Complete results of the Huntsman World Senior Games have arrived, thanks to National Masters News editor Carmel Papworth-Barnum (who forwarded me a file), and the stunning news isn’t the six national age-group records and 37 meet records set at St.
Terry Cannon of Oregon (and formerly San Diego) set an American age-group record in the vault Saturday in Santa Barbara, according to just-released results from the annual Club West masters meet at UC Santa Barbara. (See below.) Terry went 3.20
Andy Hecker in Southern California reports the cancellation of a major masters meet at Long Beach State University only 10 days away. Andy writes: “I got a call from (meet director) Bigalita (Egger) telling me of her intent to cancel
M50 sprinter Tom Phillips took a gazillion pictures at Riccione, mainly of the UK folks. But after organizing his galleries, he realized he had enough shots (about 270) to carve out a separate gallery of American athletes. I see shots
The meet in Utah has posted results. Finally. But track ended yesterday, and only Monday’s results were online early Thursday. Like a box score that lists only the runs by innings, these results from the Huntsman World Senior Games barely
Rosa Marchi, who helped me track down the identity of Ralph Fruguglietti’s mysterious discus muse in northern Italy before worlds, has posted her own story on Ralph’s M50 world title and the events surrounding it. It’s in Italian. But it’s
A day after the final events of Riccione worlds, I sat down at my home computer for four hours and cobbled together this highlight story on assignment for Geezerjock magazine. I tried to mention stuff not covered in my blog,
Thanks to savvy marketing and stunning scenery, the Huntsman World Senior Games is capitalizing on masters again this month. Its three-day track meet allegedly began yesterday. (Still no results.) But high-class meet organization isn’t Huntsman’s forte, as we learned a
Back from Riccione worlds with medals galore, perhaps a dozen world travelers competed at the 33rd annual Club West masters meet Saturday at UC Santa Barbara, an hour north of Los Angeles. See some 70 photos here. Nadine O’Connor tried
Seven American age-group records were set over the weekend at the masters superweight nationals, which drew 25 throwers to West Seattle Stadium. Records were set by three men and four women. George Mathews, the former USATF Masters chair, helped organize
Andy Martin of USATF passes along this note: “Initial entry information for U.S. athletes for the 2008 World Masters Athletics Championships Indoor has been posted at usatf.org/events/2008/WorldMastersAthleticsChampionshipsIndoor/ . Detailed entry information including the entry forms are expected to be posted
Douglas Smith of Canada shares this sad news: “It is with some shock that I have to report that Garry Bachman suffered a mild heart attack on Friday. Fortunately, he is recovering well in the hospital in Bowmanville and will