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...YANKEES Thanks to strong journeymen like World Series MVP Scott Brosius and a whole lot of teamwork, the Yanks put together the best season ever--without a megastar. They won 114 regular-season games before racing through three levels of playoffs. They also landed a perfect game, a batting title and fans outside New York...
...players know it, which is why they poke fun at it. "Milk" is David Meriwether, 17, 5 ft., 11 in., a junior whose mere presence at the Los Angeles school dropped more jaws than his first dunk ever could. When Meriwether steps onto the court for Crenshaw's first regular-season game this week, he will become the first white basketball player in the school's 30-year history. In a preview of the anticipated pandemonium, Meriwether's introduction at a recent preseason scrimmage prompted more than 1,000 students to stomp and chant his politically incorrect nickname...
...marching bands. His idea of beauty was a balloon drop. (He did not, however, like the name Super Bowl. It was coined by the son of Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, whose imagination had been captured by the newly invented Super Ball.) It is now commonplace for a regular-season football game to attract ratings that surpass the playoff games in other sports. And the reason for that is Pete Rozelle...
October, 1998: The NBA cancels regular-season games for the first time in its history. Over 200 games have been canceled so far, and, barring a major break-through in today's negotiating session, the season cannot begin before mid-January...
...teams are as highly decorated as Harvard men's and women's squash. Combined, these two teams have amassed 11 national championship in the past six years alone, and only two Crimson losses stand next to 115 regular-season victories...