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The BYU Cougars want to play, and won’t stop pursuing fall football season until there’s no other option
(Photo courtesy of Jaren Wilkey | BYU) Zach Wilson during BYU football practice in Provo, Aug. 10, 2020.
By Norma Gonzalez
| Aug. 12, 2020, 3:43 p.m.
| Updated: Aug. 13, 2020, 4:39 a.m.
As the floor continues to crumble under them, the BYU Cougars continue to stand their ground and hold out hope for a fall football season.
Tuesday was especially trying, not just for BYU, but college football as a whole, as two Power Five conferences opted to cancel the fall season and instead eye a possible spring season amid the pandemic.
Yet, BYU still wants to play. And no player has opted to sit out this season due to concerns about COVID-19.
The Big Ten and Pac-12′s decision to cancel football came a day after the Mountain West pulled the plug on its fall sports. The Mid-American was the first FBS conference to cancel its 2020 season on Saturday.![]()
We will fight, day or night, rain or snow.#BYUFOOTBALL #GoCougs pic.twitter.com/CwVn3bTCeW
— BYU FOOTBALL (@BYUfootball) August 11, 2020
While (remaining) college football programs throughout the nation have started releasing plans to play this fall, that could all come to a halt if teams find it hard to keep the coronavirus from infiltrating their practices or games.
Leagues and teams have boasted that they have protocols in place — most haven’t been clear as to what that entails — but the majority of the work won’t fall on the schools or staff. It will come down to each individual player to be accountable and be aware of his choices outside of the team to make sure to keep any possible outbreaks at bay.
Matt Bushman is well aware of the situation. Even though the senior tight end wants to play, the season takes second priority to his family. Each day, Bushman goes home to his wife, who is pregnant with their first child.
An MMWR study suggests pregnant women with COVID-19 are more likely to be hospitalized and are at increased risk for intensive care unit (ICU) admission and receipt of mechanical ventilation than nonpregnant women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“You see some of the horrible stories that your loved ones are passing away and you don’t want to be guilty for getting your grandma sick and getting her at the hospital or something,” Bushman said. “My wife, Emily is pregnant right now … There’s different players that have different situations and you have to take it seriously because you don’t want to be the young, rebellious guy who just goes out and ends up getting people sick that you love and care about.”
Of the 120 players currently on BYU’s roster, 36 are married. The rest of the players are a mixed bag when it comes to living arrangements — sharing apartments with fellow teammates, other athletes or other students; or living on their own.
Because there are so many ways people can be exposed to the virus, with varying levels of risk for different activities, it can become harder to impose team protocols or precautions.
When not with the team or at any of the athletic facilities, the staff stresses the importance of following safety protocols when away, such as social distancing, wearing masks, keeping up good hygiene and washing hands.
Coach Kalani Sitake said one of the priorities with the team has been educating them on the virus and necessary precautions, especially if the team wants a shot at a season.
That includes making sure all players understand they have to do their part to try to minimize infection as much as possible.
“I have a lot of confidence in the sports medicine department and our players,” Sitake said. “I think educating them and being honest with how they’re feeling and also being mindful when you’re going home. For the most part, when they do go home, I think a good portion of them are too tired to do anything.
But if they do, we ask them to be careful and wear masks and take the proper precautions to keep themselves and others safe.”
Offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes said it took a while for the impact of COVID-19 to really settle in, as it did with most people. When the virus was still fairly new to the US, it was hard to process the significance of the situation and understand the newly-declared precautions until it became personal.
For Grimes, that moment came when one of his friends (who also works as a coach) tested positive back in June.
“That first person who really had to go through it, then it hits you — OK, now it feels real to me,” Grimes said. “… And I thought to myself, we really do need to be careful. And I think all of us, whether you’re a player or a coach, we recognize the importance of at least doing what we can to control what we can control and give ourselves the best chance to stay healthy.”
Running back Lopini Katoa hasn’t had anyone close to him get sick with COVID-19, but has seen the toll it’s taken with some distant friends that have gotten sick and it didn’t look pleasant.
However, even as the start of the semester is right around the corner, Katoa feels safe in his situation and the environment his coaches and staff have created for him and his teammates.
“I feel like everybody is doing great at just making sure we’re taking the proper steps to ensure the health and safety of the people on our team and in the staff as best we can,” Katoa said. “I feel good coming out every day knowing everybody is taking the proper steps and precautions.”
While the team has felt safe, it still hasn't been easy.
Now that the Cougars are in their second week of fall camp, players are getting better adjusted to practicing with a mask on, underneath their helmets, but once classes start there will be a new set of obstacles.
