Over the weekend, Jeff Laynes made his annual pilgrimage from the San Francisco Bay Area to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He made the 50-meter final in a premier indoor meet, The Knights of Columbus affair. These results show him clocking 5.84 for
After posting a doubt-tinged note about Michelle Obama’s mother saying she ran the 50- and 100-yard dashes in the Illinois Senior Olympics, I wrote some folks in Illinois to get details. They came today. Deborah Staley and Selvarine Jones of
Dieter Massin (below) is the poster boy for masters track in Germany — literally. A national campaign to get Germans off their tushies is under way, with this video-rich website touting Dieter, who’s known more as an official and Eurovets
By day, M40 Ron Lee of Santa Margarita, California (in south Orange County) is a mild-mannered accountant. But come late afternoon, he morphs into a . . . mild-mannered high jump coach. But what a coach! I’ve already written about
In February 1996, I started a site on AOL called the Masters Track & Field Home Page. I had no idea of its reach until that summer, when I was waiting in line to use a pay phone (young’ns, you
The horrid economy is punishing masters as well. Latest example is a decision to suspend the Senior Olympics in New York state. According to this press release, “the annual Senior Games, and all Masters, and Open competitions in the Winter and
Talk about masters moles! In a couple weeks, the First Grandma will take up occupancy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. And can you dig it — Marian Robinson (Michelle Obama’s momma) was an Illinois Senior Olympics sprint champ. At least that’s
M55 multi-eventer Dave Ortman of Seattle is probably buried under 5 feet of snow about now, but a few days ago he sent me a series of cool poems with a masters track theme. Short poems. Dave writes: “Ernest Hemingway
The European Veterans Athletic Association says: “EVAA website has changed. From January 1, 2009, EVAA has a new website: www.evaa.ch. Please be so kind and have a look at this website from this day on. www.evaa.nu ends on January 19,
World record holder Jackie Joyner-Kersee is 46 and in pretty good shape, she tells Track & Field News. So in the interview, Phil Minshull wisely asks the obvious question: Have you ever been tempted to do some Masters competitions? JJK
A masters mole writes me: “I am not sure if anyone has noticed a major scheduling conflict that USATF has regarding two national championship meets. USATF has scheduled the Masters and Club National Championships over the same time frame this
Over the weekend, masters were in the mix at the annual Pole Vault Summit at a rodeo arena in Reno, Nevada. Official results for all events haven’t been posted. But images of results sheets are online now. Dyestat posted a