in alone Now let them push, I don't think they set up a ward I'm in the bush, we can all target their support We lost first blood but now it's our game We're pushing turrets, taking this lane I still remember how it all changed. Our top said, "Don't you worry, don't you worry, bot. See Olaf's got a gank for you. Don't you worry, don't you worry now." Yeah! "Don't you worry, don't you worry, bot. See Olaf's got a gank for you. Don't you worry, don't you worry now." Yeah! I roam the Rift I'm so awesome do you even lift? I'm such a bro. Never spend your diamonds on a hoe Go back to COD, I will pwn you in that as well Bromaciaaaaa, and I'm immune to your stunning spells We lost first blood but now it's our game We're pushing turrets, taking this lane I still remember how it all changed. Our top said, "Don't you worry, don't you worry, bot. See Olaf's got a gank for you. Don't you worry, don't you worry now." Yeah!
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Visit Brother Blake: www.facebook.com www.youtube.com Download and Support Us: PlentaKill.com Follow us on facebook www.facebook.com I roam the Rift Just ping the map I promise I'll be quick Ready to own I'm running over don't go in alone Now let them push, I don't think they set up a ward I'm in the bush, we can all target their support We lost first blood but now it's our game We're pushing turrets, taking this lane I still remember how it all changed. Our top said, "Don't you worry, don't you worry, bot. See Olaf's got a gank for you. Don't you worry, don't you worry now." Yeah! "Don't you worry, don't you worry, bot. See Olaf's got a gank for you. Don't you worry, don't you worry now." Yeah! I roam the Rift I'm so awesome do you even lift? I'm such a bro. Never spend your diamonds on a hoe Go back to COD, I will pwn you in that as well Bromaciaaaaa, and I'm immune to your stunning spells We lost first blood but now it's our game We're pushing turrets, taking this lane I still remember how it all changed. Our top said, "Don't you worry, don't you worry, bot. See Olaf's got a gank for you. Don't you worry, don't you worry now." Yeah!
- published: 12 Jan 2013
- views: 283509
- author: LoL9Songs
Blake Shelton - Home (Official Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:47
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
© 2008 WMG Home (Official Video) iTunes: budurl.com Amazon: budurl.com Blake's official website www.blakeshelton.com Do you love the song? Let Blake know with a thumbs up.
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© 2008 WMG Home (Official Video) iTunes: budurl.com Amazon: budurl.com Blake's official website www.blakeshelton.com Do you love the song? Let Blake know with a thumbs up.
- published: 27 Oct 2009
- views: 4748171
- author: blakeshelton
Blake Griffin Goes Baseline for the Smash
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:31
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
Blake Griffin drives baseline for the big reverse slam. Visit www.nba.com for more highlights.
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Blake Griffin drives baseline for the big reverse slam. Visit www.nba.com for more highlights.
- published: 18 Jan 2013
- views: 32092
- author: NBA
Blake Griffin Mix - The Blake Show - (HD) ᴴᴰ
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- Duration: 4:48
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
NEW VIDEO www.youtube.com Song: All The Above Maino ft T-pain Fabolous - My time all the above its my time remix Blake Griffin on the cover nba 2k13 MIAMI HEAT WINS THE 2012 NBA CHAMPIONS NBA IS BACK END LOCKOUT Welcome Chris Paul! Blake Griffin Dunk of The Year 2012 2010 2011Kobe Bryant Kevin Garnett Chris Bosh Carmelo Anthony,Tracy Mcgrady,Shaq, LeBron, Dwight Howard All-Star Dance-Off,Slam Dunk Contest, Blake Griffin Over a Car,Top 10,NBA Draft 2009,Dwight Howard Superman dunk,AND1,Hot sauce,Lebron james,la lakers,Boston harmsports harmg celtics nba champions,La Clippers,Denver Nuggets,Allen Iverson,Dallas Mavericks,East West All star game,nba record,nba street vol 1,2,homecourt,I Challenge Baron Davis,greatest in nba history,shot,block,steal,Michael Jordan's Final Shot 98,Baron Davis, Dwyane Wade, Lebron James,Blake Griffin solo machaco Tracy McGrady, Stephon Marubury, Yao Ming, Gilbert Arenas, Kobe Bryant, Speedy Claxton, Paul Pierce, Nate Robinson, Allen Iverson, and Ben Gordan,Soulja Boy And Lebron James Interview ,Kobe Bryant Jumps Over Car(Aston Martin) Slow Motion,Kobe Bryant Car Jump Exposed,fl, ncaa, baseball, soccer, futbol, football, Nba, basketball, mlb, hockey, nhl, paris fifa, poker, golf, world cup,Guinness World Record,Spud Webb Dunk Contest,the best of derrick rose,Kobe Bryant Jumps Over Pool w/ Snakes (Black Mambas?,LeBron talks with Jay-Z during game nba 10 top plays 07 08 top dunks season finals mvp all star game lebron james vs kobe Bryant chris ...
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NEW VIDEO www.youtube.com Song: All The Above Maino ft T-pain Fabolous - My time all the above its my time remix Blake Griffin on the cover nba 2k13 MIAMI HEAT WINS THE 2012 NBA CHAMPIONS NBA IS BACK END LOCKOUT Welcome Chris Paul! Blake Griffin Dunk of The Year 2012 2010 2011Kobe Bryant Kevin Garnett Chris Bosh Carmelo Anthony,Tracy Mcgrady,Shaq, LeBron, Dwight Howard All-Star Dance-Off,Slam Dunk Contest, Blake Griffin Over a Car,Top 10,NBA Draft 2009,Dwight Howard Superman dunk,AND1,Hot sauce,Lebron james,la lakers,Boston harmsports harmg celtics nba champions,La Clippers,Denver Nuggets,Allen Iverson,Dallas Mavericks,East West All star game,nba record,nba street vol 1,2,homecourt,I Challenge Baron Davis,greatest in nba history,shot,block,steal,Michael Jordan's Final Shot 98,Baron Davis, Dwyane Wade, Lebron James,Blake Griffin solo machaco Tracy McGrady, Stephon Marubury, Yao Ming, Gilbert Arenas, Kobe Bryant, Speedy Claxton, Paul Pierce, Nate Robinson, Allen Iverson, and Ben Gordan,Soulja Boy And Lebron James Interview ,Kobe Bryant Jumps Over Car(Aston Martin) Slow Motion,Kobe Bryant Car Jump Exposed,fl, ncaa, baseball, soccer, futbol, football, Nba, basketball, mlb, hockey, nhl, paris fifa, poker, golf, world cup,Guinness World Record,Spud Webb Dunk Contest,the best of derrick rose,Kobe Bryant Jumps Over Pool w/ Snakes (Black Mambas?,LeBron talks with Jay-Z during game nba 10 top plays 07 08 top dunks season finals mvp all star game lebron james vs kobe Bryant chris ...
- published: 19 May 2011
- views: 2109986
- author: Rodrigo Numasedi
photo: AP / Anis Belghoul
22 Jan 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When then-Vice President Dick Cheney stated. "If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. It's not about our analysis...it's about our response,"(1) it was clearly evident that the "war on terror" had been lost ... And when Zacarias Moussaoui shouted. "America you lost ... 11....(size: 9.1Kb)
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23 Jan 2013
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Three people were wounded, one critically, on Tuesday when gunfire erupted during an altercation between two people on a community college campus near Houston, police said, the latest in a series of shootings on U.S. college and school campuses. Two people "of interest" in the Lone Star College shooting were detained for questioning, including one with a student identification, according to authorities....(size: 3.7Kb)
photo: AP / Lee Jin-man
24 Jan 2013
North Korea threatened to conduct a nuclear weapons test “targeted” at the U.S. after the Obama administration pushed through new United Nations sanctions against the totalitarian state for last month’s rocket launch. “In a new phase of the anti-U.S ... The UN Security Council imposed additional restrictions on North Korea on Jan ... The U.S ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
photo: UN / JC McIlwaine
23 Jan 2013
United Nations - On Tuesday the UN Security Council unanimously condemned North Korea's December rocket launch and expanded existing UN sanctions, eliciting a vow from Pyongyang to boost the North's military and nuclear capabilities. While the resolution approved by the 15-nation council does not impose new sanctions on Pyongyang, diplomats said Beijing's support for it was a significant diplomatic blow to Pyongyang ... Blacklisted ... >. > ... >....(size: 27.5Kb)
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21 Jan 2013
Germany has sent 240 soldiers to southern Turkey as part of a NATO mission using Patriot missiles to deter cross-border airstrikes from war-torn Syria. Units are also being provided by the Netherlands and the US. The main German contingent flew out of Berlin Sunday, headed for Kahramanmaras, 100 kilometers (62 miles) inside Turkey's border with Syria, where two German Patriot units are to be fully operational by early February ... DW.DE ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)
STL Today
24 Jan 2013
• It’s looking like Frank Bush, former linebackers coach for the Tennessee Titans and one-time defensive coordinator of the Houston Texans, is in line to become the Rams’ linebackers coach, replacing the fired Blake Williams ... BLAKE WILLIAMS UPDATE. Like many out-of-work coaches in the NFL, Blake Williams has been making the rounds this week at the Senior Bowl, looking for a job....(size: 2.5Kb)
The Washington Post
24 Jan 2013
A frequent critic of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s administration was arrested Wednesday when she tried to enter Baltimore’s City Hall ... Last week, Rawlings-Blake abruptly ended a news conference when Trueheart began to interrupt the mayor’s responses to reporters’ questions ... Rawlings-Blake then ended the press conference and later answered reporters’ questions upstairs behind a locked door....(size: 3.5Kb)
STL Today
24 Jan 2013
It’s looking like Frank Bush, former linebackers coach for the Tennessee Titans and one-time defensive coordinator of the Houston Texans, is in line to become the Rams’ linebackers coach, replacing the fired Blake Williams ... Like many out-of-work coaches in the NFL, Blake Williams has been making the rounds this week at the Senior Bowl, looking for a job ... The Rams kept Blake Williams off-limits to media during the season....(size: 4.2Kb)
San Francisco Chronicle
24 Jan 2013
"We don't hunt on the Sabbath," said Blake Russ, 24, a Florida International University student, as he peered out the open door of the man-van ... "It's like seeing Bigfoot," said Bryan Russ, 35, Blake Russ' older brother, who once unleashed 30 garter snakes inside an Idaho college dorm. Belliston and Blake Russ make up part of a fivesome who call themselves the Florida Python Hunters....(size: 5.1Kb)
Ohio
24 Jan 2013
Zach Konrad said it was frightening last year when his buddy Blake Salisbury broke his collarbone after falling on the slopes at Brandywine Ski Resort. While his friend was unconscious, the 13-year-old Rocky River boy ran to find a member of the ski patrol, a volunteer corps of first aid-trained volunteers that he knew could lower Blake off the course and get him medical help....(size: 3.0Kb)
The Examiner
24 Jan 2013
Get your free PDF download of the scripted role-play called “SPAM and stairstep thinking.” Just scroll down near the end of this article for the free download link ... Role-play description. What is the role-play about? You can watch the slideshow to find out ... SPAM and stairstep thinking role-play slideshow ... Jason is offended and angry that Blake put him down ... Jason, Lee, and Blake ... Blake and Mrs ... Angry Blake Role-play slideshow ... ... ... Angry Blake....(size: 9.3Kb)
Stuff
24 Jan 2013
"My preparations have been good this fall ... His training partner and compatriot Yohan Blake went on to take the title. Bolt gained a measure of revenge when he beat Blake to retain his Olympic 100 and 200 metres titles at the London Olympics ... - Reuters. ....(size: 1.4Kb)
China Daily
24 Jan 2013
"My preparations have been good this fall ... His training partner and compatriot Yohan Blake went on to take the title. Bolt gained a measure of revenge when he beat Blake to retain his Olympic 100 and 200 metres titles at the London Olympics ... ....(size: 1.2Kb)
IMDb
24 Jan 2013
IMDb
24 Jan 2013
The Daily Telegraph Australia
24 Jan 2013
The Daily Telegraph Australia
24 Jan 2013
He currently sits fourth on the list of fastest men of all-time behind Usain Bolt (9.58sec), their Jamaican teammate Yohan Blake (9.69sec) and American Tyson Gay (9.69sec) ... The injury kept him out of the 4x100m relay in which Frater, Bolt, Blake and Nesta Carter won the gold medal in world record time ... The handicaps are a different story though,'' Powell said. ....(size: 1.8Kb)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
24 Jan 2013
Sarah Toulouse has been named donations officer for Bayer USA and will head the Bayer USA Foundation, the German-based company said Wednesday ... Though Ms. Toulouse will work out of Bayer's campus off the Parkway West, she will report to Philip Blake, senior Bayer representative in the U.S. and the company's top executive in North America ... Blake is based in Whippany, N.J., where he runs the company's U.S ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
This article is about "Blake" as a human name. For other uses, see Blake (disambiguation).
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| Pronunciation | /ˈbleɪk/ BLAYK |
| Gender | Unisex |
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Blake is a surname or a given name which originated from Old English. Its derivation is uncertain; it could come from "blac", a nickname for someone who had dark hair or skin, or from "blaac", a nickname for someone with pale hair or skin.[1] Another theory is that it is a corruption of "Ap Lake", meaning "Son of Lake".[2]
Blake was the name of one of the 14 Tribes of Galway in Ireland. These Blakes were descendants of Richard Caddell, alias Blake, who was involved in the Norman Invasion of Ireland in 1169.
The Origins of the name Blake is also considered to be Old Norse first appearing in England Yorkshire, possibly derived from the word Blaker referring to a village and a former municipality of Akershus county, Norway (east of Oslo).
Blake often refers to the British poet, painter and printmaker William Blake (1757–1827) or to the contemporary figurative artist Blake (sculptor).
