EA Sports Champions of Gaming tournament

Tiger Woods shaves at the EA Sports Champions of Gaming tournament for a promotion of the new Gillette Fusion Gamer razor. The tournament was in the UCF arena on Feb. 3, 2009.

Orlando Magic player Jameer Nelson and Global Champion gamer Steffon Dunlop, of New York, play each other in a basketball video game.

Global Champion gamer Paul Glasgow, of Nova Scotia, and New Orleans Saints football player Reggie Bush review some of the plays they made while battling each other in a football video game.

Nelson and Dunlop talk to a Spike TV broadcaster in a post-game interview.

Tiger Woods plays a few holes of the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 video game. Woods lost the game to Global Champion gamer Steven Ward, of Australia. NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin joined them on stage.

Chinese New Year celebration at UCF

Li Li, a Chinese acrobat from the SinoElite group of Orlando, performs the art of head balancing...

...and of plate spinning!

The Shimmy Knights performed a belly dancing routine.

UCF graduate student Song Wang performs the Chinese art form of kung fu.

Stitches, a tattoo and an exploration.

My brother Adam's stitches after he flipped off a trampoline and cut his cheek in 2005.

Catie got a tattoo of an anchor to represent her family members in the Navy and the Marine Corps in October 2008.
I explored a dried up lake with a few friends in Cassadaga in May 2008.

UCF grad student tracks asteroids

In October 2008 Nate Lust, a University of Central Florida graduate student working on a degree in planetary science, views a telescope he assembled at the Robinson Observatory. Lust is tracking asteroids to determine if they have satellites, or moons.

UCF women's basketball

University of Central Florida cheerleaders perform while the UCF women's basketball team is introduced before their game against Houston on Jan. 17, 2008.


University of Central Florida's Amber Long leaps to block Houston's Ryan Meyers shot on Jan. 17, 2008. The game was a 61-74 loss for the Knights.

President Clinton at UCF

President Bill Clinton speaks at the University of Central Florida in support of presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Oct. 1, 2008.


A policeman keeps a watchful eye over the crowd.