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Frat Guy of the Week: TV and Movie Star Ashton Kutcher

By Patrick W. Connelly
Co-Editor, The Frat Boy News

Before taking a modeling gig that led to his casting on a TV show that went on to be one of the decade's most popular sitcoms, Ashton Kutcher lived it up as a Delta Chi brother at the University of Iowa.

Kutcher, who stars alongside Cameron Diaz in the new movie "What Happens in Vegas..." opening this week, was a biochemical engineering major and was kicked out of his apartment at Iowa before moving to Hollywood to pursue and acting career.

"I thought I knew everything but I didn't have a clue," Kutcher told Cosmopolitan magazine in a 2007 interview. "I was smoking a lot of weed and partying and I woke up many mornings not knowing what I had done the night before. I played way too hard. I am amazed I am not dead."

Kutcher was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He starred in school plays while doubling as a receiver on the football team at Clear-Creek Amana High School.

Kutcher has a fraternal twin brother, Micheal, who has cerebral palsy. Finding a cure for Michael was Kutcher's inspiration for studying science at Iowa, he said.

After modeling in advertisements for Calvin Klein and acting in a Pizza Hut commercial, Kutcher moved to Los Angeles and got his big break when he joined the cast of "That 70s Show," starring as goofball Michael Kelso.

Kutcher has gone on to marry actress Demi Moore, star in over a dozen movies and produce hit TV shows like MTV's Punk'd.

Kappa Sigma Cowboy

Frat Guy of the Week: Dallas Cowboys' Owner Jerry Jones

By Patrick W. Connelly
Co-Editor, The Frat Boy News

Before he was calling the shots for the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones was just another beer sluggin' frat guy at the University of Arkansas.

Raised in North Little Rock, Ark., Jones was a star runningback in high school and was awarded a football scholarship to play for the Razorbacks. At Arkansas, Jones joined Kappa Sigma fraternity and played alongside two men he would later hire to coach the Cowboys, Barry Swtizer and Jimmy Johnson.

After college, Jones made bank in an Oklahoma oil and gas exploration business and in 1989 bought the Cowboys.

Jones went on to win three Super Bowls in the 1990s with the team and remains the franchises owner today. He even made an appearance in the 1998 movie 'BASEketball' and also owns the Dallas Desperados, an Arena Football League team.

The Cowboys are sitting pretty in this year's playoffs, finishing the 2007 regular season with a 13-3 record and the top seed in the National Football Conference.

Quarterbacking Sigma Nu

Frat Guy of the Week: Sigma Nu's Eli Manning

Long before he was tossing passes to NFL wide receivers, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning was a brother of Sigma Nu while attending the University of Mississippi.

Born in New Orleans, Manning followed in his father Archie's footsteps and attended Ole Miss. While at the university and playing quarterback for the Rebels, Manning joined the same fraternity as his father, Sigma Nu.

Constantly cast in the shadow of his Super-Bowl-winning older brother, Peyton, Eli has begun to make a name for himself in the NFL and shown traits of a leader in the Giants locker room.

At Ole Miss, Manning tied or broke 47 of the university's football records and led the team to a 10-3 record in his senior season. For his athletic performance, Manning was named Sigma Nu athlete of the year in 2001 and 2003.

Eli entered the 2004 NFL draft and was taken by the San Diego Chargers with the top overall pick. The same day, the Chargers dealt Manning to the Giants for North Carolina State quarterback Philip Rivers and a third-round pick.

Manning spent his first season under the wing of veteran quarterback Kurt Warner before taking the reigns for the Giants, where he remains today as their starter.

Eli's up-and-down play has led the Giants to an 8-4 record in the 2007 campaign - good enough for second place in the division behind the Dallas Cowboys and in position for a return trip to the playoffs.

No One Has Ever Drowned in Sweat

Frat Guy of the Week: Lou Holtz

Legendary college football coach and ESPN commentator Lou Holtz was a brother of Delta Upsilon fraternity while attending Kent State University.

