Ironman World Championship

Robert Vigorito knew he had changed some lives over the years since he helped start the Columbia Triathlon in 1984. He transformed an inaugural event that attracted fewer than 100 competitors into one of the top triathlons in the country with as many as...

8:25 a.m.    Soccer: English Premier League: Manchester United vs. Swansea City.--Fox Soccer Ch. 9 a.m.    Talk: Sports Highlights (d.; on Cox cable channel 47 and Verizon FiOs 17 in Newport News).--NNPS 10 a.m.    Action sports: North Face Park & Pipe...

Some people know Guy Berkebile as the CEO of Guy Chemical. Others know him as an Ironman. Many more people are beginning to know him as both.    He was recently giving a tour of the Guy Chemical building when someone asked when it would be over so...

6:30 a.m.    College highlights: Hampton football.--WGNT 27 7 a.m.    Tennis: ATP World Tour Finals round robin: Bob Bryan-Mike Bryan vs. Radek Stepanek-Leander Paes, then Roger Federer vs. Juan Martin Del Potro at 8:30.--Tennis Ch. 9 a.m.    Talk: Sports...

6 a.m.    Tennis: WTA Championships doubles semifinal: Liezel Huber-Lisa Raymond vs. Andrea Hlavackova-Lucie Hradecka.--Tennis Channel 6:30 a.m.    College highlights: Hampton football.--WGNT 27 7:30 a.m.    Soccer: English Premier League: Norwich City...

Bonner Paddock is competing on Oct 13th in Hawaii. He’s running, biking and swimming for miles and miles even though he has Cerebral Palsy! He’s doing it to help disabled kids both here in California and in Africa. To donate to Bonner’s...

Meet Gary Johnson. He may be the candidate most idealogically aligned with what a majority of voters, especially Kentuckians, say they want in a president. He may be the only candidate with practical problem-solving experience as both a successful self-...

Sue Komaromy has been out of New York since leaving her home on Long Island more than a quarter-century ago to play volleyball at Towson. Yet there is still a lot of New Yorker that remains in the 44-year-old mother of two who lives in Sykesville. The...

6 a.m.    Tennis: Palermo semifinals: Barbora Zahlavova Strycova vs. Laura Robson; Sara Errani vs. Irina-Camelia Begu (t.).--Tennis Channel 8 a.m.    Golf: Scottish Open final round (in Inverness).--Golf 8 a.m.    Cycling: Tour de France stage 14...

Adam Otstot is going back to the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. The 30-year-old Williamsburg teacher earned a return ticket to the prestigious event on Oct. 13 by winning the amateur title and finishing 12th overall among a field of 2,755...

Travelers may think of Hawaii as the land of surfboards, sunsets and mai tais, but there's a lava flow of reasons to go beyond the beaches and discover why residents say they are lucky to live in Hawaii. And, yes, some of the state's best beaches are...