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BREAKING THE WEDGE
College sports is contorting itself again trying to maintain a 19th-century fiction while LSU is giving the rest of the SEC a full-on wedgy that’s beginning to bring tears to the eyes of the SEC...
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WILL JOSH KERR’S MILE WORLD RECORD REIGNITE INTEREST IN THE EVENT?
For nearly three decades, the mile world record has been more museum artifact than athletic target, as Hicham El Guerrouj’s 3:43.13 has stood since 1999. Yesterday in London, Josh Kerr changed that in...
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High School Prodigy Cooper Lutkenhaus Stuns in 800m Final, Echoes Jim Ryun’s...
As 16-year-old Cooper Lutkenhaus rounded the last turn heading into the straight in Sunday’s USATF 800-meter final in Eugene, Oregon, the broad-shouldered junior-to-be at Northwest High School in...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY FILBERT BAYI
Until Tanzania’s Filbert Bayi flipped the script in the 1500m Final at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, going out in the first quarter like everyone before him had...
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Oregon Mile Legend Jim Grelle Passes
When I was young and track was prominently featured on TV, sub-4:00 was still the magical mark as names were slowly being added to the list begun by Englishman Roger Bannister less than a decade...
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OP-EDS HAVE SOMETIMES EXCLUDED BROADER PERSPECTIVES
If Bob Dylan was right that “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”, then you don’t need a white history professor (or blogger like me) to know what the state of integration is...
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROMOTING AND DIRECTING
Interest in this Friday’s Standard Charter Dubai Marathon continues to mount, though it has little to do with competition. Instead, the focus is almost entirely centered on one man, Ethiopia’s Kenenisa...
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A TRIPLE CROWN FOR THE MILE?
Even as California Chrome‘s bid for horse racing’s first Triple Crown in 36 years came to a thudding halt in yesterday’s 146th Belmont Stakes, the outdoor track season swept into full summer swing last...
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HOW IMPORTANT ARE HEROES?
There will be an interesting test this Thursday evening in San Diego as the running community gathers to celebrate and commemorate the 50th anniversary of Jim Ryun’s first high school sub-4:00 mile....
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RE-RUN SAN DIEGO BRINGS PRO TRACK BACK TO AMERICA’S FINEST CITY
San Diego, CA. — Track is back in San Diego! Hard to believe, but it’s been a quarter century since a professional track meet was last staged in America’s Finest City, and nearly a half century...
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JIM RYUN RETURNS TO SITE OF RECORD RUN
Balboa Stadium 1960s San Diego’s Balboa Stadium formed a classic horseshoe design in 1965 when it was home to the AFL San Diego Chargers. Today the place has shrunk in size and import as home to the...
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DRINKING THE OLYMPIC KOOL-AID
It is a spectacle beyond wonder, and an all but incomprehensible effort to stage, primarily for the host city and its organizing committee. But so, too, for the grand ayatollahs of the IOC, the...
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RYAN HALL BATTLING PLANTAR FASCIITIS
Ryan Hall, 65:38, 2nd place The Olympic countdown clock is ticking. For some, like today’s Rock `n` Roll San Diego Half Marathon winner Meb Keflizighi, the Olympic Games are right on schedule, 10 weeks...
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A RUNNING USA RACING INITIATIVE?
A year and a half after conducting a Town Hall meeting at their 2010 industry conference focused on the obesity epidemic, Running USA has yet to put in place a children’s initiative that would...
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