He began 2011 with a 41-match win streak, and has won four of the last five Slams.

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According to a news release after the Lakers' 17-14 championship win, he ended his collegiate career having won 28 straight games and having been ranked No. 1 in 23 consecutive polls of Division II football.

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Not only did he win, he won by, so far, it was kind of - it was even more boring than the usual, Rachel.

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But in a second term, unless he expects to win back the house in the mid-terms, it won't earn him a place in the history books.

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That was his sixth knock-out win in seven victories since leaving Calzaghe, under whose tutelage he won all his 12 fights but had just three stoppages.

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Woods has won four times at Augusta National, including the first of his 14 major titles in 1997 when he won by a record 12 shots as a 21-year-old to become the first black player to win a major.

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Eastwood's victory makes him, at 74, the oldest person ever to win a best director Oscar, and caps a hat-trick of statuettes (he previously won for Unforgiven in 1993 and was given the Irving G Thalberg memorial award two years later).

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