Ted Corbitt, a Pioneer in American Distance Running, Dies at 88
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Mr. Corbitt began running as a child on his fatherâs cotton farm in South Carolina and virtually never stopped, becoming a pioneer of ultramarathon running in the United States.
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The 27-year-old ran a personal best of 9.85 seconds - one hundredth of a second outside the Olympic record - to strike gold as five men ran under 10 seconds.
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ATHENS, Greece -- I could see Vanderlei de Lima of Brazil running almost straight toward me. The 5-5, 119-pound marathon competitor had started with the rest of the men in the hill town of Marathon, the place where it all began 2,494 years ago.
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Walter Dix may be a slow starter. But, man, can he finish. The Florida State junior was late out of the blocks, then rapidly caught the competition and broke away over the final 50 meters to win the 100 on Friday at the NCAA track and field championships in 9.93 seconds, the fastest ever by a U.S.-born collegian.
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Richard Avedon, one of the most influential portrait and fashion photographers of the 20th century, died on Friday at age 81 in Texas, where he had been photographing
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By Paul Connors, AP. The NFL&#39;s elders made their mark Sunday, and in at least one case it resembled tire tracks. Emmitt Smith, 35, in his 15th season, became the oldest running back
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - George Etzweiler never ran a full mile until he was nearly 50. But he's been making up lost time ever since. The 87-year-old State College man completed a 7.6 mile, uphill run in New Hampshire this month called the Mount Washington Road Race.
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Edmund Hillary, the modest New Zealand beekeeper who shot to global fame as the first person to climb Mount Everest, died Friday aged 88.
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Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, running mate of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. George McGovern in 1972, died on Sunday from heart problems at age 77, a statement by his family said.
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The evolution of a physique for long-distance running is what made humans look the way we do now. The crucial role of running in human evolution, overlooked in previous research, is being proposed in an article
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Edmund Hillary, the modest New Zealand beekeeper who shot to global fame as the first person to climb Mount Everest, died Friday at age 88.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana  - Tyson Gay, getting what he said was his fastest start ever, won the 100 meters in the year's fastest time, 9.84 seconds, at the U.S. championships on Friday.
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Johnny Kelley, a two-time Boston Marathon champion who became a beloved figure in the history of the race by running it a record 61 times, died at 97.
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A week ago, the New York Road Runners announced that Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, perhaps the greatest distance runner ever, would run in the New York City Half-Marathon on Aug. 5. Yesterday, the organizers listed a strong field of Americans to oppose him.The top Americans are Alan Culpepper and Abdi Abdirahman, both 2004 Olympians, and Khalid Khannouchi, a former world-record holder in the marathon. Other notable Americans are Peter Gilmore, Jason Hartmann and Brandon Leslie.The 13.1-mile race, which starts in Central Park and ends in Lower Manhattan, is three months before the menâs Olympic trials in Central Park.Culpepper, who won the 2004 Olympic marathon trials, said he planned to make this half-marathon his last race before the trials. âThe fact that itâs New York and itâs a tough course is in my favor and plays into my strength,â he said.
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Since the first boom of the early 1970s, there has been no dearth of running books, from the how-tos of Jim Fixx to the whys of the good doctor, George Sheehan. But noteworthy additions to the genre -- even as technically imperfect as John L. Parker Jr.'s 1978 cult classic "Once a Runner" -- have...
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Richard Avedon, one of the most  influential portrait and fashion photographers of the 20th  century, died on Friday at age 81 in Texas, where he had been  photographing an essay on democracy for the New Yorker  magazine, a magazine spokeswoman said.
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Ted Abernathy, who twice led the National League in saves during the 1960s and pitched for seven teams during his major league career, died at 71.