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...could be a long ride down for Ebbers, but then he enjoyed a long ride up. Born to a working-class family and reared in Edmonton, Alta., in western Canada, the 6-ft. 4-in. Ebbers worked as a milkman and bar bouncer before winning a basketball scholarship to Mississippi College, a small Baptist school in Jackson. He stayed on in Mississippi as a basketball coach and hotel owner. Then, in 1983, he met a group of investors who had come to technologically deprived central Mississippi to cash in on the federally mandated breakup of AT&T. Meeting...
...Olympics) and even dabbled in singles skating. They first tried teaming up in 1996 but nothing came of it. Two years later, both their careers had stalled: he was selling beer and hot dogs in a Montreal stadium for $10 an hour, and she was waitressing at an Edmonton coffee shop. While the rest of the skating universe was still buzzing about the Nagano Olympics, Pelletier flew to Edmonton for a second try, and the two clicked. The minute Pelletier got back home, the phone rang, and it was Sale. "We put our cards on the table and decided...
...world rankings for three weeks. Despite Lindsay Davenport's lastminute reclaiming of the ace spot, the International Tennis Federation named Capriati 2001 world champion, alongside Australian superstar Lleyton Hewitt. 3. Fleet of foot Africa's athletes ran off with 24 medals at the World Championships in Edmonton. The men took every distance race from 1,500 m up while the continent's women notched victories at 400 m, 800 m, 10,000 m, 400-m hurdles and the high jump. Outstanding was Morocco's Hicham el Guerrouj, who claimed his 51st win in 53 finals...
With the Yankees losing to the Diamondbacks in the World Series last Sunday, it’s quite possible we have witnessed the end of a dynasty—one rivaled over the past 30 years only by the LA Lakers and Edmonton Oilers of the 1980s and the Chicago Bull of the ’90s. If this happens to be the case, I can’t help but feel a little bit sad, despite my general apathy toward baseball and usual dislike of New York sports teams...
...trio is Kenny Smith (0-2—2). Despite missing the first half of the year with a stress fracture in his leg, Smith was the team’s second-best defenseman by season’s end. A third-round pick of the NHL Edmonton Oilers this summer, Smith flashed some his potential with some steady play in his freshman year...