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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jimmy Johnson promising victory over the San Francisco 49ers in this year's NFC Championship game? Perhaps Joe Namath guaranteeing a Jet victory over the Colts in Super Bowl...
...return engagement on Broadway and is coming back in June, devote themselves principally to the solo form. Others, like John Leguizamo, who was named last season's best performer off-Broadway for his Hispanic family portrait Spic-O-Rama and who appeared in the films Carlito's Way and Super Mario Bros., seem less exclusively committed to the stage...
After years of fragmenting TV audiences and drooping ratings for even major sports events such as the Olympics and the Super Bowl, the networks had cause to cheer: Lillehammer showed that couch potatoes can still be lured back. The Games' popularity also disproved one bit of conventional Olympics wisdom -- that live is better than taped. Although the prime-time events were canned and the results known beforehand, viewers couldn't seem to turn away...
...celebrities, had dominated Olympic skiing for decades. Yet last week a Norwegian (the dynamic Kjetil Andre Aamodt) and a Canadian (the surprising Ed Podivinsky) won silver and bronze medals in downhill after Moe, while a Russian, Svetlana Gladischeva, edged Italian Isolde Kostner for silver in the women's super-G. In the men's super- G, Markus Wasmeier, a Bavarian who likes to play Mozart on his zither, won the gold, beating Moe and Aamodt, who captured the bronze. The French were despondent when their favorites failed to garner medals, and L'Equipe, the national sports daily, struck back...
Tommy Moe stunned the world by capturing the men's downhill and then a silver in the super giant slalom. Diann Roffe-Steinrotter came in first in the women's super-G, and Picabo Street took a silver in the women's downhill...