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People with surname Blake[link]
A[link]
- Amanda Blake American actress (Miss Kitty on television's Gunsmoke)
- Andrew Blake (scientist), British scientist and Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh
- Andrew Blake (director), American adult film director
- Andy Blake, series of books by Edward Edson Lee
- Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series of books by Laurell K Hamilton
- Anthony Richard Blake (1786-1849) Irish lawyer, administrator and 'backstairs Viceroy of Ireland
B[link]
- Blind Blake, American blues and ragtime musician
- Bud Blake, American cartoonist
C[link]
- Casey Blake, American baseball player
- Catherine Blake (disambiguation), several people including
- Catherine Blake, wife and muse of William Blake
- Charles E. Blake, Pentecostal Bishop
- Clive Blake, bass guitarist for the Anti-Nowhere League
D[link]
- Daphne Blake, fictional character from Scooby-Doo
- Darcy Blake, Welsh footballer
- David Blake (disambiguation), several people including
- Dave Blake, Canadian politician
- David Blake (general), Australian general
- Dennis Blake, Jamaican track and field athlete
- Derek Blake, British biomedical researcher
- Donovan Blake, Jamaican-American cricketer
E[link]
- Edward Blake, Canadian politician
- Eubie Blake, American jazz pianist and composer
- Eugene Carson Blake, American Protestant leader
F[link]
- Sir Francis Blake, 1st Baronet, of Twizell Castle
- Sir Francis Blake, 2nd Baronet, of Twizell Castle, High Sheriff of Northumberland (1784),
- Sir Francis Blake, 3rd Baronet, of Twizell Castle, MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed 1820-1826 and 1827–1834
- Sir Francis Blake, 1st Baronet, of Tillmouth Park, MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed 1916-1922
- Francisco Blake Mora (1966–2011), Mexican politician
G[link]
- Geoffrey Blake (disambiguation), several people
- George Blake (born 1922), British spy, double agent for the Soviet Union
- George E. Blake (1775–1871), American music publisher
- Gerald Blake, British television director
- Gillian Blake, British actress
- Gordon Blake, USAF general
H[link]
- Hamish Blake, Australian comedian
- Harris Blake, American politician
- Henry Blake, fictional character in M*A*S*H
- Henry Arthur Blake, British colonial administrator
- Homer C. Blake, American naval officer
- Howard Blake, British composer
J[link]
- James Blake (disambiguation), several people including:
- James Carlos Blake, American writer
- James F. Blake (1912–2002), bus driver
- James Blake (born 1979), American professional tennis player
- James "Spanish" Blake, Nine Years War figure
- Ronald James Blake, civil engineer
- Jason Blake (ice hockey) (born 1973), American ice hockey player
- Jason Blake (footballer) (born 1981), Australian football player
- Jeff Blake (born 1970), retired American football quarterback
- Jeremy Blake (1971–2007), American video artist and painter
- Jerome Blake (born 1956), English actor
- Joaquín Blake y Joyes (1759–1827), Spanish general
- John Blake (disambiguation), several people including:
- John Blake, Jr. (born 1947), American jazz violinist
- Jon Blake (disambiguation), several people
- Joseph Blake (governor), governor of South Carolina
- Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt (1797–1849), Irish nobleman and socialist
- Julia Blake (born 1936), Australia-based British-born actress
K[link]
- Karen Blake, Boston disk jockey
- Karl Blake (born 1956), English musician
- Katharine Blake (born 1970), British singer
- Ken Blake, a pseudonym of English novelist Robert Holdstock
- Keith Blake (born 1950), Jamaican roots reggae singer a.k.a. Prince Alla
L[link]
- Lillie Devereux Blake (1835–1913), American suffragist
M[link]
- Madge Blake (1899–1969), American actress
- Mark Blake (footballer born 1967) (born 1967), English footballer
- Matthew Blake (rugby league), English rugby league player
- Mervyn Blake (1907–2003), Canadian actor
- Michael Blake (disambiguation), several people including
- Michael Blake (author) (born 1945), American author
- Michael Blake (composer) (born 1951), South African composer
N[link]
- Nathan Blake, a Welshman and UK football player
- Noel Blake, a Jamaican and UK football player
- Norman Blake (American musician), American folk/bluegrass instrumentalist and vocalist
- Norman Blake (Scottish musician), Scottish rock musician who is a member of Teenage Fanclub
- Nzinga Blake, American/Sierra Leonean actress and writer
P[link]
- Peter Blake (disambiguation), several people including:
- Peter Blake (actor) (born 1948), British actor
- Peter Blake (yachtsman) (1948–2001), New Zealand yachtsman
- Sir Peter Blake (artist) (born 1932), British artist
Q[link]
- Quentin Blake, English cartoonist, illustrator and children's author
R[link]
- Ran Blake (born 1935), American pianist
- Rob Blake (born 1969), Canadian ice hockey player
- Robbie Blake (born 1976), English footballer
- Robert Blake (disambiguation), several people including:
- Robert Blake (admiral) (1599–1657), English Admiral
- Dr. Robert R. Blake (1918–2004), American management theoretician
- Robert Blake (actor) (born 1933), American actor
- Robert Blake, Baron Blake (1916–2003), English historian
- Robert Harrison Blake, fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft
- Robert O. Blake, American diplomat
- Robert O. Blake, Jr., American diplomat, the son of the above
- Robert Blake (1772–1822), dentist
- Rodney Blake (born 1983), Australian rugby union footballer
- Roj Blake, fictional character from the television serial Blake's 7
- Ronald James Blake (born 1934), civil engineer
S[link]
- Sarah Blake, American pornographic actor
- Sexton Blake, fictional detective for multiple authors
- Sophia Jex-Blake, British physician and feminist
- Sophie Blake, British television presenter
- Steve Blake, American basketball player
T[link]
- Tchad Blake, record producer
- Thomas Blake (disambiguation), several people
- Thomas Blake Glover, Scottish merchant
- Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
V[link]
- Sir Valentine Blake, 1st Baronet (1560–1635), Irish merchant and Mayor of Galway
- Vivian Blake (died 2010), Jamaican drug dealer
W[link]
- Walter Blake, 6th Baronet of Menlough
- Whitney Blake (1926–2002), American actress
- Wilfred Theodore Blake (1894–1968), pioneer aviator, travel writer and traveller
- William Blake (disambiguation), several people including
- William Blake (1757–1827), British poet, painter, and printmaker
- William Burdine Blake, Sr. (1852–1938), music composer and newspaper publisher
- William Phipps Blake (1826–1910), American mineralogist and geologist
- William Blake, a fictional character in the film Dead Man
- William Blake Herron, film screenwriter, director and actor
- William Blake Richmond (1842–1921), English painter and decorator
- William Hume Blake (1809–1870), Canadian jurist and politician
People with given name Blake[link]
- Blake Aldridge (born 1982), British diver
- Blake Alphonso Higgs, Bahamian Calypso singer also known as Blind Blake
- Blake Carrington, fictional oil tycoon from the TV series Dynasty
- Blake Griffin (born 1989), American professional basketball player
- Blake Edwards (1922–2010), American film director, screenwriter, and producer
- Blake Lewis, American singer and American Idol contestant
- Blake Lively (born 1987), American actress
- Blake Morrison, British poet and author
- Blake Oakfield, fictional surf gangster from the TV series Angry Boys
Blake as sole name[link]
- "Blake", author pseudonym used for books by Ronald Adam (actor)
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ Blake entry on the Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 13 February 2009
- ^ An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import; Arthur, William, M.A.; New York, NY: Sheldon, Blake, Bleeker & CO., 1857. Retrieved from searchforancestors.com 13 February 2009
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| Blake Shelton | |
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 Shelton in April 2010 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Blake Tollison Shelton |
| Born | (1976-06-18) June 18, 1976 (age 36)[1] Ada, Oklahoma, United States |
| Genres | Country |
| Occupations | Singer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Labels | Giant, Warner Bros. Nashville, Reprise Nashville |
| Associated acts | Bobby Braddock, Miranda Lambert, Trace Adkins, Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green |
| Website | blakeshelton.com |
Blake Tollison Shelton (born June 18, 1976) is an American country music artist. In 2001, he made his debut with the single "Austin". Released as the lead-off single from his self-titled debut album, "Austin" went on to spend five weeks at Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. This song was the first single from his gold-certified debut album, which also produced two more Top 20 hits. Although the album was released on Giant Records Nashville, Shelton was transferred to Warner Bros. Records Nashville after Giant closed in late 2001.
His second and third albums, 2003's The Dreamer (his first for Warner Bros. proper) and 2004's Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill, were each certified gold as well. Shelton's fourth album, Pure BS, was issued in 2007, and re-issued in 2008 with a cover of Michael Bublé's pop hit "Home" as one of the bonus tracks. This cover was also that album's third single. A fifth album, Startin' Fires, was released in November 2008. It was followed by the extended plays Hillbilly Bone and All About Tonight in 2010, and the album Red River Blue in 2011. He is currently a vocal coach on the NBC reality talent show The Voice with Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera, and Cee Lo Green.
Overall, Shelton has charted 17 singles on the country charts, including eleven Number One hits: "Austin" (2001), "The Baby" (2003), "Some Beach" (2004–2005), "Home" (2008), "She Wouldn't Be Gone" (2009), "Hillbilly Bone" (2010), a duet with Trace Adkins, "All About Tonight" (2010), "Who Are You When I'm Not Looking" (2011)", "Honey Bee" (2011), "God Gave Me You" (2011), and "Drink on It" (2011-2012). Additionally, three more of his singles have reached Top Ten: a cover version of Conway Twitty's "Goodbye Time", "Nobody but Me", and "I'll Just Hold On".
He also covered "Footloose" for the movie remake in 2011.
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Early life[link]
Shelton was born in Ada, Oklahoma, to Dick, a used car dealer, and Dorothy, a beauty salon owner. He began singing at an early age and by age 12, he learned to play guitar. By age sixteen, Shelton had received a Denbo Diamond Award in his home state.[1] On November 13, 1990, his older brother Richie, who was 24 at the time, died in a car accident. He has an older sister, Endy. At age 17, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in pursuit of a singing career.
Musical career[link]
[edit] 1998–2002: Blake Shelton
After several years in Nashville, he signed to Giant Records in 1998. In 2001, he was slated to release a song entitled "I Wanna Talk About Me" as a single. Staff at the label considered the song unsuitable for a lead-off single, however, and the song was eventually recorded by Toby Keith, whose version was a Number One hit.[2]
Instead, Giant released "Austin" as Shelton's debut single. Shortly after its release, however, Giant Records was dissolved, and Shelton was transferred to Warner Bros. Records, the parent company. "Austin" went on to spend five weeks at Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. His self-titled debut album also produced the No.18 "All Over Me" (which Shelton co-wrote with fellow country artist Earl Thomas Conley) and the No.14 "Ol' Red", which was a cover version of a George Jones song. Although Shelton's rendition of "Ol' Red" was not a major radio hit, he considers it his signature song, and it has become popular in concert.[3] Blake Shelton is certified gold by the RIAA.[1]
[edit] 2002–2003: The Dreamer
Shelton's second album, The Dreamer, was first released on February 4, 2003 on Warner Bros. Records. Its lead-off single, "The Baby", reached Number One on the country charts, holding that position for three weeks. Although the second and third singles ("Heavy Liftin'" and "Playboys of the Southwestern World", respectively) only reached No.32 and #24, The Dreamer earned gold certification as well. He, along with Andy Griggs and Montgomery Gentry, sang guest vocals on Tracy Byrd's mid-2003 single "The Truth About Men".
[edit] 2004–2006: Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill
Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill was the title of Shelton's third studio album, released in 2004.[1] Its lead-off single, the Harley Allen co-write "When Somebody Knows You That Well", peaked at No.37 on the country charts, while the follow-up "Some Beach" became his third No.1 hit, holding that position for four weeks. It was followed by a cover of Conway Twitty's 1988 single "Goodbye Time".[4] Both this cover and its followup, "Nobody but Me", reached Top Ten for Shelton as well. As with his first two albums, Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill was certified gold. Accompanying the album's release was a video collection entitled Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill: A Video Collection.[1]
On December 18, 2005, several of Shelton's songs, including "Nobody but Me", appeared on the TV movie The Christmas Blessing, starring Neil Patrick Harris, Rebecca Gayheart, Angus T. Jones, and Rob Lowe. Shelton had a small role at the end of the movie, playing himself at a benefit concert, singing "Nobody but Me".
[edit] 2006–2008: Pure BS
Shelton issued his fourth studio album, Pure BS, in early 2007.[1] Unlike with his first three albums, which were produced entirely by Bobby Braddock, Shelton worked with Braddock, Brent Rowan, and Paul Worley as producers for this album. Its first two singles—"Don't Make Me" and "The More I Drink"—were both Top 20 hits on the country charts, respectively reaching No.12 and #19. Also in late 2007, Shelton made appearances on television shows: first as a judge on the talent competition Nashville Star, and later on Clash of the Choirs.
Pure BS was re-released in 2008 with three bonus tracks, including a cover of Michael Bublé's hit single "Home". This cover, released in early 2008 as the album's third single, became his fourth No.1 hit in July.[5]
[edit] 2008–2009: Startin' Fires
"Home" was followed in August 2008 by the single "She Wouldn't Be Gone", his 14th chart entry and his fifth No. 1 hit. It was the first time in his career that he had two consecutive Number Ones. "She Wouldn't Be Gone" is the lead-off to Shelton's fifth studio album, Startin' Fires, which has also produced the single "I'll Just Hold On." This album also includes "Bare Skin Rug," a duet with Lambert.[6] It was produced by Scott Hendricks, except for one track which was produced by Brent Rowan, and another ("I Don't Care", which carried over from Pure BS) was produced by Braddock.[7]
[edit] 2009–2011: Hillbilly Bone and All About Tonight
After "I'll Just Hold On" fell off the chart in October 2009, Blake Shelton released a duet with Trace Adkins titled "Hillbilly Bone." It was the lead-off single on Shelton's EP, Hillbilly Bone, released on March 2, 2010 through Reprise Records Nashville. After "Hillbilly Bone" reached No.1 in February, came the August release of "All About Tonight", the lead-off single to his EP of the same name. In September, he released the second single from All About Tonight, "Who Are You When I'm Not Looking", his 18th single release. He released his first greatest hits album, Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton in November 2010.
Shelton was invited to join the Grand Ole Opry during the September 28, 2010 "Country Comes Home" concert celebrating reopening of the Grand Ole Opry House after the Cumberland River flooded the Opry House in May 2010. The formal invitation was extended on his Twitter account and was announced by Opry star Trace Adkins.[8] He was formally inducted by Adkins at the Saturday, October 23, 2010 Opry performance.
Shelton recorded the title track for the "Footloose" remake film released on October 14th, 2011.
Blake Shelton appeared on the 44th Annual Country Music Awards on November 10, 2010 where he performed "All About Tonight" and won Male Vocalist of the Year.[9]
Shelton will serve as a judge/coach to singers on the 2011 NBC reality television series The Voice.[10]
[edit] 2011–present: Red River Blue
Blake Shelton released the album Red River Blue on July 12, 2011, led by the single, "Honey Bee". The song received 138,000 downloads in its first week and was certified gold in its seventh week, setting a new record for the fastest gold certification by a male country singer.[11] On June 13, 2011, in its tenth chart week, "Honey Bee" went to #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, becoming his ninth #1 and his fastest-climbing. The album was expected to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 with around 110,000 copies sold.[12] "God Gave Me You", a cover of a Dave Barnes song, was the album's second single; it also reached #1. "Drink On It", the fifth song on the album, hit #1 in April 2012, giving him his 11th #1 song. On April 30, 2012, Blake performed "Over" on the Semi-finals of the second season of The Voice. "Over" later debuted at #53 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs on 19 May, 2012.[13]
Blake Shelton is a coach on the NBC show The Voice. His finalist Dia Frampton came in second. He returned for a second season of the show with Jermaine Paul as the champion [14]. Frampton also recorded a track with Shelton titled "I Will" on her album Red, released December 6, 2011.
Blake Shelton took the stage with Miranda Lambert at Super Bowl XLVI in February 2012 to open the event by singing a duet version of “America the Beautiful”. It marked their first TV performance since their headlining nuptials in May 2011.
Television[link]
[edit] 2011–present: The Voice
In 2011, Shelton became a coach on NBC's new show, The Voice, along with Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine.
In season 1, Shelton became the runner-up coach as his final team member, Dia Frampton, won second place of the season.
In season 2, Shelton became the winning coach as his final team member, Jermaine Paul, was declared winner of the season.
Season 3 of The Voice will air in the fall of 2012. All four judges have signed on to return. [15]
Personal life[link]
Shelton married longtime girlfriend Kaynette Gern on November 17, 2003. They divorced in 2006.
Shelton is now married to fellow country singer Miranda Lambert, whom he met at the CMT's 100 Greatest Duets Concert.[16] Lambert also sang background vocals on his cover of Michael Bublé's song, "Home", which became a Number 1 single on the Hot Country Songs chart. On May 9, 2010, after dating for four years,[17] Shelton proposed to Miranda, after seeking (and receiving) her father's blessing.[17][18]
Shelton and Lambert were married on May 14, 2011 at Don Strange Ranch in Boerne, Texas.[17] 550 people were in attendance, including many celebrities, such as Reba McEntire, Cee Lo Green, Martina McBride, Kelly Clarkson, Dierks Bentley, Charles Kelley, and the Bellamy Brothers. After the wedding, Shelton expressed his joy stating, "I wanted to be married to Miranda the day I proposed. Finally, it's official!"[19] Blake and Miranda reside in the small town of Tishomingo, OK, located in the Texoma area.
