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Tim RogersRogers was the face of the Australian Football League (AFL)'s 2012 finals series, starring in a television commercial and a print advertising campaign.
Tony MeolaA soccer video game for the SNES with his name, Tony Meola's Sidekick Soccer, was released in 1993.
Chris JuddIn 2009, he featured in the official advertisement for the AFL, receiving a mark from Aaron Davey on a Basketball court and then sprinting in front of a stampede of horses on a horse racing track before handballing to Adam Goodes.
Willie GaultDuring Super Bowl XLIV, Gault joined other members of the 1985 Chicago Bears in resurrecting the Super Bowl Shuffle in a Boost Mobile commercial.
Remy BlumenfeldIn 2001, Remy Blumenfeld was the driving force, together with Producer Anne Mensah, of TVYP at work, a scheme which sponsored 15 youngsters each year to find paid placements with some of the UK's most prestigious TV companies.
Steve BuninIn 2010, Bunin became the first anchor at ESPN to win the company's prestigious `` Game Ball'' award for character.
Kristian BushIn July 2013, Bush collaborated with Canada-based computer and video game developer Big Blue Bubble, to become the latest character, and first celebrity guest in the hit online game, My Singing Monsters.
Sombat MetaneeHe's a frequent fixture on Thai television talk shows and in 2006 was appearing in a TV commercial for a brand of DVD player, spoofing his action roles of the 1970s.
Serena WilliamsIn late 2009, Williams became the first active female professional athlete to appear in a feminine hygiene product advertising campaign.
Stephan El Shaarawy In 2012, El Shaarawy signed a sponsorship deal with American sportswear and equipment supplier, Nike.
Gabe KaplanIn 2007, Kaplan won on NBC's Poker After Dark in the episode'' Queens and Kings'' after defeating Kristy Gazes heads-up and outlasting Howard Lederer, Ali Nejad, Vanessa Rousso and Annie Duke.
Adriana Lima Lima's 2008 solo Victoria's Secret's Super Bowl XLII ad was the single most-seen ad of the game, watched by 103.
Derrick GreenGreen appeared with Sepultura in a successful ad campaign for Volkswagen motors commercial that aired nationally throughout Brazil in 2008.
Les ClaypoolIn 1999, he let Activision use the song'' Jerry Was a Race Car Driver'' on the hit video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
Telly SavalasTelly Savalas held a degree in psychology and was a world-class poker player who finished 21st at the main event in the 1992 World Series of Poker, as well as a motorcycle racer and lifeguard.
Michael SchiavelloHe is the voice of K-1, Dream, Sengoku, The Contender Asia and all of AXS TV's Fights (formerly HDNet), having signed with the North American broadcaster in July 2009 after capturing the attention of the network's billionaire owner, Mark Cuban.
Pete FirmanIn The Secret World of Magic, which aired on Sky1 in 2005, Firman travelled the world with Ali Cook, interviewing the world's greatest magicians, including Mac King, Juan Tamariz and Max Maven, whilst also performing their own brand of sleight of hand on the streets of Paris, Madrid, New York City, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Buenos Aires.
Honus WagnerIn September 1905, Wagner signed a contract to produce the first bat with a player's signature, the Louisville Slugger, becoming the first sportsperson to endorse a commercial product ; the Honus Wagner was to become a best-seller for years.
Roy AyersRoy Ayers hosts the fictitious radio station'' Fusion FM'' in Grand Theft Auto IV (2008).
Kara ScottScott also hosted the first series of World Series of Backgammon, in 2006 which aired across Europe on Eurosport, Poker Channel Europe and Game TV in Canada.
Connor Wickham In 2010, Wickham signed a sponsorship deal with British sportswear and equipment supplier, Umbro.
Yoshiki OkamotoYoshiki Okamoto (岡本 吉起 Okamoto Yoshiki) (born June 10, 1961, in Ehime Prefecture, Japan), sometimes credited as Kihaji Okamoto, is a video game designer credited with producing many popular titles for Konami, including Gyruss and Time Pilot, and Capcom, including Final Fight and Street Fighter II.
Roger MillaMilla starred in a Coca Cola advertisement for 2010 FIFA World Cup as the originator of dancing whilst celebrating when scoring a goal.
Bas RuttenRutten was also the color commentator for the English productions of Pride Fighting Championships events, calling nearly every event from Pride 1 through the 2005 Grand Prix.
Jamie GoldIn addition to television production deals in the hopper and Gold's frequent appearances on televised poker shows including episodes of NBC's Poker After Dark and in season 3 and 4 of GSN's High Stakes Poker, Gold returned to defend his title at the 2007 WSOP, but was eliminated on the first day.
Fredrik Johansson (electronic sports player)Not long afterwards, Johansson was invited to the Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge 2010 (IEM) in Cologne, Germany putting him in direct competition with other professional players outside of Asia.
