BOSTON — Anyone vaguely familiar with the Boston Marathon knows about “Heartbreak Hill.” It’s the most notorious make-or-break incline in any marathon, a 91-foot climb that can seem like a ...
Anyone vaguely familiar with the Boston Marathon knows about “Heartbreak Hill.” It’s the most notorious make-or-break incline in any marathon, a 91-foot climb that can seem like a mini-Everest as ...
Narragansett tribal elder Bella Noka says acknowledgment is long overdue for her great-uncle, who won the 1936 and 1939 Boston Marathon PROVIDENCE — In Newton, about a mile from “Heartbreak Hill,” a ...
On Monday, in that critical stretch of the Boston Marathon known as Heartbreak Hill, I’m sure he will be there. At least his spirit will be. The spirit of one of the race’s greats. What a name he had.
“Last December, Smith Bros. received a Christmas card from Erna Brown Fowler of Menomonie. She trained the [sic] Skippy, who was being starred together with Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan ...
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. - A Rhode Island family is on the hunt for their grandfather's Boston Marathon trophies. He sold them to put food on the table for his family. Ellison "Tarzan" Brown won the Boston ...
Coming up this morning will be the 60th running of the Manchester Road Race. One incident that has not been repeated, fortunately, occurred in 1933 when the race was in its seventh year. One of the ...