On January 17, 2012, Shelton's father, Dick, 71, died in Oklahoma, following a period of declining health.[20][21]
Discography[link]
Main article: Blake Shelton discography
- Studio albums
- Blake Shelton (2001)
- The Dreamer (2003)
- Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill (2004)
- Pure BS (2007)
- Startin' Fires (2008)
- Red River Blue (2011)
- Extended plays
- Blake Shelton: Collector's Edition (2008)
- Hillbilly Bone (2010)
- All About Tonight (2010)
- Compilation albums
- Blake Shelton – The Essentials (2009)
- Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton (2010)
Awards and nominations[link]
| Year | Association | Category | Result |
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| 2001 | Academy of Country Music | Top New Male Vocalist | Nominated |
| 2002 | Nominated | ||
| 2003 | Vocal Event of the Year – "The Truth About Men" (with Tracy Byrd, Andy Griggs and Montgomery Gentry) | Nominated | |
| 2003 | Country Music Association | Horizon Award | Nominated |
| Vocal Event of the Year – "The Truth About Men" (with Tracy Byrd, Andy Griggs and Montgomery Gentry) | Nominated | ||
| 2010 | Academy of Country Music | Vocal Event of the Year – "Hillbilly Bone" (with Trace Adkins) | Won |
| CMT Music Awards | Collaborative Video of the Year – "Hillbilly Bone" (with Trace Adkins) | Won | |
| Country Music Association | Male Vocalist of The Year | Won | |
| Vocal Event of the Year – "Hillbilly Bone" (with Trace Adkins) | Won | ||
| 2011 | CMT Music Awards | Male Video of the Year – "Who Are You When I'm Not Looking" | Won |
| Best Web Video of the Year – "Kiss My Country Ass" | Won | ||
| Teen Choice Awards | Choice Music: Male Country Artist | Nominated | |
| Choice Music: Country Single – "Honey Bee" | Nominated | ||
| Country Music Association | Entertainer of the Year | Nominated | |
| Male Vocalist of the Year | Won | ||
| Single of the Year – "Honey Bee" | Nominated | ||
| Album of the Year – All About Tonight | Nominated | ||
| Music Video of the Year – "Honey Bee" | Nominated | ||
| American Music Awards | Favorite Country Male Artist | Won | |
| 2012 | Peoples Choice Awards | Favorite Male Artist | Nominated |
| Favorite Country Artist | Nominated | ||
| Grammy Award | Best Country Album – "Red River Blue" | Nominated | |
| Best Country Solo Performance – "Honey Bee" | Nominated | ||
| Best Country Song – "God Gave Me You" | Nominated | ||
| CMT Teddy Awards[22] | Best Flirting Video – "Honey Bee" | Won | |
| Academy of Country Music Awards | Entertainer of The Year | Nominated | |
| Male Vocalist of The Year | Won | ||
| CMT Music Awards | Video of The Year - "God Gave Me You" | Pending | |
| Male Video of The Year - "God Gave Me You" | Pending | ||
| CMT Performance of The Year - "Footlose" | Pending | ||
| Teen Choice Awards | Male Country Artist | Pending | |
| Country Song - "God Gave Me You" | Pending | ||
| Male Artist | Pending |
References[link]
- ^ a b c d e f Cohoon, Rick. "Blake Shelton biography". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p480679. Retrieved December 29, 2007.
- ^ Crossan, Jeff. "Bobby Braddock article". Songwriter Universe. http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/braddock.htm. Retrieved October 3, 2008.
- ^ "Blake Shelton: Celebrating Country Life". Ada Evening News. April 25, 2009. http://www.adaeveningnews.com/local/local_story_115124014.html. Retrieved April 28, 2009.
- ^ Salonica, Kelly (November 7, 2005). "Story Behind the Song". Country Weekly 12 (23): 70.
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| Born | (1989-03-16) March 16, 1989 (age 23) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
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| Listed weight | 251 lb (114 kg) |
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| NBA Draft | 2009 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1st overall |
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Blake Austin Griffin (born March 16, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Griffin had a renowned high school career at Oklahoma Christian School, winning state titles each of his four years under his father, Tommy Griffin, who was the head coach. He played college basketball for the University of Oklahoma Sooners and was awarded numerous accolades in his second year including the Naismith College Player of the Year, Oscar Robertson Trophy and the John Wooden Award.[1]
Griffin left college after two seasons to enter the 2009 NBA Draft where he was selected first overall by the Clippers. In his first season, he broke his left kneecap, which he injured during the final pre-season game, and underwent surgery missing the entire 2009–10 season. He made his NBA debut as a rookie the following season and was selected as an All-Star, won the 2011 NBA Slam Dunk Contest and was named the NBA Rookie of the Year. In 2011, Sports Illustrated ranked him as one of the NBA's 15 Greatest Rookies of All Time.[2]
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Early years[link]
Childhood[link]
Blake Griffin was born on March 16, 1989, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Tommy and Gail Griffin.[3] His father was a basketball center and track standout at NAIA Northwestern Oklahoma State University.[4] Griffin and his older brother, Taylor Griffin, were home-schooled by their mother from first grade until Taylor was in the tenth grade and Blake was in eighth.[5][6][7][8] The Griffin brothers are bi-racial, their father being African-American and their mother White.[9] Growing up, he was good friends with Sam Bradford, who currently plays for the St. Louis Rams and played on the same Athletes First AAU basketball team with Xavier Henry, now with the New Orleans Hornets.[8][10] Griffin’s parents owned a trophy company that Bradford’s father would use and Bradford’s father owned a gym where Griffin and his brother Taylor played basketball.[11] Apart from basketball, he also played baseball as a first baseman and football as a wide receiver, safety and a tight end.[11][12]
High school[link]
After years of competing against his brother, Taylor, Griffin enrolled at Oklahoma Christian School in 2003, after Taylor. They played under their father, who was the head coach. They played together during the 2003–04 and 2004–05 high school seasons, winning two state high school basketball championships together.[5] In his freshmen year, the Oklahoma Christian Saints posted a perfect 29–0 season and won the Class 3A boys state championship game held at the State Fair Arena against Riverside Indian School, 55–50.[13] In his sophomore year, the Saints repeated as Class 3A state champions, defeating Sequoyah-Tahlequah 51–34, where he scored 12 points to go along with 9 rebounds.[14] The team finished the season with a 24–2 record,[15] with Griffin averaging 13.6 points per game. He was later named to the Little All-City All-State team in what was his final high school season with his brother.[16] After his sophomore year, his brother accepted a scholarship to play college basketball for the University of Oklahoma Sooners. During the summer of 2005, he was a member of the Athletes First AAU team, where he played against Kevin Durant and Ty Lawson's AAU team, the DC Blue Devils.[17][18]
During his junior season, the Oklahoma Christian basketball team was moved down to Class 2A from the Class 3A.[19] As he began his third season with the Saints, he was quickly developing into a strong and athletic player,[20] as he led the Saints to a third straight state championship, scoring 22 points, 9 rebounds and 6 blocks, defeating Washington High School 57–40.[21] He was named the state tournament MVP,[22] and the Saints finished the season 27–1, with Griffin averaging 21.7 points, 12.5 rebounds, and 4.9 assists. For his efforts, he was named The Oklahoman Player of the Year and to the Tulsa World Boys All-State First Team.[23] His play attracted the attention of the new basketball head coach for Oklahoma, Jeff Capel, who first heard of him through his brother Taylor.[4] That spring, Capel saw him play for the first time and was impressed with his combination of size, strength and athleticism.[4] Capel liked the fact that Griffin had not yet become a household name among recruiters and recruited him because he felt he was the player he needed to rebuild his tenure with the Oklahoma men's basketball program.[4] He had been considering Duke, Kansas, North Carolina and Texas,[4] but his brother eventually sold him on joining Oklahoma when he raved about the direction of the Sooners and the chance to play together again for his home state.[24]
Griffin committed to Oklahoma before the start of his senior season[24] and averaged 26.8 points, 15.1 rebounds, 4.9 assists and 2.9 blocks per game as a senior while leading the team to a 26–3 record.[3] In a game against Oklahoma City Southeast, he finished with an eye-popping triple-double, 41 points, 28 rebounds, and 10 assists.[25] The Saints advanced through the playoffs, defeating Crescent in the quarterfinals and Foyil in the semifinals to earned a berth in the Class 2A state championship.[26] On March 10, 2007, he played his final high school game in the state title game against Pawnee High School.[16] He registered 22 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 blocks, as the Saints defeated Pawnee 81–50, winning their fourth straight state title.[5] He was named the Class 2A state tournament MVP for the second consecutive year after averaging 26.6 points per game in the tournament, winning its three games by an average of 30.3 points.[3] During his four-year run, the Oklahoma Christian Saints posted a 106–6 overall record.[27]
Griffin was named the Player of the Year by both the Tulsa World and The Oklahoman and named a Oklahoma Boys All-State First Team, EA Sports All-American Second Team and a Parade Third Team All-American.[25][28] He was ranked as the nation's #13 high school senior by HoopScoop, #20 by scout.com and #23 by rivals.com,[29] and as the country's third-best power forward by HoopScoop, sixth by rivals.com and the seventh by scout.com.[3] Additionally, he was the Gatorade Oklahoma Player of the Year and was selected to the McDonald's All-American and Jordan Brand All-America teams.[30][31] At the McDonald's All-American game in Louisville, Kentucky he won the Powerade Jam Fest slam dunk contest.[32]
College career[link]
Griffin was one of the highest rated and most decorated recruits ever at Oklahoma.[3] As a freshman at Oklahoma, he averaged 14.7 points and 9.1 rebounds in 28.4 minutes per game and led the Sooners to a 23–12 record.[33] He ranked ninth in scoring, fourth in rebounding and third in field goal percentage in the Big 12 Conference.[3] In a game against the Kansas Jayhawks, he suffered a sprained medial collateral ligament (MCL) in his left knee five minutes into the Sooners game.[34] Less than two months after injuring his left knee, he injured his right knee in a home victory against Texas A&M.[35] The injury this time was torn cartilage, and he had arthroscopic surgery on March 2, 2008.[35] He missed the following game, a victory over in-state rival Oklahoma State Cowboys,[36] but was back on the court a week after the injury with 14 points and 8 rebounds in 28 minutes versus the Missouri Tigers, a win for the Sooners on their home floor.[33] He was a first-team all-district pick by the USBWA and NABC, and was named to the Big 12 All-Rookie Team and to the first-team All-Big 12 selection by league coaches and Associated Press.[3] He became the first Sooner to make the conference All-Rookie team since Wayman Tisdale in 1983 for the Big Eight Conference.[37] He was expected to be a lottery pick in the 2008 NBA Draft but decided to return to college for a second season to give himself time to mature physically and make Oklahoma a contender for the NCAA championship.[6]
In his sophomore season, the Sooners started out the season winning their first 12 games before falling to the Arkansas Razorbacks.[38] In the third game of the season against the Davidson Wildcats, he scored 25 points and grabbed 21 rebounds,[39] after which he scored 35 points and 21 rebounds against Gardner–Webb,[40] becoming the first player in Big 12 history to record back-to-back games of at least 20 points and 20 rebounds.[3] This earned him three consecutive Big 12 player of the week honor and finished the season with a record-tying six player of the week honors.[3] In a home victory against the Texas Tech Red Raiders, he set career bests for both points and rebounds with 40 points and 23 rebounds,[33] becoming the only player in Big 12 history and the third player in the history of the University of Oklahoma men's basketball program to score 40 points and get 20 rebounds in the same game, joining Wayman Tisdale (61 points and 22 rebounds in 1983) and Alvan Adams (43 points and 25 rebounds in 1975).[41][42]
On February 21, he received a concussion in a loss to the Texas Longhorns, when he caught an inadvertent shot to the face from the open hand of Texas center Dexter Pittman.[43] He sat out the second half during the Sooners loss with a bloody nose.[43] It was the Sooners' first loss of their conference schedule for the season.[44] After sitting out the next game, a loss to Kansas Jayhawks, he was cleared by the medical staff and returned a week later to get 20 points and 19 rebounds in a victory over the Texas Tech Red Raiders.[45] Oklahoma finished second in the conference with a 13–3 record but fell short in the first game of the Big 12 Tournament to the Oklahoma State Cowboys.[46] In the "Big Dance", Oklahoma was seeded No. 2 in the South Region with a 27–5 record.[47] In the second-round win over the Michigan Wolverines, he scored 33 points and grabbed 17 rebounds,[48] just the second player in the 2000s decade with at least 30 points and 15 rebounds in the NCAA tournament.[49] However, the Sooners lost to the North Carolina Tar Heels in the South Regional final.[50]
Griffin averaged 22.7 points, 14.4 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game during the regular season and earned All-American First Team honors.[51] He led the Big 12 in scoring and rebounds, and recorded at least 20 points and 15 rebounds 15 times, which is a Big 12 record.[3] He also set school and Big 12 single-season records for most rebounds (504), rebounding average (14.4), and double-doubles (30), and his free throw attempts (324) were the most by a Sooner in a single-season.[52][53] With 30 double-doubles during the season, he was one short of the NCAA record of 31 set by David Robinson in 1986–1987.[54] His total of 504 rebounds were the most in a season by an NCAA Division I player since Indiana State's Larry Bird had 505 in 1978–79 and his rebounding average of 14.4 was the highest since Wake Forest's Tim Duncan averaged 14.7 in 1996–97.[3][55]
For his sophomore year performance, Griffin swept all six of the national player of the year awards. He was a unanimous choice by voters in all nine geographical districts for the Oscar Robertson Trophy and was named Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year, receiving 66 of the 71 national media panel members' votes.[56][57] Griffin was announced as the winner of the prestigious Naismith College Player of the Year on April 5 in Detroit.[58] Three days after announcing that he would turn pro, he won the John Wooden Award as college basketball's top player.[1] He became the first Oklahoma player in school history to win the Naismith Award, Oscar Robertson Trophy, Adolph Rupp Trophy, John Wooden Award and the Associated Press player of the year.[1][57] He was also named Player of the Year by the Big 12, Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News and FoxSports.com.[11]
College statistics[link]
| College | Year | GP | GS | MIN | PPG | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | FG% | FT% | 3P% |
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| Oklahoma | 2007–08 | 33 | 33 | 28.4 | 14.7 | 9.1 | 1.8 | 1.0 | .85 | .568 | .589 | .0 |
| Oklahoma | 2008–09 | 35 | 35 | 33.3 | 22.7 | 14.4 | 2.3 | 1.1 | 1.2 | .646 | .590 | .375 |
| Career | 68 | 68 | 31.4 | 18.8 | 11.8 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 1.05 | .618 | .589 | .300 |
NBA career[link]
Los Angeles Clippers (2009–present)[link]
2009–10: Injured season[link]
On April 7, 2009, Griffin announced that he would give up his final two years of eligibility and declared for the NBA Draft after his sophomore year.[59][60] A press conference announcing his decision was aired nationally on ESPNews. He was selected as the first overall pick by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2009 NBA Draft.[61] Griffin played for the Clippers' Summer League Team and was named Summer League MVP. In their final preseason game, he injured his kneecap as he landed after a dunk.[62] The day before the 2009–10 season started it was confirmed that Griffin had a stress fracture in his left knee, delaying his NBA debut for seven weeks.[62] After resting the stress fracture for several weeks, tests revealed that his knee was not recovering properly.[63] In January 2010, Griffin had surgery on his broken left kneecap, missing the entire 2009–10 season.[63] In the off season Griffin spent a great deal of time working out with a San Francisco-based trainer.[64]
2010–11: Rookie of the Year and Rookie All-Star[link]
Since he missed the entire 2009–10 season, Griffin was still considered a rookie during the 2010–11 season.[65] In his debut for the Clippers against the Portland Trail Blazers, Griffin scored 20 points and registered 14 rebounds.[66] He set a franchise record for most consecutive double-doubles with 23 in a home game against the Golden State Warriors.[67] His streak of consecutive double-doubles was the longest rookie double-double streak since 1968,[2] which ended at 27 games on January 19 in a win against the Minnesota Timberwolves where he scored 29 points and grabbed 8 rebounds.[68] On January 17, 2011 against the Indiana Pacers, Griffin scored a career-high and set a Clippers record for most points scored by a rookie with 47 points and grabbed 14 rebounds.[69] He became the first rookie to have two 40+ games in his rookie season since Allen Iverson during the 1996–97 season.
