Word: championships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...twenty-somethings have fired enough 60-somethings to win 15 of the 30 events on the tour this year. Five of the Top 9 money winners, and 10 of the Top 38, are in their 20s. If Woods or Els or Leonard doesn't win the P.G.A. Championship, which will be played at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, N.Y., this week, then Jim Furyk, 27, Stuart Appleby, 26, Phil Mickelson, 27, Paul Stankowski, 27, David Duval, 25, Stewart Cink, 24, or Robert Damron, 24, just might, and thus give the under-30s a clean sweep of the majors. In a sport...
...Picking a winner in the PGA Championship: don't trust anyone over 30. Golf's youth movement goes for the Slam with Woods, Els, and Leonard each looking for their second majors starting Thursday at Winged Foot. The early favorite: 27-year-old Phil Mickelson...
Summer in America. A time for blood-drenched, dumbed-down action-adventure movies high on corpses, dinosaurs and extraterrestrials, but low on heart. Summer in America. Turn on the TV and watch your tobacco-chawing interleague baseball games; lay down your $49.95 and catch a championship-boxing match complete with an outrageous ear-chewing incident. Summer in America. Also a season for music: strutting macho megatours; draining weekend-long rock festivals; sweaty dance clubs throbbing with testosterone-filled techno. Dial up Ticketmaster; go to an outdoor alternative-rock show in a field, in a stadium; see the teeming, churning mosh...
Mike Tyson, who may have earned $140 million since he got out of prison two years ago, spent his 31st birthday begging. Two days after he sampled Evander Holyfield's ear, threw away their championship return bout and maybe also the rest of his career, Tyson was standing before a microphone pleading not to be barred from boxing. "I only ask that I not be penalized for life for this mistake," he said. He added that he had sought professional help "to find out why I did what...
During the year's regular season, the Crimson defeated nationally-ranked teams such as Miami, which ended up finshing third in the nation, and UMass. After winning the Ivy Legue Championship, the Crimson defeated Patriot League Champion Army which led them to the Midwest Regional tournament...