$1500 for a sub-4:00 downhill mile on Sunday!

The Downeast Group at Smith Barney has come to the rescue of the New England Mile and is sponsoring the sub-4:00 minute mile prize of $1500 this year. Jeff Caron and Gabe Rivard are signed up to help bring Louie Luchini through in under four minutes. Top female master...

ING New York City Marathon lottery results (2007)

The ING New York City Marathon has a lottery for who gets to run. The results are now available (as of about noon this morning) and can be searched at their website: The lottery has sifted through more than 98,000 applicants from around the world to select the...

Does free speech cover NCAA championship reporting?

Brian Bennett is a reporter who writes live updates to a website during NCAA championship games. He’s done it at the Orange Bowl. He’s done it at the NCAA basketball tournament. And now he is doing it at at the NCAA baseball tournament. At least, he was...

Yard Work

In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about alternative exercises throughout the month of June. Cross training can easily be expanded outside of the realms of running, weight lifting, bicycling and swimming. A great...