The Andretti family has won just once at the Indianapolis 500, but Marco Andretti, one of the few American contenders in the field, will try again on Sunday.

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Marco Andretti Seeks Elusive Win at Indy

A knee injury that probably ends his season, and perhaps his career, seems an unjust way for the Yankees’ Mariano Rivera to leave the field.

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On Baseball: On Baseball: Imagining the Ninth Inning Without Mariano Rivera

The state of Ohio surprised the field, advancing four men’s basketball teams to the Round of 16.

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Leading Off: Ohio Big in Elections, and N.C.A.A. Tournament Too

ATLANTA — Ever since he was a child, Mark Turgeon has loved this time of year, when college basketball dynasties vie for top seeds in the NCAA tournament and mid-major squads scratch and claw for any spot in the field. Read full article > >

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ACC men’s basketball tournament: Maryland’s Terrell Stoglin leads Terps

Republicans in the US state of Nevada vote in caucuses to decide their choice of presidential candidate with Mitt Romney leading the field.

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Nevada holds Republican vote

They’re studs abroad, playing the field. The next wave waits in Virginia, preparing to board a ship, cross an ocean and hit a desperate mating scene. It’s an enviable mission, at least from the perspective of the Virginia Holstein bulls dispatched to help the Russian dairy industry by doing what bulls do best. Read full article > >

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Russian farmers importing Virginia Holstein bulls to help dairy industry

Hollywood is gearing up for the Golden Globe awards later, with silent movie The Artist leading the field with six nominations.

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Hollywood set for Golden Globes

The “frozen tundra” of Lambeau Field, where the Giants face the Packers on Sunday, is anything but that, given a system to warm the field and the use of artificial lights to keep the grass healthy.

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Tenderizing the Packers’ Tundra With Some Light and Heat

A pioneer in the field of obesity research and a woman who launched the first mobile chemotherapy unit are honoured in the New Year Honours list.

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Obesity pioneer given knighthood

Just one in five Republican primary voters described the 2012 presidential field as “strong”in a new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll , the latest piece of evidence that the current crop of GOP candidates aren’t lighting their own party on fire just yet. In the NBC-WSJ survey, 51 percent of respondents said their field was “average” (roughly equal to their candidate choices in past elections) while 27 percent said it was “weaker” than past GOP slates. Read full article > >

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Republicans blah on GOP presidential field

Around 8 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, Army Private Francis Stueve sat down to breakfast with the rest of the 89th Field Artillery battalion, stationed at Pearl Harbor. “As quiet a day as you’ve ever seen,” Stueve remembers now. “Beautiful sunshine, nothing going on.” Suddenly, not far from his seat in the dining hall: bang, bang, bang. Read full article > >

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Pearl Harbor attacked: A witness remembers, 70 years later

Can’t find jobs in the field.

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Literary Kids Start Online Journal

NAPLES, Fla. — Former House speaker Newt Gingrich attracted huge crowds in Florida this weekend, but he continued to face down accusations from his rivals that he is too soft on immigration to win the Republican presidential nomination. Gingrich, 68, who joined former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney at the top of the field less than two weeks ago, showed no sign of slipping at two appearances along the southwest Florida coast — a conservative enclave and critical battleground in the state’s Jan. 31 primary. Read full article > >

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Gingrich attracts crowds in Florida, as rivals continue attack on immigration stance

BALTIMORE — John Harbaugh aggressively pumped his fist when Joe Flacco converted a big third-down throw. He jumped on the back of linebacker Jameel McClain as he ran off the field after a key sack in the fourth quarter, and he gave several of his players hugs after receiving the first of two celebratory Gatorade baths. Read full article > >

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Baltimore Ravens top San Francisco 49ers in the Harbaugh bowl

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The Navy football team stepped onto the field at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday afternoon with the slightest flicker of hope that perhaps it could salvage a winning season. Soon after kickoff, though, it became abundantly clear the Midshipmen stood little chance against an opponent superior from top to bottom in a 56-14 loss that was Navy’s sixth in a row and most lopsided in nearly a decade. Read full article > >

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Navy football vs. Notre Dame: Mids humbled in 56-14 loss