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...That will change this week when the five-time Player of the Year and her sublime swing take on Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els and other PGA stars at the Colonial invitational in Fort Worth, Texas. She will become the first woman to play in a PGA tournament since Babe Didrikson Zaharias...
...with the desire to write phrases like "Outlined against the blue-gray October sky..." But what I really coveted was the athletes Rice covered in the 1920s and '30s, the so-called Golden Age of Sports: Ty Cobb, Jim Thorpe, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Babe Ruth, Babe Didrikson, Red Grange, the Brown Bomber, the Four Horsemen and the Four Musketeers...
...greatest champion in Olympic history won no medals. Baron Pierre de Coubertin wasn't even much of an athlete. But were it not for the diminutive French nobleman, we might not know the names of Jim Thorpe, Babe Didrikson, Jesse Owens, Wilma Rudolph, Mark Spitz, Nadia Comaneci, Jackie Joyner-Kersee...
...Daley Thompson has been the natural heir to Jim Thorpe, she would be the Seoul beneficiary of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Joyner-Kersee and Thompson, the two-time Olympic decathlon champion, puffing for three, embody all the basic wonders of the Games and encompass almost every grade of emotion. One is just arriving at a place the other has been straining to maintain. She's the blur; he's the mist. They have a "special understanding," as he likes to put it, and a few things...
...nine-year winning streak to 111 races; Cheryl Miller led the U.S. women's basketball team to an 83-60 victory over the Soviets; Dasher Evelyn Ashford, 29, held off East Germany's Heike Drechsler, 21, for another day; Jackie Joyner became the first U.S. woman since Babe Didrikson Zaharias to hold the world record in a multiple-discipline event...