Boston Globe

Cincinnati backup quarterback Jon Kitna went the extra mile for Peter Warrick after Warrick was released by the Bengals last week. Kitna picked up the phone and urged his former...

Ten minutes isn't an awfully long time. For most people, it takes nearly that long just to locate the daily newspaper, pick out the section containing the crossword puzzle, fold...

Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, tumbled from the ranks of the nation's top 10 advertisers as overall pharmaceutical industry spending on advertising slowed during the first half of the...

Buddy Ryan perfected the "46" defense with the 1985-86 Bears, and now his son Rex is reviving it--with all of its pressure schemes and gambling chaos--in Baltimore. The son is...

The lost art of throwing out runners could get worse. It still lives with Detroit's Ivan Rodriguez, who had thrown out 54.5 percent of runners (25 stolen bases, 30 caught...

See that, how the left tackle just cocked one foot ever so slightly behind the other? That's important for a linebacker to notice, a clue to whether the other team...

Sean and Jessica Burns recently refinanced the $350,000 home they bought last year and got an interest-only mortgage. A salesman, Sean Burns works on commission, and his monthly income fluctuates....

With the recent advances in prefabricated home construction, it's not too uncommon to see a house arrive on the back of a truck. What's unusual is when the basement does,...

C.W. Sughrue, that refreshing breath of foul air, is back. He's the private eye out of Meriwether, Mont., who hangs in there, in his own words, "like hair on a...

Tayari Jones' second novel, "The Untelling" (Warner, 336 pages, $24.95), tries to do a lot with a little and succeeds mightily. Jones paints a portrait of a family trapped in...