Despite all the rumors surrounding college football, @zachkapono and the team are still preparing for their game against Navy.#BYUSN #BYUFOOTBALL pic.twitter.com/lgFy4brLUs
— BYU Sports Nation (@BYUSportsNation) August 11, 2020
BYU is home to more than 30,000 undergraduate students.
It is still unclear how much of the student population will make its way back to Provo or on campus for the fall semester, but it will definitely be the most populated since BYU moved to remote coursework and asked students to return home back in March.
Zach Wilson, who’s in the middle of a quarterback battle and hoping to earn the starting position once more, said people need to understand the significance of COVID-19 and realize that one of the best practices to avoid infection is to keep your distance from other people.
Even though BYU only has three games on their schedule at the moment, that mentality is what the football team is holding on to in hopes of playing this fall.
“The hard thing is we all want to play — every single player here at BYU wants to play this year,” Wilson said. “No doubt about it. So it’s really just taking those precautions that, hey, if we’re going to play, you’ve got to avoid some of those people outside of football. You’ve got to be able to stay with your roommates that are also on the team and not go out and go to a party and get sick and bring it to the team, or get sick and take it home.
“We want to play and I think those are some of the sacrifices that we need, is just say ‘hey, if we want to play football, we just got to not go out of the house for a while.’”
BYU athletics: Marriages between student-athletes are common at BYU
PROVO — Connor Harding and Paisley Johnson first spoke in the tunnel linking the BYU basketball practice facility to the Marriott Center after Harding “mustered up the courage and the confidence” to suggest that the two should hang out some time.
“Great pickup line, by the way,” Harding said last February, laughing.
“BYU is really good at integrating everybody, especially athletes, at banquets and firesides and the Y Awards and all that. We see each other a lot, cross paths a lot. So there’s that. ... At BYU, a lot of people have the desire to get married, rather than just date.” — BYU football star Bracken El-Bakri
Football player Bracken El-Bakri and discus thrower Sable Lohmeier got acquainted in a sports psychology class, while volleyball stars Zach Eschenberg and Kennedy Redding were introduced by teammates, of course.
Quarterback Baylor Romney and pole vaulter Elise Machen met at a church youth conference when they were teenagers in El Paso, Texas. Football player Darius McFarland saw softball star Rylee Jensen on a team poster and asked her teammate for her phone number, while tight end Matt Bushman and volleyball standout Emily Lewis first talked at the salad bar of an on-campus eatery.
All six of the couples are married now.
They are part of the unofficial, but ever-increasing, club of BYU student-athletes who have married another student-athlete at the school owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
That a lot of BYU athletes marry each other isn’t surprising, considering they often intermingle in classes favored by athletes, share weight rooms, academic tutoring centers and training facilities, and dine together at the Legends Grille in the Student Athlete Building.
And, of course, marriage is sort of a big deal at BYU. There’s a reason why there’s a jewelry store on every corner in Provo.
“BYU is really good at integrating everybody, especially athletes, at banquets and firesides and the Y Awards and all that,” said El-Bakri, who married Lohmeier in March. “We see each other a lot, cross paths a lot. So there’s that.”
El-Bakri, a former Brighton High star, says it would surprise people how much athletes date each other at other instate schools, like Utah, Weber State and Utah State.
“But at BYU, a lot of people have the desire to get married, rather than just date,” he said.
Hence, “a little dating community” has sprung up around the SAB, gymnast Summer Raymond told the Deseret News in 2015 before sharing vows with basketball’s all-time leading scorer, Tyler Haws. The newspaper identified 32 BYU student-athlete marriages in that piece, a number that has obviously grown (see accompanying list of current or just-graduated couples).
The Deseret News recently caught up with six of those couples and focused on how they met, what their first date was like, and how the proposal went.
Here are their stories:
Paisley Johnson (basketball) and Connor Harding (basketball)
After Harding told Johnson they should get together after the following night’s doubleheader, “like a freshman from Pocatello,” he forgot to ask for her phone number.
“I started to walk away and she yelled at me, ‘Hey, you need my number,’” he said. “But I didn’t have my phone on me or anything to write with, so I actually gave her my number. And that’s how it started.”
Johnson, who is from Everett, Washington, said she had watched the recently returned missionary play and practice in the Marriott Center Annex a couple times, and also at In-N-Out Burger in Orem one night, and told a few of his teammates she was interested in him.
“But Connor wasn’t biting,” she said. “He didn’t seem to be interested at all.”
