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...Utah Beach. Although he had a heart condition, Roosevelt insisted that his presence and leadership would help boost troop morale. With German artillery exploding all around him, he paraded up and down Utah Beach, ordering U.S. tanks to secure the flanks and U.S. engineers to breach eight 50-yd. lanes through beach obstacles. He refused to wear a helmet, preferring to don a knit wool hat. "We have landed in the wrong place," shouted Roosevelt, who would receive the Medal of Honor for his valor that day. "But we will start the war from here...
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...like all the other kids, she won the U.S. Women's Public Links Championship, which makes her the youngest player ever to win a USGA event, and last week she made the cut at the U.S. Women's Open. But don't feel bad. Sure, Wie can pound 300-yd. drives like Annika Sorenstam. But she has yet to turn pro and start pulling down Tiger Woods money. Next year she plans to take on the men's tour in the Masters. When she does that, then you can feel...
Baker, 50, is commissioner of the Arena Football League (AFL), whose 16 teams play an exciting, fast-paced version of the sport with eight-man squads on a 50-yd. field, usually set up in a basketball or hockey facility. Arena football has been around since 1987 but hasn't taken off until this spring when NBC--having lost big bucks on overpriced major sports--turned over a prime weekend slot to the AFL. The network has broadcast 56 AFL games over the past four months and will showcase the semifinals and the championship, Arena Bowl XVII, for most...
...most important thing," says Colonial head pro Dow Finsterwald Jr. "This is a position golf course"--a plus for Sorenstam, one of the most accurate hitters in the game. She'll have to hope her straight shooting will make up for her power disadvantage--her current 275.4-yd. average drive would rank her 159th on the PGA tour...