Pete Taylor, besides being our go-to guy for announcing at masters nationals, is an epic stat nut. He’s always thinking. Here’s his latest contribution: “Baseball has its Mendoza Line to establish the threshold for incompetent hitting, and perhaps one can
Jessica Seyfert at Forever Athletes — who visited 2010 Sacramento masters nationals — sends word about the site’s new free eBook: Play for Life. Jessica writes: “This very cool multimedia book features the story of masters track and field athlete
Max Siegel, the new marketing maven for USA Track & Field, has responded to a few questions I sent him. Jill Geer, chief communications officer for USATF, sent me these replies Oct. 19. So I’m late on the uptake. Sorry.
Fred Kieser, the latest masters trackster caught in the Berea drug dragnet, says his 8-month suspension has led him to pull out of a Twin Cities race and club cross country nationals in Seattle. “I had nothing else lined up at
Seth Brower in Texas has posted results of what he calls the 1st Annual Louisiana-Texas Challenge at Houston Christian High School in Houston. See results here for the Oct. 22 meet. Folks came from afar to race, including New York’s
W50 multi-eventer Joy Upshaw should be headed home soon after completing her gig in Guadalajara as a women’s jumps coach for Team USA at the Pan American Games. She sent this photo of the women’s coaching staff. Of course, she’s
Ivar Söderlind, statistician for European masters track, has posted the latest set of Eurovets age-group records. (See them here.) As usual, the world records among them don’t always match the records on the WMA records site kept by Sandy Pashkin,
Latest victim of USADA and USATF dragnet: “USADA announced [Oct. 27] that Frederic Kieser of Cleveland, OH, an athlete in the sport of track and field, has tested positive for a prohibited substance and accepted a suspension for his doping
George Mathews, a world-class thrower and former USATF masters national T&F chairman, says he will present a plan to the Masters T&F Executive committee in St Louis at USATF’s national meeting that deals with masters taking drugs on the USADA
In response to an email query, B.J. Duhon wrote me today with this eye-opener: “Well, to make a long story short, I did not refuse [a drug test at Sacramento worlds]. I took the test, but they said I did
Annie Skinner, a spokeswoman for USADA, sent me this note today: “Erin Hannan in our office forwarded your inquiry to me, and I wanted to make sure to get back to you with some follow up information. There is a
According to this obituary in Louisiana, services were held today for M100 thrower Trent Lane, who died at his home Thursday. What a loss. He would have been the oldest entrant at Sacramento worlds, but he never showed up. The