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David Roe

He had to win three qualifying matches to secure his position at the Beijing event, where he defeated Li Yin Xi (a wild card) and Paul Hunter, before ultimately losing 5–3 to Joe Swail.

Mayko Nguyen

Her list of film and television credits include, the PAX TV science fiction Mysterious Ways, the Simon Fraser University film Sophisticated Boom Boom and Vancouver Film School's Great Expectation, and a role in the Lifetime series, Wild Card starring Joely Fisher.


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2007 Serena Williams tennis season

She played with sister Venus Williams and defeated the British wild card team of Claire Curran and Anne Keothavong in straight sets, but withdrew before their match against Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual.

2012–13 Real Phoenix season

They lost to the Las Vegas Legends in the Wild Card round, abruptly ending their run in the tournament.

Alex Borg

He regularly appeared as wild card in the Malta Grand Prix, where throughout the events history he managed to beat the likes of Nigel Bond and John Higgins.

Alfred Arthur O'Connor

Alfred Arthur O'Connor was a wild-card Irish miner who attended the Melbourne Land Convention 1857 and was elected onto the Ballarat Mining Board 1858; he followed the big gold rush to Chiltern in 1859 and was a successful deep wet lead miner.

American League Championship Series

In 1994, the league was restructured into three divisions, with the three division winners and a wild-card team advancing to a best-of-five postseason round, known as the American League Division Series (ALDS).

Cecil Mamiit

By winning, Strode received a USTA wild card into the 2010 U.S. Open singles qualifying draw.

GURPS Wild Cards

Data and characters are drawn from Wild Cards volumes I-V, including a history of the Wild Cards world, the Wild Card virus, over 50 super-characters, variant historical characters (e.g., Castro, Churchill, Gandhi, Franco, et al.), a description of Jokertown, the major Wild Card organizations, and the various aliens (the Takisians, the Swam, the Network group).

Haruki Nakamura

He played in all three of the Ravens' post-season games, and in the AFC wild card game he intercepted a pass from Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel.

History of C.D. Guadalajara

For the Apertura 2006 season, Chivas placed eighth in the league table and qualified for the knock-out stage (the "Liguilla") by defeating Veracruz 2-1 in Veracruz and 4-0 in the Estadio Jalisco in a wild card series.

Jane O'Donoghue

She was also given a wild card into Wimbledon and was beaten in round one by Marlene Weingärtner, 4–6 2–6.

Jasmine Murray

However, on the March 4 results show, Kara DioGuardi selected her as one of the 8 Wild Card contenders.

Kent Hull

One more year of joy and frustration occurred in 1992, when the Bills won the AFC east division title again, beating the Houston Oilers in a wild-card game of the 1992–93 NFL playoffs, the Pittsburgh Steelers in the divisional round, the Miami Dolphins in the AFC championship game, but losing to the Jimmie Johnson-led Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XXVII.

Mirjana Lučić-Baroni

She also received a wild card to the Tiro A Volo tournament in Rome, where she lost in the first round to Karin Knapp.

National League Central

* - Defeated the San Francisco Giants in a one game playoff for the Wild Card, 5-3.

Sam Medysky

After spending the 2009 winter training in Brazil, Sam thrust himself onto the professional kiteboarding scene after winning a wild card entry to the 2009 Real Triple-S Invitational, a competition featuring the top professional kiteboarders from across the World held each year in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

San Antonio Pumas

Despite finishing third in the division, they gained a wild card berth in the playoffs where they lost to the Houston Express in the first round.

Todd Kalis

Under the leadership of new head coach Dennis Green the Vikings went on to earn a playoff spot in the NFC Wild Card game versus the Washington Redskins.

Tony G

When the country's national team failed to directly qualify for the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey and had to apply for a wild-card entry, he paid a large share of the required application fee of €500,000.

Top Pot Doughnuts

In January 2011 Seattle mayor Mike McGinn had bet (among various items) a dozen Top Pot maple bars with New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu over the NFL NFC Wild card game.

Von Smith

He was eliminated on March 4, 2009 after singing "You're All I Need to Get By", but was brought back to wild card performance on March 5, picking "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" as his next song, but was eliminated once again.

Will Viharo

Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me, originally published by Wild Card Press in 1993, was republished in August 2013 by Gutter Press, in anticipation of the movie adaption, which Christian Slater will direct and star in.

World Sculling Championship

The 1908 World Title race was commemorated in December 2008 when Olympic champion Olaf Tufte defeated three time World Champion Mahé Drysdale and wild card race winner Hamish Bond on New Zealand's Whanganui River to take home the $5000 cash prize.

Zack Follett

Zack joined the Sky Sports broadcast team again January 7–8, 2012 for its coverage of the NFL Wild Card Weekend.