Globe Staff (left); AP Photo
Dan Shaughnessy
They are former Super Bowl MVPs, masters of their crafts, and the faces of their franchises — the Patriots and the Ravens. Today they clash, with the winner earning a Super Bowl berth.
The Patriots tackle has played in 155 regular-season games for New England and 16 more in the postseason, a tenure that also coincides with that of his charitable foundation.
On football
The Ravens’ first-year defensive coordinator has Baltimore’s defense set to be aggressive against the Patriots, hoping to rattle Tom Brady and New England’s offense.
A Globe investigation shows that former Chelsea housing chief Michael E. McLaughlin ran an extensive political operation for Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray.
Joe Paterno, who racked up more wins than anyone else in major college football but was fired from Penn State amid a child sex abuse scandal, has died. He was 85.
Mitt Romney said today that he will release his tax returns on Tuesday and not wait until April, as he seeks to bury swirling questions about his finances.
Newt Gingrich rebounded to victory in the South Carolina GOP primary, giving the two-fisted candidate a chance to emerge as the strongest challenger to the formerly high-flying Mitt Romney.
“We don’t have the kind of money that at least one of the other candidates has, but we do have the ideas and people.”
Newt Gingrich, after his victory last night in the South Carolina Republican primary
For plow drivers, yesterday’s snow brought a much-desired day’s work; for others, it was a welcome reminder that this is still New England.
Divers in the Costa Concordia found a woman’s body, and scuba-diving police swam through the captain’s cabin to retrieve a safe and documents belonging to the man who abandoned the ship.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was joined on stage by Justice Stephen G. Breyer, was asked about the decision during a presentation before the South Carolina Bar.
Effective job searches have become marketing campaigns, and social media, as Dave Cutler shows, provide the tools to promote the product: the job candidate.
The first meeting between the Rangers and the Bruins, the top two clubs in the NHL’s Eastern Conference, was 3.6 seconds shy of a shootout yesterday.
Both neighborhoods have been the Little Italies of their respective cities for well over a century, yet they couldn’t look more different.
The author creates a well-plotted, well-crafted, innovatively interpreted modern twist on a timeless classic.
Zoffany ranks with Reynolds, Gainsborough, Hogarth, and Joseph Wright of Derby in the annals of 18th century British art. An exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art aims to give him his due.
“The unipolar world isn’t necessarily better than what preceded it, either for the US or for the rest of the world. It might even be worse.”
Thanassis Cambanis, on the trouble with American dominance
