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Often it seems that friends and family have a harder time dealing with the sudden flood of cash than the winners. When Mike Wittkowski of Chicago won $42 million in 1984, he expected, at 26, to keep working as a printing-press foreman. Instead he was hassled by co-workers for holding a job he didn't need. Dismayed, he bought a liquor store and is now his own boss...
...Foreman has no reason to grumble. He will get $12.5 million in pay-TV loot. It will take Roger Clemens, the mannerly Red Sox pitcher who is baseball's highest-paid player, more than two years in the whirlpool to earn that much. But Foreman gives funnier interviews. He claims to have three sons, or five sons, named George Foreman, which is not just funny. It's eerie...
...George Foreman spoiled? No, folks, just nicely ripened. He is a huge man, 6 ft. 4 in. and something like 250 lbs., with a shiny, shaved skull and a neck wider than his head, including his ears. He says coming into the ring too slim would be a mistake. He's teasing. He does that a lot, making it easy for reporters to laugh. Call him a fatted calf, call him a freak show, and he chuckles. "I like being me," he says now. "I have gotten rid of all problems like leaves hanging off a tree...
...trains hard. Former light-heavyweight Archie Moore, the old mongoose, who fought his own last pro fight in 1965 at 52, helps inspire him to do it. Foreman straps himself into a harness and pulls a three-wheeled all-terrain vehicle around while a trainer steers. He jogs behind a flatbed truck, whacking at a heavy punching bag tied to the back. More impressively, Foreman spars with four partners in succession for 21 consecutive minutes, pushing, slogging that thunderous right hand, crowding...
SPORT: Can George Foreman, 42, and other ancients come back...