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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Share Your Radnor Hunt Photos Here

Upload your photos from Saturday's races to this gallery.

Did you make it out to the 83rd Radnor Hunt Races Saturday?  Share photos of the festivities by uploading them to this gallery! View the race results here.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Great Valley Chamber Plans Golf Outing

The event will be held May 21 at White Manor Country Club.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Battlefield 5K Benefits Local Wounded Warrior

Proceeds from the Run for Freedom on June 2 will go to a Conestoga High School alum, Corpsman Jay Raffetto, who was injured in Afghanistan.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Rotary Club Sells Tix to Paxon Hollow Golf Outing

The Rotary Club of Paoli, Malvern, Berwyn is holding its 16th annual golf outing Thursday, June 6.

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Cycling Grand Prix Returns to Malvern in July

View a map of the race route for the Chesco Grand Prix bicycle race series, which lands in Malvern Monday, July 8.

The streets of Malvern Borough will once again become the route of a bicycle race this summer. Dozens of cyclists participated in seven races last year at the Malvern criterium of the inaugural Chesco Grand Prix. The race will return to Malvern July 8, and the race route can be viewed as a PDF attached to this article.     See photos from last year's race "Hopefully it won't be 105 degrees like it was last year," organizer Frank Ortner said at a meeting of the Malvern Business and Professional Association, which is sponsoring the event. Here are the confirmed 2013 race dates from chescograndprix.com: Eagle is "an unincorporated community in Upper Uwchlan Township," according to Wikipedia.

Domenic Lopez

4:43 pm on Thursday, May 9, 2013

The cycling will be exciting! -for sure. This year, all profits from this event will benefit Alex's Lemonade Stand (Foundation for Childhood Cancer).   more ›

Friday, May 3, 2013

Chester Valley Trail 5K Will Benefit Local Victims' Rights Charity

The May 4 event will benefit Justice 4 PA Kids, an organization based in Malvern that advocates for legal reform to expand the rights of young sexual abuse victims.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Cecily Tynan Among Philly Runners Seeing Red

Philadelphia's runners are showing support for Boston with their socks during the Broad Street Run.

Participants in the Broad Street Run are planning to show their support for the city of Boston. From the City of Brotherly Love, one popular way to show the love is apparently through one's socks. According to a recent Philly Mag blogger, and a Facebook group that has more than 1,000 members, many area sporting good stores are stocking up on red socks. Those participating in the Broad Street Run, slated for Sunday, May 5, are planning to wear red running socks to show the love for Boston. Get it? Red ... Sox ... Runner and Action News meteorologist Cecily Tynan told her Twitter followers this weekend, "Tried out my red compression socks in a tempo run 2day. Test everything out b4 race day!" If you're wondering where she got her pair, she …

Ken Martin

10:27 pm on Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Oh I doubt very much that she's a fool. I think you're jealous of her success or have some other issue. You call her names and say you know her. She's a hard working meteorologist and wife and mother of 2 who finds time to train for 10 mile races. It's easy to call famous successful people names   more ›

Broad Street Run Bans Backpacks for 2013 Race

Runners are being encouraged to bring as little as possible with them this year.

Following the backpack bombings at the Boston Marathon two weeks ago, runners in this year's Broad Street Run in Philadelphia won't be able to tote their gear in a backpack, race organizers announced in a mass email to participants Monday. Taking a page from the Transportation Safety Administration's playbook, race organizers are mandating runners use clear plastic drawstring bags, which will be handed out at the expo Friday and Saturday, to stow their gear this year. “You are strongly encouraged to bring as little as possible with you to the start of the race,” race organizers said in the email to runners. “All items brought into the start area are subject to search and/or confiscation.” Race organizers only indicated backpacks would be …

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12:46 pm on Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Oh stop with the over dramatization of things regarding bags. My god the event is not just like many of the other races around the country. It's much more compact then Boston and has more participants. What a bunch of whiners.   more ›

Monday, April 29, 2013

Philly-Area NBA Players Tweet Support for Gay Colleague

Jason Collins is the first active player in a major U.S. sport to announce he is gay.

Many NBA players, including several with Philadelphia-area ties, reacted supportively after fellow player Jason Collins announced Monday in an interview with Sports Illustrated that he is gay. Collins, who is the first athlete in a major American sport to come out of the closet during his playing career, got an early supporter in NBA star, and Lower Merion High School grad, Kobe Bryant. At 11:01 a.m., little more than an hour after the revelation, Bryant tweeted this to his two-million plus followers: Proud of @jasoncollins34. Don't suffocate who u r because of the ignorance of others #courage #support #mambaarmystandup #BYOU The message has since been retweeted more than 31,000 times.  Also supporting Collins was the Philadelphia 76ers' …

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R Mexico

2:25 pm on Thursday, May 2, 2013

hopefully you're using the word "preference" in the sense of "sexual preference" not "choice..." watching basketball is a choice... being gay is not (unless the person in question is bisexual, in which case, they do have a choice)... i too look forward to the day when this sort of thing doesn't bear announcing, but it was a very courageous move on Mr. Collins's part to be the FIRST current major …   more ›

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Penn Relays: When are Great Valley, Malvern Prep and Villa Maria Competing?

Security is ramped up this year, including a prohibition on backpacks.

The 119th Penn Relays carnival, featuring track and field teams from Great Valley, Malvern Prep, Villa Maria Academy and many other high schools around the Philadelphia area, takes place this week from Thursday through Saturday. See below for links to full event schedules for local teams: You can find event schedules for other teams on the Penn Relays website. Visitors should know that at this year's Penn Relays, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, organizers have tightened security and will not allow backpacks or other large bags inside Franklin Field. Read the full security update. What do you think of the no-bags rule? Please tell us in the comments section below.

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