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MILESTONES: An arrest in Sarasota; an al-Qaeda acquittal in Hamburg; a murder case resolved in Rapid City; the death of a mischievous Olympic champion...
Winners never quit. At least not in boxing, where they wait until a new champ knocks them right out of the ring. But last week LENNOX LEWIS became the first active heavyweight champion to retire since Rocky Marciano did so in 1956. "I was thinking about it for a long time," said Lewis, who lost just two of 44 fights in a 14-year career. (One highlight: knocking out Mike Tyson in 2002.) "Should I go back in and have one more fight? But I realized this is the drug of the sport: there is always one more fight...
DIED. ELEANOR HOLM WHALEN, 90, saucy Olympic swimming champion; in Miami. After winning the gold medal in the 100-m backstroke at the 1932 Games, she was favored to win again in 1936 in Berlin. But before the Games, she was thrown off the U.S. team for drinking and throwing dice with sportswriters. Her bad behavior, ahead of its time, propelled her to celebrity. She appeared in the movie Tarzan's Revenge and swam in Billy Rose's Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair, a spectacle that landed her on the cover of TIME...
Junior Michael Blumberg won the clinching match as the Crimson knocked off two-time defending Ivy champion Princeton (6-2, 4-2) yesterday...
...This leap instilled in me a new confidence,” Andrew-Jaja said, “one that will surely quiet my inner doubts that I can be the Heptagonal Champion in the high jump, that I can soon regain my place among the elite in the nation...