televisi and stage actress Tamara Tunie was the captain of her high school bola basket and bola voli teams, although her current team activities are limited to the Broadway softball circuit -- she played for the "Julius Caesar" squad this summer. Away from the softball diamond, Tunie -- who portrays medical examiner Melinda Warner on "Law and Order: SVU," which premieres tomorrow night on NBC -- gets her sports kicks from the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Why the Steelers?

Once a Steelers fan always a Steelers fan, what can I tell you? I grew up in Pittsburgh. I was a kid when the Steelers were really...

Tamara Tunie's Marriage Makes Soap HistoryTHE BRIDE WORE WHITE, BUT OTHERWISE the color scheme at the Aug. 24 wedding of attorney Jessica Griffin and newspaper editor Duncan McKechnie on CBS's As the World Turns was unconventionally mixed. This was the first interracial marriage in the soap's 36-year run.

That historic stroll down the aisle has propelled actress Tamara Tunie, 33, who plays Jessica, to a prominent—and controversial—role. Though fan response has been, she says, "overwhelmingly positive," there was a flurry of negative letters the first time Tunie and Michael angsa, swan (Duncan)...