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Kirsty Coventry elected IOC president and is first woman, first African to lead global Olympic body

Hastings Tribune 21 Mar 2025
Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee. She's the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in global sports, and aged just 41. The Zimbabwe sports minister is just the 10th leader ... .
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Columbia women get first NCAA Tournament win ever, rallying to beat Washington 63-60 in First Four

The Lufkin News 21 Mar 2025
Riley Weiss scored 14 of her 24 points in the fourth quarter to help Columbia rally from a 13-point halftime deficit and beat Washington 63-60 and earn the school’s first-ever NCAA Tournament victory. Cecelia Collins added 12 points for the ....
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First Four: Columbia beats Washington for first NCAA win

Gwinnett Daily Post 21 Mar 2025
Riley Weiss scored 24 points and Kitty Henderson tallied 11 points, seven rebounds and seven assists as Columbia held off Washington 63-60 in the First Four of the Women's NCAA Tournament on Thursday in Chapel Hill, N.C ... .
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First Four: Columbia, William & Mary earn first NCAA wins

Marietta Daily Journal 21 Mar 2025
Riley Weiss scored 24 points and Kitty Henderson tallied 11 points, seven rebounds and seven assists as Columbia held off Washington 63-60 in the First Four of the Women's NCAA Tournament on Thursday in Chapel Hill, N.C ... .
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Columbia women rally to beat Washington n First Four, getting first NCAA Tournament win ever

The Lufkin News 21 Mar 2025
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Riley Weiss scored 14 of her 24 points in the fourth quarter to help Columbia rally from a 13-point halftime deficit and beat Washington 63-60 on Thursday night for the school’s first-ever NCAA Tournament victory ....
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Omaha basketball's first-half lead fades away against St. John's to end first March Madness run

Omaha World-Herald 21 Mar 2025
For 20 minutes, the Mavericks rode a wave of underdog bliss against No. 2-seed St. John’s scrapping and fighting in the paint. But the fairytale could only last so long ... .
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Kirsty Coventry becomes first woman and first African to lead IOC

The Philadelphia Inquirer 21 Mar 2025
... Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the organization’s first female and first African president in its 130-year history.
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Coventry becomes first woman and first African to lead IOC |21 March 2025

Nation 21 Mar 2025
... and first African president in its 130-year history.
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First light, first sight, 1954

Stars and Stripes 21 Mar 2025
After groping through 12 years of darkness, a little Korean boy, Lee Toi Byun, was given his sight recently after an operation performed by Maj. G. Peter Halberg a New York eye specialist at the 121st Evacuation Hospital near Seoul ... William L ... .
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March Madness: Arkansas, John Calipari hand Kansas its first NCAA tournament first-round loss since 2006

Yahoo Daily News 21 Mar 2025
7 Kansas, 79-72 Thursday in one of the marquee matchups of the first round of the NCAA tournament ... The last time Kansas lost in the first was was to Bradley in 2006 ... A first-round exit as a No ... 2 seed in the first round to No.
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Arkansas tops Kansas 79-72, handing the Jayhawks their first NCAA Tournament first-round loss since 2006

Baltimore Sun 21 Mar 2025
Johnell Davis added 18 points, including some crucial late free throws, to help John Calipari to his first tournament victory as Razorbacks coach ... Posted its first tournament victory since reaching the Sweet 16 in 2023 under then-coach Eric Musselman.
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Kirsty Coventry becomes first female and first African president of IOC

China Daily 21 Mar 2025
COSTA NAVARINO -- Kirsty Coventry was elected as the 10th president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday, making history as the first woman and the first African to lead the global Olympic movement.
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