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2006 Mountain West Conference football season

After being trounced by their former Southwest Conference rivals, 70-35, in Lubbock two years prior, the Horned Frog defense kept quarterback Graham Harrell and the Red Raider offense out of the endzone for the entire game, JR linebacker walk on Christopher Abbott led the defense with one sack, 8 tackles 3 for a loss of yards and one interception, to earn their fourth consecutive victory over the Big 12.

2010 South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team

Trailing 2-1 and down to their last strike in the 12th inning, Jackie Bradley, Jr. singled home the tying run and following a walk to pinch-hitter Jeffery Jones, Brady Thomas lined the first pitch he saw up the middle for a walk-off RBI single.

AIDS Project Los Angeles

The Walk is now the largest HIV/AIDS fundraiser in Southern California.

All Seeing I

They released their first single "I Walk" in 1997, but it was not until the year after that they gained mainstream commercial success with the song "Beat Goes On", a remixed cover of the Sonny Bono song, using the all-female vocals from Buddy Rich's version).

American Discovery Trail

The first hikers to walk the entire trail, Joyce and Pete Cottrell, of Whitefield, New Hampshire, were the first to backpack the entire official route of the American Discovery Trail, but they hiked segments out of sequence over two calendar years, finishing in 2003.

Animal locomotion on the water surface

Another insect known to walk on the water surface is the ant species Polyrhachis sokolova.

Arch Merrill

His 1943 A River Ramble is an account of his walk of the entire length of the Genesee River, along with his notes on local history, folk tales, and people he met along the route.

Baumgartenschneid

The climb to the summit is a straightforward mountain walk, taking 2 hours to ascend the 700 metres from Tegernsee and 1½ hours for the descent.

Bob Bogle

Bogle's lead guitar on the Ventures' 1960 cover of "Walk, Don't Run" helped to influence the next generation of guitarists including John Fogerty, Steve Miller, Joe Walsh and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Bonnie Lou

Recently the Tennessee Wig Walk track was featured in a British comedy movie, The Infidel (2010 film) starring British comedian Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff and Matt Lucas.

Cedar Key Museum State Park

The naturalist John Muir visited Cedar Key in 1867 on his historic walk from Kentucky to Florida.

Cleveland/Bradley County Greenway

Highlights include an 18-space parking area, four pedestrian bridges that cross Mouse Creek, five underpasses (Raider Drive, Keith Street, 25th Street, 20th Street, and 17th Street), and a connection to the Prayer Walk Plaza at the Church of God International Offices.

Connie Smith Sings Great Sacred Songs

Many of the album's songs were cover versions, including "In the Garden," "Just a Closer Walk with Thee," Jimmie Davis's "I Wouldn't Take Anything from My Journey Now," and Martha Carson's "Satisfied."

David Courtney

Courtney was also responsible for introducing the first Walk of Fame cultural attraction in the UK, located in Brighton.

Dulwich Wood

There is also an entrance by the footbridge on Cox's Walk, off Dulwich Common.

East of the Mountains

Through a combination of hitchhiking, a long walk through the desert, a lift bought from a lorry driver, a Greyhound bus, and a rental car, he finally approaches his destination; but will the combined effect of the people he has met, the experiences he has undergone, the gains he has made, and the losses he has sustained during this journey be enough to make him reject his climactic plan?

Exbury Gardens

Other features include the Hydrangea Walk, the Rock Garden, Iris Garden, the Sundial Garden which follows an exotic planting, and a Camellia Walk (which takes visitors to a path alongside Beaulieu river and back via the pond).

Fairfield horseshoe

Fairfield Horseshoe is a classic circular hillwalking ridge walk route starting from Rydal or Ambleside in the English Lake District that takes in all the fells that surround the valley of the Rydal Beck.

Fellsman

The Fellsman is an annual organised walk and fell race of about sixty miles in the Yorkshire Dales from Ingleton to Threshfield.

Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco

One of the city's most popular figures is a harmless but controversial resident of Fisherman's Wharf called the World Famous Bushman, a local street performer who sits behind some branches and startles people who walk by.

Four Inns Walk

The Four Inns Walk is a hiking event held annually (usually at Easter) over the high moorlands of the Northern Peak District.

