Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
A slam-dunk love story! Milwaukee Bucks athlete Grayson Allen and wife Morgan Reid first met as undergraduate students at Duke University.“I think [our first kiss] was at my apartment senior year,” Reid recalled during a joint Whistle Sports interview in April 2022. “We were best friends since freshman year and I had this feeling that you might have liked me.”Allen and Reid both matriculated at the North Carolina-based university in 2014, where they played for Duke’s basketball and soccer teams, respectively.After the former Memphis Grizzlies player made a move on his classmate, they soon started dating.
Upon graduation, both Allen and Reid were drafted by their respective sport’s professional leagues. The shooting guard joined the Utah Jazz while Reid was drafted by the North Carolina Courage less than one year before she was traded to the Orlando Pride.“Playing in college seemed like a distant goal.
Playing at a program like Duke seemed completely impossible. But as I progressed and grew taller, I started to draw attention from schools, and eventually the scholarship offers started to come,” Allen wrote in a November 2017 essay for The Players’ Tribune about his sport. “I remember how cool it was to be offered by Florida and Georgia because my mom was a Gator and my dad was a Bulldog.
My entire childhood, they tugged me to both sides of the rivalry, but it was useless. Ever since I was a little kid, it was all about Duke Basketball.
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