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Neal Smith (Canadian Football)
Neil or Neal Smith may refer to: Sports *Neil Smith (American football) (born 1966), in the NFL *Neil Smith (cricketer, born 1967), English cricketer * Neil Smith (cricketer, born 1949) (1949–2003), English cricketer for Yorkshire and Essex *Neil Smith (footballer) (born 1971), English *Neil Smith (ice hockey) (born 1954), Canadian executive and broadcaster Music *Neal Smith (drummer) (born 1947), founding member of Alice Cooper * Neil Smith (musician), former bassist in AC/DC and Rose Tattoo Other *Neil Smith (linguist) (born 1939), British linguist *Neil Smith (geographer) (1954–2012), Scottish-born American professor * Neal Smith (politician) (1920–2021), U.S. representative from Iowa *Neil Smith (writer) Neil Smith (born 1964) is a Canadian writer and translator from Montreal, Quebec. His novel ''Boo'', published in 2015, won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. ''Boo'' was also nominated for a Sunburst Award and the Canadian Library Associatio ..., Canadian fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Smith (American Football)
Neil Smith (born April 10, 1966) is an American former professional American football, football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1988 to 1996, the Denver Broncos from 1997 to 1999, and the San Diego Chargers in 2000. Before his NFL career, he played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers football, Nebraska Cornhuskers, where he was an College Football All-America Team, All-American in 1987 College Football All-America Team, 1987. He also co-owned an Arena Football team, the Kansas City Command. Early years Born in New Orleans, Smith graduated from McDonogh No. 35 Senior High School in the city. Professional career The Chiefs, who had the third pick, made it known to everyone before the 1988 NFL Draft that they intended to take Smith. The Detroit Lions, picking second, threatened to pick Smith and the Chiefs were forced to move up one slot to make sure that Smith would be their pick. Incidental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Smith (cricketer, Born 1967)
Neil Michael Knight Smith (born 27 July 1967) is a former English cricketer who played in seven One Day Internationals from 1986 to 1996. He then went on to work at Warwick School for boys, Myton Road, Warwick as the Groundsman but has recently semi retired. He is the son of the former England Test captain, M J K Smith. Smith was part of a successful Warwickshire side which won the County Championship under the captaincy of Dermot Reeve in successive seasons in 1994 and 1995. Smith was particularly valuable in one-day cricket, and helped Warwickshire to win the NatWest Trophy in 1989, hitting Simon Hughes for a six in a tense last-over climax in the final. Warwickshire and Smith also won the NatWest Trophy in 1993 and 1995, the Benson and Hedges Cup in 1995, and the Sunday League in 1994 and 1997, the latter when Smith was captain (following his father as Warwickshire captain) and top run-scorer. The highlight of his brief international career comprised his mixed expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Smith (cricketer, Born 1949)
Neil Smith (1 April 1949 – 4 March 2003) was an English first-class cricketer, who played eight First-Class matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1970 and 1971, before moving to Essex where he enjoyed a successful county career until 1981. He also played for Cheshire in the Minor Counties, appearing in occasional List A one day games for them in 1988 and 1989. Early life and career Born at Ossett, Yorkshire, England, Smith had hopes of replacing the long-serving Jimmy Binks behind the stumps for Yorkshire, but found his place taken by the then 18-year-old, David Bairstow. Smith moved to Essex instead to replace Brian Taylor, and established himself in the side in 1973. He had a good pair of hands and, although not at first sight the most nimble of movers, was a key part of the first Essex side to win a trophy. He lost his place in 1981 to David East, captained the Essex Second XI for a season, and then returned to Yorkshire for a business career. In 187 first-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Smith (footballer)
Neil Smith (born Lambeth, 30 September 1971) is an English former professional football player and currently first team manager at Cray Wanderers. Playing career Smith started his career at Tottenham Hotspur as an apprentice but after a year had failed to break through to the team. He went on loan to Gillingham and then signed for them permanently in 1991, going on to make over 200 appearances. During his time at the Gills in 1995, Smith was on the verge of a move to then Division Two club Brentford. However, when the fee was set at £50,000 by a tribunal, then Brentford manager David Webb felt he could find better value elsewhere, hence the deal fell through and Smith remained at Gillingham for two more seasons. He moved to Fulham in 1997 for two seasons, making 75 appearances and scoring two goals. He scored once against Colchester in the league and also scored against former club Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup, before joining Reading, where he made some 65 appearances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Smith (ice Hockey)
Neil Smith (born January 9, 1954) is a Canadian ice hockey broadcaster, and previously the general manager of both the New York Rangers from 1989–2000 and (briefly) the New York Islanders in 2006. He was also the owner and head coach of the Johnstown Chiefs of the ECHL. He last was the president, general manager, and governor of the Greenville Road Warriors of the ECHL. He now is an on-air analyst for the NHL Network. Biography Early career Smith played junior hockey before attending Western Michigan University. As a freshman, he was selected to the All-American team as a defenceman, and was named team captain his sophomore season. He was drafted in 1974 by the New York Islanders as the first ever draft pick from WMU. He spent several seasons in the minor leagues before working for the organization as a talent scout. With Smith working in an important capacity for the Islanders minor league system, the Islanders' Central Hockey League affiliate, the Indianapolis Checkers (whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal Smith (drummer)
