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...last player to win the Wooden Award in the same year his team won the NCAA title (1995). Three others have pulled the double feat: Louisville's Darrell Griffth (1980), Kansas' Danny Manning (1988) and Duke's Christian Laettner (1992). Michael Jordan was named the Wooden Award winner in 1984, two years after his North Carolina team won the national championship. UNLV's Larry Johnson won the Wooden Award in 1991, the year after the Runnin' Rebels were shocked by Duke in their bid to repeat as champions...
...importance and timing of the goals she has scored this year--the game-winner against No. 1 Dartmouth which gave No. 3 Harvard its first win over the Big Green in five tries, and her overtime game-winner against Northeastern in the Beanpot for the third consecutive year--are what make her the heavy favorite to win the award...
...57th minute, Harper took control of the game. After scoring her third goal on a free possession to tie the score at 8-8, the senior attacker found junior Lizzie Frisbie for the game-winner...
DIVORCING. Triple Grammy winner EMINEM, 28, and on-again, off-again wife KIM MATHERS, 26; in Macomb County, Mich. The couple have a 5-year-old daughter, Hailie Jade...
...David Trimble, first minister of Northern Ireland, is another co-winner (1998) who must be wondering whether his accolade is really a curse. Bravely he has struggled to keep some forward momentum in the Ulster peace process, as much against hard-liners in his own Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) as against the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and its political front Sinn Fein. But the process is stuck in neutral, perhaps drifting backward. Last week, British prime minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern convened talks with Ulster politicians at Hillsborough Castle near Belfast. All the pomp and glitter...