Griffin was voted to the 2011 NBA All-Star Game by coaches as a reserve on the Western Conference squad, becoming the first rookie to play in the All-Star game since Yao Ming in 2003 and the first rookie voted to the game by coaches since Tim Duncan in 1998.[70][71] He also participated in the 2011 Rookie Challenge and won the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest during the All-Star break.[72][73] On March 23, 2011, in a double overtime win over the Washington Wizards, Griffin recorded his first career triple-double, 33 points, 17 rebounds, and 10 assists,[74] and recorded his second triple-double with 31 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, in the final game of the season against the Memphis Grizzlies.[75]
During the season, he captured all six of the Western Conference T-Mobile Rookie of the Month, the first time a rookie has swept an entire season of Rookie of the Month awards since Chris Paul during the 2005–06 season.[76] He played in all 82 regular season games and became the first rookie to average at least 20 points and 10 rebounds since Elton Brand did it in the 1999–00 season.[77] He led all rookies in points, rebounds and double-doubles, earning him the Rookie of the Year award, and was the first unanimous winner for the award since David Robinson in 1990.[78][79] He was also the only unanimous selection to the All-Rookie First Team.[80] In October 2011 Griffin was rated the 10th best player in the NBA by ESPN and the collective TrueHoop Network.[81]
2011–12 First playoff appearance[link]
Griffin was voted to play as a starter for the 2012 NBA All-Star Game, along with teammate Chris Paul. He was also selected to participate in the Rising Stars Challenge. Griffin was selected as the #1 pick for Team Shaq,[82] which was a mix of rookies and sophomores. In the first round of the 2012 NBA Playoffs, Griffin helped the Clippers eliminate the Memphis Grizzles in a game 7.
Player profile[link]
Standing at 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m), Griffin is a power forward. In his rookie year, he averaged 22.5 points, 12.1 rebounds, and 3.8 assists per game, becoming just the 20th rookie in NBA history to average at least 20 points and 10 rebounds a game in the shot clock era.[83] He has established himself as a difficult player to defend, proving to be highly effective coming off the pick and roll, attacking the basket off the dribble, or in the post.[84] His exceptional leaping and ability to establish position down low allowed him to finish in the top 5 in rebounding during his rookie season. Griffin's rookie season was highlighted by countless spectacular dunks; this prowess for dunking culminated in his winning the 2011 Slam Dunk Contest.
In addition to his athleticism, Griffin has proven himself to be a well rounded big man with above average skills in ball handling and passing.[85] Rob Mahoney, in a January 2011 post in the New York Times basketball blog, singled out Griffin's playmaking abilities stating, "The overtly dominant aspects of Griffin’s play have made him one of the season’s greatest delights, but his game clearly stretches beyond the scoring and rebounding columns... his passing aptitude should serve as a reminder of the substance in his game. The dunks are great, but it’s his multiple-layered impact that has paved his early road to stardom."[85] Griffin's weaknesses remain his jump shooting and free throw shooting, which stands at 59.3% following the conclusion of his second season.
NBA career statistics[link]
| Legend | |||||
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| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
| FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
| RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
| BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
Regular season[link]
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010–11 | L.A. Clippers | 82 | 82 | 38.0 | .506 | .292 | .642 | 12.1 | 3.8 | .8 | .5 | 22.5 |
| 2011–12 | L.A. Clippers | 66 | 66 | 36.3 | .549 | .125 | .521 | 10.9 | 3.2 | .8 | .7 | 20.7 |
| Career | 148 | 148 | 37.3 | .524 | .225 | .593 | 11.5 | 3.5 | .8 | .6 | 21.7 | |
| All-Star | 2 | 1 | 23.0 | .722 | .500 | .500 | 6.5 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 15.0 | |
Playoffs[link]
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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| 2011–12 | L.A. Clippers | 11 | 11 | 35.7 | .500 | .000 | .636 | 6.9 | 2.5 | 1.8 | .9 | 19.1 |
| Career | 11 | 11 | 35.7 | .500 | .000 | .636 | 6.9 | 2.5 | 1.8 | .9 | 19.1 | |
Career highs[link]
Regular season[link]
| Stat | High | Opponent | Date |
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| Points | 47 | vs. Indiana | 02011-01-17January 17, 2011 |
| Offensive rebounds | 9 | vs. Portland | 02010-10-27October 27, 2010 |
| Defensive rebounds | 16 | vs. Detroit | 02010-11-12November 12, 2010 |
| Total rebounds | 20 | vs. San Antonio | 02012-02-18February 18, 2012 |
| Assists | 10 | vs. Washington | 02011-03-23March 23, 2011 |
| Assists | 10 | vs. Memphis | 02011-04-13April 13, 2011 |
Awards and honors[link]
NBA[link]
- NBA Rookie of the Year: 2011
- NBA All-Star: 2011, 2012
- All-NBA Second Team: 2012
- NBA Slam Dunk Champion: 2011
- NBA All-Rookie First Team: 2011
- Western Conference Rookie of the Month: November 2010,[86] December 2010,[87] January 2011,[88] February 2011,[89] March 2011,[90] April 2011[91]
College[link]
- 2009 Naismith College Player of the Year
- 2009 John Wooden Award
- 2009 Adolph Rupp Trophy[92]
- 2009 Oscar Robertson Trophy[93]
- 2009 AP All-American First Team[94]
- 2009 Sports Illustrated Player of the Year[95]
- 2009 AP National Player of the Year
- 2009 Sporting News Player of the Year[96]
- Phillips 66 All-Big 12 Men's Basketball Awards[97]
- 2009 Big 12 Player of the Year[98]
- 2009 All-Big 12 First Team[97]
- 2008 All-Big 12 First Team
- 2008 Big 12 All-Rookie Team
High school[link]
- Class 3A State Championship: 2004, 2005
- Class 2A State Championship: 2006, 2007[3]
- Class 2A Tournament MVP: 2006, 2007[3]
- The Oklahoman Player of the Year: 2006, 2007
- 2007 McDonald's All-American
- 2007 McDonald's All-American Slam Dunk Champion
- 2007 Parade All-America Third Team[28]
- 2007 EA Sports All-American Second Team[99]
- 2007 Tulsa World Player of the Year
- 2007 Oklahoma Boys All-State First Team
- 2006 Tulsa World Boys All-State First Team
- 2005 Little All-City All-State Team
Off the court[link]
Griffin resides in Manhattan Beach, California.[100]
Endorsements[link]
Griffin appeared on the cover of NCAA Basketball 10 video game by EA Sports, and in an advertising campaign for Subway restaurants.[101] He has appeared in commercials for Kia automobiles and AT&T,[102] and appeared in Sports Show with Norm Macdonald with teammate DeAndre Jordan.[103] In April 2011, Panini America signed Griffin to an exclusive long-term deal that will feature his autographs and memorabilia in Panini products.[104] Panini initially signed him to a one year deal, which expired in 2010.[105] He has also signed with Vizio to pitch digital TVs and other products.[106] In April 2011 he appeared in a trailer for the video game Rage.
Philanthropy[link]
Griffin started a fundraiser called Dunking for Dollars, in which he donates $100 to fight childhood obesity for every dunk he makes.[107] The Kia sedan that Griffin jumped over to win the Slam Dunk Contest was donated for a charity auction on AutoTrader.com with proceeds benefiting Stand Up to Cancer.[108] The auction started May 5, 2011 and ran through May 15. Stand Up to Cancer also has a fund-raising site called Team Blake, in honor of his close friend Wilson Holloway, who died after a three-year fight with Hodgkin's lymphoma.[108]
See also[link]
- 2009 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
- List of first overall NBA draft picks
- List of NCAA Division I men's basketball season rebounding leaders
References[link]
- ^ a b c Associated Press (April 10, 2009). Griffin, Moore pick up more hardware. ESPN. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
- ^ a b NBA's Greatest Rookies Of All Time. sportsillustrated.com. Retrieved September 17, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Blake Griffin – SoonerSports.com. soonersports.com. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e Anderson, Kelli (January 26, 2009). Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin is a skilled mimic. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved January 4, 2011.
- ^ a b c O'Neil, Dana (August 6, 2009). Griffin's return to Oklahoma has Sooners looking for title. ESPN. Retrieved January 4, 2011.
- ^ a b Garcia, Marlen (January 26, 2009). Sooners' savior? Blake Griffin guides Oklahoma's title quest. USA Today. Updated 1/26/2009. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ^ George, Brandon (March 21, 2008). Sooners' Griffin built tough, thanks to folks at home. The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
- ^ a b SportsNation. Chat with Blake Griffin. ESPN. Retrieved January 4, 2011.
- ^ http://www.draftexpress.com/article/Blake-Griffin-Im-going-to-work-to-be-a-complete-player-on-both-ends-3223/
- ^ Chatmon, Brandon (April 21, 2010). Athletes First boss says Sam Bradford, Blake Griffin stood out even in high school. The Oklahoman (NewsOK.com). Retrieved January 7, 2011.
- ^ a b c Jones, Steven (April 6, 2009). Big Red Royalty: Bradford, Griffin take similar paths to OU. The Oklahoma Daily. Retrieved January 11, 2011.
- ^ Blake Griffin on playing other sports growing up. YouTube. Retrieved January 11, 2011.
- ^ Ritchie, Heath (March 13, 2004). OCS beats Riverside in thriller for second title in three years. Coaches Aid. Retrieved January 6, 2011.
- ^ Farr, Kevin (March 12, 2005). Griffin boys lead OCS to second straight title. Coaches Aid. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
- ^ Taylor Griffin – SoonerSports.com. soonersports.com. Retrieved January 6, 2011.
- ^ a b Helmer, Joey (June 29, 2009). Scout.com: Blake Griffin Timeline. Scout.com. Retrieved January 6, 2011.
- ^ YouTube – D.C. Blue Devils vs Athlete's First (Kevin Durant, Ty Lawson & Blake Griffin). YouTube. Retrieved January 7, 2011.
- ^ Jenkins, Lee (October 25, 2010). Griffin changing Clippers culture. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved January 7, 2011.
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- ^ Farr, Kevin (March 11, 2006). OCS dominates Washington to win third straight gold ball. Coaches Aid. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
- ^ Coaches Aid (March 12, 2006). Coaches Aid State Tournament picks. Coaches Aid. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
- ^ "Player of the year: Blake Griffin, Oklahoma Christian School – Griffin talking titles for his senior season". The Oklahoman. April 9, 2006.
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- ^ Plumlee, James (March 10, 2007). 2A Boys Championship. NewsOK.com. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
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- ^ a b Michael O'Shea (March 23, 2007). "Meet PARADE's 2007 All-America High School Boys Basketball Team". PARADE Magazine. http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_04-01-2007/Basketball. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
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- ^ "Cowboys Down Sooners In Big 12 Tourney". http://www.okstate.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/031309aac.html. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
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- ^ Perloff, Andrew (March 23, 2009). Got it Done Award – Blake Griffin is first winner. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved January 4, 2011.
- ^ Katz, Andy (March 24, 2009). NCAA tournament: Close-knit family keeps Blake Griffin grounded. ESPN. Retrieved January 4, 2011.
- ^ Tom Weir (March 30, 2009). "Blake Griffin leaves his mark on NCAA tournament". USA TODAY. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/2009-03-29-oklahoma-griffin_N.htm. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ^ Associated Press (March 31, 2009). Griffin, Hansbrough lead AP first team. ESPN. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
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- ^ "Capel's Sooners Still Streaking". Oklahoma Sports / SoonerSports.com (CBS Interactive). http://soonersports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/021309aab.html. Retrieved February 15, 2009.
- ^ "Blake Griffin Wins Oscar Robertson Trophy As USBWA Player of the Year". Big 12 Conference. Big12Sports.com. March 30, 2009
- ^ Big12Sports.com (April 3, 2009). "Blake Griffin, Bill Self Garner Associated Press Honors". Big12Sports.com. http://www.big12sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10410&ATCLID=3706538. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ^ Big12Sports.com (March 30, 2009). Blake Griffin Wins Oscar Robertson Trophy As USBWA Player of the Year. Big12Sports. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
- ^ a b Associated Press (April 3, 2009). Griffin first OU player to win AP award. ESPN. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
- ^ ESPN.com news services (April 6, 2009). Griffin caps season with Naismith Award. ESPN. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
- ^ Associated Press (April 7, 2009). OU's Griffin entering NBA draft. ESPN. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ^ Associated Press (April 8, 2009). Oklahoma's Griffin leads group of players entering NBA draft. USA Today. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ^ Ford, Chad. "2009 NBA Draft Prospects: Top 100". ESPN. http://insider.espn.go.com/nbadraft/draft/tracker/rank?draftyear=2009&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fnbadraft%2fdraft%2ftracker%2frank%3fdraftyear%3d2009. Retrieved August 24, 2008.
- ^ a b "Clippers lose Griffin to broken kneecap". Associated Press. ESPN. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4597949. Retrieved October 27, 2009.
- ^ a b Sheridan, Chris. "Los Angeles Clippers' Blake Griffin to have season ending surgery". ESPN.com. http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/news/story?id=4823032. Retrieved January 13, 2010.
- ^ ESPN. "The Rookie: Blake Griffin". blakethebully.com. http://blakethebully.com/post/2472483894/blake-griffin-spent-a-great-deal-of-time-with. Retrieved December 27, 2010.
- ^ Packham, Drew (July 1, 2010).Rookie Rankings: Taking a first look at the 2010–11 class. nba.com. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
- ^ Dillman, Lisa (October 27, 2010). "Clippers lose opener to Trail Blazers, 98–88, despite a roaring debut for Blake Griffin – Los Angeles Times". articles.latimes.com. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/27/sports/la-sp-clippers-blazers-20101028. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
- ^ Simmons, Rusty (January 10, 2011).Blake Griffin's 'electric' athleticism is shocking. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
- ^ Moura, Pedro (January 20, 2011). Blake Griffin's double-double run ends. sports.espn.go.com. Retrieved January 23, 2011.
- ^ Moura, Pedro (January 17, 2011). Blake Griffin too much for Pacers. ESPN. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
- ^ Ziller, Tom (February 3, 2011). Blake Griffin, Pau Gasol Among Those Named NBA All-Star Reserves In West. SB Nation. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
- ^ Ziller, Tom (February 3, 2011). Clippers' Griffin ends All-Star drought for rookies. nba.com. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
- ^ Griffin, Evans headline selections for 2011 Rookie Challenge. nba.com, February 1, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
- ^ Official Release (January 5, 2011).Griffin, Ibaka, Jennings and McGee set for Sprite Slam Dunk. nba.com. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
- ^ Dillman, Lisa (March 23, 2011). Blake Griffin gets first triple-double in Clippers' hard-fought win over Wizards. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
- ^ Harris, Beth (April 14, 2011). Clippers beat playoff-bound Grizzlies 110–103. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 14, 2011.
