Oct 29th, 2008 · The Tampa Bay Rays are waking up Wednesday in a historic hotel whose guests have included Olympic runner Jesse Owens and eight American presidents. It is 50 miles from Philadelphia, where Game 5 of the World Series will be played. The Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, Del., was the only hotel with 85 empty rooms when Game 5 was suspended for rain. The Associated Press reports the team called 21 hotels before getting the last-minute booking.
Oct 28th, 2008 · Editorial cartoonists Mike Luckovich and Mike Peters have mixed feelings about the looming presidential vote. As the pair looked back on their recent work, they acknowledged a worry: It's not easy to make fun of Barack Obama, the front-runner.
Aug 22nd, 2008 · Sen. Barack Obama is expected to announce his pick of a running mate. Among the front-runners being mentioned are Sens. Joe Biden (D-DE), Evan Bayh (D-IN), and dark-horse candidate Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX). Obama will appear with his pick in Illinois Saturday.
Aug 21st, 2008 · Americans Shawn Crawford and Walter Dix took silver and bronze in the 200-meter dash in the Beijing Olympic Games after the second- and third-place finishers were disqualified.
Aug 15th, 2008 · A good jog can stave off some effects of aging according to a Stanford University study. The lead author of the study discusses why she thinks elderly runners showed fewer disabilities and lived longer than their non-jogging counterparts.
Aug 8th, 2008 · The Olympic Games get under way today in Beijing. Carrying the U.S. flag in the opening ceremony will be a runner who came to the United States in 2001 as one of the "Lost Boys of Sudan." He was abducted by Sudanese soldiers when he was 6 and raised in a refugee camp.
Aug 1st, 2008 · Could popping a pill turn you into a long-distance runner? Researchers report that they have identified two signaling pathways that are turned on in response to exercise — and that artificially turning those pathways on in mice produced rodents with much greater endurance.
Jul 2nd, 2008 · The child star of The Kite Runner faced harassment in his home country of Afghanistan before the film was even released. Paramount Pictures tried to relocate the boy for his safety, but his family believes the studio has not done enough to help.