Effective immediately – Division I, II, and III wrestling included Today, NCAA President Mark Emmert and the Board of Governors canceled the Division I men’s and women’s 2020 basketball tournaments, as well as all remaining winter and spring NCAA championships. This decision is based on the evolving COVID-19 public health threat, our ability to ensure […]
Click:ARCOTRONICS MKP 1.44/A GPD/LS SH 13152216 Capacitor Everyone knows that cookies (and candy, cakes, pies, ice cream, other sweets) offer suboptimal nutrition. Then why are cookies so popular? Why do we eat monstrous portions that were not a part of our food intentions?Why? Because cookies (and other sweets) taste good. Because athletes—and all people, for […]
Rountree Threepeats at 25th Leaf Peepers The silver anniversary of the Leaf Peepers Half Marathon in Waterbury brought out the governor and commemorative t-shirts, but everything else was pretty much the same this October 5Û_and thatÛªs a good thing. The annual squabble with neighboring Duxbury was resolved, long-time race stalwart Darragh Ellerson stood by the […]
Hall Hauls, Merga Stays the Course by Bob Fitzgerald If just a half hour earlier the elite women had reacted to the start of Boston like wary pedestrians during rush hour in Times Square, then Ryan Hall was the guy bouncing in the cockpit of a drag racer waiting for Red to turn to Yellow […]
THOUSANDS OF RUNNERS TO KICK OFF NEW YEAR AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT AT THE 2009 EMERALD NUTS MIDNIGHT RUN ON DECEMBER 31 Olympians Ian Dobson and Erin Donohue to headline field of professional athletes scheduled to run New York, December 21, 2009ÛÓAs the clock strikes midnight on December 31, New York Road Runners (NYRR) […]
In an effort to attain a 51 percent female participation rate in the 2010 Bridge of Flowers 10k Classic, the race’s organizing committee will introduce several changes to the Shelburne Falls event. The effort arose when race director Mike McCusker discovered that only 47.7 percent of racers in the 2009 event were women, a number shy […]
New westbound route for the 2011 Ottawa Marathon New routes in three races expected to enhance the experience for runners March 7, 2011, OTTAWA ÛÒ CanadaÛªs most popular and fastest-growing road race weekend will boost its appeal even further this year by introducing a new, more urban course. Ottawa Marathon organizers today unveiled […]
Reigning Boston Champions Geoffrey Mutai and Caroline Kilel and London Winner Mary Keitany Added to ING New York City Marathon 2011 Field Ethiopians Tsegaye Kebede and Buzunesh Deba, Russia’s Galina Bogomolova, and Sweden’s Isabellah Andersson fill out championship field for November 6 race Wheelchair field to feature course record holders Kurt Fearnley of […]
KIPLAGAT WINS NYRR MINI IN DOMINANT STYLE By Chris Lotsbom (c) 2012 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved (Used with permission) Photo by Kevin Morris NEW YORK (09-Jun) — Edna Kiplagat cruised to victory here at the 41st edition of the NYRR Mini 10-K, winning easily in 32:08. After surging in the seventh kilometer, the […]
World Marathon Majors Introduces Tougher Anti-Doping Penalties for Elite Athletes Elite Athlete Contracts Revised to Include Suspension of Payment and Repayment of Prize Money for Athletes Found in Violation of Anti-Doping Code TOKYO ÛÓ World Marathon Majors (WMM) members Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York have collectively revised their elite athlete […]