Not wallowing in self pity, [Arthur Robert Ashe Jr.] brought much needed attention to AIDS sufferers worldwide. Two months before his death, he founded the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health to help address issues of inadequate health care delivery and was the only retired athlete ever named Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman of the Year (1993). Ashe won a total of three Grand Slam titles and to this day he remains the only African American male to ever win a Grand Slam tennis title. In retirement, Ashe wrote for Time Magazine, became the first Black commentator for ABC Sports, founded the National Junior Tennis League, served as captain of the U.S. Davis Cup team, wrote the noteworthy book, "Days of Grace," and founded the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS. Two mon...
Most Olympic years, you'd know more about America's top female figure skater than you do some family members. She'd have better air time on NBC than Jay Leno; OK, maybe not the best comparison these days. She'd grace the pages of everything from Sports Illustrated to Seventeen to People. You'd even see her face at the grocery store, smiling at you from some soda can or cereal box.
NEW YORK - Mariano Rivera didn't have a baseball in his hand, or a roomful of eager young pitchers around him. He could command those moments instinctively and with his unassuming grace. But in the raw days following the events of Sept. 11, 2001, the Yankees closer arrived at the Javits Center in Manhattan with several teammates mixing among police and firefighters, EMS workers and families whose losses were incalculable.
NEWPORT Friendly warnings will turn to strict citations Monday for truckers and motorists trying to avoid a bridge reconstruction project near what is known by some as the crossroads of central Maine. Its no secret to locals that the intersection of Routes 7 and 2 in Newport is busy, but even people familiar with the area have had a hard time adjusting to the new traffic patterns, which include new stop signs in some places where there were none before. Near-chaos ensued in the first days of the project, particularly for heavy- vehicle traffic that is supposed to avoid the downtown altogether. Newport Police Chief Leonard Macdaid said Friday that motorists were growing accustomed to the changes but that after a grace period of a few days, a zero-tolerance policy would be put into place...
Cooperstown, N.Y. -- He's still the classiest man in the room, just like in his playing days when with quick wrists and amazing grace he chased the ghost of Babe Ruth, chased the greatest record in baseball. On Saturday, Hank Aaron came back to Cooperstown -- where ballplayers are forever young -- and reminded a new generation of fans just why he's part of the fabric and history of a game, and a nation.
Until recently, GRACE received enough grants and donations to support both aspects of its work But this year the nonprofit hit a financial rough patch. "We're under the same financial stress every other nonprofit group is going through," acknowledges board president Stephen Ferber. An sales and donations have declined, workshop subsidies are faltering, foundation grants have dried up, and GRACE'S small endowment has lost money on the stock market. Managing director Carol Putnam says the organization's revenues are down by about 20 percent, and it needs about $50,000 to meet its operating expenses this year. We're covering this large area, and few people know about it because it's a special population," [George Hemmens] explains. "A lot of our workshops attract people with differences ....
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