Well. I’m off the market boys pic.twitter.com/sx5yfXpWk9
— Paisley Harding (@paisleynikelle) March 4, 2020
Oddly, the couple share the same birthday — Sept.
16. Harding is a year older, while Johnson is farther along in school because Harding served a church mission to Atlanta.
They went to the Provo Beach amusement center to attend his sister’s birthday party for their first date, and started to bond while bowling and playing a game called Jurassic Park in the arcade, Johnson said.
Paisley and Connor Harding
Courtesy of Paisley Johnson-Harding
Harding proposed just before their respective teams traveled to the West Coast Conference basketball tournaments in Las Vegas last March. They went to the Joseph Smith Building in downtown Salt Lake City with teammate Taylor Maughan and his wife, where they met up with Harding’s step mom, sister, nieces and nephews, and two of Johnson’s best friends.
The nieces and nephews held a sign that said: “Will you marry our uncle?”
“It was so cute,” Johnson said. “It was just a lovely night, a great night.”
Married on May 1 at Sundance, the couple recently moved into their own apartment in Provo and is eager for the Annex to open in June sometime so they can practice and work out together again.
But they probably won’t be playing much pickup against each other.
“We do like to play one-on-one occasionally, but sometimes when that happens things get pretty heated between two very competitive people,” Johnson said. “Sometimes things get a little in the gray area, so for the most part we just work out together.”
Hiked Stewart Falls yesterday with my guys pic.twitter.com/R5cs7flCIg
— Paisley Harding (@paisleynikelle) April 30, 2020
Kennedy Redding (volleyball) and Zach Eschenberg (volleyball)
Eschenberg, from Newbury Park, California, had just returned from a mission to Lima, Peru, and Redding was a redshirting freshman from Bountiful in September 2016 when a few of Redding’s teammates were in the same freshman writing class as Eschenberg and his teammates and invited them to all hang out together.
“I thought she was really pretty when I first saw her, and that got me excited to want to know her better,” Eschenberg said.
They also had a Book of Mormon class together.
Zach and Kennedy Eschenberg chat at a park near their home in Bountiful on Friday, May 22, 2020. The two BYU volleyball players meet playing basketball and got married.
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
One of the big group of volleyball players’ first activities together was playing basketball at the Helaman Hall courts, and the 6-foot-6 Eschenberg remembers being “really impressed” at the 6-5 Redding’s basketball prowess, not knowing she was a four-time all-state basketball player in high school and easily could have played college basketball.
For another group activity, the volleyball players had a baking competition, and Eschenberg’s banana and peanut butter cookies were deemed the best.
“His teammates’ cookies were really gross and flat, but Zach’s were amazing and we were like, ‘Wow, Zach is a good cookie-maker,” Redding said. “And that’s where he earned some brownie points with me.”
For their first date, they played a game of H-O-R-S-E at the Heritage Halls courts.
After Redding won the first game, Eschenberg challenged her to a bet: Best two out of three, and the loser buys lunch.
He won, so Redding found a coupon to Two Jack’s Pizza in Provo and treated him to a tasty pie.
“I like to say I paid for our first date,” Redding said.
“I insisted that I pay, but she wouldn’t let me,” Eschenberg replied.
They dated for 14 months — an eternity in Provo — before Eschenberg popped the question in January 2018 at a park in Bountiful and they were married in July in the Bountiful temple. Redding’s roommate, former BYU volleyball player McKenna Miller, also married a BYU volleyball player, Alex Ah Sue.
“This isn’t normal for me, but the first time Zach said hi to me I really liked him, but I kept it a secret,” Redding said. “I told my mom, but that’s it.”
Sable Lohmeier (track & field) and Bracken El-Bakri (football)
One of the more colorful characters on the BYU football team, El-Bakri wanted to ask Lohmeier on a first date the last day of their sports psychology class.
But she was at a track meet.
He didn’t have her phone number, so he wrote her a letter on a plain piece of copier paper and had someone put it in her locker at Smith Fieldhouse.
Brigham Young Cougars defensive lineman Bracken El-Bakri (93) celebrates in Provo on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019. BYU won 30-27 in overtime.
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
“I basically just asked her out over a handwritten letter, and I didn’t have an envelope to stick it in, so I opened an old bill that had been sent to my house, from State Farm Insurance or something, and I just shoved it in there,” he said.
One problem: He didn’t leave his name.
But Lohmeier, who is from Mountain Home, Idaho, figured it was from him.
“My friends were like, ‘What the heck — this only happens in movies,’” she said.
