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Casey Martin, 1998 News

a disabled professional golfer, won a courtroom victory over the PGA Tour. At issue was the athlete's ability to use a golf cart during competition, which the PGA Tour claims will give him…

Conrad Veidt

Conrad Veidt had a distinguished early career in German silent films, including the role of Cesare, the somnambulist in the 1919 classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. After dozens of roles in German…

Tiger Woods, 2001 News

golfing phenom, set yet another record in April, when he won the Masters, becoming the first golfer to hold all four PGA Tour major-tournament titles simultaneously. His streak began in last…

Casey Martin, 2001 News

disabled professional golfer, won the legal right to use a golf cart during competition. In May the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7–2 in his favor, rejecting the PGA Tour's claim that using a…

Martha Burk, 2003 News

chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations, led the much-publicized campaign against Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia's exclusive, all-male enclave that hosts the Masters…

Gabrielle Reece

Gabrielle Reece was a triple threat of the 1990s, a volleyball player whose powerful good looks led to modeling contracts and TV work. She played volleyball at Florida State while also modeling for…

Althea Gibson

The daughter of sharecroppers, Althea Gibson became a tennis sensation in the 1950s as the first African-American to win the world's biggest tennis championships. Her 1956 triumph at the French…

David Duval

David Duval won the 2001 British Open, silencing those who had called him the best player never to win a major tournament. Duval joined the PGA tour in 1995; by 1999 he was ranked #1 in the world (a…

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Name at birth: Mildred Ella DidriksenMildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was voted the outstanding woman athlete of the century in a 1950 Associated Press poll. Though she gained her greatest…

Amy Alcott

Amy AlcottBorn: Feb. 22, 1956Golfer 29 career wins, including five majors; inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame in 1999.Tenley AlbrightA - CGrover Cleveland (Pete) Alexander