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

May 23, 2014 | Jesse Squire

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

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

World Championships Preview: 800 meters

August 9, 2013 | Pat Price

photo: Track And Field Photo

The Men’s 800 heats start tomorrow morning in Moscow (or evening in the US)!

Men’s 800

Heats: August 10th, 3:20am ET Semifinal: August 11th 11:35pm Final: August 13th, 1:10pm

2011 World Champion: David Rudisha 2012 Olympic Champion: David … Read More

Five Things We Learned at London, Day 1

July 26, 2013 | Jesse Squire | One Comment

Five quick thoughts on the first day of competition at the Sainsbury Anniversary Games, the London stop on the Diamond League tour…

Jenn Suhr is no longer the Worlds favorite.

Suhr is the reigning Olympic pole vault champion and broke … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups – London Diamond League

July 25, 2013 | Jesse Squire

Usain Bolt should have no trouble hearing the 80,000-strong crowd in London. (Photo courtesy IAAF Diamond League Facebook page.)

The main competition over this weekend is the London stop on the Diamond League tour, held over two days and dubbed … Read More

Five Things We Learned in Monaco

July 19, 2013 | Jesse Squire

Five quick thoughts on today’s Diamond League meet in Monaco…

Jenny Simpson is back.

Back in 2009, when she was known as Jenny Barringer, she ran the still-standing 1500 meter collegiate record of 3:59.90 at the Prefontaine Classic. At the … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups – Monaco Diamond League

July 18, 2013 | Jesse Squire

Stade Louis II awaits. (Photo courtesy Creative Commons.)

As the season wears on, there are fewer and fewer competitions being held and they are at a higher and higher level. This weekend there is only one major competition on the … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups – July 4 to 6

July 3, 2013 | Jesse Squire | 3 Comments

Usain Bolt holds the championship title belt. His big match with Tyson Gay is yet to come. This weekend is another escalation in the war of performances leading up to the championship of the world. Photo courtesy IAAF World Athletics … Read More

5 Questions with Brandon Johnson

June 28, 2013 | Pat Price | 4 Comments

photo courtesy Track and Field photo

Welcome back to 5 Questions, where we pick the brains of people from all areas of the running scene. Today, we were lucky enough to catch up with 2013 World team qualifier, Brandon … Read More

National Championships – What to Watch Sunday

June 23, 2013 | Jesse Squire

The highlight events to watch today are all of them! Nine running event finals and six field event finals, all of which offer the highest levels of the human drama of athletic competition.

For everything you need to know about … Read More