A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. A person familiar with the situation says the Washington Wizards have traded center Dwight Howard to the ...

A rundown of the property that Patriots coach Bill Belichick owns on Nantucket. It won’t be long before Bill Belichick is back where his soul resides amid the sea and sandy bluffs of the private ...

(Boston Globe) Legendary Bruins star Bobby Orr, now 65, reflects on life on and off the ice. By Scott LaPierre Kevin Keyes barely knew Bobby Orr, the hockey god of his youth, when he pulled into Orr’s ...

I knew Dan Okrent a long time ago. Brilliant, bookish, rooted in baseball, he took me to dinner a couple of times when he was researching a New York Times Magazine piece on Orioles manager Earl Weaver ...

A rule in baseball forbids takeout slides on middle infielders trying to turn a double play. So when Orioles third baseman Manny Machado spiked Dustin Pedroia in the left knee on Friday night, Red Sox ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Late in the fourth quarter of the NFC Championship game, with the Eagles moments away from clinching their spot in the Super Bowl, safety Malcolm Jenkins picked up a bucket of ...

So after 40 years and 12 books and thousands of columns and millions of words, I have just one question for you gentle readers of sports coverage and commentary . . . Do you want coverage or ...

There is no subtle way to return through the front door after being gone for 24 years. The cornball approaches come first to mind — “As I was saying . . . ” or maybe “What’s new?” — but they sound ...

A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Commissioner Gary Bettman said there's significant opposition among team owners to continuing participation ...

Former Red Sox utilityman and current NESN analyst Steve Lyons has been missing from Red Sox telecasts in recent weeks because he’s dealing with a domestic battery charge after an incident at his ...

Amby Burfoot's enchantment with the race began in 1965 when his father drove him to the Hopkinton starting line in the family Nash Rambler. Get the latest Boston Globe sports news alerts right in your ...

NEW ORLEANS - ‘’The Impossible Dream’’ has a new meaning in Boston sports lore. Maligned, disrespected, and disbelieved, the New England Patriots won Super Bowl XXXVI last night, 20-17, over the ...