Mayfield tornado recovery gets boost from sports figures returning to help

MAYFIELD, Ky. -- The air just didn't feel right. Luis "Chili" Pardo didn't like it. Didn't like how the moisture felt on his skin inside the Soccer Factory, the indoor field he had opened a year before.

A couple of parents came over to talk with him. Some suggested canceling the rest of the games that night. The weather forecasters, they said, were warning that a storm was headed their way. But other parents shrugged. They get at least a dozen tornado warnings every year in Western Kentucky.

Chili was torn. If he canceled the last two games, it would be difficult to reschedule. Even though he'd lived in this town for 20 years, he worried parents might think the Chilean immigrant was an…