Basketball always came easy to Marvin Barnes. Once he stepped outside the gym, it was a different matter. “He struggled with life,” says Mike Tranghese. “He really did.” The colossal struggle, which ...

Editor’s note: This story was published in 2015. The Patriots, in an unusual departure from National Football League practice, have created a revenue stream for a private business owned by their ...

Kuhn was a BC player at the center of the controversy. He recruited teammates Ernie Cobb and Jim Sweeney into the ring, after becoming connected with ex-convicts Paul Mazzei and Henry Hill. Kuhn was ...

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 ...

ATLANTA — He is Tom Hagen in “The Godfather.’’ He is Doug Stamper on “House of Cards.’’ He is Berj Najarian, consigliere to Bill Belichick. He is The Man To See if you want to see Bill. “You’re never ...

Outside Memphis, John “Bull’’ Bramlett, a former Patriots linebacker once feared as “the meanest man in football,’’ turned to his wife, Nancy, in their home of 20 years and said, “This is a beautiful ...

In the aftermath of the Globe’s report last Friday that Comcast SportsNet New England reporter Jessica Moran had resigned amid questions about her relationship with Red Sox manager John Farrell, there ...

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 ...

Corbett does play-by-play for Harvard football and BU hockey, but that just scratches the surface of a true original. SOMEWHERE ON A WINDING ROAD JUST OUTSIDE ITHACA, N.Y. — It was right about here, ...

Searching for “the Judas of Boston College basketball’’ requires zigzagging down an icy rural road near a creek in a western Pennsylvania valley where a man might leave his past behind. A light snow ...

Former Patriots running back and return specialist Mack Herron died Sunday in Chicago. He was 67. “Mini Mack,” as the 5-foot-5-inch, 175-pounder was known, played for the Patriots for 2½ seasons (1973 ...

Mookie Betts has a thing for necklaces. So when he graduated from high school in 2011 and got drafted by the Red Sox, he got a special present. “This one was my Dad’s, so I never take it off,” said ...