The 1990s boasted some of the greatest athletes and athletic achievements of the century, and saw a real flowering in women's sports. Leading the way was the man who many considered to be the best athlete of the century: Michael Jordan (1963—). Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to six National Basketball Association (NBA) championships in the decade, dominating the league the way no team had done in thirty years. Tiger Woods (1975—) became golf's most dominating player since Jack Nicklaus (1940–) and an admirable role model for minority athletes who had once been banned from the sport. Two of major league baseball's most hallowed records also fell in the decade. Mark McGwire (1963–) and Sammy Sosa (1968–) engaged in a summer-long home run derby that ended with McGwire setting a new record for home runs in a single season with seventy runs. Cal Ripken Jr. (1960–) broke the fifty-six-year-old record...