For their first date, El-Bakri rented a canoe, packed his camp cooker and some pancake batter and took Lohmeier out on Utah Lake to make some flapjacks. The outing was aborted by a sudden storm that caused 6-foot waves, and it was so windy they couldn’t get the cooker to stay lit when they tried to heat up the griddle on shore.
“The pancakes were so bad the ducks wouldn’t even eat them,” El-Bakri said. “So we bagged that and went and got some mac and cheese. Our first couple of dates were ingenious in plan, but failed miserably in practice.”
Despite that rough beginning the couple dated for six months and El-Bakri proposed just before Christmas last year, a few days before the Cougars left for the Hawaii Bowl. He took Lohmeier on another Utah Lake canoe ride — this time in calmer conditions — then asked for her hand in marriage at a place where the Provo River flows into Utah Lake.
“They have a Christus statue and underneath the statue I had put some Christmas lights on a plywood board that said, ‘Sable will you marry me?’” He said. “We got there, I flipped them on.”
The El Bakris were married on March 27; Lohmeier’s teammate, javelin thrower Payge Cuthbertson, recently got engaged to men’s volleyball star Miki Jauhiainen, and the couples do a lot together, she said.
“I think a lot of athletes here like the idea of dating another athlete because you understand each other a little bit more,” Lohmeier said.
“You understand the demands it takes to be a student-athlete at BYU.”
Rylee Jensen (softball) and Darius McFarland (football)
McFarland and BYU football teammate Clark Barrington were walking past a picture of the softball team about 18 month ago when McFarland asked Barrington, who was dating softball player Brooke Hill, to tell Hill that he thought Jensen was attractive.
Word got back to Jensen, and she told Hill to give McFarland her number. Eventually, they went on a triple date with BYU quarterback Jaren Hall and his future wife, Breanna McCarter, a former UVU soccer player, to Winger’s in Provo. Then they went bowling.
BYU outfielder Rylee Jensen (2) hits a triple against Utah at Duke Stadium in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Jensen married BYU football player Darius McFarland.
Adam Fondren, Deseret News
“He didn’t act like he liked me at all,” Jensen wrote in The Athletes’ Journal — a regular series on the BYU Athletics’ website.
“He didn’t even walk me to the door. … We hung out again the next day and he kissed me goodnight. I guess he did like me.”
Jensen wrote in the journal that she “grew up country” and played baseball against boys growing up on a farm near Idaho Falls, Idaho. McFarland is from Brigham City and served a church mission Washington, D.C. They got married last December.
How did McFarland propose?
Last summer, McFarland took Jensen back to Winger’s, site of their first date. Then they went to a place just south of campus where they had gone on a half-dozen walks previously, and a bunch of their friends and teammates were there hiding.
“He proposed, I said yes, and everyone cheered,” Jensen told BYU sports information. “Everyone knew it was coming, except me.”
Elise Machen (track & field) and Baylor Romney (football)
Before she became BYU’s school record-holder in the indoor pole vault, Machen grew up in El Paso, Texas, and a kid moved into her ward who looked nothing like the third-string quarterback who led the Cougars to victories last fall over Boise State, Utah State and Liberty.
Romney, 14 at the time, “was in a cowboy hat, big boots on, big belt buckle, and I was like, ‘He’s kinda cute anyway,’” Machen told BYUtv.
Baylor and Elise Romney
Courtesy of Jeni Romney
Romney, whose family had moved across the border from Mexico, was kind of quiet and shy, but the teenagers shared a love of their church and athletics, and began dating a couple years later.
A year ahead of Romney in school, Machen signed with BYU as a senior at Franklin High and spent her freshman year in Provo while Romney completed his final high school season in El Paso and committed to play football at Nevada.
They left on their missions the same day — Machen for New Zealand and Romney for Carlsbad, California, (by way of the Missionary Training Center in Provo). They got married a few months after Romney returned, and he decided to walk on at BYU rather than stick with Nevada.
Asked if she gets tired of being called Baylor Romney’s wife, given his high-profile position on the football team, Machen replied: “Yeah, a little.
”
Romney’s brother, Gunner, is also on the BYU football team, while another brother, Tate, will join them in Provo after a mission to Argentina.
“We do cheer each other on,” Machen said. “But we also compete at some things, like in board games, especially if it is just us two. We get in arguments about it, mostly because Baylor hates to lose. Well, we both hate to lose.”
Emily Lewis (volleyball) and Matt Bushman (football)
The similarities between the Lewis-Bushman union in 2017 and the 1994 marriage of Lewis’ father, former BYU standout tight end Chad Lewis, and mother, former BYU volleyball standout Michele Fellows, are striking.
