A birthday that never happened brings reflections on the uses and misuses of history
Anne Frank would have celebrated her 75th.
We can imagine her as a gray-haired great-grandmother, being toasted Saturday by family and friends in her Amsterdam home. Her older sister, Margot, is there. So are a son and a daughter, three grandchildren and two [...]

These are the top five New England What If Sports Moments:
What if Buckner made the play on Mookie Wilson’s grounder?
32.7 percent
What if Drew Bledsoe hadn’t been hit by Mo Lewis in 2001?
13.0 percent
What if Len Bias hadn’t died of an overdose?
10.8 percent
What if Bill Belichick remained the heads coach of the New York Jets?
8.8 percent
What [...]

Mike Klinkenborg’s moment led to one of my own Saturday.
The University of Iowa linebacker concluded a week aptly described as an emotional rollercoaster ride by playing arguably his best game in a Hawkeye uniform. An inspired Klinkenborg registered eight tackles as his team posted a 27-17 victory over rival Iowa State.
The Saturday before, Klinkenborg helped [...]

Two divers who went missing for 46 hours after a dive in the northern Red Sea have spoken out for the first time about their remarkable story of survival. British diving instructor Andrew Smith, 34, and divemaster trainee Milly Geyskens, 36, from Belgium, spent one night on a reef and one night inside a wreck [...]

On July, 1955, a 9-year-old girl and her pony were picked up by a tornado in South Dakota and dropped almost uninjured 1000 feet away.