I have to admit, I didn’t realize just how tough it would be to watch the Olympics live! Here on the West Coast, that meant getting up at 3:00am. Watching the Games. Then a full day of work. Then more track and field. Then bed long enough to get some rest before repeating - for a week and a half. Literally track and field Nirvana Read More...
The CHill Zone of T&F: Conway's View From the Finish Line
USATF Championships Review
Jul 31st, 2019
1:57 pm PDT
1:57 pm PDT
For four days America's best track and field athletes got together in Des Moines Iowa to decide who would represent the US at the World Championships. Lots to say, some good, some bad, so let's start with the bad. I'm not sure what the selection process is for championship sites, and I understand that this meet is going to be held in the summer, but how many times have I seen this meet affected by rain? So on Championship Sunday we're hit by rain yet again Read More...
USATF Preview
Jul 16th, 2019
11:10 am PDT
11:10 am PDT
We're a little over a week from the USATF Championships. No more competitions to watch. The time has finally arrived. And after months of meets - we still don't know much! With Worlds being so late, some athletes have been very cautious. Then there are the collegiate kids that have already peaked for a championship Read More...
USATF Athletes of the Year
Oct 30th, 2016
2:06 pm PDT
2:06 pm PDT
Given the recent articles in the news regarding Max Siegel and his elaborate lifestyle while USATF stagnates, I've held off saying anything at all about US track - though I have written a few things that I will begin to post. Today after seeing the choices for male and female athlete of the year, I feel that I should speak my mind, and begin voicing my opinions again Read More...
My Position on Justin Gatlin
Aug 16th, 2016
12:05 pm PDT
12:05 pm PDT
Can someone, anyone, explain to me why Justin Gatlin is made out to be the devil of track and field? People are booing him in Rio. Sebastian Coe is praying he doesn't win. Why? And the American media is the worst constantly bringing up his past - erroneously I might add. Funny, I haven't heard ANYONE bringing up the fact that Michael Phelps was a dope smoking fiend that had to leave swimming for a while! No one, including Coe who is holier than thou when it comes to "doping and suspensions" has booed, wished ill of, or said that Shelley Ann Fraser Pryce, Yohan Blake, Asafa Powell, or Veronica Campbell Brown don't belong in the Olympics - and every one has tested positive and served suspensions! But they still get PRAISED for their accomplishments! As a matter of fact, everyone is talking about Bolt attempting the "Triple, Triple" except the leadoff man on each of the previous Olympic 4x1's was Nesta Carter - currently serving a ban for retested samples from Beijing! So, not really a Triple Triple - especially if it is later discovered that he was also doping elsewhere! No Read More...
Events I’ll Be Watching at US Nationals
Jun 25th, 2014
7:41 pm PDT
7:41 pm PDT
Typically Nationals is one of the two hottest meets of the year behind only the World Championships or Olympics. This is an "off season" however, that once every four years non championship season. So the full complement of elites looking to make a global team is a bit lighter than usual. My biggest disappointment in this regards is the Men's 100 which is missing Justin Gatlin and the new kid on the block Trayvon Bromell, as neither of the year's two fastest Americans is entered in the competition Read More...
Saturday, A Day of Track and Field
Apr 28th, 2014
10:39 am PDT
10:39 am PDT
In the year 2014 we finally got what I've always known TV could give us - a full day of track & field! The thought of watching track all day on television has been a dream of mine forever.There is an old saying however, be careful what you ask for, you might it. and my day of sitting in the comfort of my home watching track and field had it's moments Read More...
Gay (9.75) & Gardener (10.85) Lead US Champs
Jun 22nd, 2013
7:40 am PDT
7:40 am PDT
We're halfway through the US Trials and those gusts of wind that have been howling through the stadium seem to be the winds of change as veterans have been dropping like flies in Des Moines. Jeremy Wariner out in the first round. Ditto Angelo Taylor. Walter Dix a semifinal casualty. Doc Patton a DNS Read More...
USATF Plot Lines
Jun 17th, 2013
9:06 am PDT
9:06 am PDT
The World Championships are in August, and this week we select the athletes that will be representing the good old Red, White, and Blue. In spite of the fact that many say the sport is dead, the US Trials are annually one of the greatest meets on the planet - trumped in depth only by the Games and World Championships themselves Read More...