This is the cover of the latest "Boston" magazine. It's made up of shoes worn by runners who'd competed in the Boston Marathon interrupted last week by tragedy. It's a simple, powerful message of hope and determination; the text inside reads, "We will finish the race."

The photograph came together in rapid fashion; the magazine had only a short time to devise the concept and pull it off, given the tight deadlines necessary for printing.

"We wanted to do something really special that would honor the runners and everything they had to go through in the events of marathon," Liz Noftle, the magazine's associate art director, told The Atlantic. "We had only a few days to pull something together ... We reached out to anyone and everyone to collect shoes in less than 48 hours. It was a tremendous effort by everyone—people going out of their way to bring in shoes, interns collecting them, organizing couriers to bring them here."

The magazine's staff contacted runners through personal

We've seen plenty of trick-shot videos where dudes throw Frisbees or basketballs into impossibly tiny spaces from dozens of yards away. But it's rare that such a feat happens in the course of, you know, an actual game.

And yet, that's exactly what happened during an Aviva Premiership rugby match between the London Wasps and the Exeter Chiefs. Elliot Daly of the Wasps (has there ever been a more perfect name for a British team?) punts the ball downfield and right into a trash can. Not bad, Mr. Daly, not bad. Alas, the Wasps would lose the match, 37-24, but they won all our hearts. Or our trash cans.

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Your opinion on Duke University is likely carved into granite, and has been for years. Institution of honor and achievement or collection of entitled whiners? Depends on whether they accepted your application, most likely. Anyway, this video, courtesy of the men's track team, isn't likely to change any opinions.

The team, which dubbed itself the "Trackstreet Boys," performed a lip-sync version of the '90s hit "I Want It That Way," featuring shots all over campus of meaningful looks, old buildings and screaming coeds. It's fun, goofy stuff, the kind of thing the rest of us watching this from cubicles wish we still had time to do.

Their parents and bros probably love the fact that they paid tribute to a song from their youth with not-completely-terrible choreography. The rest of the planet wonders why they played it (almost) completely straight and chose a song that makes white bread seem edgy. Though that athletic facility does look pretty sweet.

[Via For the Win]