Kyle Martino (born February 19, 1981 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a retired American soccer player and currently a TV soccer color analyst.

Career[link]

High School[link]

Martino attended Staples High School in Westport, CT. In 1998 Martino was named Gatorade National Player of the year after his senior season at Staples.

College[link]

Martino played college soccer at the University of Virginia from 1999 to 2001, registering 17 goals and 21 assists in his three years. In his junior season, Martino was named ACC Player of the Year; in both his sophomore and junior seasons, he was one of 15 finalists for the Hermann Trophy.

Professional[link]

Kyle left UVA after his junior season, signing a Project-40 contract with MLS and entering the 2002 MLS Superdraft, where the Columbus Crew selected him eighth overall. Martino tallied 2 goals and 5 assists in 22 appearances and won the MLS Rookie of the Year Award, while running the Crew offense for much of the season. His following season was something of a disappointment, as Martino failed to develop into the dominant offensive force that many had expected, although he maintained a spot in the Crew's starting lineup. His third season began like the second with Martino failing to stimulate the offense, but a move up to withdrawn forward saw a resurgence of his offensive abilities, and through the 2004 season Kyle led the Crew to the longest unbeaten streaks in MLS history. Martino had a down year in 2005, not scoring a goal. In early 2006, Martino was dealt to the LA Galaxy in a four-player deal. He and John Wolyniec were traded for Joseph Ngwenya and Ned Grabavoy. Ironically, during the first 2006 match between the Crew and the Galaxy, before the trade, it was Martino who in the last few seconds scored the game's only goal, delivering a crushing defeat to his soon-to-be teammates.

In November 2006 Martino had a trial at Dutch Eredivisie side NEC Nijmegen, but apparently did not earn a contract, despite initial indications that he would be signed in January 2007. Martino also had a trial at Leeds United.[1]

Martino retired from professional soccer on February 19, 2008 due to injury. Martino was advised by doctors that injuries he sustained throughout his career were severe enough that it would be in his best interest to hang up the cleats.

On Monday, March 3, 2008 Los Angeles waived Martino to meet MLS roster and salary budget rules.

International[link]

Martino played for the United States at the 2001 World Youth Championship in Argentina. He saw little playing time for the senior national team, getting his first cap on November 17, 2002 against El Salvador. He scored his only international goal against Panama on October 12, 2005 in a 2-0 World Cup qualifier USA victory.

Post-Soccer Career[link]

Martino is the color commentator for Major League Soccer telecasts for NBC Sports. Martino previously served as a color commentator for MLS on the ESPN family of networks in addition to providing commentary for Philadelphia Union matches during their inaugural 2010 season. He married Eva Amurri on October 29th, 2011^[1].

Career statistics[link]

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Honors[link]

Individual[link]

• MLS Rookie of the Year: 2002

References[link]

- dead links

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Eva Amurri
Amurri at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, September 9, 2008
Born	Eva Maria Livia Amurri (1985-03-15) March 15, 1985 (age 27) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1992–present
Spouse	Kyle Martino (m. 2011–present)
Parents	Franco Amurri and Susan Sarandon

Eva Amurri Martino (born Eva Maria Livia Amurri; March 15, 1985) is an American actress.

Early life[link]

Amurri was born in New York City, New York, to Italian director Franco Amurri and American actress Susan Sarandon. Her grandfather was television writer Antonio Amurri, and her aunt is television writer Valentina Amurri. She attended Friends Seminary (Manhattan) for middle school, and graduated from Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, NY and Brown University in 2007, majoring in Italian studies.

Career[link]

Amurri had a role in the 2002 film The Banger Sisters, in which her mother starred. She guest-starred, along with her mother, on an episode of Friends in Season 7 ("The One with Joey's New Brain") in which she is slapped by Sarandon. In 2004, she appeared in Saved! (also starring Mandy Moore and Macaulay Culkin).

She guest-hosted Attack of the Show with Kevin Pereira.

She had a role in the third season of the Showtime series Californication, where she played Jackie, a stripper, student and love interest of central character Hank Moody.

Amurri played the leading role in the 2008 film Middle of Nowhere.

In 2009, she appeared as Shelly in the episode "The Playbook" of How I Met Your Mother. Amurri stars in the thriller film Isolation, directed by Stephen T. Kay.^[1]

In 2010, she appeared in Fox's show House M.D. as Nicole in the episode "The Choice."

