STATUS QUO — August
THE LATEST in the aches, pains & eligibility departments: Still dealing with bursitis in his right foot ,and owning a… Read More
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LAST LAP — August
HERE’S THIS MONTH’S collection of short takes on generally off-track activities that have gone/will go a long way towards shaping… Read More
FOR THE RECORD — August
Records reported since the July issue: W = World; A = American; Y = Youth (U18); HS = High School…. Read More
FROM THE EDITOR — A Look At The World Champs Meet Records
WITH OUR SPORT BEING as marks-oriented as it is — particularly marks of the all-time-best variety — it would be… Read More
100 Years Of NCAA Track & Field Championships
EUGENE, OREGON, June 08–11 — That the NCAA Championships, first staged 101 years ago in 1921, is always a splendid… Read More
NCAA Men’s Chomp-ionships — Florida Too Fast
OUR FORMCHART HAD PICKED Florida to win, but we warned that it would be a close one, down to the… Read More
NCAA Men’s 100/200 — Big Fahnbulleh Double
NEW RULE: No one is allowed to criticize Joe Fahnbulleh’s start ever again. OK, maybe it’s not an enforceable rule,… Read More
NCAA Men’s 400 — Year’s Fastest For Ross
COMING INTO THE MEET, the accolades belonged to North Carolina A&T’s Randolph Ross, who won the last two NCAA Champs… Read More
NCAA Men’s 800 — Zahafi Tough To Run Away From
WERE ANY SURPRISES to be had in the 2-lapper? For Texas A&M’s Brandon Miller, the Indoor champion, the best card… Read More
NCAA Men’s 1500 — Joe Who?
IT WOULD BE HARD to identify a more improbable NCAA 1500 champ than Joe Waskom. These were the Washington sophomore’s… Read More
NCAA Men’s Steeple — Fast Times Galore
ONE COULD UNDERSTAND if Duncan Hamilton secretly wished he competed in the 2950 steeplechase. After all, that’s approximately how many… Read More
NCAA Men’s 5000 — Hacker Leads Big 10’s 1–2
THE CONDITIONS for a good 5000 were right, as the weather was perfect and the runners were primed. Coming in,… Read More
NCAA Men’s 10,000 — The Patience of Jacobs
NO TWO SCRIPTS ARE THE SAME. The ’21 NCAA 10K was the fastest yet, with 10 running under a meet… Read More
NCAA Men’s 110 Hurdles — 13-Flat For Cunningham
BACK IN 2018 Florida State frosh Trey Cunningham finished 4th, and three years of medals and glory surely lay ahead…. Read More
NCAA Men’s 400H — Burrell Returns To Form
BEST-LAID PLANS can indeed sometimes go awry. Defending champ Sean Burrell can attest to that. He had a great lane… Read More
NCAA Men’s 4×1 — USC Reinvents Itself
RARE IS THE TEAM that can lose its best sprinter a month before the NCAA but mount a comeback that… Read More
NCAA Men’s 4×4 — Gators Scare Their CR
FLORIDA’S CR-HOLDING FOURSOME went to their marks favored to win and with the team title already clinched. The quartet of… Read More
NCAA Men’s High Jump — Shankar Wins Shootout
CONTESTED UNDER cool, threatening skies that never dropped rain, the high jump was the ultimate Western showdown: Tejaswin Shankar, dressed… Read More
