Hockey superstar Mario Lemieux is diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, a form of cancer.
Against all odds, Bo Jackson returns to baseball, playing on an artificial hip. A deranged tennis fan stabs Monica Seles during a tournament in Germany. After leading the Chicago Bulls to three straight National Basketball Association titles, Michael Jordan announces his retirement.
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January 12, 1993
Mario Lemieux has Hodgkin's disease
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While being treated for continued back problems, Pittsburgh Penguins scoring machine Mario
Lemieux discovers he has Hodgkin's disease, cancer of the lymphatic system. After a brief
comeback following radiation treatment, Lemieux misses most of the next two seasons, but he returns in 1995 to lead the National Hockey League in scoring and win his third MVP trophy. He retires after the 1996-97 season at the age of 31.
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April 9, 1993
Bo Jackson comes back
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Bo Jackson adds yet another credential to his resume as one
of sports' most amazing athletes by slugging a home run for the
Chicago White Sox in his first baseball game after receiving an
artificial hip. Jackson, a Heisman Trophy-winning running
back at Auburn before becoming a two-sport star
for baseball's Kansas City Royals and football's Los Angeles
Raiders, injured his hip in a 1990 football game. That ended
his gridiron career, but hip replacement surgery allows him
to play baseball for two more seasons before he retires.
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April 30, 1993
Monica Seles stabbed during tennis tournament
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Monica Seles, the world's top-ranked women¼s tennis player, is resting between games of a
match in Hamburg, Germany, when a man lunges from the stands and stabs her in the back.
The 19-year-old Seles, who owns 30 singles titles at the time of the stabbing, suffers
a relatively minor wound, but she does not return to the tennis tour until 1995. Her attacker,
an obsessive fan of Seles rival Steffi Graf, receives a two-year suspended sentence.
1.1M QuickTime Movie - 27 sec.
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October 6, 1993
Michael Jordan says goodbye to basketball
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Michael Jordan, the best player in pro basketball and perhaps the globe's most
visible athlete, stuns the athletic world by suddenly announcing his retirement
from the Chicago Bulls. The 30-year-old Jordan, a three-time Most Valuable Player
and the league's scoring leader for seven straight seasons, says the game offers no
more challenges for him. But after two unsuccessful years as a minor league baseball
player, Jordan returns to the Bulls in 1995 and promptly leads them to two more NBA crowns.
1.6M QuickTime Movie - 32 sec.
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