Four Yorkshiremen sketch

A near derivative of the sketch appears in the BBC Radio show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again Series 7, Episode 5 on 9 February 1969, in which the cast, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, David Hatch, in the guise of old buffers at a gentlemen's club, employ the same trope of out-doing each other for hardship, this time in the context of how far and how slowly they had to walk to get to various places in former days.

Fraser Tranter

In May 1998, a win in the Farmer's Walk helped Fraser towards a 2nd place finish in the UK Docklands Strongman Challenge, and this in turn led to an invite to the 1998 World's Strongest Man in Morocco.

India Song

Finding the main location took several months; eventually Duras chose the Palais Rothschild in Boulogne, which she had seen during a walk and which had impressed her.

Jonathan Dove

Man on the Moon (television opera, about Buzz Aldrin, second man to walk on the moon, and the effects the experience had on him and his marriage) (2006)

La Crescenta-Montrose, California

During an as-yet undiagnosed episode of manic depression (bipolarism) in 1996, actress Margot Kidder attempted to walk 12 miles from downtown Los Angeles to the La Crescenta home of her friend, writer Rosie Shuster.

Lčovice

There is a kiosk in lower Lčovice which is a pub, where you can sit outside next to the Volynka and is perfect after a long walk (or a refreshing drink after cycling on the 1233 cycle route).

Marion railway station

The station is situated a short walk from the corner of Marion Road and Daws Road, next to Westminster School and between Farne and Minchinbury Terraces.

Meldac

Meldac has produced albums for Jennifer Love Hewitt (Love Songs) and J-Walk.

Miguel Ángel Prieto

Prieto won his second international medal at the 1989 Summer Universiade, where he was the silver medallist in the 20 km walk behind Italy's Walter Arena.

Mystic River Rugby Club

Richard Tardits (Flanker, 19 Caps) A former U-21 French international rugby player, Tardits was a walk on for the University of Georgia football team where he held the record for most career sacks (29) until it was broken by David Pollack (Cincinnati Bengals) in 2004.

Neil Clephane-Cameron

In 2000 Neil Clephane-Cameron wrote The 1066 Malfosse Walk, which talks about the closing events of the Battle of Hastings in which the fleeing Saxons briefly stood against a pursuing group of Norman knights and nearly succeeded in killing Duke William.

Nude recreation

He undertook his walk as a protest, in order to celebrate the naked human form, and to try to convince the public to stop being paranoid about the naked body.

Osaka International Peace Center

It is a five-minute walk from Morinomiya Station on the JR Osaka Loop Line and Chūō and Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi subway lines.

Pier Head

Merseyrail's James Street station is a short walk away.

Pier Terminal

Plans have been launched to construct a walkway that would allow passengers to walk over the rail yard to Trondheim Central Station in a few minutes.

Remco van Eijden

His walk-on music at the Lakeside was the theme tune to NFL on Fox, which related to van Eijden being a huge American football fan, in particular the San Francisco 49ers.

Robert McClain

After dropping Dunta Robinson, and letting Chris Owens and Brent Grimes walk to the Browns and the Dolphins, respectively, in free agency, McClain will likely reprise his role in this nickel spot behind Asante Samuel and Desmond Trufant in 2013.

Ryan Max Riley

According to his Yale biography, Riley has a pet polish dwarf rabbit named Thibault after a character (Tybalt) in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet and the pet lobster of the French poet Gérard de Nerval, a pet lobster that Nerval used to walk around Paris with a blue ribbon.

Shipton-under-Wychwood

Shipton-under-Wychwood is on the Oxfordshire Way footpath, which can be used to walk north-westwards up the Evenlode Valley to Bruern Abbey and Bledington, or eastwards down the valley to Charlbury.

Smugglers' Songs

Following the death of the notorious smuggler Louis Mandrin his old friends walk in his footsteps and make him popular by composing and singing songs about him.

Stolen base

On August 22, 1982, Glenn Brummer stole home in the bottom of the 12th inning of a tie game, thus accomplishing a walk-off straight steal of home, one of the very few in major league history.

Taylor Potts

Potts beat out classmate and former walk on Steven Sheffield and highly touted Redshirt Freshman Seth Doege.

The Great War: Walk in Hell

The Great war: Walk in Hell is the second book in the Great War series of alternate history books by Harry Turtledove.

