At your urging, I’ve decided to break my “silence” on that especially bothersome post a week ago. Ya know, about Louise Tricard’s last will and testament. My usual practice is to post a story and let it stand on its
Graeme Shirley of San Diego is a walking Wikipedia of track rules, an incredible resource with vast institutional knowledge of USATF. But this week in Reno, he jumped the gun. For many years, as the Masters T&F Committee’s rules coordinator,
A day before she was elected USATF president, former world-class hurdler Stephanie Hightower spoke to USATF Masters Track & Field delegates. She was introduced Thursday to about 70 of us a little before noon by former national masters chair George
Norm Green, chair of the Masters Hall of Fame Subcommittee, today announced the 10-member Class of 2008 — seven active athletes with at least 10 years in masters track and three old-timers who have been out of competition for at
The Harrison Dillard Track Complex at Baldwin-Wallace College in the Cleveland suburb of Berea will host the summer 2011 USATF Masters National T&F Outdoor Championships, master delegates decided this morning. Spokane was said to have expressed interest earlier, but Marla
I kid you not. Under a rule change being considered by USATF, any American record application by a masters athlete would have to include evidence that the record-setter passed a drug test after the event. Item 73 of these proposals
Gary Snyder was re-elected this morning as USATF Masters Track & Field Committee national chairman and Janet Smith as vice chair, both unopposed. Two new officers on the executive committee — Secretary Jeff Brower and Treasurer Caroll DeWeese — won
Amid the pall created by Bob Fine’s death yesterday morning — only hours after the masters pioneer attended meetings of USATF in Reno — the governing body last night voice-voted approval of a major restructuring that rendered masters track even
USATF reports a tragedy beyond measure: the death of Florida’s Bob Fine, a racewalker in recent years who wrote the original constitution of the World Association of Veteran Athletes and was an early officer of USA Masters. He also started
Under orders of the USATF Ethics Committee, masters hurdler Dexter McCloud has circulated a press release apologizing for an earlier press release. In the original PR blast, Dr. Evie Dennis, writing “on behalf of The Committee to Elect Stephanie Hightower,”
Juan sprints at UCSB’s Club West Masters in October 2007. Juan Bustamante, a mainstay of the Southern California masters circuit and a loyal reader of this blog, has died at age 65. Brenda Matthews, president of the Southern California Striders,
The meet logo recycles that of the 1997 WAVA worlds in Durban, South Africa. The city of Rosario, Argentina, hosted the 14th South American masters track championships the last week of November, and results are posted here. Kind of ugly