Emily Lewis was born in September of Chad Lewis’ senior season, after her mother had already completed her volleyball career and graduated. The Bushmans’ baby girl is due this September, the first month of Matt’s senior year. Emily Lewis completed her career and graduated in 2018.
Tight end Matt Bushman walks off the field after a BYU football practice in Provo on Friday, March 6, 2020.
Bush married Emily Lewis, the daughter of BYU great Chad Lewis.
Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
The football greats are both redheads, the volleyball stars nearly as tall.
Back in 2016, a former teammate told Emily to “be on the lookout” for a 6-foot-5 football and baseball player who was returning from a mission to Chile. She first saw Bushman at Legends Grille in the Student Athlete Building, and was surprised when he approached her at the salad bar.
“So I was impressed he was mature enough to come over and say hi, because most football players usually just play it cool and don’t ask your name and introduce themselves,” she said.
Turns out, a few of Bushman’s baseball teammates, Noah Hill and Bo Burrup, were friends with Emily Lewis and had told the two-sport athlete he should ask her out.
They went to Slab Pizza near the BYU campus for their first date, then got some hot chocolate at the Shops at Riverwoods. Their second date came nearly six months later.
“He had only been back from his mission for a month, and I felt like he was nice and all, but he was kind of shy,” Lewis said.
“She wasn’t interested at first,” Bushman interjected. He was interested, though, because Lewis seemed to be armed with dozens of questions to keep the conversation going.
“That first date was right before Christmas break, so it wasn’t the best timing to date,” he said. “She was the first girl, post-mission, that I told my parents about.”
They started dating again in May 2017, then were married the summer before Bushman’s sophomore season in the Mount Timpanogos temple.
“We became friends first, and that’s when I realized this was an awesome guy and someone I could connect with so much, and respected so much,” Lewis said.
When he decided it was time to ask Chad Lewis for his daughter’s hand in marriage, Bushman met with BYU’s associate athletic director for development in his office a few floors above where the couple first met.
“We started out talking about football, like usual,” Bushman said. “I was like, ‘Oh no, how am I going to transition this into permission to marry his daughter?’ It ended up being a good experience, though.”
Bushman proposed two days after Valentine’s Day at Tibble Fork Reservoir in American Fork Canyon.
“It was attractive to me to marry somebody who is athletic because my life revolves around sports,” Bushman said.
Some of BYU’s student-athlete marriages and engagements over the past few years
• Men’s volleyball’s Zach Eschenberg and women’s volleyball’s Kennedy Redding
• Football’s Bracken El-Bakri and women’s track’s Sable Lohmeier
• Football’s Matt Bushman and women’s volleyball’s Emily Lewis
• Football’s Baylor Romney and women’s track’s Elise Machen
• Football’s Darius McFarland and softball’s Rylee Jensen
• Football’s Aleva Hifo and women’s volleyball’s Tayler Tausinga
• Football’s Clark Barrington and softball’s Brooke Hill (engaged)
• Men’s basketball’s Dalton Nixon and women’s volleyball’s Taylen Ballard
• Men’s basketball’s Connor Harding and women’s basketball’s Paisley Johnson
• Men’s swimming’s Connor Anderson and women’s wwimming’s Gwen Gustafson
• Men’s swimming’s Ryan Evans and gymnastics’ Shannon Hortman
• Men’s volleyball’s Miki Jauhiainen and women’s track’s Payge Cuthbertson (engaged)
• Men’s volleyball’s Alex Ah Sue and women’s volleyball’s McKenna Miller
Tobey Maguire: biography, photo, personal life Tobey Maguire 2022
Biography of Tobey Maguire
Childhood
Tobey Maguire (Tobey Maguire; erroneous options Toby McGuire, Tobby Maguire) was born unmarried.
His parents, 18-year-old secretary Wendy and 20-year-old chef Vincent, were unmarried at the time of their son's birth. And when Tobey Maguire was 2 years old, his parents had already divorced.
After their divorce, Toby and his mother lived on Wendy's small salary and welfare. His father's life went badly - at 19In 1993, he robbed a bank and went to prison for two years.
Throughout his childhood, Tobey Maguire constantly moved from one place to another. In one place, his family was not longer than two years.
His mother dreamed of becoming an actress all her life. Therefore, along with Toby's genes, a passion for cinema was also transmitted. Wendy encouraged her son in every possible way when he showed interest in the acting profession. Once, she even wanted to give 12-year-old Tobey Maguire $100 to take acting classes instead of going to economics school.