The Places in Between

Set at the same time as the American invasion and occupation of Afghanistan after the events set in motion by 9/11, Stewart made the walk in the middle of winter, adding additional hardship as he passed through the mountainous Ghor and Koh-i-Baba regions and its many snow-bound passes and villages.

The Sponge

When Kramer takes part in the AIDS Walk, he refuses to wear an AIDS ribbon in opposition to "ribbon bullies", led one more time by Bob and Cedric from "The Soup Nazi" episode.

Thirds

" "White Man/Black Man" is another winner." John Mendelsohn in Rolling Stone was equivocal stating "By no exertion of the imagination are James Gang the greatest rock and roll band ever to walk the face of the earth or anything... but they are capable of some nice little treats every now and again."

Torosay Castle

The garden's Statue Walk is made up of 19 statues in the style of Italian sculptor Antonio Bonazza.

Unintended

The song was featured on Trigger Happy TV during a skit in which a man, dressed in a snail suit, lay down on his stomach and inched across a street and also in another skit inside a cinema where many men dressed in tall wigs walk into the front row thus blocking the views of the audience behind them.

Ysgyryd Fawr

Rudolf Hess used to walk here when he was held prisoner at nearby Maindiff Court during the early 1940s.


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1967–68 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

As sophomores, they would combine with returnees Dave Scholz, Randy Crews, future New York Knicks draft pick Mike Price, Alabama transfer Jodie Harrison, Dennis Pace and walk-on Les Busboom to form the best group Schmidt would ever coach.

2007 Kansas State Wildcats football team

The former walk-on from Riley, Kansas, moved into third-place in school history for career receiving yards with 2,418 and is just 39 yards from tying Michael Smith (1988–91) for second.

A Walk on the Wild Side

In 1970, Lou Reed was approached about a project to turn A Walk on the Wild Side into a musical, a story he tells between songs on the his 1978 Live: Take No Prisoners album.

Antonio Rattín

As a way to show his disgust, he sat on the red carpet which was exclusively for the Queen to walk on.

Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black

The singles released from the album were "Can't Truss It", "Night Train", "Shut Em Down" and its B-side "By the Time I Get to Arizona" (samples "Two Sisters of Mystery" by Mandrill and a live version of "Walk on By" by the Jackson 5), in which Public Enemy was depicted in the video killing the Arizona governor, Evan Mecham, who refused to recognize Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday.

Argentina Brunetti

She began her show business career at the age of three with a walk-on role in the opera Cavalleria Rusticana and followed in the footsteps of her mother, Mimi Aguglia, performing supporting roles on stages throughout Europe and South America.

Arthur Hill High School

NBA player Jason Richardson of the Philadelphia 76ers, winner of two NBA Slam Dunk titles, is an alumnus of Arthur Hill, as is former Drake University point guard Adam Emmenecker, who went from three-year walk-on to Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year in his final season in 2008.

Bill Heckroth

Bill is a graduate of the University of Iowa, where he earned a B.S. in Financial Management and started out as a walk-on to the Iowa Hawkeyes baseball team.

Burma bridge

A hanging bridge often part of a Ropes course that consists of a single wire or rope to walk on and two others to hold on to.

Candy Loving

Loving appeared in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980), with only the walk-on scene at the end.

Chet Giermak

He began his collegiate career as a walk-on player, asking for a uniform from varsity coach Dick Gallagher (whom he later credited with teaching him "the finer points of the game").

Coco Robicheaux

Also, the name 'Coco Robicheaux' is repeated in the song "I Walk on Gilded Splinters" from Dr. John the Night Tripper's 1968 album, Gris-Gris.

Colonial Club

Pete Conrad '53, the third man to walk on the moon, was a Colonial member.

Daniel Abineri

Abineri has produced and directed several television documentaries, including One Hit Wonders for the BBC in 1997, Walk on the Wild Side for Granada TV, and Murder and Celebrity for UKTV and A Conversation With James Lovelock for Network Films.

Deborah Baxter

Her only film role in recent years was a walk-on in The Calling (2000).

Dusty Mangum

Mangum, who began his college football career as a walk-on, is best known for capping UT's 2004-2005 season with a 37-yard game-winning field goal as time expired in the 2005 Rose Bowl versus No. 13 University of Michigan.

