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...tale is a beauty. A national kickboxing champ, he won a 1994 push contest sponsored by the bobsled federation. Suddenly a guy who had barely seen a snowflake was in Lake Placid but needed a sled. To raise money to buy one, he entered the 1995 Ultimate Fighting Championship in Japan, where he faced wrestler Koichiro Kimura in the first round. "It was a hungry crowd, and the extreme-fear factor was really high," Hays recalls. Channeling the adrenaline, he beat Kimura. Hays won $10,000, bought a sled and, once on the track, discovered that "the fight had helped...
Cocky, drug addled, desperate for redemption, Foxx's rendering of Brown is almost every bit as bold as director Michael Mann's film. Foxx, 34, studied videotapes of the champ's confidant, who died in 1987, and gathered anecdotes from those who knew him. An ace impersonator, Foxx also clowned around on the phone, as Bundini, with Ali himself. "You'd hear Muhammad laughing," recalls Foxx, "like he was talking to his old friend...
...suspicions were confirmed - there is no hurry at all for Mullah Omar to be found, if indeed he is lost at all. Though the Coalition forces champ at the bit, the Afghans who hold the answers do not want to enter the race. To an Afghan his family comes first, then his tribe, then his "nation" or ethnic grouping, then the country and all Muslim brothers. In the Pashtun south, where Omar is likely hiding, there are time honored and complex ways of resolving disputes, none of which involve giving an Afghan Muslim to foreign infidels. As Kandahar government secretary...
...ended Harvard’s chance for its first outright Ivy title since 1996, and leaves the Crimson ( 10-4-1, 5-2 Ivy) “on the bubble” for one of the NCAA Tournament bids that will be handed out today. Princeton, the other co-champ in the Ivy League, receives the automatic bid on the strength of a head-to-head win this season over Brown. Either a tie or a win would have clinched an automatic bid for the Crimson in addition to the League title...
Harvard is the preseason favorite to win the Iv y League according to the preseason media poll, while defending champ Penn and 2000 champion Dartmouth are right behind...