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Body Of Missing Ultrarunner Micah True Found In New Mexico Wildnerness
After going missing last Tuesday, searchers found the body of Micah True in New Mexico's Gila National Forest Saturday evening at around 6 p.m. True was featured in the book Born to Run about a reclusive Native American tribe, the Tarahumara, who "have practiced techniques that allow them to run hu...
Some Dude Won The Fort Worth Marathon By Six Minutes, But Was DQed Because He Didn't Register
Oklahoman Scott Downard easily won the Cowtown Marathon, in Fort Worth, with a time of 2:31:40. He outran the rest of the field by more than six minutes, so there was plenty of time to disqualify him before the actual winner even finished....
Here's To Running Backs Who Don't Run
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Grizzly Relays And Rugby Widows: Deadspin's Dispatches From The 2011 Rugby World Cup
Chris Benz and Dave Shireley will be filing dispatches from the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, in the odd moments that they are sober....
Take Off Your Pants, Mess With The Bull, You Get The Horns
We don't want to live in a world where the San Fermin Festival goes off without us seeing a naked dude get absolutely wrecked by a confused, cornered half-ton of beef. Thankfully, those who ventured to Pamplona did so without their inhibitions, their fears, and sometimes their clothes....
Here's Video Of A Reckless Aussie Getting Gored And Trampled In Pamplona
When you go to a bullfight in Spain as a 10(ish)-year-old who wasn't forewarned that animals will bleed profusely while getting dragged out of the arena to their deaths, the end result is this: The annual footage of human injury and pain from Pamplona's Running of the Bulls is a source of joy....
Half-Marathon Finisher Gets Caught Cheating, Is A Dog
Here's Dozer the Goldendoodle crossing the finish line of the Maryland Half Marathon last week. Already he's become something of a local legend, with media interviewing his owner and volunteers pledging thousands of dollars in donations on his official runner page. But something's not right. Look ...
Danny Woodhead Doesn't Know Danny Woodhead Personally But Thinks "He's A Likable Guy"
Setting aside my disdain of corporate gimmicks for a moment — like, say, the sickening PR blood-orgy called "Undercover Boss" — this sporting-goods store/sneaker-company mashup that puts Patriots RB Danny Woodhead to work hawking his jersey is rather-OK fare....
A Brief List Of Terrible Things That Recently Happened To Joggers
Via Runner's World: They've been hit by buckshot; shot by hunters; shot in the foot; attacked by pitbulls, packs of dogs, owls, men, and union members; run down by Cadillacs and struck by RAV 4s; finding dead bodies; and Kim Kardashian. [RWDaily]...
The Woozy, Loogie-Hocking Aftermath Of The New York City Marathon: A Video
Finishing a marathon is an amazing accomplishment. It is also, as that David Fleming story reminded us, a rather dehumanizing and soul-crushing endeavor. As far as we know, the New York City Marathon was poop-free this year, but wobble-free? Not at all....
A Chilean Miner Is Running The NYC Marathon, Proving That We're All Rather Inadequate
How would the average person spend 69 days trapped underground? Edison Peña ran three to six miles daily. Now he's running in the NYC Marathon this weekend. Great. I'll be on a couch, trapped under a pile of wings....
Stephon Marbury's Training Regimen: Talk In First Person Plural, Fall While Running
Stephon Marbury is one of our favorite things about the internet. When he isn't UStreaming...stuff, he's updating his personal YouTube channel with videos of him tearing apart the competition in the CBA or, in this case, falling while running uphill....
It's Okay To Make Fun Of Lance Armstrong Again
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....
If a Bull Gores Someone in Pamplona When Everybody's Watching Soccer, Does the Wound Bleed?
Not a good weekend for bulls internationally....
Pasta-Based Terrorism Strikes Pittsburgh Marathon
Here in New York, someone tries to set off a bomb in Times Square, and life goes on a couple hours later. In Pittsburgh, they divert the marathon after finding a microwave with some noodles inside. [WTAE]...
If Cheating Were An Olympic Sport, China Would Take The Gold
A third of runners in the top 100 of a Chinese marathon were found to have cheated. Hiring impostors, hitching rides in cars — anything to better their chances of getting into college....
Thread Color On Running Shorts Is The Most Important Sporting Issue Of Our Age
I don't know if any post I've written for this site has generated more public feedback than the controversial tale of the disqualified runner with white thread in his shorts. You people really care about high school cross country....
Improper Stitching Costs Cross Country Team A Title
There are dumb rule violations and then there are dumb rules being violated, and I'm not sure if I've heard of any regulation stupider than the one that cost a Baltimore high school a county cross country championship....
Sore Hamstrings? Get Your Legs Amputated!
Ultra-marathon runners have terrible problems with their toenails, so some choose to get them permanently removed. Or! And I'm just throwing this out there....don't run 150-mile foot races? [NYTimes]...
Marathoners Never Trained (Get It?) For This
Simon Sawe had a commanding lead entering the final stretch of the Des Moines Marathon, when he was held up by a passing train. That's when the runner in 2nd caught up. Then the runner in 3rd......