Youthful exuberance is no match for on-court experience, and Lake Placid girls basketball coach Shonda Lagree hopes that her team is ready for its trial by fire this season. ...more

December 1, 2008

This is always the best way to begin a political career: simply having someone hand you an elective office, which spares one the indignity of having to bother with all those icky-poo-poo details of a campaign such as shaking hands with total strangers, asking people for money, eating bad food, showing up. ...more

August 21, 2008

Erin O'Brien and her friends are do-it-yourself investors. As part of an online community at the brokerage Zecco, they consult each other on terminology, tax law and investment philosophy. Having tagged each other as "friends," they can see each other's trades. Together, they're learning the ropes by watching and interacting with fellow users. ...more

August 20, 2008

John Saxton, whose career has spanned the extremes of the culinary spectrum - from atop one of the World Trade Center towers to the bargain-basement world of fast food - has reached his peak. ...more

January 24, 2008

Most Bucs players decorate their lockers like a second room in their home. ...more

November 30, 2007