With the exception of using iPods to warm-up before race events, be they track & field, XC or road races, I am 100% against the use of iPods in competition. It is a safety issue for both the person using the iPod and for athlete's around the hearing distracted athlete. Get over it. If you can't   more...
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Here's the latest photos of pole vaulting phenom Allison Stokke, as she soars to new heights with the Cal track & field team
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This one's just a bit too weird....
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If you are going to bring it, the Penn Relays is the place to do it. Michigan's distance medley relay team did just that. Serita Williams, Danielle Tauro, Geena Gall and anchor leg Nicole Edwards clocked the second fastest collegiate DMR time to win in 10 minutes, 49.58 seconds. Edwards, a   more...
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Definition: Where a writer of a site spends an inordinate amount of time researching an article that gets a decent amount of traffic, then links to pictures of an attractive female athlete which receives about a hundred times more attention.
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If you are a stat junkie, this article is chock full of interesting bits of information about this week's women's Olympic qualifier for the marathon. Women's marathoning is getting stronger and stronger every quadrennium. Check the article for proof! A one-hour highlight show is scheduled to air   more...
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I really don't see what the big deal is. She's young, athletic, attractive, basically the kind of girl I go out with every day.
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The IOC has decided to strip medals from Marion Jones' relay team members from the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The athletes on Jones' 4x400m relay team will lose their gold medal and 4 x100m team will surrender their bronze medals. The US Olympic Committee has said it will accept the IOC's decision but   more...
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Hello noble readers. I've located some good material from around the blogosphere, and I want to share.The World of Issac is running a 4 bracket, Dirtiest Name In Sports Tournament. Who doesn't chuckle upon hearing the names Dick Trickle, Chubby Cox, Rusty Kuntz, and David Seaman? Many more great   more...
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Stuff like this always seems to happen in states like North Carolina. Apparently, the coach resigned the next day. I guess he's not totally brain-dead.And not even MacGyver can figure out how this perv got her father to sign the consent forms.
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Some fun photos from this weekend's London Marathon. The race of over 35,000 competitors had it all, from African tribesmen & camels to Star Wars stormtroopers & Borat impersonators.
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NEW YORK -- Ryan Shay and Ryan Hall hoped to celebrate together with their wives after the U.S. men's marathon Olympic trials.Now Hall, the trials champ, faces a future of all he dreamed about and what he never imagined: the glory of the Olympics, the heartbreak of a funeral.Shay, one of America's   more...
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Marion was sentenced to 6 months in the slammer today."Track and field superstar Marion Jones was sentenced this morning to six months in prison for lying to federal investigators about the BALCO steroid ring and for lying about a check-fraud scheme involving her ex-boyfriend, the Olympic sprinter   more...
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Distance running is not a sport that most people would describe as watchable. At least it wasn't.
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NEW YORK -- Paula Radcliffe outlasted Gete Wami to win the New York City Marathon on Sunday, her first marathon in two years after giving birth in January.Martin Lel of Kenya won the men's title, making his kick in the final mile to edge Abderrahim Goumri of Morocco in 2 hours, 9 minutes, 4 seconds   more...
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