Santee's running accomplishments included American outdoor records of 4 minutes 0.6 seconds and 4 00.5 in the mile, a world indoor record of 4 03.8 in the mile and a world outdoor record of 3 42.8 at 1,500 meters.
"His desire to be challenged and his quest for adventure lead to his participation on the reality show," reads the obit, which also notes Kay's skiing and running accomplishments. .
"Unless things change and Obama can run on accomplishments, he will have to kill Romney," said a prominent Democratic strategist aligned with the White House.
As he walked off the court toward his graduation and in all likelihood the N.B.A., one question lingered: after that run, what accomplishment was left?
After its run of accomplishment, the Senate did not rest on its laurels.
Of course, O'Malley ran a campaign with actual accomplishments to run on.
This season is the 50th anniversary of Maris's 61 home runs, an accomplishment that gets better with time.
Going into 2011, he was riding a streak of seven seasons with at least 38 home runs, an accomplishment matched by only two other players: Babe Ruth, who also did it seven straight times from 1926 to 1932, and Rafael Palmeiro, who did it in nine consecutive seasons from 1995 to 2003.
(Has there ever been a senator who wouldn't really rather be President?) It was John Kennedy, in 1960, who challenged the notion (embodied, at the time, by Lyndon Johnson) that a senator, if he runs for President, runs on his accomplishments as a senator.
Louisville's victory led to a run of marquee accomplishments, the biggest being the men's basketball team's 82-76 defeat of Michigan for its third national title and first since 1986.
