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...Evel Knievel ends up in a coma for 30 days after attempting to jump over the fountains at Caesars Palace...
AILING. EVEL KNIEVEL, 60, motorcycle daredevil; awaiting a liver transplant owing to the effects of hepatitis C; in Tampa, Fla. Knievel believes he contracted the disease during one of 14 operations to repair the 35 broken bones and other injuries caused by his stunts...
...EVEL KNIEVEL once fractured his skull and pelvis jumping over fountains at Caesar's Palace. Last week his leg was injured when his parked motorcycle fell over and pinned him to the ground. Knievel, 60, was rescued by neighbors who heard his pleas for help. Though he complained of leg pain and a scraped elbow, Knievel refused to be taken to a hospital. Even a glutton for pain is not impervious to a bruised...
...July 9 Clinton sang the national anthem in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, before a motorcycle jump-off featuring Evel Knievel...
...average $35 a crack. Wrestling matches have proved an even bigger draw. Wrestlemania IV had a reported 900,000 takers last March (the largest audience yet claimed for a PPV event), and well-hyped ring battles like last week's Chi-Town Rumble '89 are coming almost monthly. Robbie Knievel, son of daredevil Evel, will attempt a motorcycle jump over the fountains at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace for a PPV event in April, and the supermiddleweight title fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns will be offered over PPV in June...