Eddy breaks 10,000 mark
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Marc Eddy became the third quarterback in New England football history to reach the 10,000-yard passing mark as Bentley whipped Saint Anselm, 62-3, yesterday at Manchester, N.H., to improve to 7-1 overall and in the Northeast-10.
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ATHENS -- In a historic 5,000-meter race, Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco, who won gold at 1,500 meters last week, outkicked Ken enisa Bekele of Ethiopia in the final straightaway to record the first such double victory since the great Paavo Nurmi of Finland, El Guerrouj's hero, accomplished the feat 80 years ago at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
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Kenenisa Bekele wins a classic 10,000m encounter with the great Haile Gebrselassie back in fifth in his track farewell.
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1000 up and still counting. Sir Alex Fergusonâs achievement is quite remarkable given the fickle nature of football fans and more importantly football boards in the modern game.
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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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A tiny unmanned NASA &quot;scramjet&quot; soared above the Pacific Ocean yesterday at nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or almost 7,000 mph, in a record-breaking demonstration of a radical new engine technology.
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His countrymen celebrated Suzuki&#39;s record-breaking hit Saturday when the Seattle Mariners outfielder broke George Sisler&#39;s 84-year-old major league mark for hits in a season.
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Yesterday's near-ideal conditions - a west-southwest tailwind, mostly calm water, and mild temperatures - produced 10 course records, most by big margins.
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WASHINGTON -- The nation set a record for wildf
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A British explorer has broken the speed record for reaching the North and South Poles and the summit of Mount Everest, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported Saturday.
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ATLANTA - The world's largest beverage maker on Friday kicked off the holiday weekend by creating a 10-ton ice cream float to break a world record the company set nearly a decade ago.
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Senior Marc Eddy threw for 341 yards and three touchdowns last night as Bentley began defense of its Northeast-10 title with a 36-24 victory over Southern Connecticut in Waltham.
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An unmanned experimental jet has broken a world record for speed, cruising over the Pacific Ocean at just under 7000 miles (11,265km) per hour in a NASA test of cutting-edge &quot;scramjet&quot; engine technology.
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Mathew Helm has practised the dive that won him silver at the Athens Olympics thousands of times. He finished Australia&#39;s greatest Olympics in diving in almost the best possible way - with four perfect 10s and a spot on the medal podium.
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New Zealand&#39;s Sarah Ulmer stormed to gold in the women&#39;s individual pursuit in a new world record time. Ulmer, fourth in Sydney four years ago, beat Australia&#39;s Katie Mactier in a time of three minutes 24.
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An experimental NASA jet has flown at just under 10 times the speed of sound, a record that is a step forward for the plane and its experimental scramjet engine.
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Ethiopia's Dejene Berhanu breaks the course record as he wins the Great North Run.