A little more than three years ago, tax attorney Debbie Lestitian was a 220-pound, first-time mother with barely enough energy to work out five minutes on an elliptical machine.

Today as the Brookline resident approaches her 40th birthday, she's a 135-pound mother of two who is so fit that she can lift more weight than some of the men at her gym, the Rivers Club in Oxford Center. At near...

The first is obvious, with All Black Rico Gear donning the blue jersey for the first time last weekend. But the second qualifies as a genuine Trivial Pursuit head scratcher.

Give up? The answer is lock Jeremy Barton who actually played in a World Cup qualifying tournament for the Cayman Islands in June this year.

Now Barton would be the first to dismiss any pretentions to an interna...

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A little more than three years ago, tax attorney Debbie Lestitian was a 220-pound, first-time mother with barely enough energy to work out five minutes on an elliptical machine.

Today as the Brookline resident approaches her 40th birthday, she's a 135-pound mother of two who is so fit that she can lift more weight than some of th...

When you’re the Connecticut Huskies and the only teams you’ve beaten are cream puffs like Buffalo , Army and Division I-AA Liberty. At least, that’s how sharp bettors see it.

“None of those wins impress me,” says Covers Expert Ted Sevransky .

Maybe not, but those victories are carrying weight at the sportsbooks. Most have the Huskies as 6 ½–point favorites for Friday’...

There's nothing like the ringing of a doorbell and the appearance of a salesman on your front porch to let you know you've arrived in the world of free enterprise.

Pretty soon, people in China will once again know the, uh, beauty of door-to-door sales.

On Sept. 2, the country's Ministry of Commerce announced plans to lift its seven-year-old ban on direct sales. The rule changes -...

Thus far this year, 59 cases have been reported in the state and four people have died due to complications from the bacterial disease.

Tanya Oemig, director of the tuberculosis program for the Wisconsin Health and Family Services Division of Public Health's Bureau of Communicable Diseases, said the total number of reported cases in the state in 2003 reached a record low of just 66. ...

All the sandwich chains seem to have a gimmick. Panera positions itself as the hip, upscale sandwich shop, while Subway claims its subs promote weight loss. But D’Angelo may have trumped them all by inking David Ortiz as a spokesman. Hey, if it’s good enough for Big Papi, it’s good enough for me.

Now we have a new entrant into the sandwich arena fighting for mindshare wi...

Sidney Crosby knew there was a great unknown awaiting him in the NHL. A much longer and tougher schedule. Opponents who aren't impressed or awed by his Gretzky- and Lemieux-like production in juniors. Goaltenders like Martin Brodeur. The night Crosby waited for for so long - if an 18-year-old can wait long for anything - turned out to be just another night in goal for the game's acknowledged ...

There aren’t many kids wearing blue and white who don’t look back and smile when they think about that night, more than three years and countless hours of frustration ago. Hold his feet to the fire and Joe Paterno admits he would prefer not to play Derrick Williams, or Justin King, or any one of the dynamic true freshmen who have helped catapult Penn State into national prominence.