In the past, Letsrun.com, the world's most famous running site, reported obvious April Fools jokes. Today, with their fancy new website design, they've gotten a bit more crafty with the holiday. Below is a summary of their ruse (the part about Leo's t-shirt making is true though). It had me going for a little bit:

In a move opposite Kara Goucher's, American middle distance runner Leo Manzano turned down a lucrative offer from Oiselle for a less lucrative sponsorship with Hanes, letsrun.com reported. Goucher had reportedly fended off seven-figure deals from other companies to sign a more reasonable offer with Oiselle.

Both Hanes and Oiselle seem like strange partnerships for the 30 year-old Manzano, silver medalist in the 1,500 meters at the 2012 Olympics. Oiselle is a new company known almost exclusively for selling women's apparel -- one of the main reasons why Goucher chose it over Nike, where'd she'd been for around a decade. The company name is a play on the French word for bird, oiseau, and the French feminine ending, "elle." Currently, they don't have any significant male runners under their name. They don't even make running shoes.

"Oiselle certainly offered more money but it just didn't feel right," Manzano told letsrun. "I've never given birth, am not mid-30s and am convinced many PRs are ahead of me."

By going after Manzano, Oiselle was apparently trying to shed some parts of their reputation, as laid out rather bluntly by Manzano (only in distance running).

While a partnership with Oiselle might have hurt Manzano's street credibility, it would have been more relevant to the sport than Hanes, which makes a product counter to current running trends: the t-shirt. Probably, Manzano (especially because he lives in Texas) hasn't trained in a t-shirt in the last decade. Nor have most serious runners (I'm a semi-serious example who still prefers a tee).

Manzano has, however, used Hanes' shirts as the base for his own brand, which is basically a lion with wings (Leo the Lion reference). Rather than buy them wholesale, he figured he'd strike a deal with the company. (I wonder if fellow Hanes man Michael Jordan has even heard of him?)

"Hanes just feels like family to me. I really believe in their mission and have been using their products on my own," said Manzano, who hasn't had a sponsorhip since 2012. "The fact that they have several factories in my native Mexico had nothing to do with my decision."