Johnny Weissmuller

England lacking motivation in oneday internationals

Humiliation is calling too often. Three times in the past fortnight England's one-day cricketers have felt its shame and embarrassment. Roasted: England captain Kevin Pietersen watches as his side are humiliated by India in...

MONARCH VILLAGE TARZANA HOLDS GRAND OPENING!

Monarch Village Tarzana, the distinctive new senior community, will hold its Grand Opening celebration on Thursday, November 20, 2008, at 2 p.m. The day's festivities will include food and drink; entertainment from the El...

Johnny Weissmuller (The Best Tarzan)

Johnny Weissmuller (June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was an American swimmer and actor who was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal. He won fifty-two US National...

The Freaky Trigger Actual 38th Top Track Of All-Time As Chosen By You The Readers: BALTIMORA -...

Pop culture songs are tricky. Just look at that current Scouting For Girls song about James Bond. I am not cynical enough to say that Scouting For Girls have picked a release date just because Quantum Of Solace just came out....

Mr Carew Passes Away

Australian swimming has lost one of its greatest coaches with the death overnight of master coach John Carew, aged 81. The man who guided Kieren Perkins to two Olympic gold medals died peacefully in his Brisbane home after a...

SUN EXCLUSIVE For Phelps, a new pool venture

Goal is to make Meadowbrook a world-class training facility Olympian Michael Phelps and his coach, Bob Bowman, hoping to replicate their athletic success in the world of business, will announce a partnership today aimed at...

Turning back the pages

John Sutherland’s life has been devoted to the enjoyment of books and the passing on of that enjoyment to others, whether through his columns in the Guardian and Financial Times or through his teaching to the literature...

A Century Of Beautiful People

Vanity Fair: The Portraits: A Century of Iconic Images By Graydon Carter and the Editors of Vanity Fair Hardcover, 384 pages Abrams List price: $65.00 NPR.org, November 4, 2008 · The legendary magazine publisher Condé Nast...

Kirby Puckett: Always smiling

Baseball seemed a peculiar passion, even though he was raised less than a mile from Comiskey Park. Kirby Puckett grew up in the Robert Taylor Homes, the housing project Newsweek once described as the ''place where hope died.''

Home truths

FEW tourists who hit the bars, beaches and aloha-shirt shops on Hawaii's main isle of Oahu make it to the oceanfront former residence of American heiress and socialite Doris Duke, near Waikiki Beach. Aside from gossip, lovers...

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