Sigh. A couple months back I got my hopes up for masters events at a Fresno State indoor meet on Monday, Jan. 16, 2006. Now I learn it’s mainly for high school and college kids, with a few invitational events.
Rick Reilly’s column in the current issue of Sports Illustrated (with a cover depicting long-haired Steelers safety Troy Polamalu) revisits an issue that got an exhaustive exegesis four years ago: Are blacks naturally faster than whites? A book by Jon
Funniest thing I’ve read lately is the scholarly conclusion that track and field has nearly reached its limit on new world running records. Besides the laughable idea that many records are “already nearing their limits,” the study is ageist on
And the beat goes on. My 9-month-old pursuit of complete results from world masters track championships continues today with the posting of thee PDFs — the results books of the 1995 Buffalo WAVA meet (link fixed) , the 1999 Gateshead
The Age Graded Tables, a fixture of masters track for two decades, have been revised several times since the 1980s. The currently available version came out in 1994 — about a thousand world age-group records ago. The new AGT were
Andy Hecker tilts at windmills. A Southern California USATF official, meet organizer and talented M50 hurdler, Andy has been trying in vain for years to persuade local, regional and national masters track organizers to drop their requirement that athletes register
November’s issue of National Masters News carries a plea for help by USATF Masters T&F Chairman George Mathews. As part of the strategic plan process, his executive board assumes that growing masters track will take the skills, savvy and grunt
Another “veterans” association is biting the dust. According to the German masters site run by Annette and Robert Koop, the EVAA (European Veterans Athletic Asociation) is gonna switch handles to European Masters Association, or somesuch. This follows the lead of
Sad word has arrived that M45 middle-distance star Roberto Castillo of Miami died Oct. 23 — he was killed by a motorist. He was buried Tuesday, and the Florida Sun-Sentinel reported his passing. In 1998, Roberto won the M40 golds
Hall of Famer Bud Held, who’s had some success at the spear and the jumps (and also with engineering), has weighed in on the issue of whether M90 Don Pellmann, a fellow Californian, had the benefit of Fort Collins, Colorado,
Some folks have noted that the language of the supplemental U.S. entry form to the 2006 WMA world indoor meet in Austria includes a new Team USA Code of Conduct that would make Joseph McCarthy proud. To wit: “I will
March 15 kicks off the five-day 2006 World Masters Indoor Championships in Linz, Austria, and information is filtering out on how Americans can sign up. First, visit the new USATF page on the meet. The U.S. entry form is posted
