Burgers: NY $200 Burger, Brad eats 7kg Monster Hamburger, Gorske eats 23 000 ...

Brad Eats Monster Hamburger 6.8 kg in 4:30 h Brad Sciullo, who works as a waiter in an Italian restaurant in Pennsylvania, terminated his fast food gastronomic adventurer in four hours and 39 minutes. Brad became...

The women who ran for Open Borders

Volunteers made freedom of movement the issue on the 5k women's challenge. If you find immigration laws as backward, restrictive and repulsive as we do, you can join our Open the Borders campaign, support the...

Pope Benedict XVI starts off marathon Bible reading

On Sunday Pope Benedict celebrated a huge mass to open a worldwide meeting of prelates at the Vatican. Over 200 bishops are attending that meeting, which is discussing the modern relevance of the bible. It will...

Oil price falls as Hurricane Gustav weakens

The price of oil has fallen to below $111 a barrel as Hurricane Gustav weakened on its approach to the US coastline. "A stronger dollar also helped reverse the course for oil prices, which had risen by nearly $3 to over $118 a barrel earlier in the session.Still,...

Of Marathon Golds, Closing Ceremonies and Kenya's best Olympic performance ever

h/t @jollyrulezIn a conversation with a @jollyrulez yesterday, he just made me realize that the only Olympic medals given out during the closing ceremony were all claimed by African Marathon runners - ensuring...

The 25 Most Marketable Olympians from Beijing 2008 Games

Darren Rovell of CNBC names his 25 most marketable Olympians from Beijing 2008, excluding the every day professionals.   " Michael Phelps, swimmer, USA. Eight gold medals and millions of dollars worth...

Kenya Wins its First Men's Marathon with Sammy Wansiru and Breaks the Olympic...

Kenya's Sammy Wansiru beat the world today in the Men's Marathon through Beijing, as the Games draw to an end, in a time of 2:06:32 with the Moroccan, Jaoard Gharib, +7.50 behind, and in third, Tsegay Kebede of...

Oil Companies Escape Billions in Royalty Payments to Americans; Drilling Expa...

"Statement of Tyson Slocum, Director, Public Citizen’s Energy Program A bureaucratic oversight has allowed 24 oil companies to avoid more than $1.3 billion in royalties for the privilege of extracting oil and natural gas from U.S. territory in the Gulf of Mexico - with...

America's Mountain High Marathon Hope - Ryan Hall :: MAXINE

" The Big Bear Grizzly front page declaring support to Ryan Hall in his pursuit of Olympic competition. Image Credit: Edmund Jenks (MAXINE) 2008America's Mountain High Marathon Hope - Ryan HallIt was right there...

A marathon journey through the streets of London

The eccentric outfits, spirited competitors and raucous spectators make the London marathon one of the cities many sporting and cultural highlights.Source: http://everywheremag.com/articles/911Beating Spiderman to...

Jogging not a knee-killer, study says

This is great news indeed--if it's true. One problem with the findings, as the article mentions, is that the two studies only looked at runners, a group which likely excludes people predisposed to knee problems....

Tim Russert Coverage: The Backlash Begins

Of course there has been a lot of coverage about the death of Tim Russert. When a figure in the public eye passes away, especially suddenly, (remember Heath  Ledger?) it is going to get a lot of coverage.But...

Daughter from Austria incest case reunited with family

Kerstin Fritzl, from the Austria cellar, has reunited with her family.  It was reported yesterday on NowPublic that she woke up from the coma she was in.  That coverage can be seen...

Penguins beat Red Wings' in triple-overtime

The Pittsburgh Penguins managed to beat the Detroit Red Wings’ to win Game 5 after triple-overtime last night.  The Penguins and Red Wings’ will now play Game 6 tomorrow night."Not so fast Motor City....

Vancouver Marathon 2008

Thomas Omwenga of Kenya has repeated as winner of the Vancouver Marathon in a time of 2 hours, 15 minutes, 57 seconds, seven minutes faster than his winning time from last year. Erick Yator, also of Kenya,...

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