World Juniors Watch List: Women’s Jumps

The World Junior Championships will be held in the USA for the first time ever this summer. My job with this series of watch lists is to let you know which athletes to keep an eye on at the upcoming … Read More

Why is Head Coach Ed Beathea leaving Ohio State?

Ohio State’s 10,000 seat Jesse Owens Stadium will be packed for this weekend’s state high school championships.

EDIT on June 6, 4:00pm: I just spoke with Coach Beathea. He would neither confirm nor deny the pay raise issue but did … Read More

Five Things We Learned at the Prefontaine Classic

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The Prefontaine Classic, the third stop on the IAAF’s Diamond League tour, was held on Friday and Saturday at historic Hayward Field. IAAF Recap Complete results Race videos

Here are five of my reactive musings about the … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups: Pre Classic

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The Prefontaine Classic will be held tonight and tomorrow at historic Hayward Field and it totally dominates the weekend’s news in track and field.

There are other competitions this weekend–NCAA prelim rounds, the Gotzis decathlon and … Read More

World Juniors Watch List: Women’s Throws

Last week I started a series of watch lists for the upcoming World Junior Championships, so that you know which athletes to keep an eye on at the upcoming NCAA Championships and the various state and national high school championships.

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Five Things We Learned on Day 2 of the IAAF World Relays

Five quick thoughts on the final day of the meet…

The meet was a success.

The inaugural IAAF World Relays was a sellout on both of its days and the stadium was buzzing with energy. The interest among international fans … Read More

Five Things We Learned on Day 1 of the IAAF World Relays

Five thoughts about the first day of the IAAF’s new World Relays…

Relays are fun.

We in the United States have known this for a long time. We more or less invented the relay race in Philadelphia, where 100,000 fans … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups: World Relays, College Championships and more

The world is coming to the Bahamas for the first ever IAAF World Relays this weekend, a meet that looks like it will be great fun. There’s plenty of other action this weekend too: three lower-tier national collegiate championships, US … Read More

Drummond suing Gay and Tygart: What does he need to prove?

Yesterday news broke that sprint coach Jon Drummond is suing sprinter Tyson Gay and USADA CEO Travis Tygart for defamation of character.

Recall that Gay failed multiple drug tests last summer and cooperated with USADA in investigating the matter, and … Read More

World Juniors Watch List: Decathlon and Heptathlon

If you’re like me, you’re excited about this summer’s World Junior Championships. They’ll be in the USA for the first time, at historic* Hayward Field, the first IAAF outdoor stadium championships of any kind ever held here.

(*I hear that … Read More