New York - Mayor Michael Bloomberg is being roundly criticized for permitting the New York Marathon to take place this weekend while millions of the city's citizens still suffer from hardships brought on by Hurricane Sandy.
In an attempt to avoid...
London Mayor Boris Johnson has said the Olympic competitors in this summer's marathons and other competitions taking place on the streets of London, will not be exempt from on-the-spot fines or even arrest if found to be dropping litter during those...
The Manchester Marathon was won today by a forty-two year old woman from Salford called Annette Fisher.
"I hadn't even realised I'd entered the marathon," said Ms Fisher. "I'd hung my bed sheets out on the line because it was quite windy and I th...
The woman known simply as B. won the Boston Marathon last week. She was diagnosed with a rare thyroid disorder that caused her to become morbidly obese at a very young age. Despite these challenges B. has managed to become the first obese person to w...
Some people are very concerned about Kirstie Alley entering the next Boston Marathon but Kirstie says that she will be fine.
"All you have to do is enter the thing and you'll help obese people everywhere begin to think that they can do things too.
Embattled Golf star Tiger Woods announced early today that he has decided to take his career as a professional athlete in a new direction; one that will more accurately reflect who he is as a person and what he is all about.
Woods, recently the ce...
A spunky sperm named Brian today revealed to Spoof.com reporters how he emerged from a horrifyingly traumatic ordeal to emerge as supreme champion in the world's toughest test of swimming endurance.
Brian lived on a small planet which was frequent...
British marathon runner, Paula Radcliffe, is in deepest shit this morning, after it was revealed Her Majesty the Queen had ordered the runner to Buckingham Palace for 'an audience' following Radcliffe's New York Marathon win yesterday.
The row bro...
Police and UFO experts have reopened the area around Keswick in Cumbria this morning, where the weather caused the Original Mountain Marathon race to be abandoned yesterday, leaving more than 700 of the competitors missing.
Miraculously, a scene...
The final event of the 2008 Olympic Games, the Men's marathon, took place in Bejing early this morning, and produced a shock winner, when a competitor in a Gorilla Suit crossed the line first to claim the gold medal.
The runner wore number 1809, t...
Paula Radcliffe, the GB team marathon runner who, on Sunday morning, once again failed to live up to the expectations of the long-suffering British public, has revealed the 'reasons' why she finished so far behind the leading athletes.
First of al...
The Algerian Olympic marathon runner Ald Orrzak Ziane is the favorite to win the race in the Beijing Games. To get ready for his marathon race he has already set off to run there.
A man accused of causing the deaths of 10 asthmatics in his town said his Fun Run idea was "just a wheeze". The charity event was intended to generate publicity and funds for asthma sufferers in Acton, where pollution is particularly foul.
The 2008 Flora London Marathon starts on Sunday in the heart of the capital, and, all being well, will finish the same day, thanks to the event's organisers who have banned slower runners from competing.
Local woman, Tania Fudglowski, has collapsed and died following a celebratory lap of honor after completing a 26-mile marathon in her local town.
New York, New York - A spokesman for Countrywide Bank denied last Friday's line of customers outside its branch offices, withdrawing their deposits, was a run on their bank, but rather a 5K marathon they forgot to announce it was sponsoring to ke...
P.Diddi, ecstatic from his recent completion of the New York City Marathon, already announced plans for a possible repeat performance in next years race. "I diddied, this marathon for da children"--puffy. He sure diddi, raising an estimat...