- ^ Griffin Named Western Conference Rookie of the Month. nba.com. April 14, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
- ^ Harris, Beth (April 14, 2011). Griffin wraps up superb rookie season. SF Gate. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
- ^ Official release (May 4, 2011). Clippers' Griffin unanimously voted top NBA rookie. NBA.com. Retrieved May 4, 2011.
- ^ Associated Press (May 5, 2011). Blake Griffin unanimously voted top NBA rookie. ESPN. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
- ^ Official Release (May 11, 2011). Unanimous pick Griffin leads T-Mobile All-Rookie team roster. NBA.com. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
- ^ "#NBA Rank 10". Blog Article. ESPN. http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7113335/nba-player-rankings-10. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
- ^ Immediate Release (February 17, 2012). LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS’ BLAKE GRIFFIN, CLEVELAND CAVALIERS’ KYRIE IRVING ARE FIRST TWO PICKS IN 2012 BBVA RISING STARS CHALLENGE DRAFT. NBA.com. Retrieved February 26, 2012.
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- ^ Official Release (December 1, 2010).Knicks' Fields, Clips' Griffin named Rookies of the Month. nba.com. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ^ Official Release (January 3, 2011).Fields, Griffin win NBA Rookie honors for December. nba.com. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ^ Official Release (February 1, 2011).Wizards' Wall, Clippers' Griffin named Rookies of the Month. nba.com. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
- ^ "Wizards' Wall, Clippers' Griffin named Rookes of the Month". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. March 1, 2011. http://www.nba.com/2011/news/03/01/rookies-of-the-month/index.html. Retrieved March 1, 2011.
- ^ "Wall, Griffin take Rookie of the Month honors". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. April 1, 2011. http://www.nba.com/2011/news/04/01/rookies-march/index.html. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
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- ^ Associated Press (March 23, 2009). OU's Blake Griffin wins Adolph Rupp award. NewsOK.com. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
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- ^ Blake Griffin named SI.com Player of the Year. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved on 1 October 2009.
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- ^ "2007 EA SPORTS Boys All American Team". Rivals.com. http://ssbasketball.rivals.com/content.asp?SID=1132&CID=664465. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
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- ^ Floyd, Brian (February 25, 2011). Blake Griffin Car Dunk Becomes Kia Commercial. SB Nation. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
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| Trace Adkins | |
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 At sea aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), Nov. 27, 2002 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Tracy Darrell Adkins |
| Born | (1962-01-13) January 13, 1962 (age 50) |
| Origin | Springhill, Louisiana, USA |
| Genres | Country, country rock, blues rock |
| Instruments | Vocals Guitar[1] |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Labels | Capitol Nashville, Show Dog-Universal Music |
| Associated acts | Randy Houser, Jamey Johnson, 38 Special, Ronnie Milsap, Toby Keith, Blake Shelton |
| Website | TraceAdkins.com |
Tracy Darrell "Trace" Adkins (born January 13, 1962) is an American country music artist and actor. He made his debut in 1996 with the album Dreamin' Out Loud, released on Capitol Records Nashville. Since then, Adkins has released seven more studio albums and two Greatest Hits compilations. In addition, he has charted more than 20 singles on the Billboard country music charts, including the Number One hits "(This Ain't) No Thinkin' Thing", "Ladies Love Country Boys", and "You're Gonna Miss This", which peaked in 1997, 2007, and 2008, respectively. "I Left Something Turned on at Home" went to #1 on Canada's country chart. All but one of his studio albums have received gold or platinum certification in the United States; his highest-selling to date is 2005's Songs About Me, which has been certified 2× Multi-Platinum for shipping two million copies.
He has also made several appearances on television, including as a panelist on the game shows Hollywood Squares and Pyramid, as a finalist on The Celebrity Apprentice, as the voice for recurring character Elvin on King of the Hill, and in television commercial voice-overs for the KFC fast food restaurant chain. In addition, Adkins has written an autobiography entitled A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Free-Thinking Roughneck, which was released in late 2007. He has appeared in numerous films, including The Lincoln Lawyer.
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Early life[link]
Adkins was born in Sarepta in Webster Parish in north Louisiana. His parents are Aaron Adkins, a mill worker, and the former Peggy Carraway. His uncle was the Christian musician James W. Carraway (1923–2008). Trace Adkins is of English and Irish descent.[2][3] His musical interest came at an early age, when his father taught him to play the guitar.[1] In high school, he joined a gospel music group called the New Commitments. He was also a member of Future Farmers of America. Later, Adkins went on to study at Louisiana Tech University, where he also played defensive end for the Bulldogs football team. Though he never officially graduated he took up work at an oil rig. He lost the pinky finger on his left hand in an accident while using a knife to open a bucket, and asked doctors to reattach the finger at an angle so that he could continue to play guitar.[1] Adkins then moved on to playing in honky tonk bars around Nashville, Tennessee, in the early 1990s. An executive of Capitol Records spotted Adkins playing at a honky tonk, and soon afterwards signed him to the label. Adkins is married to Rhonda Forlaw, his third wife and mother of their three daughters; Adkins has two daughters from his first marriage.[4]
Music career[link]
Early career[link]
Adkins' first single, "There's a Girl in Texas", was released in 1996, reaching the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. It was followed by the release of his debut album, Dreamin' Out Loud, later that year. The album produced several hit singles, including his first Top 5 single, "Every Light in the House", his first Number One in "(This Ain't) No Thinkin' Thing", and another Top 5 hit in "I Left Something Turned on at Home". The latter single was also a Number One hit in Canada. His second album, Big Time, produced a Top 5 in "The Rest of Mine", but subsequent singles proved less successful.[1] A change in management delayed the release of Adkins' third album,[5] but the album (titled More...) was eventually released in late 1999. Although the album's title track reached Top 10, More... failed to achieve gold status.
2001–2004[link]
In 2001, Adkins was injured in a tractor accident and had to temporarily cancel touring.[6] He later entered a 28-day alcohol rehabilitation program in Nashville,[7] shortly after the release of his Chrome album. Chrome was the first album by Adkins to reach the Top 5 on the country albums charts; its title track reached Top 10 in late 2002.[1]
In 2003, Adkins released two albums: a Greatest Hits collection and Comin' on Strong.[1] The same year, he was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry.[8] He also made appearances as the center square on the game show Hollywood Squares,[9] and did voice-overs in commercials for fast-food chain KFC.[10] Only one single, "Then They Do", was released from the Greatest Hits compilation. Comin' on Strong, which succeeded the Greatest Hits album, produced two singles: the Top 5 single "Hot Mama", and "Rough & Ready", which peaked at #13.
Adkins and Travis Tritt played the roles of prison convicts in a February 2004 episode of the television series Yes, Dear (Greg & Jimmy's Criminals).
2005–2007[link]
In 2005, Adkins released his Songs About Me album.[1] The album's second single, "Arlington", generated controversy over its content (a first-person account of a fictional soldier who was about to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery).[11] It was followed by "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk", which became a highly successful crossover hit, bringing Adkins into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time.
2006 saw the release of Adkins' seventh studio album, Dangerous Man. "Swing", the album's lead-off single, peaked at #20, while the follow-up "Ladies Love Country Boys" became Adkins' first Number One single on the country charts since "(This Ain't) No Thinkin' Thing" in 1997. The album's final release, "I Wanna Feel Something", proved unsuccessful on the charts; as a result, Adkins announced that he would stop supporting the single.
In August 2007, Adkins released a single entitled "I Got My Game On".[12] Originally, the song was planned to be the lead-off to a new album, tentatively titled Game On; however, Adkins decided not to release a full album, and instead released his second Greatest Hits compilation, American Man: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2, for which "I Got My Game On" served as the lead-off single.[13] The album has also produced Adkins' fastest-climbing single to date in its second single, "You're Gonna Miss This".[14]
"You're Gonna Miss This" has also become his third Number One hit on the Hot Country Songs, as well as the most successful single to date on the Billboard Hot 100 (#12), Billboard Pop 100 (#19), and Hot Digital Songs charts (#8).
Trace released his first book, entitled A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Free-Thinking Roughneck.[15]
2008–present[link]
In November 2008, Trace Adkins made an appearance at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Trace rode with his family on the "Jimmy Dean" float and performed his popular song "You're Gonna Miss This." In 2009, Adkins appeared in local Kansas City commercials to advertise season tickets and the 50th season of the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs.
Adkins recorded a duet with country legend Ronnie Milsap called "My First Ride" to benefit fire-fighters and police officers in the US and Canada. Then, after the song's release the label said 'no' to radio stations playing it with no explanation given. Milsap led a protest at Capitol Records to "Free Trace" and allow the song to be played.
In November 2009, Adkins embarked on the Shine All Night Tour, a co-headling venture with fellow country artist Martina McBride. Also in 2009, Adkins joined fellow country artist Blake Shelton in recording a duet titled "Hillbilly Bone," which was released as the lead-off single from Shelton's upcoming sixth album.
On October 18, 2009, Trace made an appearance on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to help Ty Pennington and his design team build a new home for the Marshall family.
Two men in a small pickup truck lost their lives after crashing into one of Trace Adkins' tour buses. The truck was believed to have crossed the "no passing" line in the center of the road which resulted in the crash. Several members of Adkins' band were aboard the bus, but did not suffer any major injuries. Adkins himself was not on board the bus at the time.[16]
In January 2010, Adkins parted ways with his long-time record label, Capitol Nashville, and subsequently signed with Show Dog-Universal Music.[17][18] Adkins' first single with the label, "This Ain't No Love Song," was released on May 17, 2010, and served as the lead-off single to his ninth studio album, Cowboy's Back In Town. It debuted at #54 on the chart for the week of May 29, 2010. The album's second single "Brown Chicken, Brown Cow" released to country radio on January 10, 2011.
On October 10, 2010, Adkins sang the National Anthem at Dallas Cowboys Stadium.[citation needed]
On December 18, 2010, Trace performed at WWE's annual extravaganza 'Tribute To The Troops' to amazing reception by the soldiers in attendance.[19] Trace appeared once again on the May 13, 2011, episode of SmackDown live from Nashville, Tennessee, as the special member of the WWE audience.
On June 4, 2011, Adkins' home in Brentwood, Tennessee burned down.[citation needed]
On October 20, 2011, Adkins sang the National Anthem at game 2 of the 2011 World Series in St. Louis, MO.
In February 2012, Adkins will appear as a guest vocalist on Meat Loaf's album Hell in a Handbasket [20]
Other ventures[link]
Acting[link]
- 2003-2007 - King of the Hill 5 episodes (Role:Elvin Mackleston, Big John; voice)
- 2004 - Yes, Dear Episode: Greg and Jimmy's Criminals (Role:Curtis)
- 2005 - Higglytown Heroes Episode: Higgly Hoedown/Eubie's Turbo Sled (Role:Cowboy Hero; voice)
- 2008 - Trailer Park of Terror (Role:The Man)
- 2008 - An American Carol (Role:Angel of Death/Trace Adkins)
- 2010 - Tough Trade (Role:Scared)
- 2010 - Lifted (Role:Jimmy Knox)
- 2011 - The Lincoln Lawyer (Role:Eddie Vogel)
- 2012 - American Dad! Episode: The Unbrave One (Role:Transvestite; voice)[21]
- 2012 - Wyatt Earp's Revenge (Role:Milfin Kennedy)
Celebrity Apprentice[link]
Adkins was a January–March 2008 contestant on NBC's The Celebrity Apprentice.[13] Each celebrity contestant was playing for charitable donations for their selected charity. Adkins was playing for the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network. Adkins chose the charity because his daughter suffers from life-threatening reactions to peanuts, milk and eggs.
In 2008, Trace Adkins released the single "Muddy Water," the lead single from X, which was released on November 25. The video for "Muddy Water" also has an appearance by fellow Celebrity Apprentice competitor Stephen Baldwin as a man being baptised in a muddy river, and later approaching Trace as a friend. X also includes the Top 20 hits "Marry for Money" and "All I Ask For Anymore," both of which reached a peak of #14.
Spokesperson[link]
In 2012, Adkins signed a deal with truck stop chain Pilot Flying J to become the company's new spokesperson.[22]
Personal life[link]
On July 5, 2001, Adkins was charged with driving under the influence in Nolensville, Tennessee.[23] The singer pled guilty and was sentenced to 11 months in jail; however, the sentence was suspended after 48 hours.[1] In addition, he had to pay $350 in fines, and his driver's license was suspended for one year.[24]
Injuries[link]
As a youth, Trace was in an automobile accident in which his 1955 pickup truck hit a bus head-on. Both his arms, a leg, and some ribs were broken and his nose was partially torn off. Trace was forced to give up football after a severe knee injury at Louisiana Tech. He has also experienced a number of serious injuries as an adult, including being shot by his ex-wife in 1994.[25] The bullet went through his heart and both lungs. He survived and chose not to press charges. The little finger on his left hand was partially severed and surgically re-attached.
Discography[link]
Main article: Trace Adkins discography
Albums
- 1996: Dreamin' Out Loud
- 1997: Big Time
- 1999: More...
- 2001: Chrome
- 2003: Greatest Hits Collection, Vol. 1
- 2003: Comin' On Strong
- 2005: Songs About Me
- 2006: Dangerous Man
- 2007: American Man: Greatest Hits Volume II
- 2008: X
- 2010: Cowboy's Back in Town
- 2010: The Definitive Greatest Hits: 'Til the Last Shot's Fired
- 2011: Proud to Be Here
Awards[link]
| Year | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | ACM Top New Male Vocalist | Won |
| 2008 | CMT Male Video of the Year - "I Got My Game On" | Won |
| Grammy - Best Male Country Vocal Performance - "You're Gonna Miss This" | Nominated | |
| Grammy - Best Country Song - "You're Gonna Miss This" (Ashley Gorley & Lee Thomas Miller) | Nominated | |
| 2009 | ACM Single of the Year - "You're Gonna Miss This" | Won |
| Grammy - Best Male Country Vocal Performance - "All I Ask For Anymore" | Nominated | |
| Grammy - Best Country Song - "All I Ask For Anymore" (Casey Beathard & Tim James) | Nominated | |
| 2010 | ACM Vocal Event of the Year - "Hillbilly Bone" with Blake Shelton | Won |
| CMT Award - Collaborative Video of the Year - "Hillbilly Bone" with Blake Shelton | Won |
References[link]
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| Country |  United States |
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| Residence | Saddlebrook Florida , Tampa, Florida, United States |
| Born | (1979-12-28) December 28, 1979 (age 32) Yonkers, New York |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight | 183 lb (83 kg; 13.1 st) |
| Turned pro | 1999 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Career prize money | $7,350,311 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 349–231 (at ATP Tour-level, Grand Slam-level, and in Davis Cup) |
| Career titles | 10 |
| Highest ranking | No. 4 (November 20, 2006) |
| Current ranking | No. 92 (April 30, 2012) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | QF (2008) |
| French Open | 3R (2006) |
| Wimbledon | 3R (2006, 2007) |
| US Open | QF (2005, 2006) |
| Other tournaments | |
| Tour Finals | F (2006) |
| Olympic Games | SF - 4th place (losing bronze-finalist) (2008) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 109–104 (at ATP Tour-level, Grand Slam-level, and in Davis Cup) |
| Career titles | 6 |
| Highest ranking | No. 31 (March 31, 2003) |
| Current ranking | No. 214 (November 22, 2010) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | QF (2005) |
| French Open | 2R (2002) |
| Wimbledon | SF (2009) |
| US Open | 2R (2000, 2001) |
| Last updated on: April 13, 2012. | |
James Riley Blake[1] (born December 28, 1979) is an American professional tennis player. Blake is known for his speed and powerful, flat forehand. As of April 2012, Blake is ranked World No. 74 among active male players with 24 career finals appearances (10–14 record), whilst his career-high singles ranking is World No. 4. His career highlights include reaching the final of the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup, the semifinals of the Beijing Olympics and the quarterfinals of the Australian Open (2008) and US Open (2005, 2006). His two titles for the United States at the Hopman Cup are an event record. Blake was a key performer for the United States 2007 Davis Cup championship team, going 2–0 in the championship tie vs. Russia at second singles. In 2005, Blake was presented with the Comeback Player of the Year award for his remarkable return to the tour. Later, in 2008, Blake was awarded another honor by the ATP where he was named the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year. On July 3, 2007, Blake's autobiography Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life, which discussed his comeback after his unlucky 2004 season, was released and debuted at No. 22 on the New York Times Best Seller list. He co-wrote this book with Andrew Friedman.
