Retailers try to increase their back-to-school appeal using creativity, fun and interactivity

Stores and manufacturers always try to court kids during the all-important back-to-school season, but now that engagement means interactivity, not a flier with coupons or a catalog full of smiling children clutching notebooks.

Packers give Chery a chance to return kicks, punts

The Jason Chery story is a good one. It'd become one for the ages if Chery should become another Desmond Howard. Chery, the Packers' sizzling new kick-return candidate, said Monday that he had no idea who Howard was. Fans in Wisconsin will never forget him.

Finally, size-22 cleats en route to Kingsway

Connor Duffy -- a 6-foot-8, 330-pound junior lineman for the Kingsway High School football team -- has had a heck of a time finding shoes to practice and play in.

Is Luck the toughest man in league?

IT was the horror injury that had many of the NRL's toughest hombres recoiling in disgust. First pics of Michael Luck's gruesome gash

Nonu shoeless in Soweto

Making the Boks' Soweto defeat more heart-breaking was the fact Ma'a Nonu was wearing one boot after slipping John Smit's tackle.