From The Editor

The track world has only so much room for ranting and raving, so T&FN doesn't allow its editor, E. Garry Hill, to run off at the fingers every month. But perhaps you'll enjoy hearing the babble he puts up several times a year. The opinions he expresses--needless to say--reflect his personal point of view, not necessarily that of the rest of the editorial staff, and are in no way meant to be construed as company policy.

The editor unabashedly admits that he's an elitist (the higher the level of achievement the more he likes it) and that his prime interest in the sport is for the professional side of things. And more than anything else, he seeks to ensure that the presentation of the sport keeps it a viable entity on the crowded modern sporting field. Recent pontifications:

June 2013
It’s not easy to be a fan of NCAA track & field

May 2013
New/upgraded U.S. meets: a ray of hope for domestic competition for U.S. pros?

April 2013
You might be a hardcore track fan if… part 2

March 2013
You might be a hardcore track fan if...

February 2013
Why Usain Bolt & Allyson Felix didn’t end up as T&FN’s Athletes Of The Year

January 2013
For the first time in a long time, London’s Olympic Games felt like a World Championships meet

December 2012
The ink-stained wretches of the world struggle to remain relevant in an electron-driven era

November 2012
Are track’s biggest stars getting enough Diamond League exposure? I think not…

October 2012
Team USA’s men and women were on elevators going in opposite directions in London

September 2012
Heresy coming from me, I know, but it is time to rethink the Olympic Trials format?

August 2012
A new way to stage separate-sex NCAA Champs at the same time

July 2012
The greatest meet on the planet? Not the OG, not the WC—it’s still the OT

June 2012
Which problem should USATF’s new CEO Max Siegel tackle first?

May 2012
For post-collegians, the pre-OT U.S. schedule is a farce

April 2012
11 ways to increase your enjoyment of the sport

March 2012
Uh-oh! Is there nobody who's the face of U.S. track & field?

January 2012
Why the IAAF's 3-per-nation rule is surely here to stay

December 2011
There’s clearly frustration with the IAAF

October 2011
19 days in August…track goes into stealth mode

September 2011
The August issue marked the 800th edition ever published.
A look at what happened in all the other 100th-issue markers

August 2011
Words fail me in trying to describe the NCAA Regionals

July 2011
What if they didn't give any track meets?

June 2011
Two different NCAA meets?

May 2011
Is the Diamond League cursed like King Tut's tomb?

April 2011
Do you still enjoy T&FN when we get into depressing reality?

March 2011
Would you believe a T&FN without ink or paper?

January 2011
Aural abuse at a meet is aural abuse, whether you love or hate the music in question

December 2010
No More 'Off-Years' for the World Championships

November 2010
Was the Diamond League’s first year a success or failure?

October 2010
Going back to some old rules might actually be good for the sport

September 2010
Might the radical changes in the ’11 World Champs schedule backfire?

July 2010
WRs are the currency that keeps the sport alive: are we floating counterfeit money?

May 2010
Why aren’t Americans peaking at the Olympics and World Champs?

April 2010
Does track & field need a touch of the X-Games mentality?

March 2010
OK, that was the best 4 decades of my life… so far

January 2010
As Cordner Nelson liked to ask, "What kind of fan are you?"

December 2009
Without a Chicago Games, when will the U.S. host the World Champs?

October 2009
Is it possible that superstars might actually be bad for the sport?

September 2009
Wiser heads appear to have prevailed in the 2012 Trials schedule decision

July 2009
Programs! You can’t tell the players without a program! But even then…

June 2009
When will U.S. teams start wearing uniforms that are distinctive?

May 2009
Just where did they find all the athletes who hate the 10-day Trials?

April 2009
A single-weekend Olympic Trials? Bad-bad-bad!

March 2009
I’m biased on the subject, but I like the Olympic Trials just as they are

January 2009
EAA presentation tweaks: inspiration or pure panic?

October 2008
Forget the dropped Olympic batons! What about the ongoing U.S. men’s field-event meltdown?

August 2008
Two of the all-time greatest words in the English language: Road Trip! (gh & dj head to Des Moines in tornado season)

July 2008
The greatest meet on the planet? Not the OG, not the WC—it’s the OT my friends

May 2008
Watching 3 rounds of dash prelims is as good as a cliff-hanging serial at the Saturday matinee

March 2008
A column dedicated to Willi Krause, who epitomized all that was great about coaches

February 2008
Happy 60th Birthday To Track & Field News!

September 2007
Some think the World Champs is held too often; I don’t think it’s held often enough

August 2007
Can’t anybody run a scoreboard properly at a track meet?

May 2007
How about making the NCAA Champs a finals-only meet?

April 2007
Would you believe an NCAA meet that’ll be done in time to go have a beer after the meet and it’s not even noon?

February 2007
Sacrilege! Maybe the finishline isn’t the best place to sit and watch a meet?

December 2006
Which of the 8 kinds of track fan are you?

November 2006
It’s time for the rulesmakers to revisit the lane-draw procedures

August 2006
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to tell where sprinters are relative to each other during a race?

July 2006
There’s a simple solution to the logjam that is Nationals scheduling—some events have to go

April 2006
I say take the relays out of the NCAA Championships

January 2006
Does the idea of a new set of World Records still have real merit?

December 2005
The worst year of track is better than the best year of just about any other sport you can name

November 2005
The final rounds in field events deserve their own private window on big-meet schedules

October 2005
There aren’t too many tries in the field events; it’s just that the wrong people are taking too many

August 2005
As affiliations go, is “unat” the University of Nat?

July 2005
Would it be too much to ask to have a uniform uniform-policy?

June 2005
Only a hard mile relay leg can turn you from Michael Johnson into Michael Jackson

May 2005
The sport has suffered this year from the rash of young collegians going pro early

February 2005
Meets tend to be unkind towards those who think of the sport as field & track

January 2005
Having Craig Masback and Bill Roe set for additional terms at USATF is a big plus for the sport

November 2004
The 500lb gorilla on T&FN's back: how can we remain relevant in today's Internet world?