As a member of a nowhere team settling for mediocrity, was Gretzky wrong to want to play for a contender?CHRIS LAUGHMAN, SHIPPENSBURG, PA.

Entertainer Bob Nickerson mixes expert juggling with excruciating jokes

Two new volumes celebrate the first 100 years of the Boston Marathon

NCAA's Theater of the Absurd

Pinnacle, a Texas-based trading-card company, has hired supermodel Christie Brinkley to photograph selected Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians for a soon-to-be-released set of baseball cards.

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