Willie Banks shares great news: The State Games of America will be held in early August 2011—in one of the nicest summer locales on earth. San Diego. So if you still have energy left after masters nationals in Ohio, Sacramento
Sydney Olympic discus champ Elina Zvereva turned 50 last Tuesday. But she’s still got game. Or at least she’s game for the Games. An IAAF article quotes her as saying: “I want to finish my career on the high level.
Hall of Fame track coach Jim Bush, who tutored dozens of Olympians at UCLA and ended his career at rival USC, riveted attentions Saturday night at an Orange County Persian restaurant — scene of the latest Southern California Striders awards
Angela Jimenez, a W35 photojournalist, has a wonderful series of masters track shots on Newsweek’s online site. (See them here.) When she told me of the series, she asked how she might contact the athletes: “I do not know how
A masters mole alerts us to the latest victim of the economy: the Empire State Games, which includes a masters track component. It was at this meet in 1997 where Glen Conley became the first M40 jumper to go 7
Wes Santee’s death Sunday, at age 78, is a reminder of one of the most outrageous crimes in American track and field—the actions that kept my former Kansas track alumnus from becoming the first miler to break 4 minutes. Trust
Kamloops had an up-and-down experience as host of the 2010 World Masters Indoor Championships. Now they’re planning a smaller shindig: Canadian masters indoor nationals. Just a two-day affair—March 19-20, 2011. This meet takes place a couple weeks after USATF masters
Simon Butler-White writes from Down Under: “I’m pleased to report that Keith Bateman broke the WR at the New South Wales 3000m championships at Sydney Olympic Park on November 13. Competing in the ‘C’ race (athletes were seeded based on
Track meets end in October, but throwers never quit. That’s evident from results at the National Training Center, where a bunch of masters studs including record-holders Mike Brown and Ken Jansson went crazy at a meet co-sponsored by Throws Coach
We recently noted the cancellation of the WMA Africa region masters championships. Now we know why. Almost nobody entered. Here’s what we learn from Smain Boucetta, African masters head honcho, on the WMA website: “To all participants to the 8th
USATF is well-trained now. In its interview with Track & Field Hall of Fame inductee Jearl Miles Clark, the M-word arises: “In recent years you’ve dabbled some in masters track and field. Will that continue?” Jearl replied: “I may just
Archie Messenger, inducted into the USATF Masters Hall of Fame in 2001, was the subject of a Veterans Day profile in his Massachusetts hometown newspaper. He hasn’t been ranked for about six years, but he’s still a legend. The bulk