College Recap: Oregon and Texas A&M impress

Most of the biggest conferences had their championship meets this weekend. The SEC, Pac-12, Big Ten and Big 12 all crowned champions, plus several lower-level circuits. Who did well? I’ll look at it from several points of view.

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Five Things We Learned in Shanghai

The Diamond League tour went to Shanghai today. Results are available from the IAAF and video is available from WatchAthletics.com.

Here are my five takeaways from the meet.

Sometimes it isn’t wise to go with the pacemakers. Arthur Lydiard once … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups: Shanghai Diamond League and more

The USATF High Performance Classic at Occidental College is the first of many great competitions this weekend. (Photo: TrackandFieldPhoto.com)

It’s almost track and field overload this weekend. College track has its conference championships, the Diamond League and World Challenge tours … Read More

College Recap: Hammer stars and can Oregon win?

Photo courtesy Bowling Green Athletics

Aside from a few early conference championship meets, there wasn’t much action this weekend. Most teams were saving up energy and fine-tuning for next week’s conference championships. Having to take a week more or less … Read More

Five Things We Learned in Pro Track’s Opening Weekend

Photo: TrackTown Photo

This was the first full weekend of international-level pro track. The Diamond League kicked off on Friday in Doha, the second-tier World Challenge tour had a meet in Tokyo on Sunday, and there were minor pro meets … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups: Diamond League, road races, and more

This weekend features the return of the Diamond League, a bunch of road races, and some interesting college matchups. Instead of ranking them, this week I put all twenty matchups (twenty!) in chronological order, starting with tonight’s Medtronic TC road … Read More

5 Questions with Cal head coach Tony Sandoval

Welcome back to 5 Questions, where we pick the brains of people from all areas of the running scene. Today, I’m talking to Tony Sandoval, head coach of the Cal Golden Bears. His men’s team was just named the 2014 … Read More

College Track Recap: The Year in Dual Meets

The 1973 USC-UCLA dual took place in front of 12,000 fans.

The collegiate dual meet season ended with yesterday’s USC – UCLA meet. The final dual meet team rankings (compiled by yours truly) will be released tomorrow at the Track … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups

Here’s a look at the top ten matchups coming your way this weekend.

1. American Track League vs success

Billy Hayes Track, Bloomington IN Friday, 7:00pm ET Series website

The brand-new American Track League holds its inaugural meet this weekend … Read More

College Recap: Penn and Drake Relays

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Two meets dominated the weekend’s track and field action. In his always-excellent Monday Morning Run, Kevin Sully laments the fact that Penn and Drake are always on the same weekend. I see it differently; I doubt they’d both … Read More