HOG POWER: If either Arkansas team wins the NCAA title in June, it will be a landmark 50th national crown in the sport (in/out/XC) for the Razorbacks. The next closest schools are LSU and Oregon at 32 each…
Juan Carrillo has been named cross country coach at Northern Illinois…
Houston has added Olympic 400H gold medalist Kerron Clement to its coaching staff…
Germany’s Konstanze Klosterhalfen has left Nike to sign with Puma. She is now being coached by Alistair Cragg…
Former Oregon star Jessica Hull is returning to Australia. “I’ve lived in the USA for 7+ years and I’ve had the most incredible experience learning, growing and becoming the athlete and person I am today. But for me, it’s just feels like the right time to transition back home,” she said…
Asics has opened up a high-altitude camp in Font-Romeu, France. It will host up to 20 athletes at a time at 1800m of altitude in the Pyrenees…
Laura Muir and Jemma Reekie left their South African training camp — and coach Andy Young — early, in a move that set the British rumor mill working overtime. UK Athletics issued a statement saying the two would “not be making any further comment.”…
Nafi Thiam has announced that she won’t do any multis prior to the World Championships…
John Crumpacker, 67, died in April. The former San Francisco sportswriter was a beloved figure in many a press box at big track meets…
Hall Of Fame coach Jack Warner, who had stints at Cornell, Colgate and William Smith, died in early April at the age of 93…
Gary Schwartz, the longtime coach at Kansas, died in April at age 79. By the time he retired from coaching in ’00, he had mentored 133 All-Americas…
South African walker Lebogang Shange has been jailed for 10 years for rape…
The Irish 10K Championships fell more than a little short, something folks started suspecting when men’s winner Jake O’Regan ran 26:08 and Karen Blaney led the women in 29:12. Officials had misdirected runners early on, cutting 1.5K off the route…
Marathoner Desiree Linden has released a memoir called Choosing To Run…
Andre De Grasse has published a book Ignite, which he says “is a collection of the lessons I’ve learned about achieving success and finding happiness on the way to becoming an Olympic and World Champion.”…
Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay says she wasn’t able to speak to her family in the embattled Tigray region and that her own house in Addis Ababa was raided by government forces. “I never thought this would happen as I am an athlete. We only know sport, not politics. I cried the whole night. I was worried they would come back to take me whenever there was a knock on the door.”…
The Oregon22 organization has given TrackTown USA a legacy grant of $275,000 to be aimed at youth development initiatives…
The European Running Champs will debut in ’25 as a biennial event and will feature 10K, half marathon and marathon races. Each will feature both mass participation and elite components…
Jenn Suhr found her retirement job, as an assistant track coach at her alma mater, Roberts Wesleyan, where she starred in basketball…
The first of the bribery trials surrounding Tokyo’s bid to host the Olympics has concluded, with a CEO of a clothing company being found guilty of handing out over $200,000 in bribes. No jail time…
The AIU has announced lengthy bans for Albanian officials after they falsified wind readings to get a long jumper into the Olympics. Federation chief Gjergj Ruli gets 5 years and general secretary Nikolin Dionisi 4…
New Zealand has thrown its hat into the ring as a prospective host of the ’34 Commonwealth Games…
The Chinese federation is interested in hosting the ’27 World Championships. To that end, it solicited bids from potential hosts, with the only city to meet qualifications being Beijing, which will be advanced to WA as a candidate…
Brisbane is hosting the ’32 Olympics but polls show that local enthusiasm for the Games is dropping, with 59% saying they are not excited for the event, and only 6% were very confident the city could pull it off successfully…
For many, the saga of Italian walker Alex Schwazer and his long legal fight against his doping ban went on a tad too long. Now he admits he was using an illegal substance, and he’s gotten a Netflix documentary…
A study of athletes who have competed in the Commonwealth Games has found that being an athlete had the effect of extending one’s lifespan by several years…
Germany is conducting yet another investigation of the 72 Munich massacre. This time, a panel of 8 scholars from Germany and Israel will conduct an historical reappraisal…
Montana State is building a new indoor track, this one of the oversized, 300-meter variety…
WA has opened its Museum of World Athletics in Budapest’s Etele Pláza. The exhibition of priceless artifacts of the sport’s history will remain open through the Championships in August…
The NCAA has loosened one of its key recruiting rules, no longer placing a limit on the number of official visits a prospective athlete may make…
The people who count these things say that the NCAA Indoor Championships brought $2.3 million in economic impact to Albuquerque…
’72—A Gathering of Champions was Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Documentary this year. Now olympics.com is letting viewers watch it for free with no subscription.
Both Mary Cain and Billy Mills have been awarded USOPC grants for their non-profits. Cain runs Atalanta NYC to support professional female runners and provide mentorship to youth. Mills co-founded Running Strong for American Indian Youth top meet the needs of Native communities…
Gainesville’s Buchholz High School has renamed its facility the Mike Holloway Track, in honor of its former coach, now the mentor of the Florida Gators and the ’21 Olympic coach…
Betting on the Boston Marathon got shot down by Massachusetts regulators, who denied a request from gambling company DraftKings…
The AIU is trying to hire a Whereabouts Coordinator; the position will be based in Monaco…
Higher up the AIU food chain, the organization is seeking applications to an independent chair as well as 4 independent members of the AIU board…
WADA has hired its first Ethics Officer, the position going to Swiss sports-law attorney Gautier Aubert for a 3-year term. He will be in charge of investigating suspected breaches of the WADA Code of Ethics…
In March, the IOC finally approved the redistribution of medals from the ’12 women’s 20K walk. Qieyang Shijie of China, the original bronze medalist, now has the gold after the doping disqualification of Russians Elena Lashmanova and Olga Kaniskina.
An AIU tribunal has concluded that Kenya has “a medically-savvy operation helping athletes to try and cover up doping offences.” That was its conclusion after noting two recent tampering cases with suspicious similarities. “There is no possibility in our view that the athlete in the present case had the sophistication or medical knowledge… to set up the scheme employed in the present case.”…
Kenya, meanwhile, has announced that it is tripling its drug tests, from 1000 currently to 3445. It is part of the government’s push to clean up the sport, with a commitment of $5 million over 5 years…
A French anti-Olympics group is reportedly planning to disrupt Paris by recruiting and planning to pay people who will try to get official volunteer positions, and then initiate mayhem. Paris organizers responded to say that all volunteers will get careful background checks…
Food for thought from a Shamier Little tweet: “And if you can honor a World Record run on a mixed gender relay (some bs created just cuz) you should definitely be able to do so for mixed nationality one. Don’t play.” ◻︎