Nothing, not even a train, could stop Kenyan Simon Sawe from winning the Des Moines Marathon for the second time. Sawe was leading countryman David Tuwei by 10 seconds when, after a left turn onto the final stretch on Southwest Fourth, he stared right at a train passing on the road. “Nobody is prepared for [...]
October 16, 2009
It looks like the Lingerie Football League (LFL) will not have a New England team this season. According to Wicket Local, the LFL could not find a venue in the Boston area that was available for games starting in the fall. The California-based league did hold tryouts in Boston back in March, but the New [...]
September 29, 2009
In one of the first useful reasons for shooting paint out of a gun, a team of sure-shot paint-ballers and artists have created a portrait of Marilyn Monroe… in less than a minute. Each armed with a different color paint, the members of the Colombian art collective Bon Yurt lined up on a stand opposite [...]
September 28, 2009
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — A La Quinta man is scheduled to face a federal magistrate this month on accusations he threw thousands of golf balls into Joshua Tree National Park for more than a year. Park rangers cited and released Douglas Jones, 57, on Aug. 17 with abandoning property, littering and feeding wildlife. “Since (some [...]
September 26, 2009
Chess boxing is a hybrid sport which combines the sport of boxing with games of chess in alternating rounds. Chess boxing fights have been organized since early 2003. The sport was started when Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh, inspired by fictional descriptions of the sport in the writing of Enki Bilal, organized actual matches. The sport [...]
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