Archive for October, 2005

Happy new year 5766 to my fellow Jewish masters

L’shanah tovah, y’all! Rosh Hashanah started at sundown tonight. It’s the High Holy Days for a group that includes my sprinter friends Hillel Katzeff, Marty Krulee and Stephen Robbins. (Also, my straddler friend Jason Meisler.) We make up for our lack of Mark Spitzes and Sandy Koufaxes with a few doctors and scientists here and […]

October 3, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Hawaii newspaper tries to pin down Lindgren on shadowy past

Gerry Lindgren can run but he can’t hide — from the questions. My videotaped chat with the distance legend at Hawaii masters nationals in August had a gullibly starstruck tone to it. I simply wasn’t aware of the more notorious aspects of his personal history. But having been named a track assistant at the University […]

October 2, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Ross Dunton’s rankings are dead; long live any future rankings

In 2003 and 2004, with Dave Clingan retired from his world masters rankings efforts, Ross Dunton of Tennessee took up the challenge. Coach Dunton, an unpaid volunteer for World Masters Athletics, collated some national championship results from Europe, America and Oceania and called it a world performance list. The online rankings were useless, which I […]

October 1, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed