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By adamg - 5/22/23 - 3:15 pm

Steve Burton reports that Rick Hoyt, who became famous as an annual Marathon participant pushed by his father, died in his sleep this morning at age 61. Dick Hoyt died in 2021.

By adamg - 4/17/23 - 10:27 pm

The mayor's office and the BAA report Vinny Castronuovo, who finished the race in 2:25:56, and Shannon Lamarre, who finished the race in 2:54:34, will get Boston's first honors for the fastest Bostonian runners in the Marathon. Read more.

By adamg - 4/13/23 - 9:17 pm

While Boston University is urging students not to OD on borgs, Boston College is sending a sterner message to it students about their behavior during the Marathon - especially on the streets of Brighton and Newton.

In e-mail today, BC officials say: Read more.

By adamg - 4/13/23 - 10:38 am
The helicopter that will fly along the Marathon route

The helicopter you might see - and hear.

In what has become an annual tradition, the National Nuclear Security Administration will fly a helicopter low - and loud - along the Boston Marathon route Friday and over the weekend. Read more.

By adamg - 4/13/23 - 9:41 am

BU Today is urging students to play it smarter than the kids at UMass Amherst and realize that mixing Gatorade with vodka in a gallon milk jug does not protect you from getting so dead drunk you have to be transported to the hospital.

But if you insist on borging, but you shouldn't, for God's sake don't mix coffee into the swill; that just makes things worse, BU Student Health Services says.

By adamg - 4/6/23 - 1:13 pm

Bill Speros reports the state Gaming Commission today blocked a bid by one of the companies now inundating the local airways and your brain with online-betting ads to let you bet on the outcome of the Marathon this year, in part because the company didn't bother to ask the BAA about it.

By adamg - 4/18/22 - 11:25 pm
2022 Boston Marathon runners

Photographynatalia captured Boston Marathon runners, including Sophia Barbosa

Copyright Photographynatalia. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

By adamg - 4/18/22 - 8:26 pm

WBZ reports: "I did it for both of us."

By adamg - 4/13/22 - 10:04 pm
Nuclear-sensing helicopter near the R2-D2 building in the Back Bay

Mark Clancy scored a great shot of the National Nuclear Security Administration helicopter today as it flew over part of the Marathon route to take in background radiation levels just in case something happens where that might become important to know.

The copter crew does this every year in the days before the race.

By adamg - 4/12/22 - 12:49 pm

Christina Hager at WBZ reports that BPD Superintendent-in-Chief Gregory Long says BPD will step up patrols near MBTA stations following this morning's attack at a New York subway station, but has not seen anything indicating a threat to the Boston Marathon this Monday.

By adamg - 4/6/22 - 8:02 pm

The BAA announced today it's banning Russian and Belarusian runners from this year's Marathon because of Ukraine. In a statement, BAA President Tom Grilk said: Read more.

By adamg - 10/11/21 - 10:41 pm
Boston Marathon

Photography Natalia watched the first Boston Marathon since Patriots Day, 2019.

Also on hand, in Brookline, a giant chicken: Read more.

By adamg - 10/8/21 - 10:29 am

An Energy Department helicopter is flying along the route of the Monday Marathon today. As they do every year a few days before the Boston Marathon route, the crew is recording background radiation levels so they have a baseline to compare to should the worst happen.

Here it is in action: Read more.

By adamg - 3/17/21 - 12:46 pm

WBZ reports the death of Dick Hoyt, who would push his son Rick in a wheelchair during the Boston Marathon for years.

By adamg - 3/15/21 - 3:32 pm

The BAA announced today it's set the size of the planned Oct. 11 marathon at 20,000 runners.

By adamg - 1/26/21 - 1:12 pm

The BAA announced today that God, Covid-19 and Gov. Baker willing, it will hold the 2021 Boston Marathon on Columbus Day - Monday, Oct. 11. Read more.

By anon - 12/22/20 - 7:02 pm

I know the Marathon is postponed until fall but has anyone heard rumors of dates?

By adamg - 10/28/20 - 2:18 pm

The Boston Athletic Association announced today it's called off the 2021 Boston Marathon on Patriots Day, but held out some hope it might be able to reschedule the race to sometime in the fall.

In a statement, BAA CEO Tom Grilk said: Read more.

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