Payton Jordan is 90 and full of life, as this latest photo gallery shows. He was in his element as the featured speaker at last night’s Southern California Striders awards banquet. The former Stanford and 1968 Olympic coach is Mr.
Two weeks from now, masters track delegates from around America will gather as part of the USATF annual meeting. Well, maybe not from every USATF association. This year’s convention is in Honolulu, somewhere in the Pacific. Can’t hop in the
Mike Toal, a world-class 800 man in Britain, has begun work on a masters track Web site focusing on UK masters news and issues. It’s a bit skimpy now, but he’s already posted a Forum, poll and a bunch of
This afternoon in a small town south of San Francisco, the 2007 U.S. track season draws to a close. Los Gatos High School, site of a Western Regional Masters Championships about 10 years ago, will host an “All-Comer Distance Meet
Deep in the bowels of the USATF Web site is information on how to enter the 2008 World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships in Clermont, France. Cool. You also get to fill out an entry form good for speakers of English,
World-class thrower Arthur Grayburn, a New Zealand masters pioneer and historian, has died at age 80 after suffering a stroke, according to this press account. The obituary (reproduced below) makes reference to the “1994 World Masters Association Games.” This isn’t
In major league baseball, you’re considered a legend when you’ve reached career 3,000 hits. So it’s with great awe and admiration that I salute the readers of this blog — who have combined to post 3,000 comments on this here
My M50 hurdler friend David Ortman in Seattle is semi-nostalgic for his high school track days in South Dakota. But he’s also aware that South Dakota is “a USATF masters wasteland.” He writes: ” I don’t believe they have a
When I competed at the 1999 world masters meet in northeast England, I was interviewed by an Athletics Weekly columnist. When the piece was published, I was shocked to see myself quoted in strange ways. The weirdest thing I “uttered”
My knee is beautiful, the nurse said. Walking on crutches extensively for the first time since Tuesday’s ACL surgery, I made my way yesterday to Kaiser Zion hospital — where nearly 19 years earlier I saw my son born.Yesterday, when
Dan Goldman writes for a Boston-area paper called the Enterprise. In September, he wrote about W70 thrower Mary Riley. In about 30 words, he managed to hit every masters cliche in the book. He began: “Mary Riley may be a
Thank God for Slovenia. If not for this central European nation, Merlene Ottey’s latest Olympic hopes would be moot. Apparently, she’s still a superstar on that country’s tracks. But would she still be good to go for Beijing at age