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...contorting into improbable positions to hit impossible angles, flinging herself into the air to intercept balls streaking in at 100 m.p.h., exulting at every reassurance that her athleticism was intact -- after 36 years, more than 2,000 career matches and double knee reconstruction -- one might have thought the grande dame of tennis was making a stately segue into the next phase of a stubbornly public life. But four years after she started publicly flirting with the idea, the most successful woman in the history of professional sports is not quite ready to retire...
SPORT: Tennis' Gutsy Grande Dame...
...male God means people begin to equate power with maleness," says the Rev. Joan Campbell, the first clergywoman to be chief executive of the National Council of Churches. When noninclusive words crop up during Mass, asserts Sister Francis Bernard O'Connor of the University of Notre Dame, women "sit there and say, Why am I here?" She argues that "God does not have gender, and there are a number of ways God can be addressed without calling...
...Notre Dame has the luck of the Irish and Boston College has the prayers of the Catholic Church, then Harvard has the curse of the second half collapse...
Stanford's opponents will not be happy if he finds such a player. Or three. Stanford is no longer a soft touch eagerly sought out by schedulemakers at other institutions. "He's going to drive Notre Dame nuts," says ESPN's Cook of Walsh. That will surely be the case as well with traditional rivals U.S.C. and California. Not to mention powerful Washington, which shares the top of the national polls this season with Miami of Florida...