June

25
Philadelphia Eagle All-Pro defensive tackle Jerome Brown, 27, and his 12-year-old nephew are killed when Brown's car collides at high speed with a power pole in Brooksville, Fla.

27
At the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, decathlete Dan O'Brien, costar of Reebok's $25 million Olympic ad campaign, misses his three attempts in the pole vault and fails to make the U.S. Olympic Team.