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...Personally, I think the only individual who has a right to be offended is the tennis champ herself...
Battles insecurity to become the first lefty heavyweight champ...
...long list of aspirants, including a movie star, a ballerina, a poet, an Orthodox priest, a dress designer, a 55-year-old grandmother and a former Olympic weight-lifting champ. Not to mention a participant in the aborted coup of 1991 who spent nine months in prison for treason. Russians have no experience in democracy, so it is hardly surprising to see the ballot studded with celebrities who believe their charisma is more important than their political know...
...shocking and bizarre upset in Las Vegas, challenger Evander Holyfield took back the heavyweight boxing crown in a decision over previously undefeated champ Riddick Bowe. The fight was interrupted for 20 minutes during the seventh round when a parachutist came down into the outdoor ring at Caesars Palace. He landed on the ropes, bounced into the $800 ringside seats, was pummeled by irate spectators and wound up in the hospital in fair condition. Bowe's pregnant wife Judy fainted and had to be taken away, but her husband, for understandable reasons, was not told. Holyfield became the third fighter (after...
This devotion to old-fashioned family values makes Bowe an ideal champ for the puritanical 1990s. So far, the closest he has come to scandal has been a charge by a former girlfriend that he is the father of her son. Bowe immediately agreed to support the child, until blood tests revealed he wasn't the father after all. "You might consider it a pressure ((to be a role model)), but it's no pressure for me," he says. "I'd be privileged to help someone out. And look where I came from. If it weren't for Muhammad...