Falmouth, MA. – Tomorrow’s 47th New Balance Falmouth Road Race men’s competition will have a throwback look to it as the top three seeds are all Kenyan-born, but… Read more “47th NB Falmouth Road Race Men’s Preview”
KORIO & JEPKOSGEI RUN AWAY WITH B2B WINS
Cape Elizabeth, ME. – Kenyans Joyciline Jepkosgei and Alex Korio broke free early and cruised home to easy wins today at the 22nd TD Beach to Beacon… Read more “KORIO & JEPKOSGEI RUN AWAY WITH B2B WINS”
ABDI ABDIRAHMAN BRINGING RACING BACK HOME TO SOMALIA
Cape Elizabeth, ME. – Like many a natural born American, I had one parent who was not. In the waning gray days of World War II, Eastern… Read more “ABDI ABDIRAHMAN BRINGING RACING BACK HOME TO SOMALIA”
BIX 7 HITS 45 AND SAYS SO LONG TO ED FROELICH
Davenport, IA. – The Quad City Times Bix 7 Road Race is one of the American Road Race classics. Now it is 45th year, the Bix 7… Read more “BIX 7 HITS 45 AND SAYS SO LONG TO ED FROELICH”
STARS LOOK TO REGAIN THEIR GLITTER IN SAN DIEGO
San Diego, CA – With the IAAF World Championships scheduled for October this year in Doha, Qatar, everyone’s schedule has been thrown back a month and you never… Read more “STARS LOOK TO REGAIN THEIR GLITTER IN SAN DIEGO”
PURPOSE IN THE PROCESS
Let’s just consider running shoes for a second, shall we? I mean, the name itself, not just their brands or models. “Running shoes”, as opposed to shoes… Read more “PURPOSE IN THE PROCESS”
PEACHTREE 2019 PREVIEW
Atlanta, Ga. – For those too young to remember, the nation was even more divided in 1970 than it is today. 50 years ago an idealistic generation of… Read more “PEACHTREE 2019 PREVIEW”
RWANDA USING SPORT TO REUNIFY WHILE OPENING ITS ARMS TO THE WORLD
Kigali, Rwanda- 25 years ago Rwanda descended into the darkest corner of the human heart, a place devoid of empathy or compassion. It led to a 100-day… Read more “RWANDA USING SPORT TO REUNIFY WHILE OPENING ITS ARMS TO THE WORLD”
R.I.P. GABE
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Jon Meacham has written a new book with country singer Tim McGraw called Songs of America. In promoting his latest work, Meacham often… Read more “R.I.P. GABE”
STEVE JONES AWARDED MBE BY QUEEN ELIZABETH II: REMEMBERING CHICAGO 1984
With the good (and proper) news that Welshman Steve Jones has been awarded the prestigious Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth… Read more “STEVE JONES AWARDED MBE BY QUEEN ELIZABETH II: REMEMBERING CHICAGO 1984”