Daily News Roundup: Teams Matter, part 2

College track has a ready-made fan base. We just need to figure out how to make it easier for college sports fans to follow what we do. (Photo by TrackTownPhoto)

Yesterday, I posted an excerpt from Brett Larner’s Japan Running … Read More

Daily News Roundup: Teams Matter

Banners support participating school teams at a Japanese ekiden.

Last week’s Hakone Ekiden, Japan’s national men’s collegiate road relay championship, was more popular and drew more attention from the Japanese public than any other sporting event in all of 2013. … Read More

College Weekend Recap

Some traditions should never die. Thanks Navy track for a great meet. –@Princetontrack (Photo by Princeton Track/XC twitter)

This will be brief, as there were just five meets held over the weekend.

Navy 94, Princeton 87

Results

This was … Read More

Inequality Killing College Sports

The current thinking is that wealth and income inequality is a scourge that ruins economies and hurts us all. The Pope thinks so. The President of the United States thinks so. America’s best-known Nobel economics laureate thinks so (and has … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups

Can Fionnuala Britton hold off Gemma Steel and Maryam Jamal to win her third straight Antrim International Cross Country?

It’s still a light weekend of competition, coming just on the heels of the new year, but there are still a … Read More

What Can Track Learn From the NHL?

What can track learn from a scene like this?

Yesterday’s Winter Classic was hailed as a tremendous success. The hockey game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings was played in cold and snowy conditions in front of … Read More

Afternoon News Roundup

In Japan, the New Year is for running fans.

Happy New Year and welcome to our new feature, our daily afternoon news roundup. You can expect to see a roundup of the day’s track and running news each afternoon at … Read More

College Weekend Wrap

Could this be the view for future NCAA championships? (Photo: UCLABruins.com)

This first weekend of collegiate track and field is a warm-up of sorts, allowing sprinters and hurdlers and field event athletes a chance to get out of training and … Read More

Fifty Athletes of the Year

Here’s one of our athletes of the year, but we have 49 more for you.

This is the time of year for Athlete of the Year awards. USA Track and Field is announcing theirs this week, Athletics Canada just announced … Read More

College Weekend Wrap

The men’s race at 600 meters. (Photo by Dane Schubert for DailyRelay.com.)

I’ve been to the NCAA Cross Country Championships eleven times now, and off all the meets I see every year I think this one is the most fun. … Read More