Fast times, $16M for charity: Boston Marathon things to know and other top stories.

• Fast times, $16M for charity: Boston Marathon things to know

  

  BOSTON — Happy birthday to the Boston Marathon, which turns 120 on Monday. (You don't look a day over 90.)Here are things to know about this year's running of the planet's most venerable footrace:___NATION'S OLDEST MARATHONThe Boston Marathon was born on April 19, 1897, when a handful of men fueled by steak and whiskey conquered a course initially laid out over 24.5 miles. In 1924, the route was extended to the classic 26.2-mile marathon distance to conform to the Olympic standard. Since then, ..

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• Drellich: Red Sox' early season roster management was shoddy

  

  Fenway’s first week in 2016 was dominated by Pablo Sandoval, Rusney Castillo and needed handwringing over bench spots and pinch hitters.All those threads are tied to one area: roster management.“Inexplicable” isn’t the right description of the 25-man roster up until Wednesday, when overpriced dugout decorations Rusney Castillo and Pablo Sandoval were sent off. That's because president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski did, in fact, provide an explanation when asked about Castillo on Friday...

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• Earthquake in Ecuador kills hundreds

  

  PEDERNALES, Ecuador (AP) — Rescuers pulled survivors from rubble Sunday after the strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast. Officials said the quake had killed at least 238 people and injured 1,557 more.The magnitude-7.8 quake, the strongest to hit Ecuador since 1979, was centered on Ecuador’s sparsely populated fishing ports and tourist beaches, 105 miles (170 kilometers) northwest of Quito, the capital. Advertisement Vi..

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• Bradley "Very Unlikely" To Return During Round 1

  ATLANTA – Avery Bradley suffered a severe right hamstring strain Saturday night and is “very unlikely” to return to Boston’s lineup during the team’s first-round series against the Atlanta Hawks, according to Brad Stevens. Stevens broke the news Sunday afternoon, shortly before the Celtics began practice at Georgia Tech’s basketball facility. “Avery has a pretty significant strained hamstring,” the coach relayed. “I would say he would be doubtful for any of the remainder of the series, ce..

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• On Verizon picket line, a demand for dignity

  

  Christina Moylan is getting too old for this.“Sixty years old, and I’m still on a picket line,” she was saying the other day, standing in front of the Verizon building in Bowdoin Square. “But, you know, I walked a picket line for 16 weeks in 1989. I can do this.” Advertisement Moylan is one of the 36,000 Verizon workers, from Massachusetts to Virginia, who went on strike Wednesday. She started 38 years ago as a telephone operator with the company that became Verizon. She rose through the com..

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