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Meet Your 'Amazing Race 13' Teams

Phil Keoghan will, as always, host

By Daniel Fienberg

August 19, 2008

Phil Keoghan, 'The Amazing Race'
'The Amazing Race' host Phil Keoghan
Married beekeepers? Southern belles? Team "Superbad"? It can only mean another season of CBS' "The Amazing Race."

The Emmy-winning competition series returns to air with its 13th installment on Sunday, Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. ET. This season starts its run at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and travels to locations ranging from Cambodia to Kazakhstan as 11 teams compete for the ultimate prize.

Announced on Tuesday (Aug. 19), the teams include a variety of familiar couplings. There's an estranged married couple viewing "The Amazing Race" as the potential last gasp for their partnership, as well as a long-distance couple looking to see if prolonged exposure brings them closer together or tears them apart. And "Amazing Race" fans will be shocked to discover a pair of cute blondes who want to prove to the world that they're more than just pretty faces.

There are also ultra-competitive siblings, fun-loving frat brothers, 26-year-old divorcees and self-described geeks.

As always, host Phil Keoghan will be there to greet the teams at the mat.

This season's 11 "Amazing Race" teams (in no particular order):

Names: Marisa Axelrod and Brooke Jackson
Ages: 22, 24
Occupations: Student, graphic designer
Hometown: Columbia, SC
Relationship: Southern Belles (Is that a relationship?)

Names: Ken and Tina Greene
Ages: 51, 48
Occupations: home-builder/former- NFL, President of BioPharmMed
Hometown: Tampa, FL and San Diego, CA
Relationship: Married, but separated

Names: Kelly Crabb and Christy Cook
Ages: Both 26
Occupations: pharmaceutical rep, business development
Hometown: Houston, TX, Austin, TX
Relationship: Best friends, Divorcees

Names: Toni Imbimbo, Dallas Imbimbo
Ages: 51, 22
Occupations: Accounting consultant, student
Hometown: Woodside, CA
Relationship: Mother and son

Names: Mark Yturralde and Bill Kahler
Ages: 41, 42
Occupations: Comic-Con CFO, college aid administrator
Hometown: San Diego
Relationship: Friends

Names: Anita and Arthur Jones
Ages: 63, 60
Occupations: retired paralegal, playground maintenance
Hometown: Eugene, OR
Relationship: Married beekeepers

Names: Stephanie Kacandes and Anthony Marotta
Ages: Both 32
Occupations: Financial saleswoman, mortgage broker
Hometown: Los Angeles
Relationship: Dating

Names: Aja Benton and Ty White
Ages: Both 25
Occupations: Makeup artist, banker
Hometown: Los Angeles, Southfield, MI
Relationship: Dating long-distance

Names: Terence Gerchberg and Sarah Leshner
Ages: 35, 31
Occupations: Running coach, Wall Street financialist
Hometown: New York City
Relationship: Dating

Names: Andrew Lappitt and Dan Honig
Ages: 22, 23
Occupations: Students
Hometown: Tucson, AZ, Wilmington, DE
Relationship: Fraternity brothers

Names: Nick and Starr Spangler
Ages: 22, 21
Occupations: Actor, NFL cheerleader
Hometown: New York City, Fort Worth, TX
Relationship: Siblings

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