Rahma chose to produce the series independently but still hosted a lavish premiere at Metrograph along with an after-party at Boom. He then immediately packed his bags and drove to his Connecticut country house, where he goes to preserve some level of normalcy. "All my neighbors are old, and they have no idea who I am," he says. "They don't have a take." Throughout one of the most eventful weeks of his life, Rahma comforted himself with many burgers (medium and medium rare), morning lollipops with his daughter, and his new favorite beverage: Guinness.
While the weather was unfortunately not on their side, the 44 runners who took part in Saturday's Tralee 40-Mile Ultra Marathon were not deterred and completed the run with smiles on their face throughout.
The South Leinster Schools track and field championships were held recently in Carlow with three days of competition, one per week, spread over three successive weeks. Those athletes qualifying from the region earned the right to compete in the Leinster championships.
“I was crossing the road. I was not crossing the racetrack,” Nancy Iskander testified Tuesday in the civil wrongful death trial against her son's convicted killer, Rebecca Grossman, and former Dodgers pitcher Scott Erickson. The lawsuit seeks $100 million from Grossman, Erickson and their insurance companies.
English had run in the middle of the pack through the opening half of today's race, with 400m reached in 51.12, and he was still only fifth with 50 metres to run. But he kept a cool head to thread a path to the front, overtaking runner-up Kethobogile Haingura (1:43.89) in the final metres, with USA's Brandon Miller third in 1:44.00.
Five siblings originally from Limerick are taking on a combined 500km running challenge across four international cities this May in memory of their mother, who died following a battle with breast cancer.
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“As soon as you stop negotiating with yourself, it's amazing what you can accomplish,” he says. “I'm just doing it.” He sees that internal debate as the real obstacle. The moment you start weighing whether to act, whether it's getting up early, making a call or pushing through a tough stretch, you've already created an exit ramp.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined nearly 800 runners in the annual Capital Challenge three-mile road race in Washington on Wednesday, placing sixth among federal judges and 277th overall. Top judicial honors went to U.S. Tax Court Judge Jeffrey Arbeit (17:48) on the men's side and to Judge Florence Pan (25:39) of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on the women's side. Kavanaugh, for his part, finished in 26:23.
Aleksei Averchenko swam 26.2 miles on Wednesday to celebrate turning 33 while raising money for the First Youth Triathlon Team. His 12-hour swim began at 6 a.m. Swimming that distance is a challenge for most athletes, but Averchenko faced an added hurdle. He has lived with a disability since a car hit him while he was biking in 2023.
The tenth Palestine International Marathon has been run in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, with a parallel race held in Gaza after a two-year hiatus caused by Israel's war on the Strip.
The British sprinter CJ Ujah, who won 4x100m relay gold at the 2017 world championships, is one of 10 suspects charged with conspiracy to defraud as part of a police investigation into cryptocurrency fraud. It is alleged that the suspects were part of an organised crime group linked to a scam involving phone calls to multiple victims, from people purporting to be police officers and cryptocurrency companies.
Servite, with its outstanding sprinters, and Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, with sprinters, hurdlers and shotputters, will be trying to qualify their best athletes in preparation to battle it out at the Southern Section championships on May 16 at Moorpark High.