John Monnette Prior to Black Friday 2011, Monnette played at the online poker site PokerStars under the screen name jmonnett.
LaDainian TomlinsonIn April 2007, Tomlinson turned down a request to become the cover athlete and official spokesperson for EA Sports' Madden NFL 08 video game.
Marlin BriscoeBriscoe is the namesake for the fictional high school in Nike's 2006'' Football is Everything'' television and print ad campaign.
John Dutton (quarterback)In 2006, he was on the cover of the EA Sports first AFL video game, Arena Football, making him the first player to pose for the cover.
Fredrik LjungbergHe previously represented brands such as Nike, Procter & Gamble, L'Oreal and currently represents Puma, ESPN and Pepsi, as well as running his own blog since October 2009.
Viktor Blom Since signing with PokerStars in 2011, Viktor Blom has been paying more attention to live tournaments.
Puggy PearsonAfter further urging by Pearson, Amarillo Slim, and Doyle Brunson, all of whom felt that such a tournament would create great side (cash) game action, Binion founded the World Series of Poker in 1970.
Robin TunneyIn August 2006, Tunney played in the World Series of Poker after having her entrance fee covered by the online cardroom PokerRoom.
Eric Crown In 1986, Eric Crown and his brother Tim Crown obtained a $ 2,000 advance on a credit card, enabling them to place a single advertisement in Computer Shopper, a computer parts magazine.
Big HawkIn 2006, Hawk, along with Clint Dempsey of the U. S. National Soccer team recorded a song for Nike's'' Joga Bonito'' World Cup soccer promotion called'' Do n't Tread''.
Alexis SmirnoffFollowing his retirement in 1988, he eventually opened a wrestling school and appeared in commercials for car dealerships in the San Francisco-area and the Golden State Warriors.
Gabe RuedigerGabe fought SiriusXM radio host Jason Ellis in a celebrity boxing match at Ellismania 8'' Shave my Friends Tonight'' in Las Vegas on July 14, 2012.
Lleyton HewittA little before Roland Garros 2012, Hewitt signed a sponsorship deal with Australian company Inferno Sports, who provides him shirts and caps for his matches.
Serge Lang (skiing)Lang wrote several books about ski racing and the World Cup, including the annual Ski World Cup Guide (popularly known as the'' Biorama'') with World Cup statistics and racer biographies, and the retrospective 21 Years of World Cup Ski Racing published in 1986.
Sudsakorn Sor KlinmeeSudsakorn will coach a team of farangs against a rival team trained by Saiyok Pumpanmuang on the reality television series Thai Fight Kaad Chuek, to be shown over between July and August 2013 on Thailand's Channel 5.
Kintaro Ohkicom/wrestlers/kim _ il / Since then Ohki did not compete much, with his official retirement card on April 2, 1996 held at a weekly pro-wrestling magazine sponsored show at the Tokyo Dome in Japan.
Alex MorganThe Nine for IX documentary, The 99ers, in which she appeared focused on the success and legacy of the national team squad that won the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Ken Pavia On January 1, 2012, Pavia was named as CEO of the Super Fight League (SFL), India's first major mixed martial arts promotion founded by celebrity entrepreneur IPL cricket team owner Raj Kundra and Bollywood mega star Sanjay Dutt.
Jerry PerenchioPerhaps his most famous promotion was the 1971'' Fight of the Century'' featuring legendary heavyweight champions Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
Big TiggerThe announcing and ring introductions in Fight Night 2004, a boxing video game developed by EA Sports ; were recorded by him.
Cannito GiancarloHaving played competitively since 2005, Giancarlo, going by the pseudonym of'' DioxiNe'', has widely gained a reputation within the electronic sports scene as one of the best-performing Call Of Duty players in the world.
Syd BarrettThe other band members soon grew tired of Barrett's antics and, on 26 January 1968, when Waters was driving on the way to a show at Southampton University, the band elected not to pick Barrett up : one person in the car said,'' Shall we pick Syd up ?''
Noah BoekenIn 2007 Boeken and Marcel Luske started a television show called Veronica Poker where famous Dutch people learned poker from them.
John Maclean (wheelchair sportsperson)In 2008, he was part of a Gatorade advertisement with such sportspeople as Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Usain Bolt, and Nadia Comaneci, that was first shown in the United States at that year's Super Bowl.
Jennifer MorrisonIn 2007, Morrison appeared as Kirce James in the computer game Command & Conquer 3 : Tiberium Wars, a character who frequently interacts with the player during the course of the GDI campaign.
Piers Baron (musician) In January 2011, Volcom Snowboarding Pro Dan Brisse won the first ever X Games Snow Real Street, the 1 minute edit featured an original scored track by Baron, winning them both an X Games gold medal.
