Birmingham (Alabama)

Drawing big crowds to its opening games, the World Football League could be a gilt-edged investment for owners and players

I have become a steadier, more confident and an altogether better putter since I changed my putting grip not so long ago. Where my right hand used to be dominant, now my left hand is. I hold the club quite tightly in...

BOXING—CHANG JUNG KOO of Korea retained his WBC light flyweight title by stopping Japan's Katsuo Tokashiki on a ninth-round TKO in Pohang, South Korea.

It was difficult reading the accounts of how the tornadoes ravaged Alabama and took so many lives. The effects they had on the student athletes made me even more sad, because instead of simply equating tragedy with...