Friday, June 03, 2005

Manny Malhotra Full Name: Emmanuel Noveen Malhotra Birthdate: May 18, 1980 Age: 23 Birthplace: Mississauga, Ontario Number: 27 Height: 6'2" Weight: 215 lbs Position: Center, Left Wing Shoots: right Played Juniors for: Guelph Storm (OHL) Year Drafted: 1998 Round Drafted: 1st (7th overall)Current Team : Columbus BlueJackets, also played for Dallas Stars & New York Rangers



Misc. Facts:
He doesn't mind being called 'Manny' because of Manny Lee (a former Toronto Blue Jay). He comes from a "soccer family". When he played for the Rangers, he was an active celebrity chairman for the Ice Hockey In Harlem program. Manny can speak English and French & he was in the February 1999 issue of Teen People as one of the 20 teen who will change the world. Manny is half Indian and half French Canadian and he has two older brothers (Sanjeev and Mandeep) and one older sister (Sapna). He's taking correspondance couses at a community college where he's taking sociology and calculus. One of his biggest supporters is Wayne Gretzky. Manny has never been to India, except when his mom went when she was pregnant with him but his brothers and sisters have. He plans on going though. During the summer of 2001, Manny helped with the Arther Ashe Kids Day and he considers Ashe one of his heros.



Babe of the week - NATALIA GLEBOVA

The new Miss Universe Natalia Glebova is 23 years old Miss Canada. She was born in Russia in small coastal town and moved to Toronto with her parents when she was 12. Natalie is working as a model and studies Information Technology Management and Marketing at Ryerson University. Natalie Glebova is also a classical pianist and composer who dreams to have a small business of her own one day. She beat out the competition in the two-hour event which was held in Bangkok, Thailand, with the viewing audience of more than 600 hundred million in over 180 countries.







Song for the day - "Rocket Girl" - DOC WALKER