Though Tim Kraft’s running streak started 11 years ago — he has not missed a single day — he first got the bug a few years earlier. Kraft and his wife, Renee, 22-year residents of Edison, had been going to…

The smallest linemen are learning habits to protect themselves from the kinds of brain injuries that have caused football to come under intense scrutiny. Starting this season, Pop Warner Football’s national organization has set new rules to limit the risk…

It was down to the last 10 minutes of a six-hour race-car marathon that got off to a rainy start last Saturday in Belgium. Frankie Montecalvo was making his FIA World Endurance Championship debut at Spa-Francorchamps, competing against the world’s…

EDISON — At her granddaughter’s birthday party on a recent soggy Sunday afternoon, Tami Kanter explained why the 10th anniversary of 9/11 doesn’t mean that much to her. “To me, it’s another year. The 10th doesn’t make it that much…

According to Goethe, “The best education for a clever man [or woman] can be found in travel.” I couldn’t agree more. Writing essays that were published in the anthology “Venturing in Italy: Puglia, Land Between Two Seas,” taught me so…