Ashley Hamilton

He may suit up as Firepower...It’s a double dip day for possible Marvel movie casting, so let’s tackle the first: Ashley Hamilton, who is best known for, er, being George’s son and Rod Stewart’s step son, is in talks to play Firepower in Iron Man 3.The character, also known as Jack Taggert, takes part in Project: Firepower, which aims to develop an armoured suit to match Tony Stark’s Iron Man duds. It’s not yet known what role the character...  

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It's especially good news that Happy Hogan is back for "Iron Man 3," because it seems like Tony Stark needs all the allies he can get. Variety has the news that Ashley Hamilton will play Firepower, another villain in the film. It's said to be a small part, though we know from the comics that [...]  

A couple of notable casting choices for upcoming Marvel movies hit this afternoon, and let’s start with Mads Mikkelsen, who is in talks to play the bad guy in Thor 2. We don’t know much about the plot for the Alan Taylor-directed film at this point, and we don’t know what role Mikkelsen will play. [...]  

Ashley Hamilton is, according to Variety , up for a small villain role as the Marvel Comics character Firepower in Shane Black's Iron Man 3 . Meanwhile, Jon Favreau has tweeted the below visual confirmation that, while he won't be back in the director's chair this time around, Happy Hogan will again be seen in front of the camera. A relative unknown, Hamilton regularly appeared on the television series "Sunset Beach" and played a villainous...  

Ashley Hamilton is in discussions to play a villain in Iron Man 3.  

Perhaps this isn't very surprising, but since actor-director Jon Favreau decided not to return to the director's chair for Iron Man 3 there was some question whether he would reprise his role as Happy Hogan, Tony Stark's (Robert Downey Jr.) chauffeur-bodyguard. However, with Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) taking over as director, THR reports Favreau has closed his deal to return as Hogan. Production began on Wednesday in Wilmington, N.C...  

The son of George Hamilton, stepson of Rod Stewart, former competitor on "Dancing With The Stars" and a correspondent on "Extra"....listen, we know Marvel is thrifty, but this is pretty ridiclous... But believe it or not, Ashley Hamilton -- one of People's most beautiful people in the world sometime in the '90s (hilariously, even IMDB can't be bothered to find out when) has joined "Iron Man 3" as the villain Firepower. To Wikipedia...  

Firepower is an experimental government armored suit piloted by Jack Taggert (Hamilton). At one point, he was enlisted by the Mandarin and Zeke Stane to destroy Tony Stark. And Zeke Stane is the son of Obadiah Stane, Jeff Bridges' character in the first film.  

Ashley Hamilton is in talks to play Firepower ... Ben Kingsley, James Badge Dale and Rebecca Hall also star. Plot will borrow elements from Warren Ellis' six-issue "Iron Man: Extremis," which also influenced the first "Iron Man" installment, and focuses ...  

The actor is in talks to play the Marvel Comics villain Ashley Hamilton is, according to Variety ... Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Rebecca Hall and James Badge Dale. Black will direct from a script he co-wrote with Drew Pearce. Iron Man 3 will hit theaters ...  

One of the most common complaints about the villains in the Iron Man franchise is that both had suits that were dastardly twisted versions of the Iron Man armor. That complaint may irk its ugly head once more in Iron Man 3, as Ashley Hamilton is ...  

If all the rumors about Iron Man 3 casting are true, then Tony Stark is going to have his hands full. According to Variety, Ashley Hamilton is in talks to play the villain Firepower in Iron Man 3. If you’re unfamiliar with the name Ashley ...  

This is just the latest piece of casting news for Shane Black’s upcoming film, arriving on the heels of the news that James Badge Dale (see The Seventh Day) will be joining the cast as Eric Savin, another comic book character who winds up ...  

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Just a few minutes ago, while writing up an article about how Casino Royale's Mads Mikkelsen could play the villain in Thor 2, I noted that Iron Man 3 has been hogging all of the news coming out of Marvel. So of course now that the big Thor news ...  

It sounds like Tony Stark is going to have his hands full in Iron Man 3. Not only has Ben Kingsley been cast as a villain in the Marvel sequel starring Robert Downey Jr., but James Badge Dale's role as Eric Savin, a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army put ...  

Two Marvel Studios' upcoming big movies, "Thor 2" and "Iron Man 3", have each added new villainous character. The first sequel to the God of Thunder movie, in particular, will not only have Tom Hiddleston's Loki as its villain, but also another ...  

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Joseph Price didn't have to wait long to learn the specific challenges he'll face as Grambling's new men's basketball coach. Walter Harrison, the NCAA Division-I Committee on Academic Performance, notified Grambling President Frank Pogue on Friday of the ...  

While every team that has reached the Elite Eight received solid contributions from their star players and will need to continue to get that in order to advance to the Final Four, they need good supporting casts as well. As important as the stars are it is ...  

