Players could return, but fans may not
Some local fans were not ready to forgive NBA players and owners today after a tentative deal was reached to end the league’s lockout.
Bob Ryan
Celtics’ time is running out
The overwhelming odds are that, if the Celtics’ core group stays intact, the season will end with a playoff loss to yet another younger, fresher team.
Hearing set in Cape soldier’s death
An Army sergeant accused of killing his roommate while serving in Iraq will face a hearing next month to determine whether he will face a court martial.
NATO drones allegedly kill 24 Pakistani troops
Pakistan has blocked vital supply routes for US-led troops in Afghanistan in reaction to the alleged attack in a mountainous frontier that serves as a safe haven for militants.
Globe Santa | Santa’s Mailbox
Fund-raiser has a Southwestern spirit
“Rattlin’ Around the Christmas Tree” is the theme of a Globe Santa Fund benefit to be held Wednesday night at the Rattlesnake Bar and Grill at 384 Boylston St.
Exclusive Sunday Preview
A sampling of stories from this Sunday's Globe.
Stanley Greenberg
Ideas
Mystery machines
For his book, “Time Machines,” photographer Stanley Greenberg traveled 80,000 miles to photograph scientific facilities on five continents. The results are alternately astonishing and astonishingly mundane.
Travel
Concord’s Old Manse a testament to history
At the Old Manse in Concord, Mass., Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson helped create American culture.
Arts
Boston theater’s youth revival
Talented young performers increasingly see Boston as a place to forge an acting career, not just to launch one.
“There can be so much algae in the water that they look like huge lily pads, like you can walk across them on the water.”
Scott Zeien, owner of Kingman Yacht Center
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
New data on cod could have dire impact on industry
Preliminary data suggest the valuable species is in dismal shape and won’t rebuild in the time set by federal law, which could mean a broad fishery shutdown to protect the cod.
Business
Blue laws delayed onslaught
Under Massachusetts blue laws, employers could not force workers to come in until the stroke of midnight on Black Friday.
Politics
Biden to target 3 battleground states in ’12 campaign
Democrats are planning for Vice President Joe Biden to target Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, where he might be more of an asset to President Obama’s reelection than the president himself.
Nation & World
NASA launches super-size rover to Mars
It will take 8½ months for the 1-ton Curiosity rover to reach Mars, following a journey of 354 million miles.
Sports
Bruins see winning streak end
The Bruins played the puck-possession game that Detroit usually masters, but utlimately ended up on the wrong end of a 3-2 shootout loss.
Arts
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW
Madeleine de Sinéty’s fine focus
“Madeleine de Sinéty: Photographs’’ consists of 71 black and white photographs, three countries, several ways of life, and (most important) a single sensibility.
Special reports
Special Section
Holiday Arts Preview
Our critics give their top picks for what to see and experience this holiday season in the worlds of theater, dance, movies, DVDs, classical music, and pop music. This is your guide to holiday season entertainment.
Opinion
“[Michael E.] McLaughlin was a creature of a clueless — or worse — board that put him in office in 2000.”
Lawrence Harmon
Ideas
The improvements coming to air travel amount to a long-awaited application of new thinking and new technology to a complex system that has been slow to accommodate change.
Leon Neyfakh, Ideas staff writer