Kellogg's recent dumping of Michel Phelps as its spokesman had at least one unexpected consequence: The sudden appearance of about 3,800 pounds of cereal at the San Francisco Food Bank. Kellogg's, one of the many corporations to tell Phelps to get out and stay out as their spokesman after his love o...

Empire of the Sun, French edition, Denoël (1985), with cover art ‘Singapour 1945′ by Ronald Seatle. Thanks to Herve for all cover scans. Interview by Tony Cartano & Maxim Jakubowski. Translation by Dan O’Hara. The following interview, originally titled ‘Le passé compos...

Director : Frank Capra Release Date : 1 September 1937 (USA) Genre : Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery Cast : (Credited cast) , Ronald Colman as Robert ‘Bob’ Conway, Jane Wyatt as Sondra Bizet, Edward Everett Horton as Alexander P. ‘Lovey’ Lovett, John Howard as George Conwa...

We recently caught up with the Chief Executive of Aspire, Brian Carlin, who let us know how encouraging supporters to use Justgiving has “resulted in a massive increase in the amount of money coming in, and donations have come in more efficiently and considerably earlier than in previous years...

This morning after a bit of a struggle I was able to pull myself out of bed and head to the pool for 6am workout.  Now that I'm done with the workout I am glad I went.  Since one of the 7:15 fast swimmers came at 6 I was pushed the whole workout.  I needed that!  Warm Up3...

How can one day have some extremes in weather?  Today was the CalTech Pentathlon which is just a fun meet.  As I've blogged early every swims a 50 of each stroke and then the 100 IM.  When the meet started at 10am it was still a bit chilly.  Make that more than chilly.�...

If I never swim an IM again I'll be happy.  Tonight's workout was all about Sunday's CalTech Pentathlon meet.  The workout started with an assigned warm up but I did my own thing swimming a 200 freestyle then pulling a 300 freestyle. Then we went to the deep end for 6 minutes...

When I got to swim practice I was just beat.  I wanted to go home and sit on the couch and watch tv.  But I dragged myself to the pool and swam.  Started off pretty easy.  Swam and pulled about a 500ish.  I lost count but then moved on to kicking a very easy 400. ...

Some days, you just have to admit defeat and go home. This was that day. I've had some kind of stomach virus since Saturday night, (possibly bad sour cream, but you know, it's hard to tell). But, because Sunday is......

A pink bottlenose dolphin was spotted swimming in Lake Calcasieu in Louisiana. It is believed to be the only of its kind. 'The mammal is entirely pink from tip to tail and has reddish eyes indicating it's albinism. The skin appears smooth, glossy pink and without flaws. I have spotted it about 40 to...