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...
created by SOLARLIFE | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1949 views | 17 recommendations | 6 comments
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...
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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...
created by Dave Keating | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 431 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments
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,...
created by Rachel Nixon | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 276 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments
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...
created by ksjhalla | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 489 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments
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'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...
"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...
" 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...
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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...
created by genner1234 | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 413 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
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....
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1237 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
created by Amy Judd | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 606 views | 17 recommendations | 3 comments
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...
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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....
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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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