Calipari is fully aware that he's got at least a half-dozen players on his roster who are likely to wind up in the NBA, a team that could go down as one of the greatest in college basketball history if it wins three more games. Even The Onion, a mock news ...  

ST. LOUIS - Nothing personal, Roy. Tyshawn Taylor broke out of his slump in a big way Sunday, scoring 22 points and leading Kansas back to the Final Four with an 80-67 victory over former coach Roy Williams and top-seeded North Carolina. The second-seeded ...  

Basketball and football excellence seldom go hand in hand in college sports – at least not in the same academic year – and the teams playing in Saturday’s NCAA Final Four in New Orleans are no exception. Only one of the basketball programs represents ...  

DENVER — Kim Mulkey is The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball Coach of the Year. Mulkey has guided her team to an undefeated season so far and the Lady Bears stand two wins away from becoming the first team in NCAA history to win 40 games ...  

College basketball's greatest team and greatest player had escaped the nightmare. The clock was ticking off the final seconds of top-ranked Kentucky's 69-61 NCAA national championship semifinal victory over cross-state rival Louisville, and Wildcat center ...  

The NCAA Division 1 women's tournament gets criticized for not having enough true March Madness moments, when the Davids rise up and beat the Goliaths in nerve-jangling upsets. Such is the power structure in the women's game, with largely untouchable elite ...  

As far as the college basketball coaching fraternity is concerned, John Calipari already ranks as one of the best in the business today. He's taken three different schools (UMass, Memphis and Kentucky) to the Final Four while building up strong programs at ...  

For the first time, two Kentucky college basketball teams -- the University of Kentucky's Wildcats and the University of Louisville's Cardinals -- will play each other in an epic men's NCAA Final Four showdown on Saturday. The heated rivalry between ...  

The SEC’s stranglehold on American college sports has reached a new level. With the Kentucky Wildcats earning its eighth NCAA men's basketball title, the SEC now boasts six current champions, with an overwhelming dominance in several sports. This bests ...  

After guiding Ohio State to the Final Four, two-time All-American forward Jared Sullinger figured he might as well see what he could do for an NBA team.   The 6-foot-9 sophomore announced on Wednesday that he is giving up his final two seasons with the ...  

Welcome to final Examiner.com college basketball rankings of the season, where Examiners from all over the nation vote for their Top 25 college basketball teams. In the final Top 25 poll, the National Champion Kentucky Wildcats surprised no one by ...  

What had been rumor and speculation in college basketball circles for years now has some teeth: The remarkable turnaround of Baylor's basketball program was not so clean. The same for its women's basketball team, too. According to a report by ESPN.com ...  

WACO, Texas (AP) The NCAA has put Baylor on three years of probation after a three-year investigation into hundreds of impermissible telephone calls and text messages sent by basketball coaches to prep recruits. The NCAA and school released the details ...  

Head coach is sometimes the most underrated position in sports. There have already been a total of 35 changes among the ranks of NCAA college basketball coaches since the end of the 2011-2012 season. Some coaches were hired, some were fired, and some ...  

Bleacher Report was on scene in New Orleans to capture all the sights and sounds of the Big Easy prior to the big NCAA Final Four games: Louisville vs. Kentucky and Kansas vs. Ohio State! Loud and passionate fans of all four teams packed New Orleans to ...  

Josh Pastner (Getty Images)Josh Pastner may be the first college basketball coach ever to blame his wife after committing a minor NCAA violation. Late Tuesday night, Pastner used the University of Memphis' men's basketball Twitter account to inadvertently ...  

A trio of State Fair Community College basketball players are going Division I. Antonin Galaya and Alfonzo Houston have signed to play at NCAA Division I North Carolina Central, of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, next season in Durham, N.C. North ...  

With his trademark fade haircut, a twitter account with more than 50,000 followers and status as the best big man in high school basketball, Nerlens Noel was given the royal treatment whenever he took his unofficial visits to colleges. Now the NCAA wants ...  

Jimmy Kimmel is doing his best Jerry MaGuire impression on national television. Apparently, Kimmel felt it was important for him to do his part on the behalf of UNLV. The comedian and late-night TV host tweeted high school All-American forward Anthony ...  

The removal of slippery decals from basketball courts -- something we can all agree on-- isn't the only recommendation the NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Rules Committees (MWBRC?) made to the Playing Rules Oversight Panel (PROP -- now there's ...  

The NCAA tournament tends to serve as the great equalizer of college basketball. Even the most talented squads have trouble navigating its gauntlet. As a result, more often than not, the team cutting down the net isn't really the "best" team at all.  

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- The Toledo men's basketball team will be banned from next year's postseason because of past academic problems after the NCAA denied the school's appeal. The ban stems from several years of below-standard scores on the NCAA's ...  

