If news reports are accurate, M50 long sprinter James Lofton will soon take a coaching job with the Oakland Raiders — an arch foe of the San Diego Chargers who fired him as receivers coach a few weeks back. How
A Southwest Sprinters foursome (not necessarily from the Southwest) tonight won the men’s 4×4 relay at the 101st Millrose Games in New York City. Southwest was runner-up a year ago. But they ran faster last year, when they lost to
Do they have C-SPAN for the Maryland Capitol? If they did, you might have seen the amazing sight of 16 masters athletes from around the state officially honored by state lawmakers for their Orono nationals achievements last summer. M55 multi-eventer
Jaff Hartwig, continuing to defy age and gravity, yesterday cleared 5.65 (18-6 1/2) on his first try at a meet in Germany. He thus, again, shattered his own M40 world indoor pole vault record. In the process, the word “masters”
Now that I speak Italian, I move on to Slovak. Here’s a January 29 report from the SME newspaper of Slovakia of an indoor track meet in Budapest, Hungary: “BUDAPEŠŤ (Maďarsko): Bývalý majster Európy v skoku do výšky (1990 Split)
Will you forgive me? I’ve been unfaithful. Although this blog remains my No. 1 labor of love, I’ve been seduced to do another. About a month ago, editor Sean Callahan of Masters Athlete magazine (formerly GeezerJock) asked me to join
Jen Toomey is 36. Last Saturday in Boston, she ran the mile at the Reebok indoor games in 4:36.27. You can look it up. The Boston Globe reports that Jen, who missed much of the 2006 and 2007 seasons to
Two 35-year-old track stars (and therefore masters fodder) are in the news over their retirements, or recantings thereof. Jamaica’s Danny McFarlane, who holds the M35 world record in the 400 hurdles even if WMA doesn’t know it, has unretired, according
Phil Raschker, as we’ve reported, is up for Atlanta Amateur Athlete of the Year. Now we know her competition: two Melanies — a tennis star and a soccer goalie. Here’s part of the press release: “Finalists . . . include:
Don Riggs of the Potomac Valley Track Club in the D.C area is reporting the latest M50 high jump record by Bruce McBarnette. Don writes that “McBarnette continued his assault on the masters 50+ high jump record at Sunday’s Sportplex
Los Angeles Daily News sportswriter/blogger Tom Hoffarth thinks he knows why GeezerJock magazine shed its name and became Masters Athlete magazine: It’s the president, stupid. In this case, the president is William Kupper, head of Turnstile Publishing Company, which bought
Olympian Jearl Miles-Clark, 41, took third in Heat 4 in the 4 at the Penn State National Invitational this past Friday in University Park, Pennsylvania. No big deal, except for the fact she beat the American indoor age-group record of