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For the second straight
year, the Toronto Blue Jays
won the World Series,
beating the Philadelphia
Phillie four games to two.
The Blue Jays came from
orts behind to win Game Six

on Joe Carter's three-run

the ninth inning .
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ••••••••••••••••••• homer in the bottom of
Former Los Angeles l.akers star Magic Johnson came back to
coach his old team at the end of the 1994 eason. Johnson,
who won his first two games as head coach, said that he only
agreed to coach the rest of the season as a favor to team
owner Jerry Buss. Rumors had Johnson returning as coach
only if he was allowed to purchase part of the team.

Wayne Gretzky became the Former BA great Michael Jordan's bid for baseball star-
HI.:s all-time leading scorer dom with the Chicago White Sox fell short. He was sent to
when he broke Gordie Howe's theM-class farm team in Birmingham, Ala.
career mark of 801 goals.
Gretzky, who holds 62 HL The defending champion Dallas Cowboys defeated the
Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl, 30-13, handing Buffalo its
records, accomplished in 15
fourth straight Super Bowl loss. In March, Dallas head
seasons what it took Howe 26
coach Jimmy Johnson and owner Jerry Jones had a part-
seasons to do.
ing of the ways, and Johnson left the Cowboys.
hannon Faulkner became ; Sterling Martin won his first ; Ten of thou and perished
; the first female tudent ~ NASCAR race in February ; when a deva tating earth-
: allowed to attend classes at ; when he triumphed at the ~ quake truck India. Mo t of
; the Citadel. The U.S. ; Daytona 500. ; the dead were impoveri hed
~ upreme Court ruled that she ~ familie whose poorly con-
; could attend without cadet ; tructed houses collapsed
~ ranking while she awaited the ~ ; on them. Over 100,000 were
. ; left homele s.
: re olution of her exual di -
; crimination suit again t the
: all-male military college.