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For an estimated 45,000 runners, months of training will culminate with the 32nd running of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, which will begin at 7:30am in Grant Park Sunday morning. The 26.2 mile race snakes through 29 of our city's neighborhoods, from the Loop north to Wrigleyville; looping back south and west through University Village, Little Italy, Chinatown and Bridgeport; before hitting the finish line back in Grant Park. The urban course creates an amazing tour of Chicago for the runners, while also being spectator friendly: over 1.5 million people are expected to stand on the sidelines cheering on friends, family or strangers. The marathon website offers spectator info. While the past two years have seen high temps create problems for runners, this year's race forecast calls for cool and rainy, with a high of about 50 degrees.

We have no idea if this is real or one of those digitally altered videos that are all the rage. Either way, it's still awesome. [via]

The above picture is of 19,000 Gatorade bottles used to create a mosaic for an upcoming Gatorade commercial honoring Michael Jordan. The location is basketball court somewhere on the South Side. Looks pretty cool, no? You can read more about it over at Ball Don't Lie, one of the Yahoo! Sports blogs. [via Gapers Block].

Strange story coming from the Sun-Times' Michael Sneed (so take it with a grain of salt). It seems that while Patti was allowed to go to Costa Rica for that reality show, Blago's received a new offer of his own. William Kelly, host of CSN's "Sports-A-Holic," has allegedly offered Blago $10,000 to participate in a drag race. Yes, a drag race. We...would actually watch that on television (unlike Patti's rumble in the jungle). According to Sneed:

If you were on I-90 near the northwest suburb of Hampshire last night, the traffic slow-down that lasted two hours was not from a traffic accident, rather it was from a patient who jumped from a moving ambulance while it was on the tollway.