However, Toby was very fond of cooking in his youth and wanted to become a chef in the best restaurant in the country.
He also wanted to have many friends that he never had, as he constantly moved to a new place of residence.
Acting career
At the age of thirteen, Toby dropped out of school and started working. Tobey Maguire began his acting career by shooting commercials for McDonalds, and he also advertised the Atari video game console. After that, he acted as an extra in small series and films, such as Roseanne, The Magician, Erie Indiana. On the set of one of the series, Toby met another aspiring actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, with whom they became very good friends. At the age of 17, he managed to get the main role in the television series "Great Scott!", However, only 6 episodes were released.
Spiderman 3
In 1993, Tobey Maguire made his film debut in the drama This Boy's Life starring Robert De Niro and Ellen Barkin.
After that, Tobey Maguire decided to audition for the lead role in the film "Empire Records", but he was offered only a cameo role, which upset the actor very much, and he left the picture.
After that, Tobey Maguire did not audition for any roles for several months.
After a while, Toby nevertheless returned to the frame, having successfully played in the television short film "Duke Grove", which was even nominated for an Oscar. Gradually began to come and the main role in the film "American Hijack" at 1996, and minor roles in Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry and Ang Lee's Ice Wind, after which the actor was noticed. In 1998, Tobey Maguire appeared in an episodic role as a hitchhiker in Terry Gillim's cult film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The film stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Torro. In order to play the role of the blond fellow traveler of the main characters, Tobey Maguire even agreed to cut his hair bald to wear a wig and lighten his eyebrows.
Tobey Maguire's first tangible success was his collaboration with a young Hollywood star - Reese Witherspoon in the comedy "Pleasantville", which was released at 1998 year. In the film, two teenagers somehow moved from the 90s to the black-and-white television series of the 50s.
This was followed by the successful work of the actor in the films "Winemakers' Rules" (1999) and "Geeks" (2000).
In the same year, Tobey Maguire starred with DiCaprio in the film "Cafe Don's Plum", which, as a result of a lawsuit initiated by Maguire and DiCaprio, was never released on US screens. The actors claimed that the tape, which is a casual conversation of young people about life, sex, drugs, could harm their image.
Tobey Maguire plays a game of four in a row
The next two years proved to be very successful for Maguire. The actor starred as Jake Rodel in Ang Lee's film Chasing the Devil, and also starred as Homer Wells in Lasse Hallström's film The Cider House Rules. The film was based on the novel of the same name by John Irving and became one of the most popular films of 1999. The film received 7 Academy Award nominations and two wins for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor.
In 2000, Tobey Maguire had already become famous. He was offered to star in one of the main roles in Curtis Hudson's film "Geeks".
Toby played in the film a young gifted writer who, thanks to the help of his teacher, gradually found his place in life. In the film, Toby worked with such famous actors as Michael Douglas, Robert Downey Jr. and Katie Holmes.
Toby McGuire - Spiderman
In 2002, there was a film adaptation of the Spider-Man comics, directed by Sam Raimi. All of America grew up on these comics. This film became a real blockbuster, and made Tobey Maguire a real star. On its first weekend, the film grossed a record $110 million at the box office, recouping a gigantic budget of $139 in just a few days.million dollars. After such a triumph, the actor immediately signed a contract for a role in two sequels about Spiderman.
"Spider-Man" is the first part of a movie trilogy about the adventures of a super-hero. Tobey Maguire did an excellent job of creating the image of student Peter Parker, as well as his transformation into Spider-Man. After being bitten by a spider, Peter began to notice that he had abilities that an ordinary person could not have.
He gained strength, stamina, the ability to climb walls and ceilings, and the ability to shoot cobwebs. The modest young man realized that his mission was to fight crime.
"Spider-Man 2", which was released in 2004 - the second part of the movie trilogy. Here Tobey Maguire created the image of a young man in love who has superpowers. His hero is trying to talk about his feelings to Mary Jane, whose role was played by Kirsten Dunst, he is trying to understand himself and understand who he is, Spider-Man or Peter Parker?
"Spider-Man: The Enemy in Reflection or Spider-Man 3", released on May 3, 2007, is the third film. This film became a box office hit. It grossed $375 million in its opening weekend.
This trilogy made Tobey Maguire a super star. In between filming Spider-Man, the actor managed to star in films such as 2003's The Favorite as Red Pollard, 2006's The Good German as Patrick, and 2008's Tropic Soldiers. In 2009, Tobey Maguire starred in The Brothers.
