Wilbur Ross showed me the promised land. His late 1960s text, “The Hurdler’s Bible,” used the greats of his day to show me how to hurdle. Last Friday, he died at age 80, and a little darkness fell over his
Jeff Davison had a dream, and with the faith and creativity of a Bible teacher, it came true. As I first described in February, this Southern California M45 hurdler wanted the Orono nationals to offer an exhibition relay event for
Results are now posted for the USATF National Masters Weight Pentathlon Championships, which attracted 52 athletes ages 35 to 92 last weekend to Spokane, Washington. W50 Carol Finsrud of Lockhart, Texas, erased one of the oldest WP records on the
M70 sprint champ Wayne Bennett of Texas, an overseer of the July meet where Ken Jansson thought he set a weight pentathlon record, has suggested that Hy-Tek meet software was at fault for the wrong age-grading of WP scores that
M45 runner Steve Nearman is a fine writer. But his main gig is financial planning. And what he really wants to see is meet announcer Peter Taylor financially assured for the 40th anniversary of the U.S. masters nationals a year
Jerry Bookin-Weiner, USATF Masters throwing events coordinator, writes: “Further checking on the scoring of the American WP record that Ken Jansson set in Texas towards the end of July shows that it was not, in fact, a record. The meet
Masters meet announcer Peter Taylor reports: “As of 7 p.m. on Thursday evening (August 9) I am feeling reasonably healthy, but I am still having strange feelings on my left side. Should know a lot more in 24 hours.” And
If Peter Taylor announced your event Sunday at Orono, you have even more to appreciate. He almost didn’t make it to the track. Peter spent Saturday night at the Eastern Maine Medical Center, and was released at 6:50 a.m. in
Orono and the Web go together. Besides the USATF webcast, photographer-athletes and others have posted thousands of images of last weekend’s masters nationals. About 900 shots are on Pam Swan’s Google gallery. Pam writes: “Wish I had gotten coverage of
Steve Nearman, a running columnist for The Washington Times, competed at Orono over the weekend and was able to write off his expenses (we hope). He wrote a nice story on Olympian Jan Merrill-Morin, another Orono entrant. The story was
From the Merlene Ottey Tribute site comes this news: “Bouncing back from recent illness that curtailed her training, Merlene Ottey took the women’s 100m title at the Slovenian Championships on Saturday. Her winning time was 11.69 sec. — a season’s
So many track tales, so little time. After returning from tonight’s Athletes Banquet at the University of Maine fieldhouse, I’ve been hunkered down preparing photos of masters nationals for Geezerjock magazine. And it’s time for bed. So I gotta punt
