BRIEFLY : BOWLER RECOGNIZED FOR 900-SERIES EFFORT.Only once in a century does someone roll 36 straight strikes in a three-game series of bowling. And Jeremy Sonnenfeld has the gold ring to prove it. ``Everything just happened to go my way,'' he said after receiving the special award from the American Bowling Conference on Sunday. ``It was a lot of luck and a little bit of skill, I guess.'' The conference, bowling's sanctioning body, searched its 101 years' worth of records to find a feat like Sonnenfeld's, but there wasn't one. To mark the first, it presented the 20-year-old University of Nebraska student with a 14-karat ``900'' ring, set with a diamond and a blue stone. SWIMMING: Russia's Denis Pankratov Denis Pankratov (born July 4, 1974) is a retired Russian butterfly swimmer of the 1990s, who was best known for winning the butterfly double at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia in a unique style. broke his fourth short-course swimming world record in nine days, clocking 51.78 seconds in the 100-meter butterfly in a World Cup meet at Paris. BASEBALL: Catcher Joe Oliver Joe Oliver can refer to:
In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. an everyday job. He returned by agreeing to a minor-league contract and a part-time role. Oliver, 31, accepted a nonguaranteed contract with an invitation to spring training. If he makes the major-league roster, as expected, he will get $300,000. SKIING: With horns blowing and thousands of Italians serenading her with chants, Deborah Compagnoni Deborah Compagnoni (born June 4, 1970) is an Italian former Alpine skier who won three gold medals at the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics. Career Deborah Compagnoni was born in Bormio, northern Lombardy. Compagnoni soon was noticed for her great talent. won the giant slalom giant slalom n. A downhill skiing race in which participants must pass between pairs of gates set along a course that is larger and often steeper than a slalom course. for her second gold medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize of the World Alpine Ski Championships at Sestriere, Italy. Italy's best woman skier in history, now a rival of slalom star Alberto Tomba for national stardom, skied two excellent runs to finish in 2 minutes, 39.19 seconds. She has now won five gold medals in the Olympics or world championships. |
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