Holtz would become the only coach in NCAA history to lead six different programs to bowl games and the only coach to guide four different programs to final top 20 rankings.

Holtz graduated from Kent State in 1959 and in 1960 become a graduate assistant football coach at the University of Iowa while working on his masters degree. Holtz' first head coaching job was at the College of William and Mary, before taking a job at North Carolina State University.

In 1976, Holtz tried his hand in the National Football League with the New York Jets, before returning to the college football ranks a year later at the University of Arkansas. He later became head coach at the University of Minnesota before landing one of the most prestigious jobs in the game at the University of Notre Dame.

Holtz led Notra Dame to a national championship win in 1987 over West Virginia in the Fiesta Bowl. The coach led the Fighting Irish to nine straight bowl games before retiring from the helm after the 1996 season.

He returned to coaching in 1999 with South Carolina, before retiring for good following the 2004 season.

Since then, Holtz has worked as an analyst and commentator with ESPN alongside Rece Davis and Mark May.

For a selection of wisecracks and legendary quotes from the coach and Delta Upsilon brother, click here.

Batman's a Beta

Frat Guy of the Week: Adam West

Who could forget Adam West, the man behind the mask in those old re-runs of the 1960s Batman TV series? Long before West was putting an end to the Joker's latest scheme as the Dark Knight, he was a brother of Beta Theta Pi at Whitman College.

Born William West Anderson in Walla Walla, Wash., he went on to attend Whitman College in the same city. At Whitman, West became a Beta, wrote for the campus newspaper, swam, skied, ran track and played water polo.

West majored in literature and minored in psychology before moving on to do graduate work at Stanford University. In the early 1950s, West was drafted into the U.S. Army and eventually settled in Hawaii where he would begin his acting career.

West was cast in 1966 on ABC's Batman as the caped crusader and his alter ego, Bruce Wayne. West would go on to appear in more than 40 movies and most recently had somewhat of a career revival on FOX's Family Guy as the mayor of Quahog.

Cleveland Rocks

Frat Guy of the Week: Drew Carey

Comedian and actor Drew Carey was a brother of Kent State University's chapter of Delta Tau Delta. Carey recently announced he will be the new host of 'The Price Is Right' beginning in October.

Carey was born and raised in Cleveland and went on to attend college at Kent State. At Kent, Drew joined Delta Tau Delta, but was later expelled from the college for bad grades after only three years.

Carey went on to join the U.S. Marines. After serving for six years, Carey began writing his own jokes and performed stand-up in Cleveland and Los Angeles, and eventually in 1991 appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

In 1995, 'The Drew Carey Show' premiered on ABC and ran until 2004. During that time, Carey also served as host of ABC's 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'

In July, Carey announced that he will succeed the retired Bob Barker as the host of CBS' 'The Price Is Right.' Carey is set to debut on the show Oct. 15.

Do You Believe in Miracles?

Frat Guy of the Week: Al Michaels

The voice of NBC's Sunday Night Football, longtime sports broadcaster Al Michaels was a brother of Sigma Nu fraternity while he majored in radio and television at Arizona State University.

After college, Michaels began covering a minor league baseball team in Hawaii, while also working as the play-by-play man for the University of Hawaii's football and basketball games.

In 1977, Michaels was hired by ABC where he covered a variety of sporting events, including the historic victory of the U.S.A. men's hockey team over Russia in 1980, commonly known as "The Miracle on Ice."

In 1986, Michael's became the host of ABC's Monday Night Football, where he would stay until moving to NBC to broadcast its Sunday night games with his partner John Madden.

TKE Brother Merv Griffin Dies at 82

Frat Guy of the Week: Tau Kappa Epsilon's Merv Griffin

A brother of Tau Kappa Epsilon who created the popular game shows Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune passed away Sunday at the age of 82.

Longtime television personality and entertainer Merv Griffin dies Sunday after a battle with prostate cancer.

