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Two years ago at Landover masters indoor nationals, the timing company made such a hash of results that USATF Masters national chairman Gary Snyder apologized and the USATF Masters Track & Field Committee pledged, “Never again.” Don’t look now, but

At Lahti worlds, a group of U.S. athletes gathered to plot how to improve their lot. Leader was Anselm LeBourne, who called a vote and gave the group a name: USAMA. Among its ideas was finding a way to squeeze

Once upon a time, before 2004, masters track began for men at 40 and women at 35. Now masters is 35-and-up, period. But German track enchiladas apparently want to turn back the clock. According to posts on the Koops’ site,

Pete Magill turns 50 on June 19. “And I can’t wait!” he writes in reply to questions in the wake of his huge 14:45 over the weekend in an open 5K in Los Angeles. But was he surprised to drop

Pete Magill didn’t get the memo that the last year of your age group is for kicking back. Instead, he’s kicking butt. Last night at the Oxy Distance Carnival in Los Angeles, he ran 5000 meters in 14:45.88, a single-age

Bill Collins, lissen up. Time to focus on Penn. Three years ago, you ran the 100 in 11.44 seconds there — a world record. Now you’re 60, and the time to beat is 11.70. That’s the M60 WR set by

Thank goodness USATF got this right! The folks in Indy yesterday named Bill Collins USATF Athlete of the Week. He merely swept the 60, 200 and 400 in record times last weekend at nationals. “I knew I had trained well,

Tacoma sports website says: “Martha Mendenhall, the ageless wonder, went to the USA Masters Indoor Track & Field Championships in Albuquerque last weekend and came home with a victory in the high jump (age group 50-54). ‘I was not at

Richard Holmes writes: “I spoke with Brian Yokoyama at Mt. SAC (Relays), and he gave me a resounding “YES” to having the masters 110 high hurdle race (39″) for a third consecutive year! Brian stated that, because of the race

Mary Bowermaster—a sprinter, jumper and thrower inducted into the USATF Masters Hall of Fame in 1999—died Friday in Fairfield, Ohio, according to friends and an online obituary. In 1979, she had a bilateral mastectomy and endured 17 weeks of radiation