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

The Monday Morning Run: Kiprop rolls, Obiri destorys Dibaba, American sprint struggles

May 12, 2014 | Kevin Sully

Photo via TrackTownPhoto

If you were to look at a list of marks from this weekend’s professional track meets, you would probably think the times came from a meet in July or August.  From the Doha Diamond League … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups

January 31, 2014 | Jesse Squire

College track gets a classic #1 vs #2 showdown this weekend in Fayetteville.

Instead of trying to rank these matchups as I often do, I’ll instead put them in chronological order.

Arkansas vs Florida

Razorback Invitational Randal Tyson Track Center, … Read More

Daily News Roundup: Cain shooting for a World Junior Record?

January 9, 2014 | Jesse Squire | One Comment

Mary Cain holds no World Junior records…yet. (Photo by TrackTownPhoto)

The New Balance Indoor Grand Prix announced a few of their star entries yesterday, and one of them was young Mary Cain. She’ll be running an odd distance, the 2000 … 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

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 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

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 Monday Morning Run

July 8, 2013 | Kevin Sully

Photo courtesy of the IAAF World Athletics Club Facebook

It is one of the many idiosyncrasies in professional track and field that the Diamond League schedules two meets in one week and then leaves the schedule completely open … 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