Ed Mitchell

:For the American astronaut, and sixth person to walk on the Moon, see Edgar Mitchell

Experience Gloria Gaynor

The Soul music songs on side two of the album included a rendition of "What'll I Do", a well-received rendition of the Dionne Warwick hit, "Walk On By" and an example of Gloria Gaynor's own songwriting called "I'm Still Yours".

Hyper-Actives

During the convention, Reactor Girl is drawn into a catfight with a walk-on superheroine referred to as "K" (an obvious parody of Supergirl).

Jem Stansfield

Among his inventions are a compressed-air powered motorcycle, and boots that walk on water (for which he won a New Scientist prize).

Jez Mead

Sucker also includes a version of Kiss’s "I Was Made for Lovin' You" which is credited to Paul Stanley and Desmond Child, the noted producer who has also penned over 70 top 40 singles, including Alice Cooper’s "Poison", and who co-wrote "Walk On" with guitarist Joe Lynn Turner for Jimmy Barnes.

Kyle Kingsbury

He was a walk-on for the football team where he was a scout team member in the 2003 season and saw playing time in the 2004 season, including in ASU's 2004 Sun Bowl victory over Purdue University.

Lawrence Langowski

After graduating from Gordon Tech High School, Langowski attended Northwestern University in Evanston, where he signed onto the wrestling team as a recruited walk-on.

Livonian Order

The Livonian Confederation agreement (eiine fruntliche eyntracht) was signed in Walk on December 4.

Man in Space Soonest

Another, Neil Armstrong, became a NASA astronaut in 1962 and became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969.

NASA Astronaut Group 2

:Apollo 11 - July 1969 - Commander - First manned lunar landing; first person to walk on the Moon

Nate Montana

After graduating from high school in 2008, he enrolled at Notre Dame and joined the Fighting Irish football team's coach Charlie Weis as a walk-on, with the hope of landing a scholarship as a sophomore.

Niels de Ruiter

He is also known for using Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' as his walk-on music, which he plays air guitar to as he enters the match.

Ocean Countess

On the eve of entering full commercial service in August 1976, Cunard Countess was christened at San Juan by Janet Armstrong, then wife of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.

Paris Holiday

Sturges did a walk-on in his 1940 film Christmas in July ("Man at shoeshine stand"), played the small part of a film director in his Sullivan's Travels (1941), and appeared as himself in Paramount's 1942 all-star extravaganza Star Spangled Rhythm.

Rich Beem

Until this win, Beem was best known for the book Bud, Sweat and Tees: A Walk on the Wild Side of the PGA Tour by Alan Shipnuck, which profiled his rookie year on the PGA Tour and the often wild lifestyle of him and his caddy, Steve Duplantis.

Robbie Gould

Although originally interested in professional soccer, he eventually chose football and asked his high school principal to send a letter of recommendation to Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, who invited him to try out as a freshman walk-on.

Sonia Martínez

José María Cano, after his music career, started a new life as a London-based painter, and is the author of Take a walk on the wild side, a painting inspired by Sonia.

Steven Threet

Threet would battle to become the team's starting quarterback along with former walk-on redshirt sophomore, Nick Sheridan, and redshirt sophomore, David Cone.

Stockholm South Station

The new station is an underground station situated under the site of the old station and on the railway line it is between Årstaberg and Stockholm C. About 5 minutes walk on Swedenborgsgatan you can found the Mariatorget metro station.

The Boldness of Style EP

Other guest musicians that appear on this EP are: "Walk On Water": John Dentino (organ) and Tree (saxophone), "If I": Connie Berunen (percussion) Sondra Christianson (piano) and Sabrina Judge (vocals)

The Street of Crocodiles

The book, inspired by Schulz's short story and available in print and electronic formats, is introduced by The Village Voice film critic, J. Hoberman, as "...a walk on the wild side, an expedition down a melancholy boulevard of dreams."

Walk On

"Baby, Walk On", a song by Matraca Berg from the album Lying to the Moon; also recorded under the title "Walk On" on Linda Ronstadt's album Feels Like Home

Walk on Air

"Walk on Air" failed to replicate the success and peaked at #62 in the UK Singles Chart.

Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed

Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed is the first greatest hits compilation by Lou Reed, formerly of The Velvet Underground.