Steve McBride is director of a Dallas indoor meet Dec. 1-2 seeking high-profile entrants. A press release says: “Dunamis Sports Group brings to Dallas Market Hall the nation’s fastest independently owned 200m-banked track. The same blazing track where Tara Davis
A brief flurry of email has led to official confirmation of where and when 2018 outdoor masters nationals will be. It’s July 26-29 — as noted on the USATF calendar and at USATFmasters.org. It’ll be at Eastern Washington University in
Yoko Nakano of Japan lowered her own W80 world record over 3000 meters a week ago, clocking 14:27.49 at a Japanese masters meet in Wakayama featured at mastersrankings.com. “Dozens of championship records as well as 22 Japan … records were
On Friday, Sabra Harvey, 68, of West Houston was named USATF Athlete of the Week, her first time thus honored, after having the top age-graded percentage at the USATF National Masters 15K Championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She ran the 9.3
Justin Gatlin is officially a geezer (according to my rule for tracksters over 35). But he’s no retiree. In fact, the Bolt-beating world sprint champ told Team USA that he’s looking to race in Tokyo — at the 2020 Olympics.
As we await Meb Keflezighi’s final marathon (at age 42 Sunday in New York City), let’s pause to admire the British track magazine for again uttering the M-word. This time, masters are part of the year-end honors list. Athletics Weekly
USATFmasters.org, our funky but fact-filled resource site, announces: “Bid for a National Masters Track and Field Meet!” The memo says: “Interested in bringing a Masters T&F meet to your area? Want to build Masters T&F in your area? Want to
On Feb. 20, 1999, Rex Harvey faxed Al Sheahen a copy of a letter he wrote to Len Olson, who was then writing (with my help) a history of masters track. I didn’t read the letter until Sunday — the
John Seto of mastersrankings.com and Amanda Scotti of National Masters News are soliciting “news people want to see” on John’s WMA-sanctioned site. The first report on the newly redesigned site is Ken Castro’s post on the Huntsman World Senior Games.
Athletics Weekly reports a doping case against 31-year-old javelin thrower Joanna Blair of the UK. But since she’s not 35 yet, I care not. What’s interesting is the adverbial phrase in the story’s last sentence: “Coached by masters thrower David
An Italian Facebook page suggests that three cities are bidding to host the 2022 World Master Athletics Championships — aka outdoor worlds. The cities mentioned are Tampere (Finland), Gothenburg (Sweden) and L’Aquila (Italy). Of course, Toronto will host 2020 worlds,
Tuesday night was big for Team Stone. Wife Chris and I collected a total of 20 honors at the San Diego Press Club’s Excellence in Journalism Awards. (See the story in Times of San Diego.) Counting my 14-ribbon haul this
