Sports

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND—International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch announced Monday that, for the first time ever, professionals will be permitted to compete in wrestling in…

Figure skating is reaching new heights of poipularity in the U.S., drawing huge ratings for increasingly frequent TV specials. Why are so many Americans watching…

NEWARK, NJ—A downtown Taco Bell announced Monday the signing of Antwaine Hooks, the Most Valuable Player of University of Connecticut’s 1995-96 basketball team. The record-setting…

Recently the National Foot-Balling League, a fledgling commercial venture, approached me with the possibility of investing in one of their new professional teams. I went…

The Women’s National Basketball Association has been a big success, with fan interest and attendance high and attendance high throughout the league. Why are people…

AUGUSTA, GA—Augusta National, home of the Masters Tournament, honored 1997 Masters champion Tiger Woods Monday, giving him his own drinking fountain at the prestigious country…

CHICAGO—Continuing a recent trend among high school basketball stars, Farragut High School All-American point guard Jerrod Washburn announced he will skip college and go directly…

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN—The Alfred B. Nobel Foundation’s annual awards ceremony was enhanced Friday with the addition of the first-ever Nobel Prize For Ripped Abs.

My spectator event of preference would be the sport (perhaps even “art”) of gymnastics. There is nothing in this world I prefer to a quiet…

NEW YORK—Saying it is time to “get tough on hitters,” Acting Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig announced Monday the adoption of a hard-line Three-Strikes-You’re-Out” policy…

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL—In an effort to generate excitement and public support for America’s struggling space program, NASA announced Monday that it will join the wildly…

My nurse informs me that it is now the autumn-time, which to every red-blooded American boy means the season in which the professional base-ball sporting…