Word: champions
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Saying "I hardly could miss the ball," Edberg for once displayed the serenity and not just the stoicism of the five-time champion Bjorn Borg. "All of us in Sweden grew up watching Borg in the finals of Wimbledon. Now I've won Wimbledon too. It's quite fun actually." Asked if it might change him, he responded, "It hasn't yet." (At least half an hour had gone by.) In other words, he would be maintaining his English residence in Chelsea? "No, Kensington." And not be moving to Monte Carlo, nearer the night life and farther from the taxmen...
...little brother Charlie gets cold-shouldered by his best friend; and her mother Polly gives up her free-lance photography business. On the up side, her father Ivan becomes friends with a terminally ill homosexual who is manning an AIDS hotline. Amanda's status as a potential gymnastic champion is more than a gimmick; it provides a standard by which her physical deterioration and emotional growth are measured. The little tumbler is a reminder that when A.E. Housman wrote "To an Athlete Dying Young," he did not mean this young. At Risk is a one-hankie book and could...
When nothing else works, the intimidating presence of the 220-lb. Carrasco, a champion boxer in his college days, can make the difference. "He's a top sergeant, shouting 'This is your last chance! Without training, you're going nowhere!' " recalls Alumnus Carlos Porras, now a tobacco salesman who owns a house complete with swimming pool...
...there is any one player who has turned the Harvard women's ice hockey team into an Ivy League champion, it would have to be Sasner, who is considered by many to be the best female skater to wear a Crimson jersey...
...days after the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) announced that the United States will open 12 stadia to a month-long, 52-match tournament which will determine soccer's world champion, the question arises: can America pull...