History obscura

 Remember, on this Monday morning, the alliterative name Sabastian Sawe, because Sunday he did something no man, woman or child had ever done before. Remember, too, the name Yomif Kejelcha, who may have done something even more amazing.

What Sabastian Sawe did, on a flat course on a perfect dry day, was become the first human in history to run an official marathon in less than two hours. 

And Yomif Kejelcha?

He became the second human in history to run an official marathon in less than two hours -- and in his very first try.

Sawe won the London Marathon in one hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds. Sixteen seconds later Kejelcha -- running in his first marathon -- crossed the finish line in one hour, 59 minutes, 46 seconds.

Sawe is from Kenya, ancestral home of distance runners since the days of Kip Keino almost 60 years ago. Kejelcha is from Ethiopia, second ancestral home of distance runners since the days of Abebe Bikila and Mamo Wolde, who won the marathon in three straight Olympics.

Wolde won in Mexico City in 1968. Bikila, the father of Ethiopian distance running, won it back-to-back in Rome and Tokyo in 1960 and '64. In Rome, he won it running barefoot.

All this, or at least Sawe and Kejelcha's historic achievement, you might have seen on the network news last evening, or perhaps even in your local paper. Where you didn't see it was on the lead page of  ESPN's website -- where it was inexplicably, and conspicuously, absent.

Lots of NFL post-draft stuff was there, of course. NBA and NHL playoff coverage and highlights. Also baseball; WNBA fantasy news; NWSL soccer; Nelly Korda going wire-to-wire to win her third LPGA major at the Chevron Championship; UFL football and NASCAR.

Heck. There was even a clip on there of Gettysburg College scoring a spectacular last-second goal in men's lacrosse.

But no Sawe. No Kejelcha. History obscura, so to speak.

Now, to be fair, you could find the Sawe/Kejelcha story on ESPN's site. But it was buried on the Olympic sports page, along with news about Chelsea Clinton running the Boston Marathon for the first time. And I suppose it's possible it was at one time on the lead page -- but by 7 a.m. this morning it was already gone, while every other sporting event from Sunday was still present and accounted for.

Doesn't seem right. Just doesn't.