Word: martina
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...good drama, ambiguities abound. Should out-of-staters take their ski dollars to antiabortion Utah? Should the voters of Denver, Boulder and Aspen, most of whom opposed the amendment, suffer for the attitudes of their neighbors? Tennis ace Martina Navratilova, the resort's most famous bisexual, supports a lawsuit against Amendment 2 but argues that a boycott would hurt local gays as much as the bigot brigade. Wellington Webb, Denver's first black mayor, finds analogy in civil rights history. "When some of us were trying to desegregate the South," he told Arsenio Hall last week, "we went south...
When she half-strode, half-skipped into Madison Square Garden to tumultuous applause last week, Martina Navratilova broke records. But she has lasted so long that she does that every time she plays -- win or lose. When her opponents had controversial calls go against them in the opening singles and doubles matches that she played just an hour apart, Navratilova set aside competitive advantage for queenly benevolence and conceded the (not so crucial) points. When she adjourned to the pressroom after winning both matches, she spoke briefly and blandly of her play, then waded more eagerly into political controversy over...
...Martina Navratilova keeps winning -- and speaking...
...106th Wimbledon tennis championships promised several Cinderella stories but delivered none. Old-timers Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe got as far as the semifinals, then were whipped. And Monica Seles, the steamrolling Serb with a shot at a Grand Slam sweep, got to the finals but lost in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1, to defending champion Steffi Graf...
They'll see the 5'6" point guard storm by Brown's 6'5" Martina Jerant for a pretty hoop off a finger roll...