My last Korea Times column (February 1-2, 2020) referred to Nino Benvenuti of Italy having lost a controversial boxing match to Korea’s Kim Ki-soo at Jangchung Gymnasium on June 25, 1966. Since the KT editor limits me to 800 words, I could not go...
During my growing-up years in Dallas, the name of Mildred “Babe” Didrikson was frequently written and spoken. Everybody, it seems, knew about this Norwegian-American athletic marvel. Born in Port Arthur, she moved with her family to...
The sports world is reeling after the death of Kobe Bryant in a Los Angeles-area helicopter crash Sunday morning. It is no surprise that this calamity has sparked intense media attention and over-the-top praise for Bryant, who lived just 41...
I am a Gentile, which is to say a non-Jew and a Protestant to boot. So I was born, and I have never felt tempted to alter my religious/spiritual affiliation. One of my female cousins married a Jewish guy, joined him in the synagogue and is...
“Physical fitness is the foundation of national strength. We must not forget for even a moment that cultivating a strong and fit people, and making sport an everyday part of people’s lives will provide the vitality necessary for the task of...
Offense Quarterback—Roger Staubach of Navy (1962−1964) Running backs—Jim Brown of Syracuse (1954−1956) and Herschel Walker of Georgia, (1980−1982) Receivers—Jerry Rice of Mississippi Valley State (1981−1984) and Larry Fitzgerald of Pittsburgh...
On the first weekend of a new year and a new decade, what better way to celebrate than to take a trip out of town? I did not go far—about 30 kilometers—to Gwangju, but not the big city in the southwest corner of the country. To differentiate, the...
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