Table Tennis

Will D. Campbell dies at 88; maverick minister aided integration

2013-06-08 15:33:00

The Rev. Will D. Campbell was a poor white boy from Mississippi who preached his first sermon from a pulpit stocked with a Bible from the Ku Klux Klan. But this son of the segregated South — a self-avowed "good ol' boy with crazy ideas" —...

Nudity and graphic sex? Lena Dunham and 'Girls' can do better

2013-03-16 07:30:00

Once upon a time not so very long ago I was a young woman living a writerly life of working poverty in New York City, which, for better or worse, engendered certain expectations from HBO's "Girls." I admired though did not love the first season and felt...

49 places in San Francisco that you might have missed

2013-02-28 16:55:00

You've been to San Francisco. You know not to call it "Frisco," not to expect ample parking, not to forget your sweater. You know the Powell Street cable cars run through Union Square and where to find the Golden Gate Bridge. You know that most days,...

Zhuang Zedong dies at 72; helped get 'pingpong diplomacy' rolling

2013-02-12 18:44:00

It might have been a chance meeting or a cunning act of propaganda, but the encounter more than 40 years ago between two pingpong champions — one Chinese, the other American — launched what President Nixon would call "the week that changed the...

Cierre Wood has the swagger — and the stats to back it up

2013-01-05 18:45:00

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — He is the Irish whose eyes are smiling, his brows permanently raised in anticipation of saying something that would turn a golden dome bronze. Perhaps this is why Cierre Wood is also the Notre Dame player whose interview...

Patt Morrison Asks: Jonah Lehrer, brain teaser

2012-04-01 00:00:00

Zombies in movie theaters, zombies on television — a whole lot of us have brains on the brain. And so, in a substantially different way, does Jonah Lehrer. He's put himself at the crossroads of neuroscience and the humanities with books like his...

A healthy dose of American history

2011-07-10 00:00:00

Paul Revere was captured on April 18, 1775, before he could warn the residents of Concord, Mass., that the British were coming. (He did make it to Lexington, Mass.) No Revolutionary War battle was ever fought at Valley Forge, Pa., even though Gen. George...

Michele Bachmann and Harvey Weinstein, publicity BFFs?

2012-01-03 21:38:36

Working Hollywood: Even puppets have their own stylists

2011-05-08 00:00:00

The new film "The Beaver" stars Mel Gibson as a mentally ill man who begins to speak through a battered hand puppet that he retrieves from a dumpster in a moment of despair. Although the controversial star made a point to puppeteer the beaver himself,...

Obama in London: President and prime minister are no match for London school children

2011-05-24 09:58:00

Paddle party: Spin Hollywood brings pingpong to L.A.

2010-09-07 16:36:13

Tonight: Tokyo Social Club @ Royal/T

2010-10-15 21:34:56

2013 MLB Fan Cave Dwellers Travis Miller, left, and Aaron Roberts of Huntington Beach play table tennis inside the MLB Fan Cave in New York City.

2013-03-26 00:00:00

Terese Terranova is a double gold medalist in table tennis at the 1988 Korea Paralympics and a bronze medalist at the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Paralympics Games. She can be found coaching and ping ponging at the Broward Table Tennis Club (www.2xtremepong.com).

2012-08-28 00:00:00

Also known as ping-pong, table tennis is represented in the Olympics with both singles and doubles events -- proof that all those years of beer pong in college were good for something.

2012-08-09 15:26:00