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If the Olympics for once really did speak to larger issues of fairness and fellowship, baseball's World Series pitted brother against brother in a vintage New York City gang war. The image that lingers is not of a titanic home run or a dazzling play at shortstop, but of...
There's confidence, and then there's knowledge. Since she was a little girl, Marion Jones knew, just knew, that she was not only fast--she could outrun any boy in her neighborhood--but important. Watching Charles and Diana's wedding on TV, she asked her mother why no one...
The athletic glories of the year were all but buried by news from beyond the bleachers. Performance-enhancing drugs tarred the Sydney Olympics; free-agent baseball player Alex Rodriguez became the poster boy for greed when he reportedly demanded private jets and personal flacks in negotiations with the New York...
3 VENUS WILLIAMS Serena's big sister became the first black player to win Wimbledon since Arthur Ashe did it in 1975, then kept the U.S. Open crown in the family. While most U.S. male stars bagged the Olympics, Venus and Serena brought back the gold.
"I was in San Diego for four months, and I was also in Sydney working with NBC for the Olympics," Lasrson said. "I was a runner, I worked for Hannah Storm in the morning show. Then I came home and trained for six weeks [before the combine]."