Today, I learned some sad news .  I found out this morning from Polevault Power that Trackshark - a web site that has had a dominating presence in covering collegiate track and field for the past seven years - will no longer be online. Photographer Kirby Lee with Trackshark Editor and Founder Tom B...

Tynita Butts fails to clear her goal of 5 feet 10 inches in the high jump, but still wins the event at the Virginia AAA Track and Field championships with a 5-9....

It has been a while since I have written a post on track and field, but this story caught my attention.  Just after the Beijing Olympics,  CEO Doug Logan’s goals was to designate a panel of athletes and administrators to determine what the best course of action is to build the sport of track...

Bernard Lagat won the 102nd Millrose Games’ Wanamaker Mile in 3 minutes 58.44 seconds, tying Eamonn Coghlan’s record of seven titles....

Dwain Chambers, fastest man in England, says he needs money, and he needs it now.  The UK's top sprinter who feasted on a BALCO regimen of steroids, HGH, and the other BALCO PEDs now cannot run in international track meets due to bans on ex-drug users.  Seems it isn't fair to ban a guy who...

Here I am signing my letter of intent for a full-scholarship in track to compete at SMU in 2000 It is amazing that it has been eight years since I have signed my first letter of intent to Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas.  I was offered a full-scholarship to compete for the SMU ...

Well, if this story doesn't inspire you, you're a rather hopeless cynic. Take a look at this amazing video on the athletic career of one Carl Joseph, who has just been nominated for the Florida Sports Hall of Fame. Joseph, who grew up in poverty on a tobacco farm in north Florida, was born with only...

More doping cases coming from the 2008 Olympics says the IOC president, Jacques Rogge (San Diego Union-Tribune).  As we know, the IOC announced re-testing of Olympic medal winners, focusing on endurance events. IOC president Jacques Rogge expects at least 15 doping cases from the Beijing Olympi...

Legendary Canadian shot putter Bishop Dolegiewicz passed on to his eternal award last week.  The large shot putter admitted to the infamous Canadian Dubin Commission that he utilized steroids when competing. (New York Times from 1989).  Bish was a frequent Olympian, who's records were wipe...

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