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Early life[link]
Blake was born in Yonkers, New York to an African American father Thomas Reynolds Blake and a British mother Betty.[2] He has a brother Thomas, who is also a professional tennis player, and three older half-brothers: Jason, Christopher and Howard, and a half-sister Michelle.
Blake started playing tennis at age five alongside his brother Thomas. When he was 13, he was diagnosed with severe scoliosis and for five years as a teenager he was forced to wear a full-length back brace for 18 hours a day, though not while playing tennis. Blake attended Fairfield High School in Fairfield, Connecticut, where a schoolmate and childhood friend was future musician John Mayer. Blake was inspired to pursue tennis after hearing his role model Arthur Ashe speak to the Harlem Junior Tennis Program. Brian Barker was his first (and longtime) coach. He left Harvard University, where he was a member of the A.D. Club, after his sophomore year to pursue a career in professional tennis.
Playing style[link]
Blake's style of play is primarily that of an aggressive offensive baseliner. He generally prefers to hit winners from the baseline, but his solid net volley and transition game give him an effective all-court game. His forehand (along with Federer and Fernando González) is considered to be one of the best in the game. However, his one-handed backhand is known to be suspect. Another major strength is his great foot speed. Blake tends to return serves (especially second serves) with great pace, and also makes contact with the ball earlier (on the uprise) when hitting ground strokes. Combined with his relatively flat strokes, these techniques (despite being riskier in terms of making errors) allow him to put more pace on the ball, giving opponents less time to react. Blake likes to take control of points and will usually attempt to hit an outright winner earlier in the rally than many others. He is known as a shot maker. His go-for-broke style makes him one of the most entertaining players on the tour, though this also makes him an inconsistent player, evidenced by his recent slide in the rankings. Since hiring new coach and doubles specialist Kelly Jones, Blake has begun to incorporate more serve-and-volley play into his game.
Career[link]
2000–2001[link]
At the age of 21, Blake saw his first Davis Cup action in 2001 against India and became the third person of African-American heritage to play for the Davis Cup for the United States (after Arthur Ashe and MaliVai Washington).
Ranked no. 120 in the world, Blake accepted a wild card into Cincinnati. He beat a qualifier and Arnaud Clément to reach the round of 16, where he met Patrick Rafter. Blake came close to winning the first set (falling in a tiebreak), and after dropping the second set, Rafter, according to Blake's autobiography, complimented him at the net and boosted his confidence immeasurably by saying "Now do you believe you can beat someone like me, or even me?"
2002–2003[link]
In January, Blake won the 2002 USTA Waikola Challenger in Hawaii. A month later in Memphis he posted his first win over a top-10 ranked opponent, Tommy Haas, who was then ranked no. 5, and reached the finals, losing to Andy Roddick. He reached the quarterfinals at the ATP Masters Series (AMS) event in Rome in May and the finals at Newport in July.
In August, in Cincinnati, he won his first career ATP Tour title and his first ATP Masters Series title: it came in doubles with Todd Martin, making Blake the first African-American male to win a title of any kind in Cincinnati's 101-year history. He was also the first African-American to reach a final in Cincinnati since 1969, when Arthur Ashe reached the doubles finals with Charlie Pasarell. The next week in Washington, he won his first ATP Tour singles title, beating Andre Agassi in the semifinals and Paradorn Srichaphan in the final.
At the US Open, he reached the third round, before falling to top-ranked Lleyton Hewitt in five sets.
In 2003, his best results were a quarterfinals appearance at Indian Wells; a round of 16 finish at the Australian Open, Cincinnati, and Miami; a semifinal appearance at San Jose, and a finals appearance at Long Island.
2004[link]
While practicing with Robby Ginepri for the Masters event in Rome, he broke his neck when he slipped on the clay and collided with the net post. In July, his father died of stomach cancer. At the same time, Blake developed shingles, which temporarily paralyzed half his face and blurred his sight.
2005[link]
Blake's injuries and personal issues caused him to post relatively poor results for the first half of 2005. By April his ranking was 210. He decided to play the Challenger circuit, the "minor leagues" of tennis, in order to gain confidence and get more matches. In May he entered events in Tunica, Mississippi and Forest Hills, New York, winning both. He rejoined the ATP circuit and by August reached the final at the International Series event in Washington, D.C. where he fell to Roddick.
He was given a wild card into AMS Cincinnati, drawing Federer in the first round. He then won the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament in New Haven, Connecticut, defeating Feliciano López in the final.
After New Haven he was ranked 49.
He then accepted a wildcard into the US Open, defeating No. 2 Rafael Nadal 6–4, 4–6, 6–3, 6–1 in the round of 32. He beat Tommy Robredo in four sets to reach the quarterfinals, succumbing to Andre Agassi in a fifth-set tiebreak, losing 3–6, 3–6, 6–3, 6–3, 7–6.
In October at the Stockholm Open, Blake won his third ATP tour title, defeating Srichaphan in the final. Blake finished 2005 ranking 22.
2006[link]
Blake won the title at Sydney, taking his fourth ATP tour title defeating Russian Igor Andreev in the final.
At the Australian Open he was seeded twentieth, losing in the third round to Spaniard Tommy Robredo. He broke into the Top 20 for the first time in his career.
In March he beat Hewitt in the final at Las Vegas for his fifth ATP tour title.
At the first AMS event of the year Indian Wells, Blake defeated Robredo in the third round and world No. 2 Nadal in the semifinals, reaching his first career ATP Masters Series singles final, losing in the final to Federer. By reaching the final, Blake became the first African-American man since Arthur Ashe to reach the world's top 10.
On clay, Blake defeated former world No. 1 Carlos Moyà in the first round at AMS Hamburg before losing to Mario Ančić in the third round.
At the French Open he defeated Spaniard Nicolás Almagro in four sets in the second round, to become the last remaining American man at the French, then was beaten by Frenchman Gaël Monfils in five sets.
Beginning the grass court season at the Stella Artois Championships, he defeated Andy Roddick in the semifinals, losing to Lleyton Hewitt in the final.
At Wimbledon, Blake progressed to the third round but lost to Max Mirnyi in five sets.[3]
Now ranked No. 5, Blake's next tournament was the International Series at Indianapolis. He won the singles title, defeating Roddick (for the second time in 2006).
In Washington, D.C. he lost in the third round to Marat Safin and in New Haven in the first round to Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo.
At AMS Canada he fell to Richard Gasquet (who would reach the final that week before losing to Roger Federer). At AMS Cincinnati he lost to Juan Carlos Ferrero (who lost in the final to Andy Roddick).
At the US Open he reached the quarterfinals, losing to top seed and defending champion Roger Federer. In that match Blake won his first set against Federer, winning the third set in a tiebreaker 11–9.
In his debut appearance at the Thailand Open in Bangkok, Blake won his seventh singles title, defeating Jarkko Nieminen in the quarterfinals, Marat Safin in the semifinals, and Ivan Ljubičić (for the first time) in the final.
Two weeks later Blake won his fifth title of 2006, defending his 2005 title in Stockholm, defeating Jarkko Nieminen.
For the first time, Blake qualified for the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai. He went 2–1 in the Gold Group, defeating No. 2 Nadal and No. 3 Nikolay Davydenko, while losing to No. 6 Tommy Robredo. He qualified for the semifinals, beating defending champion David Nalbandian 6–4, 6–1, losing the final to Federer 6–0, 6–3, 6–4.
Blake finished 2006 at a career-high World Number 4 and as the highest-ranked American tennis player.
2007[link]
Blake won at the Sydney International for the second consecutive year. However, he then suffered a disappointing loss in the Round of 16 at the Australian Open, losing to tenth seed and eventual finalist Fernando González 7–5, 6–4, 7–6. He followed that up with a loss to Tomáš Berdych in Davis Cup play and a second round loss in the SAP Open (San Jose) to Number 103 ranked Ivo Karlović.
At the 2007 Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas, as the defending champion, he was involved with a deep controversy. It was one of the several tournaments experimenting with the new round robin format,[4] and Blake had lost his first match to Evgeny Korolev. Korolev lost his other match to Juan Martín del Potro. In order for Blake to advance to the quarters, he had to defeat Del Potro in straight sets while losing five games or less. This would result in a three-way tie, with Blake losing the fewest games. With Blake leading 6–1 3–1, Del Potro retired. This eliminated Del Potro from the three-way tie as he failed to complete one of his matches. Korolev then moved on to the next round, breaking the tie because he had defeated Blake in their match.
That caused a big uproar among fans, James Blake, and commentators, as they felt James Blake deserved to advance. After a press conference of many hours, the ATP, led by Etienne de Villiers, decided that, since Blake would have met the guidelines the way the match was going, and since neither player knew the consequences of retiring (Del Potro said he would have finished the match had he known), Blake would have advanced anyway. They overruled the tournament guidelines, giving Blake a place in the quarterfinals.
The following morning, De Villiers reversed his reversal deeming that it was unfair to Korolev as you should not change the rules in mid-tournament, regardless of what happened. As a result, Korolev re-advanced to the quarterfinals, sending Blake to Indian Wells without a 3rd consecutive title defense. Shortly after this incident, the ATP decided to cancel the round robin format, reverting any tournaments planning a round robin draw to the standard single-elimination draw.[5]
Roland Garros 2007 was a disappointment for Blake, losing in the first round to Ivo Karlović 4–6, 6–4, 7–5, 7–5. Blake was one of nine American men to lose in the first round of Roland Garros. This was the first time in the open era where an American male had not made it into a Grand Slam second round.
In Wimbledon 2007, James reached the third round, matching his best showing there (2006), but was unable to get past former World Number 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero, losing 3–6, 6–3, 6–3, 7–6.
During the summer hardcourt season, he advanced to his second career ATP Masters Series event and won a singles title. At AMS Cincinnati, he beat Alejandro Falla, Nicolas Kiefer, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Sam Querrey and Nikolay Davydenko en route to the final before falling to Roger Federer. He won the singles title at Penn Pilot in New Haven, CT, and started the North American hardcourt season by reaching the finals at Los Angeles, losing to Radek Štěpánek in three sets 7–6, 5–7, 6–2 after having three set points in the first set.
In the second round of the 2007 US Open, he won his first career five-set match against Fabrice Santoro, whom he defeated 6–4, 3–6, 6–2, 4–6, 6–4. Blake made it to the fourth round, where he lost to No. 10 Tommy Haas in five sets 4–6, 6–4, 3–6, 6–0, 7–6, despite having match points in the fifth set.
Blake and the rest of the US Davis Cup team defeated Sweden in September to reach the finals against Russia.
James also participated in Madrid and Basel. In Madrid, he fell to former top ten star Mario Ančić in the second round. In Basel, he fell in the second round to Ivo Karlović. However, Blake teamed with former number one doubles player Mark Knowles of the Bahamas to make the final. In the first round, he and Knowles upset US Open champions Simon Aspelin and Julian Knowle in three sets. In the semifinals, the team bore match points twelve times, and finally defeated Paul Hanley and Kevin Ullyett, the second seeds 7–5, 6–7, [12–10] with thirteen needed match points.[6] Their luck, however, was halted by top seeds and top ranked Bob and Mike Bryan, who are Blake's Davis Cup teammates. Blake and Knowles lost 6–1 6–1. After the match, James quoted: "'Yes, they played as well I have seen them play in a while. It's tough. I have seen them do it to a lot of guys in Davis Cup from the sidelines and know how little fun it is to face them. That's the reason why they are the best doubles team in the world right now. [At the start of the week] I told Mark I had not won a lot of doubles matches this year, so I was glad to have him get me through a couple of wins. I had a great time and a lot of fun. Getting a chance to play with one of the best doubles players, really ever, was exciting for me. I learnt plenty and hopefully we’ll be better next time.'"[7]
Blake lost in the third round of Paris to Richard Gasquet and thus finished outside the top eight players, losing his chance to defend the points he gained as finalist in the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup.
James Blake won his match in the 2007 Davis Cup finals against Mikhail Youzhny 6–3, 7–6, 6–7, 7–6 (and also against Dmitry Tursunov). Andy Roddick won his match versus Tursunov and Bob and Mike Bryan won the doubles rubber over Igor Andreev and Nikolay Davydenko, sealing the Davis Cup win for the United States.[8][9]
2008[link]
James Blake began 2008 hoping to win his third consecutive Medibank International title. However, the defending champion bowed out of the tournament in the first round, losing to French veteran Fabrice Santoro 6–7, 2–6. The third seed (Blake) was said to be "uncharacteristic" in reference to his frustration.
At the Australian Open, Blake defeated his first round opponent, Chilean Nicolás Massú. He then defeated compatriot Michael Russell 6–3, 6–2, 6–2. In the third round, he fought back from two sets down to beat French veteran Sébastien Grosjean 4–6, 2–6, 6–0, 7–6, 6–2 who had beaten him in each of their three previous meetings.
In the fourth round, Blake beat Marin Čilić in three sets to advance to the quarterfinals, his best showing yet down under. In the quarterfinal, James Blake faced world No. 1 Roger Federer, and fell in straight sets 7–5, 7–6, 6–4. Although out of the Australian Open, Blake's ranking jumped back into the Top 10 to No. 9 following his best performance in the tournament yet.
In Davis Cup, the USA played Austria on clay. James defeated Stefan Koubek in four sets 5–7, 7–5, 6–2, 6–2. Despite being down 2–5 in the second set, James turned things around, helped in part by unforced errors by Koubek.
In Delray Beach, James made it to the final for the second consecutive year, but fell to No. 244 Kei Nishikori of Japan in three sets in the final 6–3, 1–6, 4–6. At the 2008 SAP Open, he rebounded from that loss by defeating compatriot Sam Warburg in straight sets in the first round 6–3, 6–1 and Jesse Levine in straight sets in the second round 6–3, 6–4. However, he lost to Robby Ginepri 2–6, 2–6 on the following round.
At the 2008 Pacific Life Open, Blake, the ninth seed, received a "bye" in the first round, before defeating Marc Gicquel 6–3, 6–7, 6–1 in the second round. In the third round, Blake beat former World Number 1 Carlos Moyà 6–3, 6–4.[10][11] He then defeated Frenchman Richard Gasquet in the fourth round in straight sets 6–4, 6–2, before losing to Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals 5–7, 6–3, 3–6.
