Entrants are trickling into the Sacramento worlds database. Willie Banks is coming, for example. Bill Cheadle is making another comeback in the 400 hurdles. And then there’s M40 Lance Elliott of the United States, entered in the 800 meters with
Keith Bateman’s world record tour continues unabated down under. On Wednesday, Keith ran 5000 meters in a hand-timed 15:29.7 at an Athletics New South Wales “permit meet” at Blacktown Olympic Park in Sydney, reports Simon Butler-White, who says results of
Hugh Hackett, a New Mexico coaching legend who competed as recently as last year, died last month of a heart attack. He was 90, and his wife informed friends recently. Tim Edwards of Scottsdale, Arizona, writes that Hugh “often competed
At Orono masters nationals in 2002, I met a transgender (male-to-female) sprinter. We sat in the far side of the stands, and she told me her story. She was kind of strange. She told me she never drinks water after
The Koops’ website in Germany reports very sad news: M100 thrower Alfred Proksch died Jan. 3 of kidney failure less than a month after turning 102. He was one of five elder athletes featured in the German documentary “Herbstgold,” made
Bruce McBarnette sent me the following note Tuesday night: “I was involved with assigning my bids to other bidders. Although this type of collaboration between bidders is not permitted and I made a mistake for doing so, for which I
Dec. 17 was not a good day for M50 world high jump champion Bruce McBarnette. On that day, according to this court document, he admitted that he gamed a system for auctioned properties in North Carolina. And he agreed to
EastCountyMagazine.com is reporting that Michael Cour — whose Santee, California, home burned with him and his wife in it over the weekend (an apparent murder-suicide) — was a masters trackster. He shows up in results as recently as 2003, where
Don McGrath, the author and masters motivator, has started a website for folks with fitness goals for 2011. He writes: “As I’ve been preparing to launch my next book project, where I will follow and write about the 2011 fitness
No comment: WASHINGTON, Jan. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Bruce Olvin McBarnette from Sterling, Virginia, will be one of several hundreds of athletes participating in the USA Masters Track and Field Championships being held at Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New
M50 bachelor-no-more Jim Chinn, the world-class quarter-miler, got hitched yesterday in north San Diego County, where he lives. He and his bride Cecile — approaching liplock below — were married in the cozy chapel of the historic Rancho Guajome Adobe
Alisa Harvey, who turned 45 in mid-September, is getting that ol’ aging up adrenaline buzz. Thanks to National Masters News (and its e-alerts), we learn that Alisa at a meet Dec. 19 in Landover, Maryland, ran the mile in 5:06.82