Neal Smith (born September 23, 1947) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock group Alice Cooper from 1967 to 1974. He performed on the group's early albums ''Pretties for You'' and ''Easy Action'', their breakout album ''Love It to Death'' and the subsequent successful albums ''Killer'', '' School's Out'', and ''Billion Dollar Babies''. The last new studio album with the five original Alice Cooper group members participating in new music was ''Muscle of Love'' in 1973. The original group's ''Greatest Hits'' studio album was released in 1974. In 2018 (fifty years after the original group debuted its new group name Alice Cooper in 1968), a live performance album '' Live from the Astroturf'' recorded in 2015 was released, featuring four of the original group members performing eight of their hit songs, with long-time Alice Cooper solo band guitarist and friend Ryan Roxie interplaying lead guitar parts with original group rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce, on be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Smith (musician)
AC/DC (stylised as ACϟDC) are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by Scottish-born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Their music has been variously described as hard rock, blues rock, and heavy metal, but the band calls it simply "rock and roll". AC/DC underwent several line-up changes before releasing their first album, 1975's ''High Voltage''. Membership subsequently stabilised around the Young brothers, singer Bon Scott, drummer Phil Rudd, and bassist Mark Evans. Evans was fired from the band in 1977 and replaced by Cliff Williams, who has appeared on every AC/DC album since 1978's ''Powerage''. In February 1980, about seven months after the release of their breakthrough album ''Highway to Hell'', Scott died of acute alcohol poisoning after a night of heavy drinking. AC/DC considered disbanding, but at Scott's family's request, the remaining members opted to continue the band, bringing in longtime Geordie vocalist Brian Johnson as Scott's replacement. Late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Smith (linguist)
Neilson Voyne Smith FBA (born 1939), known as Neil Smith, is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University College London. He wrote his PhD (1964) on the grammar of Nupe, a language of Nigeria. Since then his research has encompassed theoretical syntax, language acquisition, the savant syndrome, and general linguistic theory, particularly the work of Noam Chomsky. In the 1990s he began working with an autistic man, Christopher, in collaboration with Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli. According to Smith and Tsimpli, Christopher has a non-verbal IQ of between 60 and 70, but his English is comparable to that of normal native speakers, and he has an extraordinary ability to learn new languages. Smith was Head of the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics at University College London from 1983 to 1990, and headed the Linguistics section from 1972 until his retirement in 2006, when he was presented with a Festschrift ''Language in Mind: A Tribute to Neil Smith on the Occasion of his Retireme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Smith (geographer)
Neil Robert Smith (18 June 1954 – 29 September 2012) was a Scottish geographer and academic. He was Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and winner of numerous awards, including the Globe Book Award of the Association of American Geographers. Background Smith was born in 1954 in Leith, Scotland. He was one of four children of a schoolteacher, and spent most of his childhood in Dalkeith, southeast of Edinburgh. He attended King's Park Primary School and Dalkeith High School. Smith earned his 1st class BSc from the University of St. Andrews in 1977 (with a year at the University of Pennsylvania, 1974–1975), and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1982, where his advisor was noted Marxist geographer David Harvey. He took up a tenure-track position at Columbia University in New York (1982–1986), but Columbia closed its Geography Department and he moved to Rutgers University in New Jersey (1986– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal Smith (politician)
Neal Edward Smith (March 23, 1920 – November 2, 2021) was an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives for the Democratic Party from Iowa from 1959 until 1995, the longest-serving Iowan in the United States House of Representatives. Upon the death of Lester L. Wolff in May 2021, Smith became the oldest living current or former member of Congress. He held this title until his death six months later. Early life Smith was born in his grandparents' home near Hedrick, Keokuk County, Iowa. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War as a bomber pilot. His plane was shot down and he received a Purple Heart, nine Battle stars, and the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters. First with points to exit military service from his group and quickly recruited into university. He received his undergraduate training at the University of Missouri and Syracuse University and received a law degree from Drake University in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Smith (writer)
Neil Smith (born 1964) is a Canadian writer and translator from Montreal, Quebec. His novel ''Boo'', published in 2015, won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. ''Boo'' was also nominated for a Sunburst Award and the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, and was longlisted for the Prix des libraires du Québec. Smith published his debut book, the short story collection ''Bang Crunch'', in 2007. It was chosen as a best book of the year by the ''Washington Post'' and ''The Globe and Mail'', won the McAuslan First Book Prize from the Quebec Writers' Federation, and was a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Three stories in the book were also nominated for the Journey Prize.Gordon Bowness"In print: Neil Smith’s Bang Crunch" ''Daily Xtra'', January 31, 2007. Smith also has a degree in translation and translates from French to English. ''The Goddess of Fireflies'', his translation of Geneviève Pettersen's novel ''La déesse des mouches à feu'', was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Smith (politician)
Neil Smith is an American politician who served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 67th district. Elected in November 2020, he assumed office on January 6, 2021. Early life and education Smith is a native of San Francisco. He earned a certificate in telecommunications cabling from John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California. Career Prior to entering politics, Smith spent 25 years in the auto industry. He moved to Missouri in 2005 and settled in St. Louis County. Smith was encouraged to run for the House by a friend, Jay Mosley Jay Mosley is an American politician serving as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 68th district. Elected in November 2016, he assumed office in January 2017. Early life and education Mosley was born and raised in Sacra .... He was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in November 2020 and assumed office on January 6, 2021. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Neil Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
