Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The Flying Pig Marathon began with a group of local runners, a dream and a bar napkin adorned with a drawing of a marathon route, per the event's media ...

The Flying Pig Marathon was first run in 1999 after the event was conceived by Paycor's then-CEO Bob Coughlin and other runners by drawing the proposed course on a cocktail napkin at a bar in O ...

WATCH preparations for the first Flying Pig Marathon below: Looking back now, Simpson Bush said the Pig's off-beat nature was a big draw. "We were a new kind of niche. Running marathons had always ...

Back then he never imagined he'd someday be at the helm of the organization or that the Flying Pig Marathon would draw people from all 50 states and 20 countries, bringing in $22 million in ...

will run his very first Flying Pig marathon this year.But it won't be his first time talking - or drawing - about the Cincinnati tradition. He said his art often imitates his life."I'm just gonna ...

The drawing is Saturday at 8 p.m. The Flying Pig also has a big economic impact in the Queen City. It brings in about $14 million annually to local businesses and traveling convention style ...

Emory University A flying pig has meaning to us because our brain is using things we have seen — pigs and birds — to create something we've never seen. And Bergen says we also draw on personal ...