Lester's feel-good story never gets old
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DENVER - Maybe after tonight he can just pitch. Red Sox lefthander Jon Lester sat down for the standard day-before interview at Coors Field yesterday afternoon. He had to know what was coming. He had to know there were going to be a lot of questions about the cancer.
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ST. LOUIS -- The Dodgers absolutely love the team persona that they nurtured throughout the long regular season, the never-say-die, don&#39;t-count-us-out, play-&#39;til-the-end Comeback King thing.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. - Winning the deciding game of the World Series, the part everyone else remembers and celebrates, he doesn't dwell on, maybe because Jon Lester is determined to be known as something other than Celebrity Cancer Boy.
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The Red Sox announced yesterday that Jon Lester, 22, had been diagnosed with a rare form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a blood cancer, and will begin treatment in the coming week.
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Barry Bonds continues to defy the odds, and at 40 years of age he is still easily the most dominant hitter in Major League Baseball.
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Arts & entertainment: Ian Curtis's story has become rock legend - but his three bandmates lived through the sad reality. They tell Paul Lester about it.
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This sweet-natured coming-of-age story manages a neat trick in our increasingly ``edge&#39;&#39;-obsessed television world: It&#39;s old-fashioned without seeming irrelevant.
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Cupid can always use a little  encouragement, especially in a remote Spanish village.
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They're teammates. They're boss and employee. They're the best of friends.
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âVanajaâ is a coming-of-age tale that is engrossing, if slightly overlong, and absolutely timeless.
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Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester has been cleared by doctors to end chemotherapy.
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ELMONT, N.Y. -- The ending had all the drama and excitement of a Hollywood script, and it left almost everyone smiling. It was the feel-good story of the year in a sport that desperately needed one.
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His cancer is gone and his curve is back. Jon Lester feels ready to win a spot on Boston's pitching staff less than six months after being diagnosed with a disease that threatened, at the very least, a promising career. Now he must convince manager Terry Francona and Boston's other decision-makers who have preached caution.
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A followup to my recent story    The Happiness Broker.
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Jon Lester pitched in a baseball game Monday. Simple? Perhaps. Special? Absolutely.
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Jerry Orbach never won the Emmy for playing detective Lennie Briscoe, but he earned something greater: the audience&#39;s respect and affection for giving life to a memorable character.
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Don't get him wrong. Prince Fielder is plenty pleased with becoming the youngest player to hit 50 homers in a season.