At the 2008 Miami Masters, Blake reached the quarter-finals, but again lost to Rafael Nadal in three sets 6–3, 3–6, 1–6.
In Davis Cup, Team USA played France. Unfortunately for France, they were missing two of their best players, Richard Gasquet and Jo Wilfried Tsonga due to injuries. So Michaël Llodra and Paul-Henri Mathieu were the players playing singles for France. After Andy Roddick defeated Llodra, James would play Mathieu. James won in a three-hour, 48-minute, five-set match against the Frenchman 7–6, 6–7, 6–3, 3–6, 7–5. He had to save two match points to defeat the number 12 Mathieu.
Blake then started the clay court season at the River Oaks International tournament in Houston, Texas. He defeated Kei Nishikori in the first round 6–4, 6–4, 15-year-old Ryan Harrison in the second round, No. 5 seed Agustín Calleri of Argentina in the quarterfinals, and Óscar Hernández of Spain in the semifinals 6–3, 7–6. In his second ATP final of the year and his first career clay-court final, Blake fell to Spaniard Marcel Granollers Pujol 4–6, 6–1, 5–7.
James received a wild card to play in the clay tournament in Barcelona, Spain. However, he lost in the first round to German Denis Gremelmayr in straight sets.
Looking for a better performance on clay, James played in the Master Series tournament in Rome. He received a bye in the first round. In the second round, he faced Italian hopeful Andreas Seppi. James won in three sets 7–6, 3–6, 6–1. In the third round, he faced Spaniard Fernando Verdasco. He won in three sets 5–7, 7–5, 6–2. His run was ended in the quarterfinals by Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland in three sets 7–6, 6–7, 1–6.
At the French, he made it to the second round before being defeated by Ernests Gulbis in four sets. He fared no better at Wimbledon, losing in the 2nd round to the resurgent semi-finalist Rainer Schüttler in five sets, 3–6, 7–6, 6–4, 4–6, 4–6.
At the Cincinnati Masters, Blake lost to Ernests Gulbis 4–6, 6–1, 3–6 in the third round.
In August 2008, Blake represented the United States as one of its three men's singles tennis players in the Beijing Olympics. In the quarterfinals, he gained one of the biggest wins of his career with his first ever win over Roger Federer 6–4, 7–6. At the time, Federer was ranked as the world's No. 1 men's player.[12] His semifinal match was against Fernando González, the Men's Singles bronze medalist at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Blake had triple match point in the middle of the final set, but would go on to lose 4–6, 7–5, 11–9. He then lost in the bronze medal match to Serbian Novak Djokovic 4–6, 6–7.
In the US Open, Blake was stretched to a 5 set thriller against American teenager Donald Young 6–1, 3–6, 6–1, 4–6, 6–4 in the first round. Blake easily won his second round match after Steve Darcis retired 4–6, 6–3, 1–0. Blake then lost to friend and fellow American Mardy Fish in the third round in straight sets 3–6, 3–6, 6–7.
In the Madrid Masters, Blake had a first round bye and played Gilles Simon losing it 6–3, 1–6, 4–6. Soon after, he played in the Davidoff Swiss Indoors tournament and made it all the way to the quarterfinals before losing to Feliciano López of Spain 4–6, 6–7. In the Paris Masters Blake got to the semis after a walkover by Roger Federer in the quarters and lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France 4–6, 3–6. Because of this loss, Blake was not able to qualify for the year end Masters in Shanghai.
2009[link]
Blake participated in the Hopman Cup, an exhibition tournmanent partnering Meghann Shaughnessy. The team were the top seed, with Blake looking to win his third Hopman Cup. Blake lost to Slovak Dominik Hrbatý but defeated Nicolas Kiefer and Lleyton Hewitt.
Blake defeated Frank Dancevic 6–4, 6–3, 7–5 in the first round of the Australian Open. His success continued in the second round of the Australian Open after deposing of Frenchman Sébastien de Chaunac 6–3, 6–2, 6–3 in a match laden with spectator noise and bad line calls.[13] Blake went on to face the 18th seed, Igor Andreev, in the third round and beat him 6–3, 6–2, 3–6, 6–1. He lost in the fourth round in straight sets to the 2008 runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 6–4, 6–4, 7–6.
In the SAP Open in San Jose, Blake defeated fellow American Vincent Spadea 6–3, 6–4 in a first round match, hitting 12 aces and converted his two break point chances to race to the win in 50 minutes. Blake would go on to defeat Frenchman Florent Serra 6–4, 6–3. Blake prevailed in a 20-point first set tie-break against sixth-seeded compatriot Sam Querrey and then eased through the second set with one break of serve to post the 7–6, 6–3 victory in 67 minutes. He then lost to fellow American Mardy Fish 3–6, 2–6.
In his next tournament, the Regions Morgan Keenan Championships in Memphis, Tennessee, Blake was defeated in the first round by Lleyton Hewitt 6–3, 1–6, 4–6.
In the Davis Cup first round tie against Switzerland in Birmingham, Alabama, he lost the opening match to Stanislas Wawrinka in four sets. But he won the fifth match in straight sets to make the final tie 4–1 to book the U.S's place in the quarterfinals.
Blake started the clay season as top seed at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships and lost to Guillermo Cañas 6–4 6–4 in the first round. He also then lost in Rome Masters in the first round to Romanian qualifier Victor Crivoi 7–5, 6–3.
Blake then played at the 2009 Estoril Open. Blake recorded his first clay-court win of the 2009 ATP World Tour season, earning a confidence-boosting 5–7, 6–4, 6–2 win over Portugal's highest-ever ranked player Frederico Gil. Blake, who improved to 10–8 on the year, next defeated France's Marc Gicquel in the second round 7–6, 6–2 and Florent Serra 6–4, 6–1 in the third. Blake advanced to his first clay-court final on European soil on Sunday, after beating second seed and former Estoril Open champion Nikolay Davydenko 6–7, 7–6, 6–3 in a rain-interrupted semi-final that was carried over due to bad light. Blake won the first and fifth points against serve, courtesy of a Davydenko backhand error and then a forehand volley winner on approach to the net. He quickly opened up a 6–2 lead and won the second set when Davydenko hit a backhand wide. Davydenko managed to save one break point at 15–40 in the fourth game of the third set, with a couple of clever forehands that left Blake stretching outside the tramlines, but the 2003 titlist and 2006 and 2008 runner-up was unable to win the second break point as Blake secured a 3–1 lead. Davydenko almost broke back in the next game, but Blake produced his A-game hitting a cross-court forehand winner on approach to the net that left Davydenko flailing. At 1–4, the World No. 11 found himself 0–40 down but won five straight points – closing out with successive forehand winners. Blake made it 5–2 with successive aces and, minutes later, booked a spot in his 23rd ATP World Tour final (10–12 record) with a service hold to 30. Blake extended his winning streak to 7–0 over Davydenko, in the pair's first clay-court meeting that last two hours and 26 minutes. Blake was defeated by Spain's Albert Montañés later that day in the finals. The 28-year-old Montanes saved two match points at 4–5 in the second set and fought back to beat fourth-seeded Blake 5–7, 7–6, 6–0 in two hours and 14 minutes. Blake fought off one break point for a 5–4 lead, before setting up two championship points on the Montanes serve at 15–40. Blake squandered the first point with a backhand return long of the baseline and the second point went begging when he committed a backhand error. Blake dropped to 12–9 on the 2009 ATP World Tour season. Blake was attempting to become the first American to win a clay-court title since Mardy Fish at Houston in April 2006 and the first American to win on European clay since his Davis Cup team mate Andy Roddick lifted the St. Poelten trophy in May 2003.
At the 2009 French Open, Blake lost in the first round to qualifier Leonardo Mayer 7–6 7–5 6–2.
At the AEGON Championships at Queen's club, Blake defeated Ivan Ljubičić 6–2, 7–6 Sam Querrey 6–4, 4–6, 6–3 and Mikhail Youzhny 7–6, 6–3 to reach the semi-finals. He then reached the final after Andy Roddick retired with an ankle injury in the first set when the score was tied at 4 games all. He then went on to lose in the final to Andy Murray 7–5, 6–4.
At the Wimbledon Championships, Blake, seeded 17th, lost in the first round to Andreas Seppi in straight sets 7–5 6–4 7–6. He was the first seeded player to be knocked out of the tournament.[14] In his post-match press conference, Blake stated that he was battling a stomach virus, having to take painkillers before going on court. He also heavily criticized the ATP Tour, blaming their poor scheduling for his loss of focus, as well as the withdrawal of world number 1 Rafael Nadal.[15]
Blake partnered with compatriot Mardy Fish at the Wimbledon Men's Doubles. In the first round they defeated third seeds Lukáš Dlouhý and Leander Paes and then Marc Gicquel and Arnaud Clément in straight sets. They defeated advanced to the semi-finals after defeating Simon Aspelin and Paul Hanley. They lost to defending champions Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić in the semi-finals although they won the first two sets.
Following a 3rd Round loss at the 2009 US Open to Spain's Tommy Robredo, Blake split with longtime coach Brian Barker. He is now coached by Kelly Jones.
2010[link]
Blake started his 2010 campaign at the Brisbane International in Australia. Blake came back from a set down to top fifth seeded American Sam Querrey 4–6, 6–3, 6–4. He then defeated Frenchman Marc Gicquel 6–3, 3–6, 7–6, surviving three match points in the deciding set tiebreak to make the quarter-finals. There Blake lost to Gaël Monfils 6–3, 3–6, 4–6. Blake was also entered in the men's double draw with Andy Roddick. The duo defeated fourth seeds Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares on the way to the semifinals before losing a heartbreaker to eventual champions Jérémy Chardy and Marc Gicquel 4–6, 6–3, 11–13.
At the 2010 Australian Open Blake defeated French veteran Arnaud Clément 7–5, 7–5, 6–2 in the first round. He then faced fourth seed and US Open champion Juan Martín del Potro in the second round, losing a classic in five grueling sets 4–6, 7–6, 7–5, 3–6, 8–10.
Blake then lost in the opening round at the 2010 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament against a former Australian Open finalist Marcos Baghdatis 4–6, 2–6.
In the first round of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships in Memphis, Blake fell to top-seeded American counterpart Andy Roddick 3–6, 6–4, 6–7.
At the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, No. 7 seed Blake won consecutive matches for the second time in 2010, topping fellow American Taylor Dent 6–1, 3–6, 6–3 and the Dutchman Robin Haase 6–3, 6–1. Blake was eliminated in the quarterfinals by 2nd seed Ivo Karlović 3–6, 7–6, 1–6.
Blake returned to action for the third consecutive tournament on American soil at the first Masters event of the year, 2010 BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, California. An unseeded Blake advanced to the round of 64 with a quick win over Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6–3, 6–2. He then advanced to the Round of 32 with his most impressive win of the season to that point, a 6–1, 6–4 destruction of 13th seed David Ferrer. In the Round of 32, Blake lost a disappointing match to Spain's Nicolás Almagro 4–6, 6–3, 3–6. The loss dropped Blake's three set record to 3–4 on the year.
Blake also played in the doubles draw, teaming with Andy Roddick to reach the Round of 16 where the American duo fell to top-seeded Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić 4–6, 6–3, 7–10.
At the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Blake defeated Serbian wildcard Filip Krajinović in three sets 6–7, 6–4, 6–4 to advance to the Round of 64. In the second round, he lost to 27th seed Thomaz Bellucci 6–3, 1–6, 2–6.
In July 2010, Blake played for the Boston Lobsters of the World TeamTennis pro league.
On April 14, Blake announced that he would be taking the clay court season off with a serious knee injury. As a result of this injury Blake missed the French Open for the first time since 2004.[16]
Blake returned to action at Wimbledon where he lost to Dutchman Robin Haase 2–6, 4–6, 4–6. The result was surprising considering that Haase lost badly to Blake earlier in the season at Delray Beach. During this match, Blake harshly accused ESPN commentator and former WTA player Pam Shriver of disrupting play due to her overly loud commentary from the box situated above the court behind him. This led to a verbal exchange between the two during the match. After the match, an emotional Blake declared that if his knee problems did not subside he may consider retirement.[17] Blake, who refuses to take any anti-inflammatories for his knee, called his performance "embarrassing" and said "I can't beat these guys at 80 percent."
Despite these comments, Blake chose to continue his rehab to prepare for the U.S. hardcourt season. He opened an official Facebook page where he can communicate better with fans in an announcement made on his website. In the first round of the Atlanta Tennis Championships, an inaugural event previously played in Indianapolis, Blake lost a tough three-set match to Taylor Dent 3–6, 6–3, 4–6. Despite winning 49% of points, Blake could not break Dent in crucial moments. The big-serving Dent saved 12/14 break points in the match. The loss was the seventh that Blake endured in the deciding set in 2010. However, Blake fared much better in the doubles draw, pairing with American up-and-comer John Isner. The duo completed a strong comeback from 6–3, 4–2 down to top fellow Americans Robby Ginepri and Ryan Sweeting 3–6, 6–4, 10–3. In the quarterfinals, Blake and Isner easily dispatched Germans Michael Kohlmann and Rainer Schüttler 6–4, 6–1 before falling in two tiebreaks to Rajeev Ram and Scott Lipsky in the semis.
At the Los Angeles Open, Blake's singles fate took a turn for the better. Prior to the tournament, Blake told the LA Times that retirement was "no longer a thought" and that he was "not done yet".[18] In the opening round, Blake easily dispatched Leonardo Mayer in a rematch from the 2009 French Open first round 6–1, 6–4 before topping Benjamin Becker 7–5, 7–6. In the quarterfinals, Blake got off to a hot start, winning the first set over Spaniard Feliciano López 6–3. However, after dropping the second set in a close tiebreaker 6–7, Blake fell in the third 4–6. Blake also entered the doubles draw of this tournament with American Sam Querrey but the duo fell quickly in the first round 3–6, 3–6 to Lopez and Janko Tipsarević.
Following Los Angeles, Blake appeared at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington, D.C.. He came into the tournament as a former finalist and champion at this event. His first opponent was the United States' Ryan Sweeting. Despite winning the first set, poor serving hurt Blake in a 3–6, 6–3, 6–4 setback. After the match, Sweeting called the win "the best of (his) career".
The next tournament James Blake faced, was in New Haven, his hometown tournament – the tournament where he claimed an ATP World Tour title when the tournament ran for the first time in 2005, defeating Feliciano López and followed this up by winning the title for a second time in 2007, where he defeated countryman Mardy Fish in the final. Despite an unfortunate draw and a few uninspiring losses in the last few weeks, Blake made and impressive display and ousted World No.76 Pere Riba 6–0, 6–1 in the first round, converting five of eleven break point opportunities. Blake won the lightning quick match in a minuscule 35 minutes, making it the shortest match win of 2010, beating the previous record held by Olivier Rochus who beat Abdulla Hajji in 38 minutes in Doha. This match was also one of the quickest matches in tennis history. In the second round match between Blake and seventh-seed up-and-comer Alexander Dolgopolov Jr., despite playing some great shots, Blake lost 6–4 6–2 in a rain-interrupted match.
At the 2010 US Open, Blake advanced to the third round losing to eventual finalist Novak Djokovic 6–1, 7–6, 6–3. This defeat dropped his singles record to 13–15.
2011[link]
Blake began his 2011 comeback tour ranked out of the Top 150 for the first time since 2005. He ended his partnership with coach Kelly Jones, choosing to travel alone.[19] In a preseason interview, Blake stated he was healthy and carrying a positive attitude and would skip the Australian Open.[19]
In his first match of the year, on February 8 at the SAP Open in San Jose, Blake defeated American qualifier Jesse Levine 7–5, 6–1 after Levine succumbed to an injury late in the second set. The American ran into red-hot Canadian youngster Milos Raonic in the second round and fell 6–2, 7–6 after battling back from a late break down in the second set to force a tiebreaker. Raonic would go on to win the tournament, his first as a pro.
