More 2011 HuffPost Game Changers: Culture, Business/Technology, and Sports

Time for the next round of HuffPost's 2011 Game Changers -- the innovators, mavericks, visionaries, and leaders who are changing the way we look at the world and the way we live in it.

So far we've announced our choices in Green, Politics, Media, Style, Food/Travel, and Entertainment.

The current leaders are Green: environmentalist (and Vampire Diaries star) Ian Somerhalder. Politics: Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards. Media: Al Jazeera. Style: gender-bending model Andrej Pejic. Food/Travel: HomeAway co-founder Brian Sharples. Entertainment: chart topping singer-songwriter Adele.

Voting remains open in all categories, so be sure to weigh in.

Today we are announcing the top Game Changers in three more categories: Culture, Business/Technology, and Sports. Look over the slideshows we've put together giving you the rundown of who we picked, why we picked them, and how they are changing the game. Then vote for the Ultimate Game Changer in each category.

Click here to vote for the Ultimate Game Changer in Culture, here for the Ultimate Game Changer in Business/Technology, and here for the Ultimate Game Changer in Sports.

Once all 12 categories have been presented, we'll announce our Ultimate Game Changers. We'll also announce which of you has won a trip to New York to party with our Game Changers (get all the details here).

So cast your vote: here for Culture, here for Business/Technology, here for Sports, here for Style, here for Food/Travel, here for Entertainment, here for Green, here for Media, and here for Politics.

 

 

 

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Comments

[mcq721]

06:23 PM on 10/12/2011

How long are you gonna run this fluff on the headline of the newsletter, this is the crap that lead is into the problems we face today. Meaningless distractions. Is this the new CNN???

[celtics]

08:23 AM on 10/06/2011

Why is it in our culture we always have to have a winner, or #1. This isn't a race that measured in seconds, or a competitive game that has points. Why not just give them all a Gold Star.

[studioh!]

11:16 PM on 10/05/2011

we just lost the ultimate game changer, of our time.

[Baneblade]

12:54 AM on 10/06/2011

Sarah Palin?

[corsair1917]

10:34 PM on 10/05/2011

In light of Steve Jobs, you might want to take another look at what you call an innovator or a game changer!!!! Steve Jobs fits that bill.... That is was a true innovator and game changer is!

Not the likes of any sort of Kardashian.

[David Danio Jr]

08:03 PM on 10/05/2011

It would be another innovation that would bring something new..

[David Danio Jr]

08:01 PM on 10/05/2011

Nice update of what to expect..

[peter sfikas]

07:01 PM on 10/05/2011

Arianna, you're the biggest game changer of them all ! All categories. What the world needs. NOW.

[Cypher6]

06:29 PM on 10/05/2011

Kim Kardashian a game changer? LOL.

Yes, because the "How hot can you be?" commercial was so prolific. Amirite?

[constitutionalive]

06:26 PM on 10/05/2011

wow...great change advocacy, arianna !! In respect for the "wall" between professional journalism and government, I won't ask you to seek office in the Executive, Judicial, or Legislative branch of federal government ... perhaps you can "influence" more as a journalist since government seems locked on a chain gang that has been pushed over a cliff .... we can't seek change from them, we must compel change in spite of/around them ... but who will have the necessary sceptre of power with which to make the change ? suggestions ... could be left as whispers in the wilderness, effecting nothing .... unless.... how about starting a new independent party, no funding = no corrupt influence, a list of candidates for US senators, representatives, judges, pres/vice-pres, ... ?

[LMPE]

01:39 PM on 10/05/2011

The people occupying Wall Street are the real game changers.

[TurnToTheLeft]

02:54 PM on 10/05/2011

The Wall Street protestors a finally getting mainstream media attention. The movement is growing and spreading across the nation. This is a real movement as opposed to the astro-turf billionaire funded Tea Party. F&F.

[studioh!]

11:17 PM on 10/05/2011

amen!

[constitutionalive]

06:27 PM on 10/05/2011

...only because we are so dependent upon wall street money...

[Schnides]

01:15 PM on 10/05/2011

Kim K???? Are you kidding me!!! I coach my daughters softball team and my son's football team. I am not a big "game changer" for our country, but my small contribution to my community by coaching kids is a bigger game changer than Kim K has made for the entire country!

[TurnToTheLeft]

02:50 PM on 10/05/2011

You are. Real change begins with all of us participating to make this a better society. Thank you for coaching your children's teams. With cut backs everywhere - volunteerism is important. You are a role model for these kids.

[Israelibabs]

06:00 PM on 10/05/2011

KK made it more accepting for wide rears and sex videos! What game has she changed? How to sell yourself and family for millions and making greed more chic?

[tanya11111]

01:12 PM on 10/05/2011

Seriously if you have engaged in any act of charity or kindness you are more of a game changer than some of these people...

perhaps remembering that survival of our fellow humans is not a game is winning the game.

[Librick]

01:37 PM on 10/05/2011

Don't know if a post of mine went through about giving here but I sent a check to Doc and Peace Kitten. through the micro giving site. Thanks Tanya.

[tanya11111]

02:20 PM on 10/05/2011

THANK YOU... you rock... hopefully we can bring a tiny speck of hope in these tough times. They are such awesome posters, I always appreciate their point of view. Best wishes to you and yours!

[constitutionalive]

06:31 PM on 10/05/2011

yes yes yes ... read marcel mauss "The Gift" ...tiny little book from 19th c. social anthropologist which explains reciprocity is the essence of social exchange in a society..."money" is only a disconnected-from-humanity metaphorical representation of that reciprocity ...

[tanya11111]

09:09 PM on 10/05/2011

I will read it, thanks!

[Billit]

01:10 PM on 10/05/2011

I am just shocked, shocked I tell you that Bagdad Debbie isn't a game changer. After all she declared just yesterday that our economy has turned the corner once again for the better.

[tanya11111]

12:55 PM on 10/05/2011

Anybody who wants to be a game changer for a couple of our beloved posters... you can give a microdonation to peacekitten and docstrangelove who are really struggling here:

http://www.microgiving.com/profile/peacekitten2

[Librick]

01:02 PM on 10/05/2011

Love those two, seen their blog, and I'll try to give something. Thanks!

[DawgBone5]

01:05 PM on 10/05/2011

Two of our very best posters.

[heartsmindsvision]

12:54 PM on 10/05/2011

We are but one mind and one body. Some have it and some don't, that life. Why do we have to cradle the lucking one's. Lets give credit where credit is do. To the people that don't get the luck and talent that life dishes out, lets talk about them. Because they are the only ones that can make more enjoyable.Why don't you put 10 people up there that have little or no talent, that are not lucky in the realm of life but work their_damn butts off to make a half decent life for themselves and their family and contribute to the country wither it's in the community or in a uniform.