Personal life[link]

Amurri married former Major League Soccer player and current Fox Soccer broadcaster Kyle Martino on October 29, 2011.^[2][3]

Filmography[link]

• Bob Roberts (1992) as Child in hospital
• Stepmom (film) (1998) as Amelia Earhart in School Play
• Anywhere but Here (1999) as Girl on T.V.
• Friends (2001) guest starred along with her mother Susan Sarandon
• The Banger Sisters (2002) as Ginger Kingsley
• Saved! (2004) as Cassandra Edelstein
• Made-Up (2004) as Sara Tivey
• The Life Before Her Eyes (2007) as Maureen
• Middle of Nowhere (2008) as Grace Berry
• New York, I Love You (2008) as Sarah
• The Education of Charlie Banks (2009) as Mary
• Californication (2009) as Jackie
• How I Met Your Mother (2009) as Shelly
• Mercy (2009) as Sharra Kelly
• House (2010) as Nicole
• Children's Hospital as Nurse in Dr. Maestro's time-traveling dream
• Isolation (2011) as Amy Moore
• Stag (2011) as Veronica
• Animals (2008) as Jane
• New Girl (2011) as Beth
• That's My Boy (2012) as Mary McGarricle

References[link]

External links[link]

• Eva Amurri at the Internet Movie Database
• Eva Amurri at AllRovi

Nat Borchers

Personal information
Full name	Nat Borchers
Date of birth	(1981-04-13) April 13, 1981 (age 31)
Place of birth	Tucson, Arizona, United States
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Real Salt Lake
Number	6
Youth career
1999–2002	Denver Pioneers
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2002	Boulder Rapids Reserve
2003–2006	Colorado Rapids	87	(3)
2006–2008	Odd Grenland	30	(1)
2008–	Real Salt Lake	124	(7)
National team‡
2005–	United States	3	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 3, 2012. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of November 17, 2010

Nat Borchers (born April 13, 1981, in Tucson, Arizona) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer.

Career[link]

Youth and College[link]

Borchers attended East High School in Pueblo, Colorado where he played on the boy's soccer team. In his four years at East High School, he was selected all-league three times and All-State once. He was chosen as the League MVP his senior year. He also played for the youth club, Colorado Storm (Club Colorado Select). In addition to playing soccer, Borchers ran track and played basketball.

Borchers played four years of college soccer for the University of Denver from 1999 to 2002, and also excelled for the Colorado Rapids' PDL affiliate, the Boulder Rapids Reserve. He was selected all-league three times and was the MVP of the league in his senior year at DU. Despite this, Borchers went undrafted in the 2003 MLS SuperDraft. Borchers earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting while in school.

Professional[link]

Borchers was signed to the Rapids' developmental roster March 18, 2003, however, and soon proved to be far better than most had suspected. By the middle of the 2003 season, Borchers had secured a starting spot in Colorado's central defense. Throughout the 2005 season, Borchers continued to anchor the Rapids defense.

In 2006, Borchers was transferred to Norwegian club Odd Grenland. In February 2008, Borchers signed with MLS side Real Salt Lake on a transfer, after being released by Odd Grenland.^[1] His success with RSL in his first three seasons with the club led to a long-term deal announced on February 14, 2011 that will keep Borchers in Salt Lake through the 2014 season.^[2]

International[link]

Borchers' surprising 2003 season led to him being called up for the Under-23 team's Olympic Qualifiers, in which the team was eliminated. He earned his first cap for the senior national team on March 9, 2005, against Colombia. Nat most recently played for the senior team on November 17, 2010, against South Africa, entering in the 67th minute.

Honors[link]

Real Salt Lake[link]

• Major League Soccer MLS Cup (1): 2009
• Major League Soccer Eastern Conference Championship (1): 2009

See also[link]

• List of current MLS players

References[link]

External links[link]

• MLS player profile
• Odd Grenland profile (Norwegian)

Susan Sarandon
Sarandon at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	Susan Abigail Tomalin (1946-10-04) October 4, 1946 (age 65) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1969–present
Spouse	Chris Sarandon (1967–1979)
Partner	Tim Robbins (1988–2009)
Children	3

Susan Sarandon (born Susan Abigail Tomalin;^[1] October 4, 1946) is an American actress. She has worked in movies and television since 1969, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her work. She is also noted for her social and political activism for a variety of liberal causes.

