Ilie Nastase

The NBA has unveiled a new game ball with a microfiber outer shell that will replace the leather balls in use since 1946. Synthetic rocks are supposed to replicate the cowhide ones--but without wearing out. They're a...

In 1974 Jimmy Connors ignited a tennis boom with his wicked metal racket, his storybook romance, his vulgar antics and his renegade behavior. Thirty years later he still thumbs his nose at the game's establishment

Susan and Warren Ganden realized early in their son Chad's swimming career at Naperville North High in suburban Chicago that his learning disability might jeopardize his chances of meeting NCAA college eligibility...

We are told that Ilie Nastase's second novel, The Net (St. Martin's Press, $16.95), has been "translated from the French." Despite the literary cachet of that phrase, the book seems to have gained nothing in...