Nike dropped pictures of their U.S. Olympic Track and Field suits today, intended to reduce drag and lift and separate and wash without wrinkles and all the other fine features intended to win gold through a better mousetrap. We certainly appreciate the millions of dollars surely poured into their development and expect records to […]

Congratulations to all the track and field athletes that made the U.S. Olympic team at the most demanding of all the U.S. Olympic trials; best of luck in Beijing. Still, we worry about the lives of America’s track and field athletes. Raising funds to train can be draining, not to mention the lack […]

Via AWFUL ANNOUNCING, we are alerted to today’s wonderful accidental headline of the day, the morning after sprinter Tyson Gay runs a wind-aided 9.86 in the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic Trials.

Apparently, a news service called ONE NEWS NOW run by the highly conservative American Family Association has a little filter that changes words […]

With many of the Olympic sports we watch every four years on the TV under scrutiny thanks to Marion Jones, Justin Gatlin, and many others, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has introduced blood testing for doping at the Olympic trials for track and field this weekend and will use them for swimmers next week as well, […]

LSU may have lost star QB & Osama bin Laden hunter Ryan Perrilloux, but the Tigers can take comfort by telling themselves (and everyone else) that they have the fastest college football player ever.

Brett Hait of the NASHVILLE CITY PAPER is quick to mention Trindon Holliday, junior wide receiver for the Bayou Bengals. And if […]

Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang has been nursing a sore hamstring as he hobbles toward the Olympics to be held in his homeland.

But as he prepares to represent his communist nation, he’s also preparing to sell some Amway products. Of course!

It’s not that the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association doesn’t believe in instant replay — they might — it’s just they don’t believe every video that falls into their lap. The WIAA is under scrutiny for disqualifying state 3,200-meter winner Nicole Cochran, despite third party video evidence showing it wasn’t her, but her teammate who should […]

Don Norcross of he SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE jogs up the inspiring story of a high school senior who’s been running all over the place in order to help a sick friend.

(Nick Hollon [L] running to help Andrew Bundy [R])
Nick Hollon has been running & raising money in a show of support for Andrew Bundy, a […]

Since the Ameri-centric coverage of the Olympics on NBC and other outlets deprives us of learning about our foreign counterparts, we’re taking on some of that burden of delivering these athletes and their stories to you.

Such an athlete would be Kim Gevaert, the Belgian sprinter who took care of business over the weekend in the […]

Sweden english-speaking media outlet THE LOCAL reports that Swedish track star Carolina Kluft is upset with promoters of an upcoming Scottish track meet “for combining her likeness with a caricature of Pippi Longstocking for a press conference promoting an upcoming competition.”

Kluft on the ham-fisted, photoshopped image: “I don’t think that looks so nice. I have […]