Early life[link]

Sarandon was born Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York City to a Roman Catholic family.^[2] She is the eldest of nine children of Lenora Marie (née Criscione) and Phillip Leslie Tomalin, who worked as an advertising executive, television producer, and nightclub singer during the big band era.^[2][3][4] Her father was of English, Irish, and Welsh ancestry, his English ancestors being from Hackney in London. On her mother's side, she is of Italian descent, with ancestors from the regions of Tuscany and Sicily.^[2][5][6] Sarandon attended Roman Catholic schools.^{[citation needed]} She grew up in Edison, New Jersey,^[7][8] where she graduated from Edison High School in 1964.^[9][10] She then attended The Catholic University of America, from 1964 to 1968,^[11] where she began dating actor Chris Sarandon whom she married in 1967.

Career[link]

In 1969, Sarandon went to a casting call for the motion picture Joe, with her then-husband Chris Sarandon. Although he did not get a part, she was cast in a major role of a disaffected teen who disappears into the seedy underworld.^{[clarification needed]} (The film was released in 1970). Between the years 1970 and 1972, Sarandon played Patrice Kahlman on the short-lived soap opera A World Apart, and on Search for Tomorrow, in the role of Sarah Fairbanks. She appeared in Fleur bleue (The Apprentice) (1971) and also appeared in Lady Liberty (1971), by Mario Monicelli, opposite Sophia Loren.

In 1974, Sarandon co-starred in The Front Page with the comedy duo Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and Lovin' Molly with Anthony Perkins. She appeared in the cult favorite musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). That same year, she starred in The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford. In 1978, Sarandon played the mother of a child prostitute, who was played by Brooke Shields, in Pretty Baby.

Susan Sarandon's hand and foot prints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Sarandon played one of the leads in the 1987 dark comedy/fantasy film The Witches of Eastwick, opposite Jack Nicholson. Sarandon starred in the 1988 film Bull Durham, which became a huge commercial and critical success. In 1989, she co-starred with Marlon Brando in A Dry White Season. In 1990 she starred in the film White Palace with James Spader.

Sarandon has received five Academy Award nominations, for best actress, in Atlantic City (1980), Thelma & Louise (1991), Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and The Client (1994). In 1995, she won the award for her performance in Dead Man Walking.^{[citation needed]}.

In 1994, Sarandon was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award.^[12]

Additional performances in film include Little Women (1994, Compromising Positions, Stepmom (1998), Anywhere but Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999), The Banger Sisters (2002), Shall We Dance (2004), Alfie (2004), Romance & Cigarettes (2005), Elizabethtown (2005) and Enchanted (2007).

Sarandon has appeared in two episodes of The Simpsons, once as herself ("Bart Has Two Mommies") and another as a ballet teacher, "Homer vs. Patty and Selma". She has made appearances on comedies such as Friends, Malcolm in the Middle, Mad TV, Saturday Night Live, Chappelle's Show, 30 Rock, and Rescue Me.^{[citation needed]}

Sarandon has contributed the narration to some two dozen documentary films, many of which dealt with social and political issues;^{[citation needed]} in addition, she has served as the presenter on many installments of the PBS documentary series, Independent Lens. In 1999-2000, she hosted and presented Mythos, a series of lectures by the late American mythology professor Joseph Campbell.^[13] Sarandon also participates as a member of the Jury for the NYICFF, a local New York City Film Festival that is dedicated to screening films made for children between the ages of 3 and 18.^[14]

Sarandon joined the cast of the adaptation of The Lovely Bones, opposite Rachel Weisz, and appeared with her daughter, Eva Amurri, in Middle of Nowhere; both of the films were filmed in 2007.^[15][16]

In June 2010, Sarandon joined the cast of the new HBO pilot episode The Miraculous Year. She will play^[when?] the role of Patty Atwood, a Broadway director/choreographer.^[17]

In 2012, Sarandon's audiobook performance of Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding was released at Audible.com.^[18]

Personal life[link]

In 1964, Sarandon began dating actor Chris Sarandon while both were in college, and the couple married on September 16, 1967.^[19] Following their separation in 1978, Sarandon gave an interview to Cosmopolitan magazine, in which she stated "I no longer believe in marriage."^[20] They divorced in 1979 and she retained Sarandon as her stage name.^[21]

