Two-time Newbery Honor book winner Bruce Brooks is an author of nonfiction, novels, and stories for both YA and younger readers. Called "an outstandingly perceptive writer," by a critic for Kirkus Reviews, Brooks has blended interests in sports and in na...

With music pumping in the background, the kids in Terry Wade's physical education class are in constant motion, going from sit-ups to jumping jacks to curls with light weights.After their 45-minute session, the sixth-graders who are sweating the most, or as Wade calls it, "burning...

Governor Eliot Spitzer has gone out of his way to alienate some of the old guard in Albany—folks with long memories will recall how Jimmy Carter did the same thing with Congress, with dismal results. So his proposal to begin budget negotiations 60 days...

Daniel Briere took care of the scoring. Ryan Miller thwarted two of the league's most dangerous players in the shootout. Briere had two goals in regulation and another in the shootout, leading the Buffalo Sabres to a 4-3 win over the Atlanta Thrashers on Tuesday...

Ricky Rudd is almost 51 and the grueling Nextel Cup schedule has finally taken its toll on the one-time NASCAR ironman."To run this schedule week in and week out, week in and week out, it's more demanding than it used to be," Rudd said at...