Kris AquinoOn May 5, 2008, she appeared on the US version as part of a'' Deal or No Deal around the world'' event, where host Howie Mandel and an American contestant were taken to an international location, and played the game in that country, with the local models and host assisting Mandel.
Clint DempseyUsing the alias'' Deuce,'' he, along with fellow Texas rappers XO and the late Houston rapper Big Hawk from the Screwed Up Click, is featured rapping the song'' Do n't Tread'' in a Nike soccer advertising campaign for the 2006 World Cup with the intention to showcase both the sport's working-class roots and the United States team ahead of the World Cup.
Damian VaughnAs the first Brazilian NFL player, Vaughn has made efforts to promote awareness and interest in American football among Brazilians, including a trip to Brazil with Tony Gonzalez in 2003.
Jimmy BarnesAlso in 1993, Barnes teamed up with Tina Turner for a duet version of The Best in the form of a TV promotion for rugby league's Winfield Cup.
Alex Evans (model)In October 2010 she was a part of the Yeo Valley advertising campaign which saw a two-minute rap played on TV and thus she had a part in the rap.
Christina CuencaCuenca was recently seen in the Windows 7 Phone commercial (first aired during the 2010 World Series) as the woman wearing black lingerie attempting to seduce her husband.
Shane WarneIn January 2008, Warne signed a two-year agreement with 888Poker (owned by 888 Holdings PLC, a public listed company in London) to represent them at poker events around the world including the Aussie Millions, World Series of Poker and the 888 UK Poker Open.
Viktor BlomHis rise to fame drew considerable attention around the poker world in late 2009, taking part in all ten of the largest pots in online poker history.
George PlimptonHe also appeared in the 1996 documentary When We Were Kings about the'' Rumble in the Jungle'' Ali-Foreman Championship fight opposite Norman Mailer crediting Muhammad Ali as a poet who composed the world's shortest poem :'' Me-Whee''.
Richard HerringIn 2005, he presented a chat show called Heads Up with Richard Herring on the Pokerzone channel, in which he interviewed professional poker players and celebrities about their careers and their love of the game.
Sanjay Dutt Sanjay Dutt and entrepreneur IPL cricket team owner Raj Kundra together launched India's first professionally organized mixed martial arts league -- the Super Fight League -- on 16 January 2012.
Matt DamonAfter the team won the 2007 World Series, he narrated the commemorative DVD release of the event.
Shane HallHall is featured as an Unlockable Driver in the 2003 EA Sports Video Game NASCAR Thunder 2003.
Craig FergusonHis younger sister, Lynn Ferguson Tweddle, is also a successful comedienne, presenter, and actress, perhaps most widely known as the voice of Mac in the 2000 stop-motion animation film Chicken Run.
R. Hyrum SavageUntil May 2008 he was the brand manager for the New Hobby Games division at Upper Deck Entertainment, as well as the brand manager for the Vs. System and all other superhero product lines including the Marvel Masterpieces trading card brand and Marvel Ultimate Battles TCG.
Justin Robert Young For the 2011 World Series of Poker, Young served as the spokesperson for Bicycle Cards, interviewing players in the tournament and providing commentary.
Alec BaldwinA 2012 commercial for Capital One credit cards, for which Baldwin is a spokesperson, makes humorous reference to the event : A Viking character from the ad series asks about the phone Baldwin is using, to which Baldwin facetiously replies that it is not to be used on the runway, ending with a chiding'' No !''
Svetlana KuznetsovaSvetlana Kuznetsova appeared in video games Top Spin 3, Virtua Tennis 2009 and Virtua Tennis 4 as a playable character.
Shih KienIn 1980, Shih was invited to participate in filming a television commercial to promote Ricola's mint candy products with his popular image of a film villain.
Michael BufferOn November 10, 2008, Buffer started the heads-up action at the 2008 World Series of Poker final table with a modified version of his trademark statement,'' Let's get ready to shuffle up and deal''.
Frankie Hejduk Post-career On April 19, 2012 Hejduk rejoined the Crew organization, agreeing to terms to become the club's'' Brand Ambassador'', a job focused on community outreach and marketing of the team.
Miles LongIn March 2013, he shot another mainstream billboard ad campaign for the event he hosted along with Nikki Phoenix and Alexis Monroe at TABU Ultra Lounge in the MGM Grand Las Vegas sponsored by Twala Intimates lingerie company celebrating the appearance of Nikki Phoenix in the mainstream film 21 and Over.
Joe TessitoreSince 2004, Tessitore has been the voice for the top selling Fight Night video game series produced by EA Sports.
Billy Mitchell (video game player)On September 17, 1999, he was proclaimed the'' Video Game Player of the Century'' while at the 1999 Tokyo Game Show.
