College Track Bracketology: The Final Four

March 30, 2014 | Jesse Squire

Over the last two weeks I’ve been running a virtual college track tournament of sorts.

I started with the bracket for this year’s basketball tournament. Each “game” matches up great track and field athletes in each university’s history, with … Read More

New Bannister Documentary

March 28, 2014 | Jesse Squire

In advance of this May’s 60th anniversary of the first sub-4:00 mile, a new documentary about the race is in the works. Tentatively titled Bannister: Everest on the Track, the KIMbia Athletics creative team of Tom Ratcliffe and Jeremy Mosher … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups

March 28, 2014 | Jesse Squire

Mike A. Myers Stadium will be full to the top for the Texas Relays.

Relay season has begun with the massively popular Texas Relays, but that’s far from the only top action on tap this weekend. Here are your top … Read More

Bracketology: Cutting Down to the Elite Eight

March 26, 2014 | Jesse Squire

Beginning during last week’s NCAA basketball tournament, I came up with a simple idea: what if this matched up great track athletes from each university? I’ve now gone through two rounds and have a sweet sixteen.

This is how it … Read More

Athletech: Nick Zaccardi, Editor of OlympicTalk (NBCSports.com)

March 25, 2014 | Jim McDannald

Welcome to Athletech, where we discover the gear and technology the running and track & field community uses to get stuff done. If there is someone who you’d like us to feature, tweet their name to us @DailyRelay with the tag #Athletech.

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The Wind Read Zero: An oral history of Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 100-meter world record

March 24, 2014 | Kevin Sully | 35 Comments

Photo Courtesy of The Indianapolis Star

A track and field record book is supposed to simple–a straightforward metric of greatness. Time and distance neatly sorted and printed on meet programs and affixed to the bottom corner of television … Read More

Bracketology: Sweet 16 Now Complete

March 23, 2014 | Jesse Squire | One Comment

Today the second round of the NCAA Tournament finishes up and the Sweet Sixteen are finalized. The same is happening here with our college track bracket.

A quick reminder of how this works:

We start with the bracket for this … Read More

Bracketology: Second Round Begins

March 22, 2014 | Jesse Squire | 2 Comments

Here we go with the second round of the tournament!

A quick reminder of how this works:

We started with the bracket for this year’s basketball tournament. Each “game” matches up great track and field athletes in each university’s history, … Read More

Bracketology: First Round Finishes Up

March 21, 2014 | Jesse Squire

This is our third day of “college track bracketology” and the first round is completed today, just like in the NCAA basketball tournament.

A quick reminder of how this works:

We start with the bracket for this year’s basketball … Read More

5 Questions with Merge Records on their upcoming 25k to commemorate 25 years

March 21, 2014 | Pat Price

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 Christina Rentz, publicist for longtime label, Merge Records. Merge is celebrating 25 years in … Read More