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Year Round Sports Are Depleting US Track
As we’ve watched the world catch up to us in the speed events – sprints, hurdles, relays – we’ve often complained about other sports stealing talent away from track and field. Especially when speed burners like Trindon Holliday, Jeff Demps, and Tyreek Hill come along and opt to focus their considerable talents on football. Of course it’s very easy to single out football because track/football stars get visibility in two high profile areas. After all, they’re usually running backs or wide receivers in football, and then run the high profile sprints in track and field. Add that with the speed they posses, they been landed by high profile collegiate programs…
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Mary Cain to Go Pro
It had to happen sooner or later, a high school phenomenon turning pro. After all, we’ve seen world class high schoolers in the past. Certainly several WAY back during the early days of track and field when youngsters like Bob Mathias were dominant internationally. Even during what I consider the modern era of the sport – The 1960’s forward, athletes like, Houston McTear, Mary Decker, Dwayne Evans, and Gerry Lindgren among others were among the top world class level athletes. There was simply no professional track for them to transition into. More recently, however, we’ve seen Allyson Felix emerge as an international threat while in high school. She made the…
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PED’s a Decade After BALCO
BALCO. The biggest doping scandal in sports history. From Barry Bonds to Marion Jones, some of the biggest names in sport came tumbling down. Victor Conte became a household name. Everyone became familiar with the phrase "performance enhancing drugs".Baseball’s greatest era of home run hitters was labeled "The Drug Era" and American athletes – specifically sprinters – drew the stigma of dopers! Not a pretty sight! Doping issues in the sport were grabbing headlines weekly. And it seemed like the only news the sport could get was bad news. Every American sprinter that ran under 10.00, 20.00, 11.00, or 22.00 became suspect, and the bashing of US sprinters became a…