* 1985 – Paul Rabil, Professional lacrosse player

Professional football in the Minneapolis – Saint Paul area ( the " Twin Cities ") began with the Minneapolis Marines / Red Jackets, an NFL team that played intermittently in the 1920s – 30s.

Following the season's conclusion St. Paul, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, and Lincoln announced they were leaving the league to form a new independent league with five teams from the folded Central Baseball League in the southern United States ; the new league was to be known as the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.

* Paul Goydos, PGA Tour Professional

Also, every summer, the Professional Bull Riders holds a minor-league ( or Touring Pro Division ( TPD )) event in St. Paul.

Professional wrestlers, more often than not, perform under ring names depicting alter egos, such as Terry Bollea ( Hulk Hogan ), Mark Calaway ( The Undertaker ), Paul Levesque ( Triple H ), Mike Mizanin ( The Miz ) and Phillip Brooks ( CM Punk ).

* Professional Skateboarder Paul Rodriguez Jr.

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Professional players Paul Bowman, Matthew Scott, Tom Hewitt, Julian O ' Neill, Shane Marteene, PJ Marsh and Dave Taylor are all St. Brendan's alumni.

A spokesman for the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association said at the time: " Paul will undergo treatment to cure himself of this illness.

* Paul Banks-Atlanta Beat ( WPS )-Women's Professional Soccer

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He was also one of the few well-known guitarists to make regular use of the unique 1969 Les Paul " Professional " model, which sported a pair of unconventional low-impedance pickups, requiring a special impedance-matching transformer for use with a standard high-impedance-input amplifier.

John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin used a Farfisa on " Dancing Days " from Houses of the Holy, as well as occasionally using a VIP-255 or a Professional model on stage.

* Paul Berthoud, A Professional Life Narrative, 2008, worked with UNESOB and offers testimony from the inside of the early years of the organization.

Following the end of the season, the Diablos announced that they would join with several fellow Central League members including the Coastal Bend Aviators, the Fort Worth Cats, the Pensacola Pelicans, and the Shreveport Sports and join with former Northern League teams the Saint Paul Saints, Sioux City Explorers, the Sioux Falls Pheasants, and the Lincoln Saltdogs to form the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball as an independent minor league.

In February, 2007, the coach of both the Boys ' and Girls ' Team, Paul Fisher, was awarded the title National High School Tennis Coach of the Year by the Professional Tennis Registry ( PTR ).

* Paul Gruber ( born 1965 ), Professional football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ( 1988-1999 )

* Paul Berthoud, A Professional Life Narrative, 2008, worked with ONUC and offers testimony from the inside

He wrestled in Professional Championship Wrestling ( PCW ) as Shadow from 2000 – 2009, and faced opponents including Paul London and Ahmed Johnson.

Paul M. Anderson served as Committee Chair ; Joe C. Glasscock was the Professional Adviser.

Jonathan Paul Katz ( born December 1, 1946 ) is an American comedian, actor, and voice actor best known for his starring role in the animated sitcom Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.

Paul Lawrie won the Scottish Professional Golf Championship which was held at Cardross Golf Course in 1992.

Paul Bravo ( born June 19, 1968 in Campbell, California ) is a former American soccer midfielder and forward who played six seasons in Major League Soccer, two in the American Professional Soccer League and two in the USISL.

* Paul Boutilier, retired National Hockey League ( NHL ) hockey player, Stanley Cup Champion

* Paul Mara ( born 1979 ), National Hockey League defenceman for the Montreal Canadiens formerly of the New York Rangers, was born in Ridgewood but was raised in Belmont, Massachusetts.

* Tommy Albelin ( born 1964 ), former NHL Defenseman for the New Jersey Devils and now current coach of the De Paul High School Hockey team.

( The Hockey Song )" with Paul Shaffer and members of the CBS Orchestra on Warren Zevon's My Ride's Here album.

( The Hockey Song )" ( which was co-written by Tuesdays with Morrie author Mitch Albom, and featured Paul Shaffer, the " Late Night " band and a spoken guest vocal from TV host David Letterman ) and the ballad " Genius ", later taken as the title for a 2002 Zevon anthology, and a song whose string section illustrates the lasting influence of Stravinsky on Zevon's work.

Home to the National Hockey League's Minnesota Wild and the National Lacrosse League's Minnesota Swarm, it is on the same block as the RiverCentre convention facility, Roy Wilkins Auditorium, and Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in downtown St. Paul.

The push for a new arena in Saint Paul grew after the National Hockey League's Minnesota North Stars moved to Dallas.

Paul Tetsuhiko Kariya (; ( Kariya Tetsuhiko ; born October 16, 1974 ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey winger who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

* Paul Bissonnette-Phoenix Coyotes Hockey Player ( NHL )

" Paul ( Paul Reiser ) replies, " No, that would be the name of the Smith College Ice Hockey Team.

Roger Paul Neilson, CM ( June 16, 1934 – June 21, 2003 ) was a National Hockey League coach, and was responsible for many innovations in the game.

Category: National Hockey League in Minneapolis – Saint Paul

* Paul Coffey, Stanley Cup winning defenceman and member of Hockey Hall of Fame.

* Paul Martin ( ice hockey ) ( born 1981 ), American National Hockey League player

Five alumni have been elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame: Bill Barber, Paul Coffey, Al MacInnis, Larry Robinson and Scott Stevens.

Primeau held out after the club signed Igor Larionov and after playing for Canada in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, Detroit traded him along with Paul Coffey and a 1997 first round draft pick ( Nikos Tselios ) to the Hartford Whalers for Brendan Shanahan and Brian Glynn prior to the 1996 – 97 season.

* Hockey player Paul Henderson was born in a sleigh near this town.

Paul Douglas Coffey ( born June 1, 1961 ) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey defenceman in the National Hockey League.

On June 8, 2012 it was announced that Barrasso would be joining Paul Maurice on the coaching staff of Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.

Paul Shmyr ( January 18, 1946 in Cudworth, Saskatchewan — September 2, 2004 in Surrey, British Columbia ) was a World Hockey Association and National Hockey League defenceman.

In 1924, the International Hockey Federation ( FIH, Fédération Internationale de Hockey ) was founded in Paris, under the initiative of the French man, Paul Léautey, as a response to hockey's omission from the 1924 Paris Game.