Personal life of Toby McGuire
Tobey Maguire does not like to talk about his personal life. The actor loves to ride a bike, play basketball, swim in the ocean.
With my beloved wife Jennifer Meyer
In April 2006, Tobey Maguire became engaged to jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer, who is the daughter of Universal Studios film producer Ron Meyer. Their wedding took place on September 3, 2007 at a private ceremony that took place in Hawaii. In November 2006, their daughter Ruby Sweetheart Maguire was born. On May 8, 2009, Toby and his wife Jennifer Mayer had a son, who was named Otis Tobias Maguire.
Best movies
- 2013: The Great Gatsby
- 2009: Brothers
- 2002: Spiderman
- 1998: "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
- 1993: "This Guy's Life"
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Australian coach decided that he could do without a son-in-law at the World Cup
The reigning world champion France is in a group where two-thirds will be the same opponents as in the victorious World Cup in Russia-2018.
Uruguay will again play with Portugal, whom they met 4 years ago in Sochi. Qatar's draw caused "phantom football pains" in the sports journalist of Realnoe Vremya Jaudat Abdullin, who announces the start of the scandalous World Cup .
Group D. Australia , Denmark , Tunisia , France The World Cup in Qatar is not the first international competition to take place outside of the usual times. Two Olympics - in Melbourne 1956 (from November 22 to December 8) and in Seoul 1988 (from September 17 to October 2), were only nominally called summer. Aquatika 2007 was held in Australia in the spring (from March 17 to April 1), although its usual time is the middle of summer, since competitions are often held outdoors. Well, in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, we have already reacted quite calmly to the postponement of the 2020 Olympics and many other starts, as well as to the hockey MFM in August.
The current World Cup is also out of the ordinary, meanwhile, in previous years, the early departure of the favorite teams (Germany in 2018, England, Spain, Italy in 2014, the same Italy and France in 2010) was often justified by the fact that players managed to get tired after a busy international season.
European Bronze medalist Denmark, along with reigning world champions France, should be able to advance from the group without any problems. As, however, it was at the World Cup in Russia, where these teams played in the same group plus Australia. It must also be said that before the World Cup in Qatar, as traditionally, the Confederations Cup was not held, and only Australia and Costa Rica have experience of playing at local stadiums, having beaten Peru and New Zealand in play-offs when they got to the World Cup, respectively. A lot is written about the Australians in the context of the fact that there are 17 players in the national team who were born in other countries, but the countries of the Green Continent were created in their current form by immigrants, so I would not focus on this.
But the fact that national team coach Graham Arnold did not include Trent Sainsbury in the final squad is surprising. He has been in Qatar since August, playing for the local Al Wakra, played for the national team for eight years, and he is also married to the daughter of head coach Arnold. René Meulensteen, who worked for a year at Anji Makhachkala under Guus Hiddink, works as an assistant in the Australian coaching staff. True, one must understand that he stayed in Qatar much longer - eight years, and local sheikhs have much more reason to consider him "theirs" than a Dagestan horseman.
European bronze medalist Denmark, along with the current world champions, the French, should leave the group without any problems. Photo: fordanmark.dk
In the national team of Tunisia the former Rubinovets Four years ago, in the group with this trinity was the national team of Peru, now Tunisia, and now it is of interest to itself, as once strong and once strong an original team, now moving along the path of all the leaders of North Africa.
Algeria in 2014 was staffed by Algerians from France, Morocco in 2018 gathered the French, Belgians, Dutch and Spaniards, now Tunisia. Specifically, the French Dylan Bronn, Saif-Eddy Kaui, Aissa Laiduni, Hannibal Mezhbri, Naim Sliti, Eles Skhiri, Wahbi Khazri, Sheim El Jebali, the German Mohamed Draeger, Omar Rekik from the Netherlands, the Dane Anis Ben Slimane, who formed the backbone of the national team, behind which we we will follow because of the presence of Montassar Talbi, the ex-defender of Rubin.
The current world champion France did not take 11 players to the World Cup who won 4 years ago in Moscow. These are Kante, Lemar, Matuidi, Mendy, Nzonzi, Pogba, Rami, Sidibe, Tolisso, Umtiti and the only ethnic Frenchman in this company, Florian Thauvin. Now there will be more ethnic French, thanks to the previously mentioned Varane and Lloris, as well as Areol, Veret, Griezmann, Giroud, Pavard and Rabiot, we will remember that France is in Europe. Let's not forget about the Spaniards with French passports - the Hernandez brothers.
