| 11/02/2012 @ 6:16PM | 827 views Going Forward With NYC Marathon Would Have Been Moral Affront The NYU Sports & Society Program ING NYC Marathon (Photo credit: Wikipedia) What should happen to sports events when the region they are being played in gets battered by a natural disaster? The answer may depend on the sport. But in the New York metropolitan area, where power, water, food, and light are all in short supply due to the wrath of Hurricane Sandy, one sport that should absolutely not be happening is a race through the city's streets. Yet that is exactly what was scheduled to go on this weekend, as plans to run the ING New York City Marathon were rolling along while people were shivering and surviving mere blocks from where generators hum to supply power for the race. The marathon winds all over the city. It starts in Staten Island, where the dead have not all yet been found and the wreckage is beyond description. Then, the route works its way through Brooklyn, where plenty of folks have no power, and Queens, swaths of which were on fire or leaking gas 48 hours ago. Next up is the Bronx and into upper Manhattan , where life seemed to go on as normal the morning after the storm struck. But what is to have been made of the spectacle of thousands of runners and onlookers on the streets of these boroughs, not few of which are being heavily patrolled to