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V11 N. 84 Christmas Card Opportunities This Year
Last year we brought your attention to the plight of Jim Kerr former US Olympic Pentathlete living in The Virgin Islands and many of you responded generously by sending him a card to his care...
View ArticleV 11 N. 85 Catherine Ndereba Road in Nairobi gets trashed and literature on...
One of the things I enjoy about blogging is never having to answer to an editor or someone looking over my shoulder and having to justify what I put on the blog. Today I read a miserable story about...
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V 11 N. 86 Al Franken West Coast Track and Field Promoter R.I.P.
I didn't know of Al Franken, but I'm sure many of our readers did know him. This article just appeared in today's L.A. Times. Throughout the country there must be a handful of guys like Al Franken,...
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V 11 N. 87 What Would You Pay for a Silver and Bronze 1928 Olympic Medal?
Last night while channel surfing I came across an "Antiques Road Show" segment from Great Britain.Immediately some items being displayed caught my eye as Olympic type medals, which they were. They...
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V 11 N. 88 Remembering the Early Days of the UTEP T&F Program
This came to us from Mike Solomon, former member of those early teams at University of Texas El Paso (UTEP). In those days the university went by the name Texas Western. I remember when the school...
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V 12 N. 1 Charles Fonville First to Throw 58 Feet
Yesterday I was browsing my favorite second hand store and saw a Life Magazine May 24, 1948. It was sealed, so I couldn't look inside, but I bought it anyway since this was the year I started in...
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V 12 N. 2 Jud Logan, World Class Hammer Thrower and Coach at Ashland...
Jud Logan was a giant of a man, not only physically but in character as well. He was not only a 4-time Olympian but a Coach-of-the-Year at every level including the national level. He was without peer...
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V 12 N. 3 Barbara Jacket, 1992 US Olympic Team Coach R.I.P.
Barbara Jacket December 6, 1934 - January 6, 2022Barbara Jacket, a pioneer in women's...
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V 12 N. 4 Dean Hayes 57 Years Coach at Middle Tennessee State R.I.P.
DEAN HAYES OBITUARY LinkAnother longtime coach Dean Hayes of Middle Tennessee State has passed away. The link above is from the Middle Tennessee State Website....
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V 12 N. 5 Rink Babka Silver Medalist/Olympian R.I.P.
Russ Reabold of Trojan Force just notified me of the passing of Rink Babka.Rink BabkaRink Babka briefly attended Menlo Junior College and then attended Southern Cal where he played football in...
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V 12 N. 6 Is There Life After 80 and Do Runners Inhabit Novels In a Minor...
Here are two pieces that might require you to put on your thinking caps. Roger Robinson, Then and NowSeveral people have recently sent me a...
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V 12 N. 7 Some Scattershot Thoughts on Roger Robinson's Article
Some of you by now have read Roger Robinson's article on racing as we get old, I mean really old like 80 and over. I've had a few thoughts of my own since posting that piece (Jan. 21). And some of...
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V 12 N. 8 Book Launch of Jack Yerman Biography
It gives us great pleasure to announce an upcoming author reading and book launch by Bruce Yerman son of 1960 Olympic Gold medallist Jack Yerman. You are all invited. As some of you know, Jack and...
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V 12 N. 9 Steve Prefontaine Would Be 71 Today
Thanks to Mike Waters for sending this in to us.From: WCH Oregon22 <info@worldchampsoregon22.com>Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022Subject: Celebrating Steve Prefontaine’s Legacy Celebrating Steve...
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V 12 N. 10 John Rambo, Olympic High Jump Bronze 1964 R.I.P.
This obituary is from the website 562.org Thanks to Darryl Taylor, John's teammate at Long Beach State U. for bringing this to our attention. John Rambo, one of the coolest names in track way...
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V 12 N. 11 Warren Jay 'Rex' Cawley US Olympic Champion 400 IH Tokyo 1964 R.I.P.
I just heard from Russ Reabold of the USC Trojan Force alumni group that Rex Cawley passed away recently. It's been a tough month for USC also losing Rink Babka in January. At this time there is no...
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V 12 N. 12 The Glue That Binds Our Many Running Communities, Don Wahle Was...
Every community of runners from the rocky shores of Portland, Me, to the cornbelt of Ames, Iowa, the Swamps of Savannah, Georgia, the blustery prairies of North Dakota, the Mountains of Idaho, the...
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V 12 N. 13 Glenn Davis Video
Glenn Davis setting WR in 440 45.7Glenn Davis Melbourne and Rome link to youtubeFebruary 14 was Earl Young's 81st birthday and I'm sure all of...
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V 12 N. 14 What Goes Into the Construction of a Fast Indoor Track?
Many, many years ago, indoor tracks were fabrications that could have been from the minds of just about any carpenter who was given a set of dimensions into which he had to build a track with a turn...
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V 12 N. 15 The Ukraine Invasion: What Would Sergei Bubka Do?
Watching the news about Ukraine the last few days, one of the questions that came to mind is where does Sergei Bubka stand on the Russian Invasion? I wrote Walt Murphy and he sent back this article...
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