Go New York!: Running The City
Alfatah Kadal claims he runs the City, and with no disrespect to Mayor Bloomberg, he really does. Every day he runs 13 miles from his home in Brooklyn to Baruch College. That’s a long route, “but...
View ArticleNYC Group Touts Benefits Of Running Barefoot
NEW YORK (CBS 2) – City sidewalks in the summer can be hot, crowded and covered with grime. Most people don’t want their shoes to touch the stuff on the streets — never mind their bare feet. But...
View ArticleSwimmers Attempt Record In Race Around Manhattan
NEW YORK (1010 WINS/AP) – Four elite swimmers attempted to break a record in a race around Manhattan. Three-time Olympian and English Channel record-holder Petar Stoychev of Bulgaria and 2008 Olympian...
View ArticleLatest Poll: Cuomo Has Wide Lead Over Paladino
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – A new poll of registered voters in New York shows Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Cuomo with a 2-to-1 lead over Republican Carl Paladino. The results released Thursday come...
View ArticleRick Lazio Drops Out Of Race For Governor
ALBANY, NY (AP) - Conservative Party candidate Rick Lazio on Monday withdrew from the race for governor, a decision that helps the tea party candidate who beat Lazio in the Republican primary. LISTEN:...
View ArticleSchumer: Enough Cash To Win Seat And Help Friends
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – New York Senator Charles Schumer has a mountain of campaign cash for a re-election race expected to present little more than a speed bump, allowing him share some of the money with...
View ArticleVIDEO: Herschel Walker Smokes Al Dukes In Footrace
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Al ‘Hughes’ Dukes challenged legendary NFL running back-turned-MMA fighter Herschel Walker to a 20-yard dash in the WFAN bullpen. Bad move by Al? Watch the video below to find out. No...
View ArticleHenry’s Parents Want Independent Toxicology Test
VALHALLA, N.Y. (CBS 2/WCBS 880/1010 WINS/AP) -- When 20-year-old Pace University student Danroy “DJ” Henry was gunned down by police, he was legally drunk, according to sources close to the...
View ArticleCBSNewYork On Scene: 2010 ING NYC Marathon
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – CBSNewYork’s Roxanne Geyer was live in Central Park with updates throughout the 2010 ING New York City Marathon. – Just a few more steps and these runners will have completed...
View ArticleSounds From The 2010 ING NYC Marathon
NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – And just like that, the 43,000 plus runners in the 2010 ING New York City Marathon were off. Download: 0955101.mp3 LISTEN: 1010 WINS’ Steve Sandberg reports A sea of...
View ArticleNYC Triathlon Announces Death Of Competitor Sunday
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — One person has died and another is in critical condition after getting in trouble during the swimming portion of the Nautica New York City Triathlon. Race Director Bill Burke...
View ArticleNew York City Urbanathlon Is This Saturday
NEW YORK (WCBS 880) - It’s a race unlike any other. The Urbanathlon, sponsored by Men’s Health magazine, will be coming to Queens on Saturday. Competitors will climb over a long series of city taxi...
View ArticleAuthor Harry Stein Talks Race In America In New Book
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - New York author Harry Stein has a new book out and the title alone is provocative. It’s called “No Matter What…They’ll Call This Book Racist: How our Fear of Talking Honestly...
View ArticleOpinion: Race Baiting Obama’s Hecklers Is Wrong
Granted, President Barack Obama has been heckled quite a bit recently. Last Friday, Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro had the audacity to heckle the president at Obama’s own home. During the...
View ArticleOpinion: Learn To Be An American
One day after Rush Limbaugh called on W. Mitt Romney to use racist attacks against the President, Romney used racist attacks against the President. Yesterday, Romney dispatched an attack dog of sorts,...
View ArticleOpinion: Media Covers Up Violence Of Flash Mobs
This is the second summer in which “flash mobs” are sweeping big cities throughout the United States. If you haven’t heard of flash mobs or know what they are, it can only be hoped that the rock...
View ArticleOutrunning Hunger: Hometown Heroes Race To Feed Area Youth
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – It’s not east making ends meet nowadays. Some Americans are even having a hard time feeding their kids – and some familiar faces are getting involved in the fight against...
View ArticleRepublicans Bring Back Politics Of Racial Division
In 1990, Harvey Gant, the African American Democratic nominee for Senate, was on the verge of defeating one of the most notorious opponents of racial progress in the United States Senate: North...
View ArticleObama Fails To Address Black America’s Disappointments With His Presidency
While President Barack Obama wants to sound admirable by saying he’s not the President of black America but the President of all Americans, the insinuation made by Black Enterprise Magazine that Obama...
View ArticleOpinion: The Unreported Racism Of The 2012 Election: 0% Of African-Americans...
The results of an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll came out recently and got very little play in the media. The poll’s results were race-related and quite startling. While the media has jumped on anything...
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