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Ethiopians pull away from foes, cold in Sacramento international marathon Published: Monday, Dec...He was going to take control of the California International Marathon and not look back...And then Tesfaye Girma-Bekele and Josh Cox sailed by, with Ethiopia's...
Tags: Mike Morgan, Tesfaye Girma-Bekele, Buzunesh Deba, California International Marathon, New York City Marathon, pull away, Sacramento, Ethiopia, Josh Cox, Addis Ababa, Bekele, Marathon, allnews
After months of preparation, thousands of dollars worth of sponsorship and countless kilometers pounded in training, the Beirut Marathon 2009 is ready to run. Sunday will see more than 30,000 runners, of all ages, backgrounds and abilities take to the...
Tags: Beirut Marathon Association, Beirut Municipality, Spyridon Zagaris, Lebanon, Beirut, Marathons, Paul Tergat, London Marathon, allnews, Road running, New York City Marathon
Actually, they could have had my seat, because one more doughnut spinning perilously close to the center median and I was about to see if there was an escape hatch on the car...Johnson seemed to be having a good time, too, though the smoke was so thick...
Tags: Las Vegas Boulevard, Wynn Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Nevada, Mandalay, NASCAR, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Kurt Busch, Sprint Cup, Meb Keflezighi, Marathon, allnews, Hilton hotels, Las Vegas Marathon, Jimmie Johnson, Culture of New York City, Clark County Nevada, New York City Marathon, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
The fundraising effort began in late summer when Norton and a team of runners (including some Maasai warriors) sought sponsorship in running the New York City Marathon...All of the money raised, which totaled some $750,000 after the marathon in early...
Tags: Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, Edward Norton, Los Angeles, Environment, Maasai, New York City Marathon, Norton
Dave Monti of Race Results Weekly posits that more people will run on Thanksgiving than any other day of the year, and he's probably right...Turkey Trots seem to be a cross between the Bible tale of the loaves and fishes and those circus cars that seem...
Tags: turkey trot, Meb Keflezighi, road races, Southport, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Manchester Road Race, Trot, New York City Marathon, Thanksgiving, Running
N.J. When Joe and Jim Rosa, twins on the West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North cross-country team, were 5 years old, they would compete to see who could stay under water longer in the family pool. “They always had great lung capacity,” said their...
Tags: Rosas, Brian Gould, Van Cortlandt, New Jersey Twins, Holmdel Park, Jonathan Squeri, joe ran, Portland, Holmdel Township New Jersey, Alberto Salazar, Plainsboro Township New Jersey, New York City Marathon, allnews, Marty Liquori, Sports Hall of Fame of New Jersey, Van Cortlandt Park
New York's policy of limiting the number of parades on Fifth Avenue is not a restriction on free speech, a federal appeals court has ruled...Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court finding that the city's so-called Fifth Avenue rule is constitutional,...
Tags: fifth avenue, New York City Marathon, New York Times, New York City, Puerto Rican Day Parade, Saint Patrick's Day, Parades in Northern Ireland, Parades, Economy of New York City, Law Crime
Famed American swimmer Mark Spitz, in an interview with the Colorado Springs Gazette, recalled an interesting conversation in 1972 with a Russian swim coach. The official was curious if Spitz's trademark moustache slowed him down. It didn't, the swimmer...
Tags: Mark Spitz, Japan, Tōkyō, ᅤᄑydrᅤᆱnas Ilgauskas, New York City Marathon, Spitz, allnews, Moustache, Meb Keflezighi
She did not realize it would yield one of the greatest experiences of her life. “About three years ago, Heather Grant and I were doing a fitness program at church,” Cobb said. “We started running as part of that. We thought we were really doing something...
Tags: New York City Marathon, Darrell Cobb, Kim Cobb, New York City, London Marathon, Chicago Marathon, Culture of New York City, Marathon, Human Interest
As much as I look forward to the onset of autumn, with its crisp cool mornings and warm sunny afternoons, and the first hints of the changing foliage, I harbor a similar dread for the season's final dying days. The first Sunday in November usually signals...
Tags: Stamford, New York City Marathon, Marathon, Turkey Trot, Christian music, Christmas, Christmas music