Hundreds compete in 8 events including soccer, volleyball and wrestling at KISSA tournamentAround 1,000 people turned up for the International Students Sports festival in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province on Saturday.More than 400 students from as far away as Gwangju and North Gyeongsang Province competed at the events at Central City, according to Sara Rai, assistant director of the Korea International Students Support Association, the organization behind the event.Teams competed in eight events inc

PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) ― Annika Sorenstam won the short-iron competition in the Skills Challenge on Monday in her first professional competition in three years.Sorenstam and teammate Morgan Pressel earned $161,000 for finishing fourth in the four-team event won by Zach Johnson and Jerry Kelly. Sorenstam and Pressel became the first female team to participate in the Challenge.“I’m very competitive so it’s great to come out in this atmosphere again,” said Sorenstam, who had her two children and

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) ― Football coach Joe Paterno and other Penn State officials didn’t do enough to try to stop suspected sexual abuse of children at the hands of a former assistant football coach, the state police commissioner said Monday.Paterno may have fulfilled his legal requirement to report suspected abuse by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, state police commissioner Frank Noonan said, “but somebody has to question about what I would consider the moral requirement

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ― He beat Muhammad Ali in the Fight of the Century, battled him nearly to the death in the Thrilla in Manila. Then Joe Frazier spent the rest of his life trying to fight his way out of Ali’s shadow.That was one fight Frazier could never win.He was once a heavyweight champion, and a great one at that. Ali would say as much after Frazier knocked him down in the 15th round en route to becoming the first man to beat Ali at Madison Square Garden in March 1971.But he bore the burden

Asian stars struggle for playing time in EuropeA shortage of club playing time for Asia’s top players is causing headaches for the region’s national teams ahead of World Cup qualifiers in the coming week.South Korea, Japan and Australia are three nations expecting to reach the 2014 World Cup, but their qualification campaigns are being hampered by many of their top players warming the bench with their club sides in Europe.Sunderland’s Ji Dong-won and Arsenal’s Park Chu-young, who have both had l

The weight of household lending out of non-bank institutions’ total loans hit a record high in the second quarter, central bank data showed Tuesday, spawning concerns about growing household debt.The portion of non-bank institutions’ home loans out of their total lending reached 51.7 percent in the April-June period, up from 50 percent tallied in the first quarter, according to data by the Bank of Korea.The second-quarter figures marked the highest level since the first quarter of 2008 when the