Figuring athletes’ taxes is, well, taxing

“In some states, like if we play in California four times in a certain season, it gets pretty complicated, from what I understand,” said Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia.

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The complicating factor for pro athletes is where they earn their money. With few exceptions, athletes owe income taxes in every state they play.

NCAA tournament

No. 14 Harvard stuns New Mexico

The Crimson earned the first NCAA Tournament victory in school history by defeating the third-seeded Lobos.

Sports media

Why the condescension from John Dennis?

Dennis often appears to treat new WEEI cohost Kirk Minihane as a threat and yet also with a “what’s your name again?” attitude.

Editorial

DiMasi deserves consideration for ‘compassionate release’

Compassionate release shouldn’t be reserved for only the last few weeks of life; Salvatore F. DiMasi deserves a chance to argue for his freedom.

Latest news

Unions collide in Lynch-Markey Senate contest

Ill will over the AFL-CIO’s decision not to endorse Stephen F. Lynch against Edward J. Markey has roiled unions.

Avid not complying with Nasdaq requirements

The Burlington music and video editing equipment maker recently postponed its earnings announcement to evaluate accounting practices.

Author Chinua Achebe dies at 82

Achebe, a Brown University professor, wrote “Things Fall Apart,’’ which marked the arrival of an African-born writer onto the international stage.

At least 20 dead in Myanmar violence

Myanmar’s president declared a state of emergency Friday amid sectarian bloodshed.

Many T riders favor late-night service

A flood of survey responses could provide a road map for night-owl MBTA service if legislators choose to pay for it.

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Kevin Cullen

Philly connection to Gardner Museum heist

Former New England Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe, who owns a Washington winery, was on Beacon Hill to lobby for a bill that would allow out-of-state wineries to ship directly to customers.

Bledsoe lobbies for wine bill

Rabbi Keith Stern will patch in his children in Africa and California for the family’s seder.

Tech brings families close at Passover

From left: Selena Gomez as Faith, Ashley Benson as Brit, Rachel Korine as Cotty, and Vanessa Hudgens as Candy in Harmony Korine’s “Spring Breakers.”

Movie Review

‘Spring Breakers’ is mesmerizing

Book REview

‘I Would Die 4 U’ by Touré

Top (from left): Sam Riley as Sal Paradise, Kristen Stewart as Marylou, and Garrett Hedlund (right) as Dean Moriarty in “On the Road.”

MOVIE REVIEW

This ‘Road’ does right by Kerouac

May 4, 1936: Ellen Colpoys McDonough posed by the tulip bed in the Public Garden.

From the Archives | Photo gallery

Springtime in the Public Garden

Tina Fey is a Princeton admissions officer and Paul Rudd (right, with Nat Wolff) is director of a farm school in “Admission.”

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Admission’ a pleasant comedy

No vacations: Anne Desjardins (left) and son Messiah Ambrose. Relying on aid: Keri-Ann Aubin (right) and son Kevin Ranney.

Single-mother families struggling in Mass.

Charles Woodson’s hit on Tom Brady in this 2002 playoff game prompted the use of the tuck rule that helped the Patriots propel their run to the Super Bowl.

Dan Shaughnessy

What if the ‘Tuck Rule’ never was?

Adding to underlying friction is the sense that, when adult children parent differently than their own moms, it’s an implicit rebuke.

Attack of the (well-meaning) grandparents

Participants in a two-day conference at Harvard aim to hash out the future of buying and selling via smartphones and other mobile devices. Pictured: Gary Flood, president of global products and services for MasterCard.

Not paying by smartphone? You soon will, many bet

Sports

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Bruins 2, Senators 1

It was a group hug for the Bruins after Dennis Seidenberg (far left) scored from the point with 1:04 left in the third.

Dennis Seidenberg gets Bruins back on track

Seidenberg’s goal with 64 seconds left lifted the Bruins past the Senators on Thursday night.

Metro

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Boston officials and representatives of three pavement material companies assembled on Bowdoin Avenue in Dorchester Thursday for a demonstration of products for fixing potholes.

City tests new weapons in fight against potholes

The innovative, eco-friendly pothole filling materials the city will test over the next six months could help repair the craters more quickly than ever.

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