| Befitting its status as a watershed year inhuman history, 2000 featured a cavalcade ofmemorable athletes and compelling sport-ing events. They ranged from the tragic tothe triumphant to the transcendent, andthey made 2000 a year sports fans will notsoon forget. Fiery Indiana University basket-ball coach Bobby Knight, a fixture inBloomington for 29 years, was dismissedafter an altercation with an undergraduate;the mighty New York Yankees began the newmillennium just as they had ended the pre-vious one, becoming World Series champi- ~ons for the fourth time in five years; MarionJones captured the world s imagination withher heroic effort to win five gold medals atthe Olympic Games in Sydney; the dazzlingWilliams sisters, Venus and Serena, injectednew life into women s tennis. |
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