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

The 4 x 1: Bekele’s debut, Bromell vs. Hughes, USATF DQs and Rudisha

April 2, 2014 | Kevin Sully | One Comment

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Jason and Kevin take four minutes to discuss:

 

-Is Sunday’s Paris Marathon Kenenisa Bekele’s best chance to win a marathon?

-Which young sprinter had a better performance last weekend, Trayvon Bromell or Zharnel … Read More

The Monday Morning Run

December 9, 2013 | Kevin Sully | 5 Comments

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We begin this edition of The Monday Morning Run right where we left off last week. Just after posting on Monday, Nick Symmonds released his list of the six records he hopes to break during the … Read More

The Monday Morning Run

October 28, 2013 | Kevin Sully

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The Daily Relay will have on-site coverage from the New York City Marathon, including a comprehensive race preview later in the week. Before the press conferences, I wanted to start this edition of The … Read More

The Monday Morning Run

October 21, 2013 | Kevin Sully | One Comment

Ashton Eaton will try his hand at the 400-meter hurdles next season

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Track fans received their first bit of positive non-championship season news when Ashton Eaton’s coach Harry Marra said that … Read More

The Monday Morning Run

September 24, 2013 | Kevin Sully | One Comment

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A little late here on the Monday Morning Run, but only because it took me a day to fully process the “Italian athlete used fake penis to dodge doping test” headline. Creative evasion techniques aside, … Read More

The Monday Morning Run

August 26, 2013 | Kevin Sully

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Welcome to the off-season, or to be more accurate, the post-World Championships exhibition season (not to be confused with the pre-World Championships exhibition season).  Even after Thursday’s Diamond League meet in Stockholm, there are … Read More

The Monday Morning Run

July 22, 2013 | Kevin Sully | 2 Comments

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If you were playing a version of Mad Libs based on events from the last week in track and field you would have quite the array of words or phrases to choose from. … 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 4 x 1: Gay/Powell test positive, World Championship withdrawals, coed time trials

July 16, 2013 | Kevin Sully

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In episode four of the 4 x 1 Jason and Kevin take four minutes to discuss:

 

-Whose positive drug test is the bigger hit to track and field, Tyson Gay or … Read More