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...well-kept garden apartment in East Orange, N.J., is home to a woman who shook hands with the Queen of England at Centre Court in Wimbledon, a woman who was a queen herself, the reigning tennis champion twice in a row at Wimbledon and at the U.S. Open. But Althea Gibson has vanished from sight...
...headline. But Gibson's absence was heart-wrenching. The new stadium was named for a man who broke race barriers in the '60s and '70s. Althea Gibson broke race barriers in the '50s: she was the first black person to win the French Open, the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. And on the day the new stadium opened, she turned...
...Signifies half the stars on MTV. See also: Wimbledon...
...last vestiges of Empire slipped away with the return of Hong Kong, most Oxonians didn't want to watch. They shuddered to think of the evaporation of such a great past, and preferred instead to place their hopes on one of Britain's long-shot competitors at Wimbledon, Oxfor's Tim Henman...
...WIMBLEDON: Boris Becker, who won his first Wimbledon championship in 1985 at the age of 17 and dominated the grass at the All England Club for a decade after, will not play there again. After losing to Pete Sampras in the quarterfinal Thursday, Becker said he was through. Although he won the event three times and finished second another four in the past 14 years, Becker felt that age 31 he could no longer play at a high enough level to win. "I feel very relieved," he said afterwards. "I feel I've come to the end of the road...