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| MARTIN LUTHER KING |
| Nobel Prize winner Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. originated the nonviolence strategy within the activist civil rights movement. King was born on January 15, 1929, in
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| MAGIC JOHNSON |
| Joining the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association in 1979, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr. (born 1959) became one of basketball's most popular stars.
In November 1991,… more |
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BILL CLINTON |
William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton (born 1946) won the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1992 and then
defeated incumbent George Bush to become the 42nd… more
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"In this game, you have to work hard to get better. I like to work hard. I love this game."--Sammy Sosa. Outfielder Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs entered the 1998 baseball season as a relatively unknown player to most Americans. However, ...
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Scottie Pippen is a rare superstar, an outstanding basketball player who arrived from Arkansas as an almost complete unknown. He was not even recruited to play college basketball after graduating from high school. Instead he began his coll...
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"I want to be [the] number one world [golf] player."--Se Ri Pak. In 1998 golfer Se Ri Pak took the Ladies' Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour by storm. As a rookie she won two of the four major tournaments of women's golf--the LPGA ...
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Setting a track-and-field world record is a great accomplishment. Imagine breaking a world record 35 times! The only person to ever do this is pole-vaulter Sergei Bubka of the Ukraine, a man experts call "the Czar of Vaulting." He set his ...
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Over the course of the 1993-94 season, his fourth in the National Hockey League (NHL), Detroit Red Wings center Sergei Fedorov made a strong case for being the most complete player in hockey. Having established himself in his first three s...
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When people talk about Shannon Miller, they usually say she's cute. At four-feet-ten inches and 86 pounds, she may look fragile, but looks can be deceiving. A fierce and determined competitor, Miller made history in 1992 by winning five Ol...
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Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal has the potential for superstardom on the same level as all-time great centers Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Bill Russell, all players who dominated the National Basketball Association (NBA)....
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"[I'm still] like that kid shooting baskets by himself at midnight, simply for the love of the game."--Shareef Abdur-Rahim. Throughout his basketball career Shareef Abdur-Rahim has been a bear of a player. In college he played for the Cali...
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Shawn Kemp is one of the most exciting players in the National Basketball Association (NBA). His twisting, turning dunks are regular features on sports highlight shows, and no one finishes on an alley-oop pass like the Seattle Supersonics ...
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Basketball fans have many reasons to remember the name Sheryl Swoopes. One is that her last name rhymes with hoops. However, the best reason to remember the former Texas Tech Lady Raider is that she is one of the best female basketball pla...
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Drag racer Shirley Muldowney (born ca. 1940) was the first woman to break through in that sport, making her virtually a household name in the 1970s on par with daredevil motorcycle-jumper Evil Knievel. Shirley Muldowney was the first woman...
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In baseball, a grand slam is a home run with the bases loaded and it counts for four runs. In tennis, a Grand Slam is winning the four most important tournaments--the Australian and French Opens, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open--in one year. ...
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Steve "Air" McNair has had to overcome doubters his entire football career. After turning in outstanding performances as a high school quarterback, most major college coaches only wanted him to come to their schools if he agreed to play in...
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Steve Young once said that he's had one of the strangest careers in National Football League (NFL) history. It's hard to argue with him. Who else could have been named the NFL's Most Valuable Player, as Young was in 1992 and 1994, and stil...
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Steve Yzerman--center for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL)--always loved hockey. As a child he daydreamed about skating around the ice carrying the most famous trophy in sports--the Stanley Cup. For 14 years he str...
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Surya Bonaly of France has held a spot near the top of the figure skating world for some time. In a sport dominated by white athletes, Bonaly has been a role model for black fans throughout the world. Trained as a gymnast, Bonaly can do at...
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