USATF today posted the roster of Americans entered in next week’s World Masters Athletics Championships in Lahti, Finland. Click here for the list, which includes hometowns. The list doesn’t reflect recent scratches, such as Nolan Shaheed, Larry Barnum and Kevin
Nolan Shaheed Lahti worlds has lost some of its luster. In recent weeks, we’ve learned of the death of Aussie masters great and many times WAVA champ Shirley Brasher and a cruel injury to M45 miler Kevin Forde. Now comes word
A small boy glows with pride for his hero dad. Marty Krulee embraces Mike Waller as the new M50 sprint great. An injured hurdler shows his pain. Another hurdler holds his hammie and wonders: Why me? Leland McPhie eats up the attention
The WMA world outdoor championships are off to a blazing start. I don’t mean Lahti, which begins next week. I’m referring to the 2011 Sacramento worlds. Local organizers have just unveiled a Web site devoted to the 19th World Masters
Kay Glynn’s hair rises as she clears the bar. Bruce McBarnette lowers his center of mass a second before leaping an American record. Mike Waller calmly holds off a pair of world champions in the M50 sprints. These and dozens
Can a man over 45 run the 400 in 49 seconds outdoors? Italy’s Enrico Saraceni is determined to find out. Results of a Sunday meet in Recanati show Enrico lowering his M45 season best to 50.27 — inches shy of Fred Sowerby’s
Smile! You’re on Kendid Camera! And Chris’ camera, for that matter. The Stones rocked and rolled throughout Oshkosh nationals with Nikons D80 and D40, and the first of three galleries are now posted. I call it “Faces of USATF masters
Kamloops, British Columbia, will host the world indoor championships in March 2010, but the LOC’s performance as site of the just-ended Canadian masters outdoor nationals was weak in the results department. We haven’t seen any. The three-day meet ended Sunday. Not
Videos and slide shows of Oshkosh nationals are blossoming on YouTube. “Faster, Higher, Farther . . . Older,” set to classical music, shares my fascination with age. This 5-minute masterpiece starts with the younger masters and ends with the M95s
On June 6, masters tracksters were forced to choose between two high-quality events — a USATF association meet at Soka University in Orange County and another at Caltech in Pasadena. It wasn’t a win-win for anyone, according to a revealing
August 5 will be the rest day at Lahti worlds, but not for some kids and ski jumpers. According to this site, “Lahden Ahkera and Lahden Hiihtoseura are organizing for a second time a popular sports event, The Salpausselkä Summer Evening,
Back in San Diego a week after nationals, Nadine O’Connor returned to her specialty at the Friday Night Vault series at San Diego State University. She cleared her fourth world record of the year, going 3.19 meters (10-5 1/2) to raise