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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Monday, June 04, 2012
All Men Can’t Jump
Why nearly every sport except long-distance running is fundamentally absurd.
By David Stipp
At first glance the annual Man vs. Horse Marathon, set for June 9 in Wales, seems like a joke sport brought to us by the same brilliant minds behind dwarf tossing and gravy wrestling. It was, after all, the product of a pints-fueled debate in a Welsh pub, and for years its official starter was rock musician Screaming Lord Sutch, founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. But the jokiness is misleading: When viewed through science’s clarifying lens, the funny marathon is one of the few sports that isn’t a joke.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Marathon winner disqualified because he didn’t sign up for race
Scott Downard was stripped of his title in this last weekend's Cowtown Marathon because of paperwork, or, more specifically, a lack of paperwork.
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