In the late 1970s, Sarandon had a two-year relationship with director Louis Malle, who directed her in Pretty Baby and Atlantic City.^[19]

In the mid-1980s, Sarandon dated Italian filmmaker Franco Amurri, with whom she had a daughter on March 15, 1985, actress Eva Amurri.^[21]

From 1988 to 2009, Sarandon was in a relationship with actor Tim Robbins, whom she met while they were filming Bull Durham. They have two sons — Jack Henry (born 1989) and Miles Guthrie (born 1992).^[21][22]

In 2006, Sarandon and ten of her relatives (including her then-partner Tim Robbins and her son Miles) travelled to Wales to trace her family's Welsh genealogy. Their journey was documented by the BBC Wales programme, Coming Home: Susan Sarandon.^[6] Much of the same research and content was also featured in the American version of Who Do You Think You Are?. In 2006, she also received the "Ragusani nel mondo" prize, since she had recently discovered her Sicilian roots, in Ragusa, Italy.^[23]

Sarandon is the co-owner of New York table tennis club SPiN.^[24][25]

Activism[link]

Sarandon is noted for her active support of progressive and left-liberal political causes, ranging from donations made to organizations such as EMILY's List,^[26] to participating in a 1983 delegation to Nicaragua sponsored by MADRE, an organization that promotes "social, environmental and economic justice."^[27] Sarandon has also expressed support for various human rights causes that are similar philosophically to ideas found among the Christian left.^[28]

In 1995, Sarandon was one of many Hollywood actors, directors and writers who were interviewed for the documentary The Celluloid Closet, which looked at how Hollywood films have depicted homosexuality. In 1999, she was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In that capacity, she has actively supported the organization's global advocacy, as well as the work of the Canadian UNICEF Committee.

Sarandon in April 2007

During the 2000 election, Sarandon supported Ralph Nader's run for President, serving as a co-chair of the National Steering Committee of Nader 2000.^[29]

During the 2004 election campaign, she withheld support for Nader's bid, being among several "Nader 2000 Leaders" who signed a petition that urged voters to vote for Democratic Party candidate John Kerry.^[30] After the 2004 election, Sarandon called for US elections to be monitored by international entities.^[31]

Sarandon and Robbins both took an early stance against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, with Sarandon stating that she was firmly against the concept of the war as a pre-emptive strike.^[32] Prior to a 2003 protest sponsored by the United for Peace and Justice coalition, she said that many Americans "do not want to risk their children or the children of Iraq".^[33] Sarandon was one of the first to appear in a series of political ads sponsored by TrueMajority, an organization established by Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream founder Ben Cohen.^[34][35] Also in 2003, Sarandon appeared in a "Love is Love is Love" commercial, which promoted the acceptance of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.

In 2004, Sarandon served on the advisory committee for the group 2004 Racism Watch.^[36] She hosted a section of the Live 8 concert in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2005. In 2006, she was one of eight women selected to carry in the Olympic flag at the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, in Turin, Italy.

Along with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, Sarandon took part in a 2006 Mother's Day protest, which was sponsored by Code Pink;^[37] she has expressed interest in portraying Sheehan in a film.^[38] In January 2007, she appeared with Robbins and Jane Fonda at an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C. in support of a Congressional measure to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq.^[39]

In the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Sarandon and Tim Robbins campaigned^[40] for John Edwards in the New Hampshire communities of Hampton,^[41] Bedford and Dover.^[42] When asked at We Vote '08 Kickoff Party "What would Jesus do this primary season", Sarandon said, "I think Jesus would be very supportive of John Edwards."^[43]

On March 12, 2011, Sarandon spoke before a crowd in Madison, Wisconsin during a protest of Governor Scott Walker and his "Budget Repair Bill".^[44]

On September 27, 2011, Sarandon spoke to reporters and other interested parties at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City.^[45][46]

After using the term "Nazi" in describing Pope Benedict XVI on October 15, 2011, she drew umbrage not only from Roman Catholic authorities,^[47] but also the Anti-Defamation League, which called on Sarandon to apologize.^[48]

Recognition[link]

In 2006, Sarandon received the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award.^[49] She was honored for her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, an advocate for victims of hunger and HIV/AIDS and a spokesperson for Heifer International.

In 2010, Sarandon was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.^[50]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Susan Sarandon at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Susan Sarandon at the Internet Movie Database
• FAO Goodwill Ambassador website