Sports and Outdoor Equipment

The first thing Sue Wilson learned was confidence. After years of unsolicited advice from friends, family and helpful (but often annoying) strangers, the recreational golfer from Mokena felt beaten down whenever she played golf. "It was overwhelming,"...

So you've learned the basics, but deep down you know you're still a hack. Before you sign up for the annual office golf outing, play some of the area's nine-hole courses to build experience. Here is what we found when we played a few in the area. EASY...

Brad Wilson sees them every time he stops by Knoch Knolls Park in Naperville to check on things. He sees people, young and old, male and female, novice and expert. They troll across the sprawling, wooded 215-acre park with discs in hand, anxious to fling...

Everyone who rides Disneyland's popular "Pirates of the Caribbean" attraction knows "dead men tell no tales," and its animatronic figures aren't talking either. But, oh, if they could. On Friday, workers at the Anaheim theme park spotted a guest on the...

MERRIMAC, Wis. Three things you could do without when you're 61 and about to try downhill skiing for the first time: -Walking across the ski resort parking lot, in normal boots, you slip on ice and almost fall. -Standing at the bottom of an...

For more than 20 years, the husband-and-wife developer team of Clark and Debbie Turner had the routine down: He built the homes, and she sold them. Together, they made millions working on some of the highest-profile projects in Harford County. When...

This isn't Ulysses S. Grant's Galena. It's not even your mother's Galena. Whether either would like what it's become is, well, immaterial. It is what it is.What we know for sure is this: Galena has been chosen to lead off a summer-long series we're...

SOMETIME last week, center court at Wimbledon began to look more like a fashion show than a tennis tournament. There was Serena Williams warming up in a chic, belted, white trench coat under cloudless skies, Roger Federer as Jay Gatsby in a white cardigan...

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THE Alhambra in Granada, Spain -- a palace-turned-museum revered for its architecture -- was the inspiration for this newly built estate in the heart of Shady Canyon, the Irvine home of sports stars Mark McGwire and Lindsay Davenport and sports-show...

If you're yearning for a time-warp weekend free of theme parks and other excesses of modern-day living, think about an escape to the New England of Florida, the antique capital as well as the rose capital of Central Florida. Think Mount Dora. Located...

Replica golf courses are all the rage now, but many in the course-design industry, a group previously not noted for extreme sensitivity toward the needs of the average golfer, are wondering if this is a good thing. Does your garden-variety hacker...