Produce PeteNapolitano has appeared in commercials and at special events for the A&P owned supermarket chain, Pathmark, since 2001, although he has yet to appear in the company's current post-bankruptcy ad campaign.
Phil Morris (speedway rider) Outside of the sport Morris owns a chain of snack shops in South Wales and is a keen singer/songwriter, in 2005 he won a Karaoke contest at Pontins in Prestatyn, which lead to him performing a duet with Sinitta on Channel Five.
Gene CaseWhile with Doyle Dane Bernbach, Case worked with Tony Schwartz as part of the team that developed the'' Daisy ad'' for Johnson's 1964 campaign.
Victoria AzarenkaRed Bull inked her to a deal in January 2013, which made her the first tennis player sponsor for the beverage giant.
Bill EnglishOn 7 June 2002, English took part in TV3's Fight For Life, a celebrity boxing fundraiser, in this case for the Yellow Ribbon anti youth-suicide campaign.
John Dutton (quarterback)In 2006, he was on the cover of the EA Sports first AFL video game, Arena Football, making him the first, and only, player to pose for the cover.
Jeff BridgesBridges has performed TV commercial voice over work as well, including Hyundai's 2007'' Think About It'' advertising campaign as well as the Duracell advertisements in the'' Trusted Everywhere'' campaign.
Jennifer TillyTilly also appears in the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions 2007 Edition video game (along with boyfriend, Phil Laak) that was released in 2007 by Activision.
Masayoshi SokenIn 2006, Soken composed and arranged the score to Mario Hoops 3-on-3 (known as Mario Slam Basketball in Europe), a basketball game developed by Square Enix and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS, featuring both Mario and Final Fantasy characters.
Eddie DombrowerDombrower made progress quickly, and Intellivision World Series Baseball's radically new design created a major market event during the Christmas television advertising season in 1982.
Dave ArnesonIn March 1981, as part of a confidential agreement, Arneson and Gygax resolved the suits out of court by agreeing that they would both be credited as'' co-creators'' on the packaging of D&D products from that point on, In the early 1980s he established his own game company, Adventure Games, that produced the miniatures game s Johnny Reb and Harpoon, as well as his own Adventures in Fantasy role-playing game.
Jarome IginlaSince 2008, he has been a hockey spokesperson for Scotiabank, appearing in commercials and at events supporting its grassroots hockey programs, as well as for Samsung Canada.
Peter GolenbockAfter writing Fenway, a sprawling, in-depth colorful history of The Boston Red Sox in 1991, he wrote American Zoom, an inside look at the multi-million dollar NASCAR stock car racing industry.
Wesley Autreycom/id/16469039 / On the January 9, 2007 airing of the The Ellen DeGeneres Show, he was presented with a $ 5,000 Gap gift card, tickets and backstage passes to the next Beyoncé concert in New York, season tickets to the New Jersey Nets, a signed jersey from Jason Kidd, a brand new Jeep Patriot, two years' of car insurance from Progressive and a one-year free parking pass for use anywhere in NYC.
Sean GodleySince December 2008, he has been building up a YouTube channel as a chess commentator (user name : SeanGGodley).
Debby RyanShe appeared in several commercials for iDog and various board games ; she was in an iDog Dance commercial in 2008.
Rhys IfansIfans gained fame in the United States as a footballer turned American football player with a gambling addiction, Nigel Gruff, in the 2000 film The Replacements.
Marcus Jones (athlete)He appeared as an exclusive character for UFC Undisputed 2010 video game for pre-orders.
Cubby BryantBryant was seen on HBO's'' NSync - Live at Madison Square Garden'' in 2000, also available on DVD.
Indalecio Sarasqueta In 1884 Sarasqueta traveled to Buenos Aires where he faced Paysandú, a local popular player, winning the game with 80 points on the modalities of square bat and'' traer y traer'' (in this modality a player could pick the kind of ball he wanted to use).
Daniel NegreanuNegreanu is also featured in the 2006 poker video game Stacked with Daniel Negreanu, providing tips and hints as to how to play effectively.
Mike McKay (basketball)Early on, McKay earned the nickname'' Mad Max'' for sometimes not being able to control his emotions on the basketball court (he was labeled a' hot head' by some commentators, most notably by Brisbane based television commentator Gary Fleet after his clashes with Leroy Loggins during the 1986 Grand Final series, though Fleet was also quick to give his admiration for McKay's skill as a player).
P. G. CristeaAfter ending his driving career, he founded the Autoturism (Car) magazine in 1969, today owned by the Romanian Auto Club and wrote several reference books including Cum sa devii campion (How to Become a Champion), scribd.
Mike RoweBeginning in March 2007, he was featured in several Ford Motor Company F-Series truck commercials, presented in a style similar to Dirty Jobs, including one for Ford Sync.