Group H. GANA , Portugal , Uruguay , South Complete the analysis of the last group H, the last group H, the Combustic Common. African Ghana, American Uruguay, European Portugal and Asian South Korea.
If Cameroon took a duet of football players from the 2010 World Cup, then Uruguay took five at once. Diego Godin (36 years old) and 35-year-old Fernando Muslera, Edinson Cavani, Martin Caceres, Luis Suarez stopped then one step away from medals, and this is their fourth World Cup. Their next battle with Portugal will be a repeat of the match of the one-eighth World Cup 2018, which includes another veteran - Cristiano Ronaldo. Their confrontation, as well as the possible duel of the three debutants of the World Cup back in 2006 - Leonel Messi from Argentina and the Mexicans Andres Guadrado and Guillermo Ochoa in Group C - is the old-school football of Qatar-2022.
Initially, Ronaldo is cooler, because he became vice-champion of Europe back in 2004, and Ochoa was simply a participant in the Athens Olympics. Next comes Messi, he, like Ronaldo and Ochoa, is a participant in five world championships, Modric has four of them, since in 2010 the national team was not selected for South Africa. The fourth world championship will be held by a quintet (!) of Uruguayans, a duet of Germans Manuel Neuer and Thomas Muller, French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, Spaniard Sergio Busquets and Portuguese football player from Brazil Pepe, Portuguese Brazilian is among the most "old", he is 39years. The Brazilian Dani Alves is the same age, but this is his third championship, since Alves did not play at the Russian Mundial, having injured his knee ligaments in front of him. Now Uruguay has taken a risk with the application of the injured Edinson Cavani, Senegal is counting on the not-so-healthy Sadio Mane, and the coaching staff of the French national team has included Raphael Varane in the application, which will be restored during the World Cup.
Initially, Ronaldo is cooler, because he became vice-champion of Europe back in 2004. Photo: realnoevremya.ru
in of the national team South Korea ex - Rubinovets IN BOM Uruguay, Uruguay, has a refugee - Harbal. who arbitrarily left the Moscow Dynamo. Recall that before reaching the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup, Uruguay passed on penalties to Gan, and it also includes well-known names: Mensah, Paintsil, Antwi-Adzhey, Afera-Gyan. Alas, neither they, nor Addo and Yeboah, are related to the players from the past with the same surnames. And only Jordan Ayew is the son of the famous Abedi Pele, the brother of the participants in that 2010 World Cup Andre and Ibrahim Ayew. However, Jordan Ayew himself participated in the World Championship, however, in 2014. Alas, there is no Mubarak Vakaso, whom we also remember, but already in performances for Rubin.
However, the number of Muslim football players in the Ghana national team and without him is quite large: Abdul Manaf Nurudin, Abdul Fatavu Issahak, Mohamed Baba Idrissu, Abdul Baba Rahman, Osman Bukari, Mohammed Kudus, Abdul Mumin, Kamaldin Suleman. Only seven, while at the previous World Cup 2014 there were six of them, and it was hard for everyone, since the championship coincided with the month of Ramadan. Here it is necessary to recall the Qatari academy "Aspire", the goalkeeper Abdul Manaf Nurudin is her pupil.
Until the last moment, Joel Fameye from Rubin Kazan was listed in the extended list of the Ghana national team, but he, like Wakaso, is not in the squad, although there is Hwang In Bum in the roster of South Korea, who left Rubin this summer for « Seoul", using FIFA's right to suspend the contract. Therefore, there are doubts that he will now find fans in Kazan.
There is Hwang In Bum on the South Korean roster who left Rubin for Seoul this summer. Photo: rubin-kazan.
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Another interesting observation concerns South Sudan. It would seem that there is no football there, but there will be more football natives at the World Cup in Qatar than Russians (one), Ukrainians (none). Ali Almoez in the Qatar national team, three more - Thomas Deng, Garang Kuol, Aver Mabil - in the Australian roster.
The third observation is the age of World Cup veterans. All of them are 39 years old, with a different number of months lived - goalkeepers Eiji Kawashima from Japan and the Dutchman Remco Passver, Canadian defender Atiba Hutchinson and the most famous in this company - Dani Alves and Brazilian Pepe from Portugal.
1st round. November 24th. 13:00. Group G. Cameroon - Switzerland.
- November 24th. 16:00. Group H. Uruguay - South Korea.
- November 24th. 19:00. Group H. Ghana - Portugal.
- November 24th. 22:00. Group G. Brazil - Serbia.
2nd round. November 28. 13:00. Group G. Cameroon - Serbia.
