It was bad enough when the Red Sox rolled out green alternate jerseys, but at least those had some meaning to them.…
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The Boston Globe has placed columnist Kevin Cullen on “administrative leave” while it conducts a review of his work,…
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Despite miserable weather, 95 percent of of the 27,042 common folk who started Monday’s Boston Marathon eventually…
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On Monday, Des Linden became the first American woman to win the Boston Marathon in 33 years. For the 34-year-old…
The men’s and women’s races at Monday’s Boston Marathon were won by two of the unlikeliest people. Desi Linden was…
You will read, and in fact are reading right now, that Desi Linden and Yuki Kawauchi’s times (2:39:54 and 2:15:58)…
Here’s Shalane Flanagan, defending New York City Marathon champion and one of the best American runners of all time,…
It was about 4 p.m. in Iten, Kenya when Edna Kiplagat got hold of me on Skype. The connection was poor, so she tried…
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Adidas blasted out a marketing email today, lauding runners who participated in the race on Monday: “Congrats, you…
Fifty years ago, women were considered too frail to run marathons, and were thus not allowed to run in the Boston…
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Marcel Hug won his third consecutive Boston Marathon men’s wheelchair push-rim title today, but it was a close…
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In the spring of 1991, Bob Elliott had a problem. He and his friend George were trying to sell a canoe cart George…
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I couldn’t get worked up about Monday’s Boston Marathon. After all, any American who might have been on TV ran the…
A federal jury in Boston today decided that the crimes of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were serious…
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At today’s death penalty trial of noted bad person Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, prosecutors presented a video to jurors…
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Kenyan Caroline Rotich battled with Mare Dibaba over the last quarter mile to reach the finish steps ahead of the…
Everyone knows someone who’s run the marathon. Today’s big-city races—in places like Boston, New York, Berlin, and…
As soon as the jury found Aaron Hernandez guilty of murder this morning, I braced for all the bad ideas that were…
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Earlier today, a reader sent us a complaint regarding the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the two men who set off…
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It seems like just a few months ago that we watched Meb win the Boston Marathon, mostly because it was only a few…
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