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...stars like Zabriskie, who looks so young he ought to have a bell on his cycle, probably won't ever compare with the man who inspired millions of fans to wear yellow Livestrong bracelets. "It's a bit frightening," says Ian MacGregor, the reigning under-23 U.S. road-racing champion, of Armstrong's retirement. "Cyclists know there's more to the sport than Lance Armstrong. I don't know if the American public knows that...
Other big names in the league range from contemporary stars like Andy Roddick and 2005 Wimbledon women’s singles champion Venus Williams to legendary warhorses like Boris Becker and John McEnroe...
...time when graffiti were funny ("Nietzsche is dead -God"), or perceptive ("Even paranoiacs have real enemies"). Nowadays wild splashes of spray paint are in vogue, along with endless repetitions of names and street numbers. A New York adolescent who signs himself Taki 183 is said to be the champion, having defaced hundreds of walls, posters, street signs and subway seats. The New York subway system alone spends $500,000 a year to clean up after Taki and his myriad little friends, and there is no end in sight...
...years. Last week Egyptians were contemplating another Muslim institution with the same name: Muhammad Ali, 44, the noted U.S. automaker. That's right, Ali has gone from rope-a-dope to car star. Lee Iacocca, you could be in a heavyweight fight here. The poetic, peripatetic former boxing champion was in Egypt to announce the launch of a two-seater sports car, to be called the Ali 3 W.C. (for three world championships). The $25,000-to-$30,000 item will be turned out in South Boston, Va., starting next year, and the first batch will be marketed...
...marathon began in Moscow in September 1984, when the athletic, aggressive Kasparov, then 21, challenged the meticulous end-gamesman Karpov, then 33, world champion for the nine previous years and cynosure of the Soviet chess establishment. The match was played under revised rules, scoring only for victories, not draws. Five months and a record 48 games later, with Karpov leading 5-3 but faltering, the head of the World Chess Federation called off the contest, claiming that both antagonists were exhausted. Kasparov, having won the previous two games and the momentum, charged that he had been robbed. Seven months later...