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Certainly the swooshing sound made last week when Woods, 20, a junior at Stanford, decided to join the pros was unlike that made by any other young player joining the tour. That sound was money, most of it from the Nike Corp., fluttering down on the young phenom, who is suddenly the richest golfer never to have won a professional tournament--in addition to being one of the very best players ever to enter the game...
...teenage phenom who at 16 became the youngest singles champion in Open history, beating the ancient Chris Evert, 24. Two years later she beat Martina Navratilova to recapture the title. An inexhaustible baseline player, Austin helped usher in the era of brat tennis. She was ahead of her time in other ways too. At 29, she was the youngest player inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, having quit eight years earlier, plagued by a sciatic-nerve problem. Two comebacks later, she retired for good. Now married to mortgage broker Scott Holt, she had their first child, Dylan...
...stage show, Always...Patsy Cline, played for two years in Nashville, Tennessee. The star of Always, Mandy Barnett, has just released her own album of Cline-inflected tunes. And for weeks the hottest country CD on Billboard's pop charts has been Blue, in which 13-year-old Texas phenom LeAnn Rimes does similarly in-Clined material, including the title song, which was written originally for the dead star. There's musical multiplicity in the country air: the invasion of the Patsy Clones...
Kerri Strug was known as the quiet member of the U.S. gymnastics team, overshadowed by media darlings like five-time Olympic medal winner Shannon Miller and 14-year-old phenom Dominique Moceanu. Strug, 18, is the sensitive one, the worrier, the one most attuned to the feelings of her teammates. She remembers birthdays and sends notes. When Amanda Borden was going through physical problems, it was Strug who perked her up by sending cards. She's a team player...
KINGPIN (July 12). One of three summer sport comedies, along with Eddie (Whoopi Goldberg as coach of the New York Knicks) and Tin Cup (Kevin Costner as a golfer). This one could be the Color of Money of bowling--former pro Woody Harrelson recruits Amish phenom Randy Quaid for a big payday. But the Farrelly brothers (Dumb & Dumber) ain't Scorsese. For a start, they have a fascination for prosthetic-hand gags; there are nine, just in the trailer. Rude and obvious. We laughed nine times...