★ M.A.R.A.★

Chan Ho Park

ALCS: NY Yankees v. Anaheim Angels - Yanks lead series 2-1
NLCS: LA Dodgers v. Philadelphia Phillies - Phillies lead 3-1

Can there be more build up in this year’s fight for the World Series?  Park has been the relief pitcher for the Phillies since January of this year.  He’s pitching against the Dodgers, which is a team with whom he played for a total of 9 years from 1994-2001 and 2008.


The Dodgers are fighting for a shot at the world series under Joe Torre, who managed and led the Yankees to the post-season for all 10 years Torre was with the Yankees.  The Yankees are vying for a shot at the World Series as well. 

I’m not really following the NLCS series, because I’m focusing on the ALCS Yankees series, but I have read that Park was phenomenal in the 1st game of the NLCS.  He entered the game in the 7th inning, no outs, and a tying run on 2nd.  He pitched 3 outs to retire 3 power hitters on the opposing team and positioned the Phillies for a decent shot against the Dodgers.  ROCK ON!


Park was born June 30, 1973, and is the first Korean-born major league baseball player.  In his prime, Park was a “power pitcher with a dominating fastball in the mid-to-high-90-mph range, a hard slider, an 11-to-5 curveball, and a changeup”. (Wiki)


In reference to Park’s two-seam fastball (Yeah, don’t ask me exactly what that is…I’m guessing it’s a pretty sick pitch), play-by-play baseball announcer, Matt Vasgersian, once commented: “You can only see a two-seamer like that in Playstation 2.”   Awe shit. 


The Phillies lead the NLCS 3-1, next game is on Wednesday, October 21, 8pm on TBS. 

Keywords: Asian athletes, famous asians, korean athletes, Phillies, NLCS
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famousfilipinos: (originally posted September 2, 2009)

Nicole Bilderback

Bring It On 2 DVD was released yesterday, but we are paying homage to the original movie whose cast includes Nicole Bilderback.  Nicole’s character, Whitney, was one of the main cheerleaders on the team with Torrance, played by Kirsten Dunst.

Born June 10, 1975 in Korea and raised in Tulsa, OK by her adoptive parents, Jim and Lois Bilderback, Nicole is also well known for her role as Summer in Clueless (1995), her recurring roles on television’s Dark Angel, Dawson’s Creek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Nicole has also starred in hit shows as The Practice, Heroes, Without a Trace, House MD and Boston Legal.

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famousfilipinos: (originally posted August 26, 2009)

Y.E. Yang - Historic Victory!

By 5 strokes, Yang beat 14-time Majors champion Tiger Woods to WIN the 91st PGA Championship on August 18, 2009.  The win earns Yang the fourth and final seat in one of the world’s toughest tournaments to be held Oct. 20-21 at Bermuda’s Port Royal Golf Course - the PGA Grand Slam of Golf.

Turning Pro only 5 years ago, the 37-year old South Korean’s victory will “go down in the history books as one of sports greatest upsets.  The most notable aspect [being] that Yang did to Tiger Woods what Tiger has become famous for doing to everyone else.” [source]

Imagine this win … HELL YEAH !!!    [top photo source, bottom photo source]

famousfilipinos: (originally posted August 26, 2009)

Ken Jeong, M.D.

Not only is this guy FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY, but HOT HOT HOT in the world of comedy.  He’s popping up all over the place! ROCK on Ken!

Jeong is currently starring with Jeremy Piven in The Goods: Live Hard and Sell Hard and next appears with Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper in All About Steve, in theaters September 4th.


Jeong most recently played ransom demanding mobster guy who jumps out of a car trunk stark naked, Mr. Chow, in Hangover.  Was an awesome surprise playing the Korean mafioso guy in Pineapple Express (“suck my ball two time!”), King Argotron in Role Models, and Allison Scott’s (Katherine Heigl’s) strict and sarcastic, perfectly condescending OB/GYN, Dr. Kuni, in Knocked Up.

Ken Jeong was born in 1969 to Korean immigrants who settled in North Carolina.  Jeong graduated high school at 16, completed his undergrad at Duke, and obtained his medical degree from UNC-Chapell Hill.  Jeong was urged by an NBC producer and an Improv founder to move to LA after seeing him perform and win the Big Easy Laff-Off in New Orleans where Jeong was completing his Internal Medicine residency.  He made regular appearances at the Improv and the Laugh Factory.

famousfilipinos: (originally posted August 20, 2009)

Jamie Chung

born April 10, 1983, is an American actress of Korean descent and next stars in Sorority Row (in theaters September 11), Dragonball Evolution, and Burning Palms. Chung currently stars as Chelsea Barnes in Disney Channel’s Princess Protection Program.

Chung is also known to audiences as a cast member on the MTV reality television series, The Real World: San Diego and its spin-off show, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno II.

Since her stint on The Real World, she has appeared in various television and film roles, including as Cordy Han in ten episodes of Days of our Lives, as a Hooters girl in the 2007 comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and in episodes of CSI: New York and Veronica Mars. She starred in the 2008 ABC Family show Samurai Girl in September 2008.^[2]