GIGO got Brian Coushay. After learning that the M50 multi-eventer had accepted a two-year suspension for testing positive for banned stuff at Jacksonville nationals, I wrote him. He replied Saturday with an honest and plausible account. He said he took
USADA on Friday released this shocking news. I’ll reach out to “Coush” for his side of the story. “Colorado Springs, Colo. (October 23, 2015) – USADA announced today that Brian Coushay, of Beaverton, Ore., an athlete in the sport of
The Brits have a masters magazine that could one day become a “full online news service,” according to a help-wanted ad this week. “You obviously have a passion for masters athletics, but do you also have a flare for writing;
The trailer is out for “Race,” the latest movie on wish-he-were M100 Jesse Owens. It appears to pull no punches. (I can’t wait to see how it depicts the 220-yard low hurdles world record of 1935.) And as one commenter
Guillermo Guzmán Magaña, president of Mexican masters track, says M45 sprinter Marco Antonio Franco Díaz is part of a cancer. Marco counterfeits his times and makes money off his celebrity, the prez says. His allegations are in a letter of
Anselm LeBourne has been named USATF Male Masters T&F Athlete of 2015, and Kathy Bergen and Irene Obera will share female honors after a year in which each set a half-dozen world records and won gold at Lyon. The USATF
German media are reporting that former world-class triple jumper Charles Friedek has won a legal judgment against the German Athletics Federation worth possibly $150,000. Charles sued because he said he should have been on the 2008 Beijing Olympic team. He’s
Growing Bolder has a great video on M55 long jumper Richard Konsens, “who thought his track and field days were over when it was time to graduate into the ‘real world.’ In fact, on the day of his graduation from
Bill Deeter didn’t throw at Lyon. but he often throws in Lyons. That’s in Oregon [correction from earlier report]. Bill is the subject of a nice profile in a Salem, Oregon, paper. “In 2008 … Deeter’s former college track coach
Last month, a producer with “CBS Sunday Morning” asked my help in finding some near-100 athlete they could feature on their show — in the wake of M100 Don Pellmann’s records in San Diego. They wanted to film someone setting
Note to self: Urge WMA to set up a Twitter feed. That’s my take after the latest news blast. In a Wednesday post, WMA says: “Please take note that the two athletes below have been given ‘Life Time Bans’ by
In a first for World Masters Athletics, the names of the top vote-getters for World Best Masters have been released. WMA Secretary Winston Thomas posted these lists Tuesday: After Germany’s Silke Schmidt came America’s Irene Obera, Australia’s Lavinia Petrie and
