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May 26, 2010

Sponsor ING drops Bay to Breakers

The outlook is bleak on the yearly Bay to Breakers race as ING has decided to stop footing the bill. The official word from Sam Singer, a spokesman for the race, is that they simply “chose not to renew for the 100th anniversary next year”.

Unofficially, however, word is ING is fed up with all the bad publicity that the race has generated in recent years, especially the complaints of residents around the Panhandle and Alamo Square about revelers and runners urinating, defecating and generally behaving rudely.

Let’s hope someone else steps in as the sponsor. The beer industry should be able to get behind this, right? Budweiser? Or is Tecate more the San Francisco style? They’re practically the official sponsor of Dolores Park already.

[Via: Sponsor ING drops Bay to Breakers.]

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One Response to “Sponsor ING drops Bay to Breakers”

  1. Glenn said:
    July 18th, 2010 at 10:37 am

    Perhaps Anchor Steam and Rice-a-roni — Ugh, I didn’t mean together…