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Either SHERYL SWOOPES really loves to play basketball or the W.N.B.A. has lousy maternity leave. Six weeks after bringing forth a 7-lb. 9-oz. son, Jordan (named after Michael, natch), the Olympic gold medalist was patrolling the court, and getting past Phoenix Mercury's MIKIKO HAGIWARA for the Houston Comets. "The five minutes I played felt more like 15 or 20," she says, "but I'm amazed at myself. I'm not as far away from where I want to be as I thought." Swoopes, one of the best female players in the game...
Calling the report a "divisive strategy," the writers of the alumnae letter, including a Harvard medalist and several former Radcliffe trustees, requested a meeting with Rudenstine. At press time, they had not received a response...
Harvard has also recently added U.S. Olympic champion Kendall Cross to the coaching staff. The Atlanta gold medalist's presence in the locker room as an assistant coach says a lot about the integrity of the Crimson program...
...three finishers were world-tested rowers, including runner-up Eskilid Ebbesen, a gold medalist in the Atlanta Olympics...
Next Olympics, Michael Johnson will be able to afford gold socks to go with his trademark spikes. The double-gold medalist has scored a deal with Nike that could be worth as much as $12 million over six years. That's a million more a year than Nike gives to the entire USA Track & Field federation...