What We Learned at the USA Indoor Championships (day 2)

February 23, 2014 | Jesse Squire | One Comment

Ryan Whiting has become a beast of historic proportions. (Photo by Dane Schubert.)

What did we learn on the second and final day of the USA Indoor Championships?

USATF is its own worst enemy. The height of comedy to me … Read More

Daily News Roundup: The Olympics via CBC

February 13, 2014 | Jesse Squire

Forget the Peacock. If you have a chance, go with the Maple Leaf.

From Yahoo! Sports Canada:

TORONTO – Bashing Olympics coverage in the United States seems to have become a sport in itself for fans seeking live coverage south … Read More

Daily News Roundup: National Signing Day

February 5, 2014 | Jesse Squire

Today is national letter of intent signing day for several college sports, track and field (and cross country) among them. It’s a relatively minor happening in our sport as compared to what happens with football or men’s basketball, and I’m … Read More

Daily News Roundup: Olympic Marathon Trials to LA

January 29, 2014 | Jesse Squire

Photo by USATF

Shortly after 3:00pm Eastern time, the 2016 Olympic Marathon Trials site was announced as Los Angeles. USATF, municipal, and Los Angeles marathon bigwigs held a press conference at the Los Angeles Coliseum to make the announcement.

Thirteen … Read More

Daily News Roundup: Short list of best US distance runners?

January 27, 2014 | Jesse Squire | 12 Comments

Does this person leap to mind when you think “greatest American runners?” She should.

You may have heard that Galen Rupp broke the American Record for the indoor 2-mile over the weekend. It led SI’s Tim Layden to tweet the … Read More

The Monday Morning Run

January 20, 2014 | Kevin Sully | 2 Comments

Photo via TrackTownPhoto

Greetings Indoors. Just when we started to mock you for your odd features and strange distances you start the season off with an American record. And not just any record, but a record in an … Read More

Daily News Roundup: Whither the Marathon Olympic Trials?

January 13, 2014 | Jesse Squire | One Comment

Leading into December’s USATF Annual Meeting, it was expected that the host site of the 2016 Olympic Marathon Trials would be announced by the end of the weekend (December 9). USATF’s official twitter account announced that it would be (a … Read More

Inequality Killing College Sports

January 3, 2014 | Jesse Squire

The current thinking is that wealth and income inequality is a scourge that ruins economies and hurts us all. The Pope thinks so. The President of the United States thinks so. America’s best-known Nobel economics laureate thinks so (and has … Read More

5 Questions with Sport Scientist and Strength and Conditioning Coach, Mike Young, PhD

July 17, 2013 | Pat Price

Photo: Young and Khadevis Robinson

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 Sport Scientist and Strength and Conditioning … Read More

The dot US Championships to crown top distance runners in America?

July 5, 2013 | Pat Price

photo courtesy Track and Field Photo

The dot US Road Racing Championships could provide a true “best of the best” race for the top echelon of distance runners in America. It’s a great concept, that leans a little … Read More