Griffin, who attended San Mateo Junior College and the University of San Francisco, broke into the entertainment industry in 1953 with the number-one hit "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts."

Griffin went on to create a plethora of game shows and was host of the syndicated talk show "The Merv Griffin Show."

Knocked Up Sigma Nu

Frat Guy of the Week: Paul Rudd

"Knocked Up" and 40-Year Old Virgin co-star Paul Rudd was a brother of Sigma Nu while he attended the University of Kansas.

Rudd, 38, was born in Passaic, New Jersey. His father was a tour guide and his mother was the manager of a TV station.

Since then, Rudd has starred in Clueless, Wet Hot American Summer, The Cider House Rules, Anchorman and The Object of My Affection. He also had a role in the TV series Friends.

Super Sized Fiji

Frat Guy of the Week: Morgan Spurlock

Morgan Spurlock, the star of the documentary "Super Size Me" and the TV show "30 Days," was a brother of Phi Gamma Delta while he attended New York University.

Spurlock was born in West Virginia and was rejected from the University of Southern California's film school five times before deciding to go to NYU.

Before chronicling eating nothing but McDonald's food for 30 days in the film "Super Size Me," Spurlock created a short lived show on MTV called "I Bet You Will."

Comedy Central has announced plans to feature Spurlock in a new series on the network.

Sigma Chi NFL Quarterback Recruits Frat to Help Rebuild New Orleans

Frat Guy of the Week: Drew Brees

New Orleans Saint's quarterback and Purdue University graduate Drew Brees is working with his old college fraternity to help rebuild the city devastated by hurricane damage.

Brees and brothers from Purdue's Sigma Chi fraternity will work to rebuild homes in New Orleans. The NFL quarterback paid for 100 brothers to travel to the city.

"It will be a time to get to know each other, bond and reflect on what giving back is and how giving back affects others," Chris Horney, the fraternity's current president, told the Purdue student newspaper.

Brees led the Purdue football team to the Rose Bowl in 2001, and has since been a quarterback with the Saints and San Diego Chargers. He led the Saints to the franchise's first NFC championship this past season.

Lambda Chi Brother Mentors Nets to Playoffs

Frat Guy of the Week: Lawrence Frank

With the NBA playoffs in full force, there's no better Frat Guy of the Week than New Jersey Nets head coach and brother of Lambda Chi Alpha Lawrence Frank.

Frank graduated from Indiana University in 1992, where he was a Lambda Chi brother and earned a degree in education. Frank spent four years as the manager of the Hoosier basketball team, serving under eccentric coach Bobby Knight.

After college, Frank served as an assistant coach at the University of Tennessee and Marquette University. He went on to work as an assistant with the then Vancouver Grizzlies, and eventually took a similar position with the Nets.

Frank officially took over with the Nets as head coach in January of 2004 after Byron Scott was fired. He was, and still is the youngest NBA coach at the age of 36.

Frank is under contract with the Nets through next season. They are currently playing the Toronto Raptors in the first round of the NBA playoffs.

Around the Horn With a Lambda Chi Brother

Frat Guy of the Week: Woody Paige

Woody Paige, an outspoken sportswriter and a panelist on ESPN's Around the Horn, was a brother of Lambda Chi Alpha at the University of Tennessee.

After writing for several newspapers around the country, Paige joined the staff of the Denver Post in 1981. Paige is one of several regulars on the ESPN show, which features a debate on daily sports topics among sportswriters from around the country. On the show, he is best known for his constant banter with Jay Mariotti, of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Paige also was a regular on ESPN's morning show Cold Pizza until early this year, where he worked with Skip Bayless. Paige has since returned to Denver to spend time with his family, where he continues to write for the Post.

"Dont Worry, I've Never Heard of Me Either"

Frat Guy of the Week: Fiji's Jim Gaffigan

Comedian Jim Gaffigan was a brother of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at Purdue University.

