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...first round of play, as American Lori McNeil, ranked No. 22, bested No. 1 Steffi Graf. Graf was favored to recapture the title for a second consecutive year, but at Centre Court, McNeil battled whipping winds and Graf's legendary forehand to quash the six-time Wimbledon champ. No. 2 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario is now expected to take home the top prize, but some are still betting on 10-time winner Martina Navratilova, who is competing on the grass courts of Wimbledon for the final time...
Israeli researchers say soccer players should abstain from sex for six to eight days before a game for optimal performance, according to findings released on the eve of the World Cup . . . Defending champ Germany has already taken such advice to heart, banning wives and girlfriends from the team's hotel in Chicago; but in Detroit, Swiss team coach Roy Hodgson lightened up and lifted a sex ban on his players . . . Germany's national football team was also forbidden by its doctors to use their U.S. hotel swimming pool lest Chicago's ozone harm their lungs . . . Norway's state television...
...women had been increasingly dominating. After an initial rocky start during its indoor season, the team battled back to take first in the hallowed H-Y-P meet, and second at the winder Heptagonals. It had improved further at the start of the outdoor season, beating defending league champ Brown in a triangular. Going into the outdoor Heptagonals, it was set on taking first...
...finish the season, the squad won three games in a row, its longest and most impressive winning streak since the beginning of last season. First, the team blew out an overmatched Hartwick team on October 27. Then it beat last year's Ivy League champ, Dartmouth, 1-0. And finally, in the season finale, it garnered a solid 2-0 win over Brown, a team that had earlier in the season knocked off the number-one team in the country Virginia...
...Pacers? Oh please. To be East Conference Champ...