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...have had trouble seeing it on NBC's equally disputed TV coverage (which opted for flashy individual performances on the track and in the diving pool over less glamorous team efforts), but sisterhood was powerful at the Atlanta Games. Sparked by Richardson, and by dominating pitching from Lisa Fernandez and Michele Granger, the U.S. softball team survived some low-scoring squeakers (and a 2-1 loss to Australia in extra innings) to capture the first Olympic gold medal ever awarded in the sport. The U.S. women's soccer team also dispatched the world's top teams, including Norway (which...
...been erroneously reported that Cubas is representing the boxers. But for the Cuban baseball players, he has come to stand for freedom and the major leagues--and millions of U.S. dollars. After he took two defecting pitchers, Osvaldo Fernandez and Livan Hernandez, to the Dominican Republic last winter to establish their free-agent status, they signed very sweet deals, with the San Francisco Giants and Florida Marlins respectively. Says Cubas: "The money has less to do with their defecting than their desire for freedom or their wish to play at the highest level of competition...
...seeded Monica Seles from the Olympic tennis tournament, rallying from a 5-3 third-set deficit to win 7-5, 3-6, 8-6. "She played better than I did at crunch time," Seles said. The other U.S. women won, which means a semifinal showdown Wednesday between Mary Joe Fernandez and Lindsay Davenport, who are close friends as well as teammates. At least one of them will take home a medal. Novotna's opponent in the semifinals will be No. 3 Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario of Spain. In women's basketball. the U.S. team finished the preliminary round with another rout...
...crash site rescuers were hampered by the inhospitableness of the Everglades--and the plane's flammable oil slick. Said Miami Fire Lieut. Luis Fernandez: "We've had to pull the airboats out of the water. It's not like the ocean; there's no water circulating, so there's no way for the fuel to dissipate. What we're having to do is land on high ground and then have our rescuers slush through four feet of water." With that kind of contact come the natural hazards of the swamp: alligators and snakes...
...primary focus of MSA is to provide a forum for different ethnic groups to discuss different issues and to build solidarity between different groups," said Jessy J. Fernandez '99, incoming MSA co-chair...