Over the years, Gaffigan has performed stand-up comedy throughout the United States and has had specials featured on Comedy Central. He has had many roles in movies, including a memroable cameo in the classic film Super Troopers.

Today, the FIJI brother continues to do stand-up while making various appearances on television and in commercials.

Cheeseburger In Kappa Sig Paradise

Frat Guy of the Week: Kappa Sigma's Jimmy Buffet

Believe it or not, but "Parrothead" Jimmy Buffet was a brother of Kappa Sigma during his college days at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Buffet originally attended the Auburn University, where he began pledging Sigma Pi. He would later transfer to Southern Miss, where he was initiated as a brother of Kappa Sigma and received a degree in history in 1969.

After graduating from college, Buffet began working as a correspondent for Billboard magazine. Around that time, he began recording songs, and the rest became history.

Today, Jimmy Buffet remains one of the most popular entertainers in the world and is adored by millions.

Old School Delt

Frat Guy of the Week: Will Ferrell

Long before he was the star of Blades of Glory or a cast member on Saturday Night Live, Will Ferrell was making the brothers of Delta Tau Delta laugh at the University of Southern California.

In addition to being a Delt and a 1989 graduate of USC, Ferrell had planned for a career in sports broadcasting and majored in sports information. After graduating, Ferrell began to work on his improv skills in various comedy groups, and joined the cast of SNL in 1995.

Impersonating everyone from Harry Caray and George W. Bush to Alex Trebek and Neil Diamond, Will quickly became a comedic icon to a new generation.

Since then, Ferrell has starred in major blockbusters like Night at the Roxbury, Old School, Anchorman, Elf, and Blades of Glory which will be released this week in theaters everywhere.

CBS Hoops Sportscaster was Houston ZBT

Frat Guy of the Week: Jim Nantz

Jim Nantz, CBS Sports jack of all trades, was a brother of Zeta Beta Tau while a student at the University of Houston.

At Houston, Nantz majored in broadcasting and played on the golf team. He was a former roommate of professional golfer Fred Couples. After graduating in 1981, Nantz went on to work as an announcer for Brigham Young University and the Utah Jazz.

Nantz began working for CBS in 1985, and has since covered the NFL, the Masters, the Olympics, and the annual college basketball tournament.

Sigma Chi Coach Gets 'Nova Ready for the Tournament

Frat Guy of the Week: Jay Wright

As Frat Boy's everywhere are putting the finishing touches on their brackets for their pools, it only seems "Wright" that Villanova University's men's basketball coach Jay Wright is the Frat Guy of the Week.

Wright graduated in 1983 from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, where he was a brother of Sigma Chi fraternity. After college, Wright worked as an assistant at Hofstra and UNLV before being named Hofstra's head coach in 1994.

In 2001, Wright became the head coach of Villanova, and has led the Wildcats to the last 3 NCAA basketball tournaments. Villanova will take on Kentucky in the first round Friday.

Come and Knock on My Door

Frat Guy of the Week: John Ritter

John Ritter, of classic TV's "Three's Company," was a brother of Phi Gamma Delta during his time at the University of Southern California. While at USC, Ritter majored in psychology with a minor in architecture.

Ritter went on to make quite a name for himself in Hollywood, starring in the classic 1990s "Problem Child" series and tons of other movies. Sadly, Ritter passed away young in 2003 at the age of 55.

Little Miss Sunshine Star Greg Kinnear Was an ATO at Arizona

Frat Guy of the Week - Greg Kinnear

Hollywood veteran Greg Kinnear majored in broadcast journalism and was a brother of Alpha Tau Omega while he was a student at the University of Arizona. He graduated in 1985 and moved to Los Angeles, where he became a marketing assistant. After Kinnear failed in his attempt to become an MTV VJ, he was hired as a reporter for the network. He hosted several game shows over the years, and eventually became the first host of "Talk Soup" on E!

From there, Kinnear played roles in dozens of movies over the next decade or so, the latest being the Academy Award nominated "Little Miss Sunshine."