In 2007 Agassi, Muhammad Ali, Lance Armstrong, Warrick Dunn, Jeff Gordon, Mia Hamm, Tony Hawk, Andrea Jaeger, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Mario Lemieux, Alonzo Mourning and Cal Ripken, Jr. founded the charity Athletes for Hope, which helps professional athletes get involved in charitable causes and aims to inspire all people to volunteer and support their communities.

* Mario Lemieux ( born 1965 ), Canadian ice hockey player

For only the second time in his NHL career, Gretzky finished second in scoring, but narrowly beat out Pittsburgh's Mario Lemieux ( who scored 199 points ) for the Hart Trophy as MVP.

Playing on a line with Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Mario Lemieux, he recorded a tournament-best 21 points in nine games.

* Mario Lemieux

The Islanders ' next opponent, the Pittsburgh Penguins, were twice-defending Stanley Cup champions and full of stars such as Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr and Ron Francis.

Mario Lemieux, one of the most highly touted NHL draft picks in history, was due to be drafted in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft.

Mario Lemieux played for the Penguins from 1984 – 94, 1995 – 97, 2000 – 06.

The seven game defeat featured Mario Lemieux scoring five goals in the fifth game.

" Three Hall of Fame members came out of retirement after their induction and resumed a career in the National League: Gordie Howe, Guy Lafleur and Mario Lemieux.

* Held record for most assists in one NHL season from 1970 to 1981 ( 87 in 1969 – 70, which he surpassed in 1970 – 71 with 102 ; broken by Wayne Gretzky and also bettered by Mario Lemieux )

Mario Lemieux, three-time winner.

Former Pittsburgh Penguins star Mario Lemieux, as well as current Penguins stars Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Sergei Gonchar of the Ottawa Senators, and retired Pittsburgh Steeler legend Franco Harris live in Sewickley ( Lynn Swann is often thought to be a Sewickley resident, but he actually lives in the neighboring borough of Sewickley Heights ).

Gordie Howe and Mario Lemieux each won it six times, while Phil Esposito and Jaromir Jagr each have five.

From 1963 to 2001, Marcel Dionne and Bryan Trottier were the only single-time winners of the scoring title, while Stan Mikita, Phil Esposito, Bobby Orr, Guy Lafleur, Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, and Jaromir Jagr had won it on multiple occasions.

For two decades, from 1980 to 2001, only three players won the Art Ross Trophy — Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, and Jaromir Jagr.

Mario Lemieux, six-time winner.

In 1998, The Hockey News released their List of Top 100 NHL Players of All Time and listed Howe third overall, ahead of Mario Lemieux, but behind Wayne Gretzky and Bobby Orr.

Mario Lemieux, OC, CQ (; ; born October 5, 1965 ) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and co-owner of the National Hockey League's ( NHL ) Pittsburgh Penguins and the American Hockey League's ( AHL ) Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins.

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A Power Set was also available, which included the Action Set, the Power Pad and a 3-in-1 cartridge that included Duck Hunt, World Class Track Meet and Super Mario Bros.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

His films ( often with Peppino De Filippo and almost always with Mario Castellani ) expressed a sort of neorealistic satire, in the means of a guitto ( a " hammy " actor ) as well as with the art of the great dramatic actor he also was.

The Italian director-producer Mario Zampi also made a number of successful black comedies, including Laughter in Paradise ( 1951 ), The Naked Truth ( 1957 ) and Too Many Crooks ( 1958 ).

Peano's students Mario Pieri and Alessandro Padoa had a papers presented at the philosophy congress also.

Hideki Konno, the series producer, has stated that he hopes to release a Mario Kart game for Nintendo's upcoming games console ; the Wii U. Konno said that he wanted to create " a new and enjoyable game that uses the unique function of Wii U ", He also added that he'd never considered adding other franchise characters into the series.

Certain courses from the series have also appeared in F-Zero X, Itadaki Street DS, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, and Fortune Street.

He also reported a confidence by co-founder Renato Curcio, according to whom Mario Moretti would be an infiltrated agent.

The game is also seen as having been key to expanding the Mario series into non-platforming games, where the main goal in platform games is when the hero has to rescue the damsel in distress ; this diversity has led to it become the best-selling game franchise of all time.

Super Mario Kart also has three multiplayer modes ; Mario Kart GP, Match Race and Battle Mode.

The use of the style and characters from the Mario franchise was also praised as well as the individual characteristics of each racer.

Super Mario Kart is also credited as being the first non-platforming game to feature multiple playable characters from the Mario franchise.

Non-sporting franchises using the Mario characters have also been created, including the Super Smash Bros. series of fighting games and the Mario Party series of board game based, party games.

Mario series characters have also made cameos in games from other series such as SSX on Tour and NBA Street V3, both published by EA Sports.

Following this model the Mario series has gone on to become the best selling video game franchise of all time with 193 million units sold as of January 2007, almost 40 million units ahead of second ranked franchise ( Pokémon, also by Nintendo ).

Like Mario Kart DS, it includes on-line play ; it also allows racers to play as user-created Miis ( after unlocking the Mii character ) as well as Mario series characters and comes packaged with the Wii Wheel peripheral, which can act as the game's primary control mechanism when coupled with a Wii Remote.

Two Mario Kart arcade games have also been released, Mario Kart Arcade GP in 2005 and Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 in 2007.

* Mario Pinball Land, also known as Super Mario Ball, a pinball video game for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance