Kevlar

Why so many hockey players are picking up high-tech sticks

(Q) Why do so many NHL players still play with wooden sticks?

Sporting inventors come through with products for cyclists on the high roads and golfers on the high seas

The sport is speed skiing—a onetime Olympic exhibition—in which Ludwig Schawill of Austria and other human bullets zip downhill at more than 135 mph. Gear includes Kevlar helmets, curved poles with aerodynamic grips...

There's always a better way to do something, and if it's not the entrapment of mice, then it's the driving of balls. Americans are a nation of tinkerers. They can't even let their Constitution alone, much less their...