Blake accepted a wild card into the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and promptly defeated Brazilian clay-court specialist Ricardo Mello 6–4, 6–3. In the round of 16, Blake was defeated by former doubles partner and close friend Robert Kendrick 7–6, 6–3.
He returned to action at Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, drawing No. 7 Benjamin Becker in the first round. Blake broke Becker late in the first set and battled back from a 3–1 hole in the second set to win 7–5, 6–4. In the second round he lost to Kei Nishikori of Japan 6–3, 6–4 in a rematch of the 2008 final.
In the 2011 US Open, Blake hit a forehand winner on match point against Jesse Huta Galung in the first round that was clocked at 125mph, thus making it the fastest forehand ever hit, eclipsing Gael Monfils's earlier record of 122mph against Marcos Baghdatis. Blake won the match 6–4, 6–2, 4–6, 6–4. In the second round he lost to David Ferrer of Spain 6–4, 6–3, 6–4.
2012[link]
Blake will be playing for the Philadelphia Freedoms of World Team Tennis this summer. It will be Blake's seventh overall WTT season, and first with the Freedoms. He will be the team's marquee player on July 10, 2012 when they face the Sacramento Capitals.
Equipment[link]
Blake worked with Prince to create a new racquet with Prince's O3 technology. However, he did not feel comfortable with this racquet. So, he switched back to the Dunlop Sport Aerogel 200, then the 4D 200, for the 2009 season.[20] He changed to Wilson at the start of the 2010 season, using the new Six.One Tour strung with Luxilon Big Banger Alu Power 16L strings at high tension (60+ pounds). He did not feel comfortable with this racquet either. Therefore, he switched back to Dunlop again. After the US Open of 2010, he began to test out rackets for Head. As August 26, 2011, he announced he will use Donnay rackets as his choice and using a customized Donnay X-Dual Pro. His clothing sponsor is Fila, with whom he started working in 2009 after using Nike for most his career. He has his own clothing line named Thomas Reynolds after his father.
Personal life[link]
Blake enjoys golf and basketball and is a fan of the New York Mets. He was featured on Bravo's second edition of Celebrity Poker Showdown but got 2nd after losing to Maura Tierney.[21]
Blake is also a red pro on Full Tilt poker.[citation needed] He appeared in People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue.[22] He is good friends with singer/songwriter John Mayer, who also attended Fairfield High School.[23] When Blake was invited by Virginia's Anthem Insurance to do a cancer charity game honoring his late father, he invited John Mayer, Andy Roddick and Gavin DeGraw to perform.[24]
Major Finals[link]
Tennis Masters Cup[link]
Singles: 1 (0–1)[link]
| Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runner-up | 2006 |  Shanghai |
Hard (i) |  Roger Federer |
6–0, 6–3, 6–4 |
Masters Series[link]
Singles: 2 (0–2)[link]
| Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runner-up | 2006 | Indian Wells |
Hard | Roger Federer |
7–5, 6–3, 6–0 |
| Runner-up | 2007 | Cincinnati |
Hard | Roger Federer |
6–1, 6–4 |
ATP Career Finals[link]
Singles: 24 (10–14)[link]
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| Outcome | No. | Date | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runner-up | 1. | February 25, 2002 | Memphis, United States |
Hard (i) | Andy Roddick |
4–6, 6–3, 5–7 |
| Runner-up | 2. | July 15, 2002 | Newport, United States |
Grass | Taylor Dent |
1–6, 6–4, 4–6 |
| Winner | 1. | August 12, 2002 | Washington, D.C., United States |
Hard |  Paradorn Srichaphan |
1–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 3. | August 25, 2003 | Long Island, United States |
Hard | Paradorn Srichaphan |
2–6, 4–6 |
| Runner-up | 4. | August 8, 2005 | Washington, D.C., United States |
Hard | Andy Roddick |
5–7, 3–6 |
| Winner | 2. | August 22, 2005 | New Haven, United States |
Hard |  Feliciano López |
3–6, 7–5, 6–1 |
| Winner | 3. | October 10, 2005 |  Stockholm, Sweden |
Hard (i) | Paradorn Srichaphan |
6–1, 7–6(8–6) |
| Winner | 4. | January 9, 2006 |  Sydney, Australia |
Hard |  Igor Andreev |
6–2, 3–6, 7–6(7–3) |
| Winner | 5. | February 27, 2006 | Las Vegas, United States |
Hard | Lleyton Hewitt |
7–5, 2–6, 6–3 |
| Runner-up | 5. | March 20, 2006 | Indian Wells, United States |
Hard | Roger Federer |
5–7, 3–6, 0–6 |
| Runner-up | 6. | June 19, 2006 |  London, United Kingdom |
Grass | Lleyton Hewitt |
4–6, 4–6 |
| Winner | 6. | July 17, 2006 | Indianapolis, United States |
Hard | Andy Roddick |
4–6, 6–4, 7–6(7–5) |
| Winner | 7. | September 25, 2006 | Bangkok, Thailand |
Hard (i) |  Ivan Ljubičić |
6–3, 6–1 |
| Winner | 8. | October 15, 2006 | Stockholm, Sweden |
Hard (i) |  Jarkko Nieminen |
6–4, 6–2 |
| Runner-up | 7. | November 20, 2006 | Shanghai, China |
Hard (i) | Roger Federer |
0–6, 3–6, 4–6 |
| Winner | 9. | January 13, 2007 | Sydney, Australia |
Hard | Carlos Moyà |
6–3, 5–7, 6–1 |
| Runner-up | 8. | February 4, 2007 | Delray Beach, United States |
Hard |  Xavier Malisse |
7–5, 4–6, 4–6 |
| Runner-up | 9. | July 22, 2007 | Los Angeles, United States |
Hard |  Radek Štěpánek |
6–7(7–9), 7–5, 2–6 |
| Runner-up | 10. | August 19, 2007 | Cincinnati, United States |
Hard | Roger Federer |
1–6, 4–6 |
| Winner | 10. | August 25, 2007 | New Haven, United States |
Hard | Mardy Fish |
7–5, 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 11. | February 17, 2008 | Delray Beach, United States |
Hard |  Kei Nishikori |
6–3, 1–6, 4–6 |
| Runner-up | 12. | April 20, 2008 | Houston, United States |
Clay | Marcel Granollers |
4–6, 6–1, 5–7 |
| Runner-up | 13. | May 10, 2009 |  Estoril, Portugal |
Clay | Albert Montañés |
7–5, 6–7(6–8), 0–6 |
| Runner-up | 14. | June 14, 2009 | London, United Kingdom |
Grass | Andy Murray |
5–7, 4–6 |
Doubles: 8 (6–2)[link]
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| Outcome | No. | Date | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents in the final | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1. | August 5, 2002 | Cincinnati, United States |
Hard | Todd Martin |
 Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi |
7–5, 6–3 |
| Winner | 2. | March 10, 2003 | Scottsdale, United States |
Hard |  Mark Merklein |
Mark Philippoussis Lleyton Hewitt |
6–4, 6–7(2–7), 7–6(7–5) |
| Winner | 3. | February 16, 2004 | San Jose, United States |
Hard (i) | Mardy Fish |
Rick Leach Brian MacPhie |
6–2, 7–5 |
| Winner | 4. | April 19, 2004 | Houston, United States |
Clay | Mardy Fish |
Rick Leach Brian MacPhie |
6–3, 6–4 |
| Winner | 5. | April 26, 2004 |  Munich, Germany |
Clay | Mark Merklein |
 Julian Knowle Nenad Zimonjić |
6–2, 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 1. | February 27, 2006 | Memphis, United States |
Hard (i) | Mardy Fish |
 Chris Haggard Ivo Karlović |
6–0, 5–7, [5–10] |
| Runner-up | 2. | October 28, 2007 | Basel, Switzerland |
Carpet | Mark Knowles |
Bob Bryan Mike Bryan |
1–6, 1–6 |
| Winner | 6. | April 15, 2012 | Houston, United States |
Clay | Sam Querrey |
 Treat Conrad Huey Dominic Inglot |
7–6(16–14), 6–4 |
Singles Performance Timeline[link]
This table is current through 2012 Sony Ericsson Open.
| Tournament | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | W–L | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Slam Tournaments | |||||||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | Q2 | Q3 | 2R | 4R | 4R | 2R | 3R | 4R | QF | 4R | 2R | A | A | 21–9 | |||
| French Open | A | A | A | Q2 | 2R | 2R | A | 2R | 3R | 1R | 2R | 1R | A | A | 1R | 6–8 | |||
| Wimbledon | A | A | Q1 | Q1 | 2R | 2R | A | 1R | 3R | 3R | 2R | 1R | 1R | 1R | 7–9 | ||||
| US Open | Q3 | 1R | Q2 | 2R | 3R | 3R | A | QF | QF | 4R | 3R | 3R | 3R | 2R | 23–11 | ||||
| Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 5–4 | 7–4 | 3–1 | 6–4 | 10–4 | 8–4 | 8–4 | 5–4 | 3–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 57–37 | |||
| ATP World Tour Finals | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tour Finals | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | F | A | A | A | A | A | 3–2 | ||||
| ATP Masters Series | |||||||||||||||||||
| Indian Wells Masters | A | A | 1R | Q1 | 1R | QF | QF | 3R | F | 3R | QF | 3R | 3R | 2R | A | 22–11 | |||
| Miami Masters | A | A | Q1 | Q2 | 4R | 3R | 1R | 2R | QF | 2R | QF | 3R | 2R | 3R | 1R | 15–11 | |||
| Monte Carlo Masters | A | A | A | A | 1R | 2R | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1–2 | |||
| Rome Masters | A | A | A | A | QF | 1R | 1R | A | 1R | 2R | QF | 1R | A | A | A | 6–7 | |||
| Madrid Masters | A | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | A | A | 2R | 2R | 2R | 3R | A | A | A | 2–6 | |||
| Canada Masters | A | A | A | A | 2R | 2R | A | A | 2R | 2R | QF | A | A | A | 6–4 | ||||
| Cincinnati Masters | A | A | A | 3R | 2R | 3R | A | 1R | 2R | F | 3R | 1R | 1R | 3R | 14–10 | ||||
| Shanghai Masters | Not Masters Series | 2R | A | A | 1–1 | ||||||||||||||
| Paris Masters | A | A | A | A | 2R | 2R | A | 2R | 3R | 3R | SF | 2R | A | A | 8–7 | ||||
| Hamburg Masters | A | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | A | A | 3R | 3R | 2R | Not Masters Series | 3–5 | ||||||
| Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 9–9 | 9–9 | 4–3 | 4–4 | 13–8 | 10–7 | 12–8 | 6–7 | 3–3 | 5–3 | 0–1 | 78–64 | |||
| Career Statistics | |||||||||||||||||||
| Titles–Finals | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 5–8 | 2–5 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 10–24 | |||
| Year End Ranking | 682 | 220 | 212 | 73 | 28 | 37 | 97 | 23 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 44 | 135 | 59 | |||||
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- ^ "Blake's parents prevented race from jading him". USA Today. September 8, 2005. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/oconnor/2005-09-08-oconnor_x.htm. Retrieved 11/06/09.
- ^ "wimbledon 2006 06 30". SportsIllustrated.cnn.com. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/tennis/specials/wimbledon/2006/06/30/bc.ten.wimbledon.1.ap/index.html. [dead link]
- ^ "Round Robin 1". http://www.atptennis.com/en/news/2007/round_robin1.asp.
- ^ "Round Robin". http://www.atptennis.com/en/news/2007/roundrobin.asp.
- ^ ATP (October 27, 2007). "Blake/Knowles Win Basel SF on 13th Match Point". ATP. http://www.atptennis.com/3/en/players/doubles/news/basel6.asp. Retrieved October 28, 2007. [dead link]
- ^ ATP (October 28, 2007). "Bryan Brothers Capture 10th Title of Stellar Season". ATP. http://www.atptennis.com/1/en/doubles/. Retrieved October 28, 2007.
- ^ Association of Tennis Professionals (November 30, 2007). "Roddick, Blake Place USA in Reach of Davis Cup Title". Association of Tennis Professionals. Archived from the original on December 6, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071206095400/http://www.atptennis.com/1/en/2007news/dc_final1.asp. Retrieved December 1, 2007.
- ^ International Tennis Federation (December 2, 2007). "Davis Cup – World Group 2007 Final Results". International Tennis Federation. http://www.daviscup.com/en/results/tie/details.aspx?tieId=100008940. Retrieved December 5, 2007.
- ^ Pacific Life Open (2008). "Djokovic, Canas to Face Off in Fourth Round Blockbuster". Pacific Life Open. Archived from the original on March 21, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080321175541/http://www.pacificlifeopen.com/1/news/newsarticle_761.asp. Retrieved March 19, 2008.
- ^ Pacific Life Open (2008). "Blake Bounces Moya; Nadal, Tsonga to Clash". Pacific Life Open. Archived from the original on March 22, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080322005745/http://www.pacificlifeopen.com/1/news/newsarticle_754.asp. Retrieved March 19, 2008.
- ^ "Blake eliminates Federer from Olympic Tennis". http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/headlines/tennis/n214542934.shtml.
- ^ "Blake into third round after noisy encounter". Reuters. January 22, 2009. http://in.reuters.com/article/worldOfSport/idINIndia-37598420090122.
- ^ Cheese, Caroline (June 22, 2009). "Wimbledon day one as it happened". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/8096805.stm. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/news/match_reports/2009-06-22/200906221245681314687.html
- ^ http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis/2010/04/Other/James-Blake-Knee-Injury.aspx
- ^ http://www.protennisfan.com/2010/06/james-blake-contemplating-retirement.html
- ^ Pucin, Diane (July 25, 2010). "Tennis pro James Blake is itching to pull rank — upward". The Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-james-blake-20100726,0,4562048.story.
- ^ a b http://jamesblaketennis.com/2010_Site/Pages/Winter_2011_Interview.html
- ^ "Newspage". Tennis-warehouse.com. http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/newspage.html?cref=2311.
- ^ "Celebrity Poker Showdown Tournament 2". BravoTV(www.bravotv.com). http://www.bravotv.com/Celebrity_Poker_Showdown/Players/2/index.shtml. Retrieved September 3, 2007.
- ^ "James Blake Profile". US Olympic Committee (www.usoc.org). Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070930204424/http://www.usoc.org/26_48961.htm. Retrieved August 21, 2007.
- ^ Patrick, Dan (2003). "Outtakes with James Blake". ESPN. http://espn.go.com/talent/danpatrick/s/2003/0609/1565617.html. Retrieved May 2, 2006.
- ^ Pratt, Jane (2005). "Tennis Great James Blake, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and the Virginia Historical Society Announce an Acquisition of Arthur Ashe's Personal Items". Anthem.com. http://www.anthem.com/jsp/antiphona/bcbs/content.jsp?ID=PW_A076580. Retrieved May 2, 2006.
Further reading[link]
- Blake, James; Friedman, Andrew L. (2007). Breaking back : How I lost everything and won back my life. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-134349-8
External links[link]
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- James Blake at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- James Blake at the International Tennis Federation
- James Blake at the Davis Cup
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| Name | Blake, James |
| Alternative names | Blake, James |
| Short description | Tennis player |
| Date of birth | 1979-12-28 |
| Place of birth | Yonkers, New York |
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