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Q: Sports Trivia ( Answered,   0 Comments )
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Subject: Sports Trivia
Category: Sports and Recreation > Trivia
Asked by: kiki22-ga
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Posted: 31 Jul 2003 13:24 PDT
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Question ID: 237483
What athletes have been on the covers of Sports Illustrated, Newsweek
and Time in the same week?
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Subject: Re: Sports Trivia
Answered By: juggler-ga on 31 Jul 2003 14:22 PDT
 
Hello.

Joe Namath
Reggie Jackson
Secretariat (the horse)
1980 U.S. Ice Hockey Team
Mary Lou Retton
O.J. Simpson
1999 U.S. Women's World Cup soccer team 

"Only seven times in history have Time, Newsweek, and Sports
Illustrated had the same entity on the cover in the same week: Joe
Namath, Reggie Jackson, Secretariat, the 1980 U.S. Ice Hockey team,
Mary Lou Retton, O.J. Simpson and the 1999 Women's World Cup Soccer
team."
source: Strange Facts and Useless Information;
http://www.angelfire.com/mi2/megamog/useless.html

"Q: Only six times in history have "Time", "Newsweek", and "Sports
Illustrated" had the same entity on the cover in the same week...
A: Joe Namath, Reggie Jackson, Secretariat, the 1980 U.S. Ice Hockey
team, Mary Lou Retton, and O. J. Simpson."
source: WDUV.com
http://wduv.com/contests/triviaarchive02.html

U.S. Women's World Cup soccer team 
"The U.S. women averaged almost 69,000 fans for each of its six
Women's World Cup games, and following the victory, were featured of
the cover of Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and People Magazine in
the same week."
source: Hankerin.com
http://www.hankerin.com/jan00/soccer/siwomen.html

search strategy:
time, newsweek, "sports illustrated", "same week"

I hope this helps.
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