I don’t know who Alex Ray is. But he’s trying damn hard to get noticed. He’s the owner/publisher/webmaster of an “amateur Web site” devoted to sprints. Calls it sprintic.com. It’s pretty slick for an amateur site. But he’s a little
Dave Clingan, new chairman of the USATF Masters Awards Committee, asks the intriguing question: “Who are the top American masters track and field athletes of all time? Those who have won the most championships? Set the most records? Perhaps, but
Germany’s Klaus Liedtke, a notorious drug cheat by all accounts, has emerged from a two-year doping suspension and, uh oh, set another world record in the shot, according to the Koops’ Web site. That gives him four age-group records in
Joy Upshaw-Margerum graciously sends along the PDF entry form for the USATF West Regional Masters Championships, set July 21-22 at Occidental College near Los Angeles. Oxy, as it’s known, once was a track powerhouse. (Check out their Hall of Fame
Before broadcasting, coaching and other ventures began cutting into his time, Dwight Stones was an active masters high jumper. His duel with Jim Barrineau at the 1995 Buffalo worlds is the stuff of legend. (He lost.) Now he’s found another
Masters coach and athlete Ross Dunton displays his courage — and sense of humor — in his latest update on his Alzheimer’s disease. In his current newsletter, Ross writes: “I am sharing this with you so that you will have
Event organizer Dave Clingan has shared a report on Saturday’s Fountain of Youth Masters Mile in Canby, Oregon. He also posted photos of the mile, which included Henry Rono from New Mexico and a record-breaking performance by fellow M55 Nolan
Sandy Pashkin of the Oregon Track Club Masters tonight posted results for Saturday and Sunday’s Hayward Masters Classic. She’s been a busy bee of late, since the USATF masters records pages also have been updated (as of today). Among the
Yet another record is apparent from the Bob Boal Southeastern Masters meet results. We learn from fellow spearchucker Chuck Greene: “Arne-Roald Bradstock, member of Great Britain’s 1984 and 1988 Olympic teams — more recently a U.S. citizen — launched the
According to the Koops’ masters site, Germans wanting to enter the Riccione worlds in September may be up a creek without a beer stein. “They are acting goofy over there,” writes one of my German-speaking friends. “Set their own deadline
Well, yeah. Those were Sly Stallone’s real muscles in “Rocky Balboa,” which I gave a glowing review. But had Steroid Stallone been drug-tested after making his masters boxing movie, he would have been banned for three or four lifetimes. Now
Willie Gault celebrated his company’s recent sale of a part of Aloha Airlines to United by running 100 meters in 10.89 seconds Saturday at the same Oxy Invitational where Jim Sorensen ran his M40 AR in the 800. The wind
