Word: championships
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...rematch between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson was billed as "The Sound and the Fury," borrowing a line from Shakespeare's Macbeth. How fitting then that Saturday's World Boxing Association heavyweight championship fight at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas turned out to be not only a tragedy but also a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing...
WIMBLEDON: Boris Becker, who won his first Wimbledon championship in 1985 at the age of 17 and dominated the grass at the All England Club for a decade after, will not play there again. After losing to Pete Sampras in the quarterfinal Thursday, Becker said he was through. Although he won the event three times and finished second another four in the past 14 years, Becker felt that age 31 he could no longer play at a high enough level to win. "I feel very relieved," he said afterwards. "I feel I've come to the end of the road...
HOSPITALIZED. VLADIMIR KONSTANTINOV, 30, popular defenseman for the Detroit Red Wings, which won the National Hockey League championship on June 7; with life-threatening head injuries after a car crash; in Royal Oak, Mich. Konstantinov, who came to Detroit in 1991 from the Soviet Central Red Army club, was a passenger in a limo driven by a man whose license had been revoked...
...Eastern Regional Championship on the campus of Brown University, the Crimson was taken down in the final match, 5-3. The No. 1 team in the East, which boasts the nations' eighth-ranked collegiate player, Lauren Nikolaus, and the fourth-ranked doubles tandem of Nikolaus and Johanna Sones proved its worth...
Wang reached the championship of the 96-player women's singles competition, thus qualifying for the national indoor championships. Wang had to get by Ivy League Player of the Year Trishna Patel of Brown in a grueling three-set match. Although Wang fell in the final round match against O, she had already qualified for the nationals...