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...complete 10 training jumps, they receive their golden wings, a pin with two half-inch protruding points on the back. Sometimes, with that military love of macho ritual, the pin is even proudly thumped into a Marine's chest to draw a little celebratory blood. But according to two amateur videotapes obtained by Dateline NBC and aired as well on CNN late last week, that ritual sometimes descends into something much more barbaric...
Nearly 50,000 people jammed the Pebble Beach Golf Links yesterday for the final round of the AT&T National Pro-Am, many of whom--drawn by the presence of Tiger Woods and amateur partner Kevin Costner--were seeing a golf tournament for the first time. Among the humorous vignettes this produced: "What does it mean by negative 13?" one woman asked a score-board operator. A man approached a writer early in the day and asked: "What's the agenda here?" When told the leaders would tee off in two hours he asked, "And where would that happen...
...lapse occurred "because she collapsed so many years of her childhood into a very short period of time." She knew she had a shot at winning another Olympic gold medal in 1998 (Katarina Witt and Sonja Henie are the only women singles skaters to win more than one), but amateur skating's regimen and multiplicity of rules left her chagrined. So did the grueling professional schedule. And her body was changing, no longer the poised pubescence perfect for jumps and axels. Relearning her balance led to accidents and injuries and occasional withdrawals from performances. She told Esquire last April that...
...Cleveland Browns did not remain in Cleveland. Tiger Woods did not remain an amateur golfer. Mike Tyson did not beat Evander Holyfield. The Chicago Bulls did not lose the N.B.A. championship. The New York Yankees did not not win the World Series...
...force of nature--and nurture. From the time Eldrick was a toddler, father Earl and mother Kutilda encouraged his golf talent. At five he appeared on That's Incredible, and the kid has been living up to the title ever since. After capturing an unprecedented third straight U.S. Amateur in August, Woods turned pro and promptly won two tourneys and $790,594. What's really incredible, given all the adulation and endorsements, is that his manners are as impressive as his 330-yd. drives. They may name a course after him someday...