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Champions keep coming back for more
Coaches like to say that winning becomes a habit. It certainly seemed so in 1998. The Chicago Bulls won their third straight NBA title, their sixth championship in eight years. On the college hardcourt, the Tennessee Lady Vols matched the Bulls' three-peat and seem poised to make it four, while the Kentucky men's team went to its third consecutive national championship game, winning its second title in three years. Jeff Gordon took one checkered flag after another, tying modern NASCAR records with four straight victories and 13 overall en route to his third Winston Cup. The Detroit Red Wings drank from the Stanley Cup for the second year in a row. Patrick Rafter fought his way to a repeat U.S. Open tennis title. And Mark O'Meara won the first major of his long career, The Masters, and followed it up with a second, the British Open, two months later.
Photos, clockwise from top left, by Heinz Kluetmeier, Manny Millan, Walter Iooss Jr., David E. Klutho
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