Bamaman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:33 pm
A minor league baseball team in Madison, Alabama, is set to begin play in 2020. They had an internet poll to name the team and the winning name was the Rocket City Trash Pandas.
The Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony is next week, but awards for creative categories were given out over the weekend. With the victory of Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert in the Outstanding Variety Special category, three new names achieved EGOT status (winners of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award): John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Tim Rice.
Webber and Rice wrote and composed the original musical, while Legend starred in the title role for the special; all three were credited as co-executive producers.
Eliud Kipchoge, gold medal winner in the men's marathon at the 2016 Rio Olympics, breaks the world record in the marathon by 76 seconds at the Berlin Marathon. The record now stands at 2:01:39.
Not many people can say they've lost four times on Jeopardy!.
teapot37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 16, 2018 11:44 am
Eliud Kipchoge, gold medal winner in the men's marathon at the 2016 Rio Olympics, breaks the world record in the marathon by 76 seconds at the Berlin Marathon. The record now stands at 2:01:39.
note that like so many great distance runners, he is Kenyan
teapot37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 16, 2018 11:44 am
Eliud Kipchoge, gold medal winner in the men's marathon at the 2016 Rio Olympics, breaks the world record in the marathon by 76 seconds at the Berlin Marathon. The record now stands at 2:01:39.
note that like so many great distance runners, he is Kenyan
Looks like I missed this last year... For Breaking2, a controlled (and thus not eligible for world records) environment and Nike promotional event, he ran a 2:00:25 marathon. https://deadspin.com/nikes-two-hour-lon ... 1794984200
teapot37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 16, 2018 11:44 am
Eliud Kipchoge, gold medal winner in the men's marathon at the 2016 Rio Olympics, breaks the world record in the marathon by 76 seconds at the Berlin Marathon. The record now stands at 2:01:39.
note that like so many great distance runners, he is Kenyan
Looks like I missed this last year... For Breaking2, a controlled (and thus not eligible for world records) environment and Nike promotional event, he ran a 2:00:25 marathon. https://deadspin.com/nikes-two-hour-lon ... 1794984200
Specifically, Kipchoge had both a car with cruise control set to exactly 13.1 MPH (an official record cannot be set with the aid of a vehicle breaking a draft for the runner), and a rotating team of pacers setting a 2:00 schedule for him (pacemakers are allowed, but they must be covering the same distance as the runner from the start).
Bamaman wrote: ↑Tue Sep 18, 2018 4:25 pm
I thought marathon records were all unofficial anyway since every course is different.
For a record in the marathon (or any road race) to be official, the start and finish must be less than half the race distance apart as the crow flies, and not have a net elevation drop of more than 0.1 percent. The Boston Marathon meets neither criteria, so the 2:03:02 winning time from 2011 was not ratified as a world record, despite being close to a minute ahead of the record at that time.
Architect Robert Venturi has died; coined "Less is a bore" in response to Mies van der Rohe's dictum "Less is more." Style: post-modern. Philadelphia born, raised, and died. Pritzker Prize (1991). Published his anti-modernist "gentle manifesto", Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, in 1966. Other than perhaps the (Vanna) Venturi House, no other architectural work is J-question worthy.
Comcast has won a lengthy bidding war over 21st Century Fox to acquire UK telecommunications company Sky.
The Japanese space agency JAXA said it made history by successfully landing two unmanned rovers, collectively named Minerva-II1, on an asteroid.
$11B West Kowloon Station opened in Hong Kong, with some residents calling it a Trojan Train that allows immigration officials to enforce mainland laws in the heart of the city. The trip from Guangzhou is cut from 2 hours to 47 min.