The Weekend’s Best Matchups: Pre Classic

May 30, 2014 | Jesse Squire

Photo: TrackTown Photo

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

Five Things We Learned in Shanghai

May 18, 2014 | Jesse Squire | 3 Comments

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

May 15, 2014 | Jesse Squire

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

Daily News Roundup: Analyzing Team USA Performance

March 10, 2014 | Jesse Squire | One Comment

How did the US team do at the World Championships? And how do we figure that out?

How do you analyze a “team” performance in a sport that is essentially a collection of individuals? There’s no teamwork to look at … Read More

The Monday Morning Run

March 10, 2014 | Kevin Sully | 2 Comments

Typically, we begin the Monday Morning Run by awarding gold, silver and bronze to three best performances of the week. In a weekend where they handed out actual medals, that exercise didn’t seem as useful. Instead, we recap the World Indoor … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups for September 6-8

September 6, 2013 | Jesse Squire

There is one last big meet left in the 2013 track season, the Ivo Van Damme Memorial in Brussels which functions as the second Diamond League final. As big as that meet is and with as many tasty matchups as … Read More

Moscow Daily for August 13

August 13, 2013 | Kevin Sully

It was silver for Nick Symmonds    Photo Courtesy of TrackTownPhoto

Our Moscow Daily recaps the day’s action at the IAAF World Championships, offers up some analysis, and tells you what (and how) to watch the following day. … Read More

Midseason Diamond League Analysis

July 10, 2013 | Jesse Squire | 2 Comments

(Photo courtesy IAAF Diamond League Facebook page.)

There is no Diamond League meet this week. It is the longest break in the top pro tour aside from the USATF Championships weekend, and gives us a chance to take a just-past-midseason … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups — June 6-8

June 6, 2013 | Jesse Squire

He’s back! But how will he run? Photo courtesy Diamond League facebook page.

The NCAA Championships are underway and run through Sunday, but there’s plenty of other track and field and road racing action around the USA and the world. … Read More

The Monday Morning Run

May 13, 2013 | Kevin Sully

I spent the last two days at the Pac-12 Championships at USC. I’ll leave it to Jesse to go further in-depth with his College Weekend Wrap, but I wanted to highlight a few collegiate athletes who will have a large … Read More