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...title Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin was awarded last week to the third-place contestant after the winner was forced to give back her crown and the first runner-up refused to take it. Why the pageant turmoil? Officials said Janeal Lee, 30, a scooter-dependent teacher with muscular dystrophy who can still walk about 50 feet a day, violated a rule against appearing in public out of her wheelchair. "Every year there are tasks I have to give up doing because of my disease," says Lee. "I guess when it progresses enough, I'd be able to enter [the contest] again...
Freshman Ashwin Kumar and sophomore Shantanu Dhaka took a 4-1 lead in the middle match, only to see the score knotted at five apiece. Meanwhile, on the third court, junior Brandon Chiu and co-captain Jason Beren surmounted a 5-2 deficit to bring their contest to six apiece...
Sophomore Gideon Valkin leveled the match with a quick 6-1, 6-4 victory in the sixth singles slot, and Chu gave the Crimson the lead with his 6-4, 7-6 win—but Chiu dropped a heated three-set contest, and Dhaka would soon follow suit...
...hands. But that's exactly what he did the night of March 24, 1962, during a televised boxing match against welterweight champion Benny Paret. Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story, a documentary from Dan Klores and Ron Berger (USA, April 20, 9 p.m. E.T.), searingly remembers a contest that crossed the invisible line into a killing...
Center fielder Kerry Flaherty then drove in Halpenny with a single to even the contest...