BOSTON — Anyone vaguely familiar with the Boston Marathon knows about “Heartbreak Hill.” It’s the most notorious make-or-break incline in any marathon, a 91-foot climb that can seem like a ...

On Monday, in that critical stretch of the Boston Marathon known as Heartbreak Hill, I’m sure he will be there. At least his spirit will be. The spirit of one of the race’s greats. What a name he had.

Anyone vaguely familiar with the Boston Marathon knows about “Heartbreak Hill.” It’s the most notorious make-or-break incline in any marathon, a 91-foot climb that can seem like a mini-Everest as ...

Narragansett tribal elder Bella Noka says acknowledgment is long overdue for her great-uncle, who won the 1936 and 1939 Boston Marathon PROVIDENCE — In Newton, about a mile from “Heartbreak Hill,” a ...

The scene was poignant: Indigenous people who, as children, had been plucked from their communities and shipped to American Indian boarding schools greeted each other and talked about how much they’d ...

The Boston Athletic Association honored 1936 Boston Marathon winner Ellison ‘Tarzan’ Brown. Brown’s family shared memories of the runner and explained how they ...