Boston Globe

Former Red Sox and Marlins shortstop Alex Gonzalez has received a three-year $15 million deal from an undisclosed team. Major league sources indicate that the team could be either the...

Last week Jimmy Piersall became a Hall of Famer. But not in Cooperstown. Piersall, 76, is now in the New England Basketball Hall of Fame. The man who had a...

The rookie running back arrived in town with a decorated resume and the desire to fulfill a longtime dream. Laurence Maroney remembers saying it as early as his elementary school...

The Dow Jones industrial average hit a record high close this week. So where's the Nasdaq composite index? That tech-loaded exchange, which paced all stock indexes during the 1990s boom,...

Police said a disgruntled ex-convict shot four people Thursday, killing his former girlfriend's mother and a woman who taught with his former girlfriend at an elementary school. The violence ended,...

As African-American teenagers offer their opinions on marriage, their comments reveal a dreary view of the institution. "I'm not looking forward to marriage," says Nakeeda Burns, a 17-year-old resident of...

The Boston band Aberdeen City was halfway through the last tune of a short set sandwiched between two never-heard-of-them rock groups on a recent Sunday when the song "Mercy" began...

It's not as if Troy Brown is a gray-haired grandpa--he's a couple of weeks from his 35th birthday. But the first time Brown made a catch in an NFL game,...

Four years ago, what coach Bruce Arena needed most was an air pump. The U.S. men's soccer team had ended up a flattened souffle in 1998, finishing 32nd out of...

Summer TV used to be a wasteland of reruns. But not anymore. This summer promises more first-run dramas and comedies than ever with new and returning shows. With NBC and...