WACO, Texas — The Baylor basketball programs may be in trouble with the NCAA after an investigation found coaches made more than 1,200 impermissible calls and text messages to prospects over a 29-month span dating to 2008. ESPN.com reported the ...  

Many Michigan basketball fans see 2013 as the end of the Ed Martin booster scandal. According to the NCAA sanctions handed out a decade earlier, the Michigan athletic department will no longer be banned from associating with and recognizing the ...  

Watch Kentucky vs Louisville Live College basketball (Online TV,Score & Preview 2012) . Watch Kentucky vs Louisville Live Streaming NCAA College basketball Online Internet Broadcast from the channels nfl.com . This website covering all the nfl ...  

LITTLE ROCK — Rooting for Kentucky to win the NCAA championship was done with the future of college basketball in mind. The way the rules are, it is not a stretch to say the NBA Developmental League franchise with the most talent is in Lexington.  

Kellogg, who'll call tonight's title game between Kentucky and Kansas with Steve Kerr and Jim Nantz, notes tournament upstarts have had plenty of success, like Butler making the title game the past two years: "College basketball continues to ...  

Maybe even Over and Out. All that really matters is that Kentucky parlayed a roster full of NBA talent into a 67-59 victory Monday night over Kansas for the team's eighth national NCAA basketball title -- its first since 1998. Kentucky's top ...  

ATLANTA—All three divisions of NCAA men's basketball will see their 2013 national champions crowned during Final Four weekend in Atlanta. The NCAA has announced that for the first time, the Division II and Division III titles will be awarded ...  

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Storrs — The NCAA has turned down what the University of Connecticut says is its final appeal for a waiver of academic requirements, a pass that would give the Huskies a chance to participate in next year’s postseason tournament. UConn doesn ...  

During NBA on TNT broadcasts throughout the year, Charles Barkley offers enough expertise to go along with his comedic ways to entertain and inform the audience. But when he serves as a college basketball analyst on CBS' coverage of the NCAA ...  

Mark Lewis, a long snapper for the Bulldogs in the late 1980s and a veteran sports-business executive, was named the NCAA’s executive vice president for championships and alliances. He will oversee the NCAA basketball tournament and 88 other ...  

BOLIVAR, Mo. (AP) — The NCAA has sanctioned the men's basketball team at Southwest Baptist University after an investigation found hundreds of impermissible text messages sent to prospective athletes. Penalties include one year of probation ...  

If anyone can beat Baylor — and that’s a big if, according to most experts — it’s Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish were perfect against Maryland and shifted the momentum at the right time against UConn to earn its way to the 2012 NCAA women’s ...  

The NCAA Final Four used to seem so simple. The four surviving men’s teams in college basketball converged on a city, accompanied by thousands of passionate fans clad from top to toe in their colleges’ colors. There were two games Saturday ...  

BOSTON — Ohio State coach Thad Matta sized up his team in the middle of the season and had it figured for a first-weekend loss when the NCAA tournament came around. He's never been so happy to be wrong. Jared Sullinger recovered from first ...  

PHOENIX — Hated to do that to ya, kid. Rick Pitino nearly came unhinged and his point guard watched the end of the game from the bench. When it was over, though, it was Pitino and his Louisville team making plans for the Final Four and his ...  

When a leak appeared in Mississippi Valley State's gym roof and warped the floor, basketball practice became impossible just as the 2010-11 season was getting under way. The displaced Delta Devils — who had made the NCAA men's basketball ...  

But as college football and basketball have increased in popularity, Division I universities have seen dramatic revenue gains, earning millions of dollars more than smaller institutions. The gap between the top and the bottom has widened ...  

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Joseph Price didn’t have to wait long to learn the specific challenges he’ll face as Grambling’s new men’s basketball coach. Walter Harrison, the NCAA Division-I Committee on Academic Performance, notified Grambling President Frank Pogue ...  

Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Small programs, much like the Ohio Bobcats, have found ways to compete in the NCAA tournament. A few years ago, I took a road trip with the Alcorn State basketball team to see how the other half of Division I lives.  

DENVER—Tuesday’s NCAA women’s basketball championship game between Baylor and Notre Dame will be a rematch. The Lady Bears reached the final Sunday night by defeating Stanford 59-47 in the second Final Four semifinal at the Pepsi Center ...  

“This is a first in the history of NCAA basketball, and our membership is energized to play all three men’s championships games in the same city during the same weekend as a unique and special way to celebrate 75 years of March Madness ...  

CHICAGO, March 2, 2012 – It’s always nice to see the underdog win a game, even nicer to see them win a big one. Watching VCU claw its way into last year’s Final Four, only to lose to equally tiny Butler was a sports fan’s dream ...  

Pogue did meet with the NCAA last month to discuss plans to improve the program ... Whether or not Price is able to turn things around will ultimately impact far more than just the basketball program at Grambling.