Method gets him through `madness’
Even on his 26th birthday, Hunter Hillenmeyer had no intention of fooling with fate or defying superstition. The first time he picked up the check for dinner the night before...
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With Owens, everyone an `expert’
We started it, I'll admit that up front. A scandal occurs, a crime is committed, a riot breaks out and the trend is to round up the "experts" for further...
Black bowler’s goal: Role model, trendsetter
It never mattered to Billy Oatman as he watched Earl Anthony, his idol Steve Cook and the other stars on the Pro Bowlers Tour in the 1970s that no one...
Thinking about his next act
Bob Brenly gazed at the diamond and amethyst encrusted ring earned five years ago this November and considered what it has given him since: admiration and respect, perhaps. Surely a...
Catching breath, O’Malley ‘still in awe’
On the second-coolest day of Ryan O'Malley's life?the first being obvious and Thursday being his first full day as a big-league pitcher coming off eight scoreless innings and a victory?the...
An honor befitting a King
Billie Jean King said she was "still in shock" Thursday after the United States Tennis Association officially announced it would add her name to the National Tennis Center in Flushing...
Straight truth: Addressing the gay issue
As Stacey Dales refers to the blurring of stereotypes and truths about female athletes, her Sky teammates nod their heads. An annoyance, perhaps, but it also seems an unavoidable and...
At last, showtime
Michael Alter had never met a professional woman basketball player, and "WNBA" was just four letters to him. "It was far removed from my world," he said. "It just didn't...
Golden memories
Philip Hersh For the first time in my journalistic memory--which includes all eight Winter Olympics since 1980--I have no indelible single memory of the Games, just bits and pieces. Saw...
THAT’S AMORE
OK, so maybe it isn't that difficult. Maybe the secret to peace and love and harmony in U.S. men's speedskating is simply to have Shani and Chad walk around with...