Edgewood High School, El Corral, 1999, World Beat 14

Description:	Sportt#Sang Lan, Chinas 17-year-old gymnastics champion, breakstwo vertebrae during a vault at the Goodwill Games in July,leaving her paralyzed from the chest down.Jeff Gordon wins the NASCAR Winston Cupfor a second year in a row. Gordon, 27, isthe youngest driver to win three WmstonCup championships.O On January 4,1999, Tennessee beats Florida State University23-16 at the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona to win the national championship.It is the first year of the Bowl Championship Series, created to ensurethat the highest ranked college teams nationally meet in a bowl game.O ABCs Lesley Visserbecomes the firstwoman to report fromthe sidelines duringMonday Night Football,the 1998 Super Bowl, theNCAA Final Four and NFLplayoff games.Defending champion Detroit Red Wings win the 1998 StanleyCup championship, beating the Washington Capitals 4-1.Defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov, severely injured in a caraccident after last years Stanley Cup win, joins the celebrationO Flamboyant sprinter FlorenceGriffith Joyner (FloJo), triplegold medalist at the 1988Olympics, dies at age 38 in hersleep, of suffocation during anepileptic seizure.AP Photo/Susan A. Walsh
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Collection:	Edgewood High School

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