Phil Ashman

WHEN school textbooks make the headlines in East Asia, they are usually cast as bystanders to some intractable old dispute, and related demands that children be taught “correct” history. Thankfully though, future-minded officials in South Korea have given cause for this correspondent to write about something altogether different: by 2015, all of the country’s dead-tree textbooks will be phased out, in favour of learning materials carried on tablet computers and other devices. - Phil Ashman

NEWPORT, R.I. -- Andre Agassi likes to say tennis has given him everything. That would include his wife, Steffi Graf, and his life's work, the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas. But, the question must be asked, what has Agassi given to the sport? "Um," said Agassi on Friday, searching the air for answers, "that's a hard one to answer." He was wearing his trademark black T-shirt and jeans, sitting in a regal chair in a back room of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. The day before his enshrinement, he sat down with ESPN.com to talk about his accomplishments. [+] Enlarge Henri Szwarc/Bongarts/Getty Images Andre Agassi became the sixth player to complete the career Grand Slam when he won the 1999 French Open. "My hope in tennis was to leave it better off for me being there," Agassi said. "I think from a fundamental perspective, I came into the game and I was one of the first ones to hit the ball big off both sides. We had the big serves going, the big forehands... - Phil Ashman