The Weekend’s Best Matchups: World Relays, College Rivalries, and Cardinal Invitational

May 1, 2015 | Jesse Squire

The biggest races of the weekend are the sprint events at the IAAF World Relays in the Bahamas, but the best will be the men’s 4×400 on Sunday night.

The big action this weekend is in the Bahamas, where the … Read More

Monday Morning Run: Bowie rolls, Fraser-Pryce fades, and more competition for Mary Cain

June 9, 2014 | Kevin Sully

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We have entered the portion of the season where the professional meets happen so frequently that it is hard to keep track of results. Athletes are popping up all over the globe and world leads are … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups: Pre Classic

May 30, 2014 | Jesse Squire

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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

Monday Morning Run: World Relays Recap

May 27, 2014 | Kevin Sully

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This Tuesday edition of the Monday Morning Run focuses exclusively on last weekend’s World Relays in the Bahamas. Reviews for the event were universally positive as we all learned that the combination of teams and patriotism in … Read More

Women’s World Relays Preview

May 23, 2014 | Kevin Sully | One Comment

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Yesterday, I previewed the men’s events for the inaugural World Relays.  Today I’ll cover the women’s 4 x 100, 4 x 200, 4 x 400, 4 x 800 and 4 x 1500.

4 x 100

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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

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

May 8, 2014 | Jesse Squire | 2 Comments

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

The Morning Run

November 26, 2013 | Kevin Sully

Once again this week, the Monday Morning Run appears on Tuesday. This is partly to make way for the big weekend of NCAA action, but more so because I was hoping the extra day would produce more stories to discuss. … Read More

The Monday Morning Run

November 19, 2013 | Kevin Sully | One Comment

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Track and field stories rained down on us from the heavens last week. Most of them originated from Monaco, where the sport convened for the IAAF awards. A prodigy turned pro, an American city won … Read More

Monday Morning Run

August 19, 2013 | Kevin Sully

A few weeks prior to the World Championships I wrote about a potential malaise in Moscow. With a rash of injuries to the sport’s superstars and several doping controversies still swirling the highlight of the 2013 season looked to be … Read More