Dozens of sleeping athletes were among guests evacuated from a Sacramento hotel late Wednesday night on the eve of Day 1 at masters nationals. Roused by a piercing fire alarm at the Larkspur Landing on Howe Avenue, pentathletes, runners and
The message board at Track & Field News is abuzz about news reports that Doug Logan, chief executive officer of USA Track & Field, is undergoing a tough job evaluation by the USATF board of directors and may lose his
Until this summer, the oldest man to break 50 seconds for 400 meters was probably Fred Sowerby, who at age 45 ran 49.89 in 1994. At the first world masters track championships in 1975, the M40 400 was won in
Quick: Who won the team title at Oshkosh masters nationals last year? Hint: It’s the same team that won in 2008 and 2004 and finished in the top three in 2007, 2006 and 2005. Answer: SoCal Track Club. Under coach
Bob Griffiths, a jazz and Calypso artist, will videotape sprinters at Sacramento this week. He writes on our Forum: “I’m relatively new to Masters T&F and I’m beginning a new blog/website called EverydaySprinter.com. My goal is to share my journey
Oscar Peyton’s 11.64 and 23.85 are the top sprint times in the M55 rankings. (Ignore Lyndon Herzberg.) He’s entered at Sacramento, and aims to show his speed. But he’s also showing his wisdom. He writes: “I just posted my final
At 96, San Diego’s Leland McPhie is the oldest entrant at Sacramento nationals. But he’s not the senior athlete on the U.S. masters circuit. Leon Joslin does him better. Leon, who lives in the Seattle area, turned 98 in March
Six days short of his 50th birthday, Zambia Olympian Douglas Kalembo today ran his age in the 400-meter dash. This is historic. As the image shows, Douglas posted a 49.77 at the masters meet of the Georgia Games. His mark
Dick Hotchkiss writes that funeral services for Olympian and masters hammer great Tom Gage will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, July 22, at the Cremation and Funeral Gallery in Tom’s hometown of Billings, Montana. The address is 29 8th Street
We know that drug-testing is coming to USATF masters track. We know such tests will start at 2011 outdoor nationals in Ohio. But we don’t know the details, and the latest minutes of the Masters T&F Executive Committee only fuel
Competing in the last meet of the Friday Night Vault series this weekend at San Diego State University, Charlie Brown cleared 4.35 meters (14-3 1/4) to raise his own M55 American record of 4.20 (13-9 1/4) set a week earlier.
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