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Jessica Aney made her way down the red carpet at the 2010 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year celebration held at the IAC Building in New York City. The 12 year-old was named the 2010 SI SportsKid of the Year by the magazine.

Aney is a nationally ranked tennis player and plays ice hockey in Rochester, Minnesota. As a tennis player she plays on her high school varsity team, helped her elite hockey team to victory and is a top notch student who makes an effort to help out her community as often as she can.

“Jessica is everything we look for in a SportsKid of the Year,” said SI KIDS Managing Editor Bob Der. “She is a hard working, well-rounded student athlete and we are so excited to be able to call her our 2010 SPORTSKID OF THE YEAR.”

Wow! Impressive!

Check out more photos of Jessica as she attends the awards ceremony and poses with legendary tennis great Billie Jean King. Read more »

David Archuleta was in Queens, NY for the 2010 Arthur Ashe Kids Day festival Saturday August 28th. The annual event starts off the last of the major tennis events for the year: The US Open.

Music, tennis and fun in the sun are the themes for the day long summer party and Archuleta performed for the crowd as well. Check out pics below and David’s ‘Something ‘Bout Love’ video.

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The Emma Roberts film, The Winning Season, is finally getting a release date (September 3rd) and Hollywood Crush has a posted great new clip with Emma.

The sports comedy, starring Sam Rockwell as the washed up coach trying for a shot at redemption by taking on the local girls varsity basketball team, also has Rooney Mara (the actress cast in the big screen adaptation of the book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Shareeka Epps (she was amazing in Half-Nelson with Ryan Gosling.)

Epps is also in Yelling to the Sky with Gabourey Sidibe and Zoe Kravitz. Mara will be onscreen next in The Social Network and Roberts is working on Scream 4 with Hayden Panettiere. Some amazing, high profile projects for all.

Roberts and Epps are great in this little teaser. What do you think?

Charming Steven R. McQueen has been making the rounds promoting his latest movie Piranha 3D and chatting about his role on the hit TV show The Vampire Diaries. The actor spoke to CNN about his legendary grandfather, actor Steve McQueen and how he got into the family business, how he enjoys playing the outsider, like Jeremy on TVD and how much fun Piranha 3D is (“somewhere between Snakes on a Plane and Jaws.”) Check it below.

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Skateboarder Ryan Sheckler has landed in Dwayne Johnson’s newest family film The Tooth Fairy. The 20 year-old pro athlete is making the jump to acting but for this movie, he had to learn another athletic skill: ice skating. More specifically – how to stop. Check out the interview from Trailer Addict.

Nick Cannon is hosting some amazing teens tonight for TeenNick‘s HALO Awards. HALO stands for ‘Helping and Leading Others’ and this generous group understands that reaching out is an everyday occurrence, not just at the holidays. Justin Timberlake, LeBron James, Alicia Keys and Hayden Panettiere suprised the four teens honored by their efforts and handed each a silver baton award. Cannon gave each a check for $10,000 to continue their efforts and a matching check to continue their education. The four winners were:

1. Leah Stoltz, 17 for Curvy Girls of Long Island – a support group for people with scoliosis.
2. Darrius Snow, 18 for working with kids in tough areas using sports as an outlet.
3. Megan Kilroy, 17 for her environmental and community activism.
4. Brryan Jackson, 18 for HIV/AIDS outreach and education.

Congratulations to all the recipients.

Did you catch the show? I thought it was great. I hope they do it again next year with more teens who are so inspirational.

The sports world has a new rising star in 15 year old Laura Robson. Wimbledon, the great British tennis tournament, will see Robson (who was last year juniors champion) head into the professional ladies arena and give the older gals a run for their prize money. Robson is England’s best shot at taking the title back in a long time and while the teen will unlikely place any higher than round 2 or 3 this yeart, everyone is watching the talented teenager with anticipation.

“This is a match in which she has absolutely nothing to lose. She can go out there and play. She’s a wonderful shot-maker and I think the exciting thing about this match is that she’s playing someone who is also an exciting shot maker. I’m sure Laura will give a good account of herself.”

It will be fun to watch Robson as she grows into her tennis career. Go Laura!!