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Dwight Stones’ talk show: ‘The Mouth That Soars’

Before broadcasting, coaching and other ventures began cutting into his time, Dwight Stones was an active masters high jumper. His duel with Jim Barrineau at the 1995 Buffalo worlds is the stuff of legend. (He lost.) Now he’s found another way to avoid high jumping — his own radio show. Little known fact about him […]

May 16, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Ross Dunton’s plan: training through Alzheimer’s

Masters coach and athlete Ross Dunton displays his courage — and sense of humor — in his latest update on his Alzheimer’s disease. In his current newsletter, Ross writes: “I am sharing this with you so that you will have a better understanding of how my Alzheimer’s is progressing, not so that you will feel […]

May 16, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Tooting the horn of the Fountain of Youth Masters Mile

Event organizer Dave Clingan has shared a report on Saturday’s Fountain of Youth Masters Mile in Canby, Oregon. He also posted photos of the mile, which included Henry Rono from New Mexico and a record-breaking performance by fellow M55 Nolan Shaheed of Pasadena. Dave writes: “To make (Nolan’s) accomplishment even more impressive, Shaheed had to […]

May 15, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Hayward Masters Classic results are posted — at last

Sandy Pashkin of the Oregon Track Club Masters tonight posted results for Saturday and Sunday’s Hayward Masters Classic. She’s been a busy bee of late, since the USATF masters records pages also have been updated (as of today). Among the records noted as (p) for pending: John Altendorf’s 4.00 M60 vault Sunday at Eugene. (And […]

May 15, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

M45 javelin record is Bradstock’s latest masterpiece

Yet another record is apparent from the Bob Boal Southeastern Masters meet results. We learn from fellow spearchucker Chuck Greene: “Arne-Roald Bradstock, member of Great Britain’s 1984 and 1988 Olympic teams — more recently a U.S. citizen — launched the 800-gram javelin 68.80 (225-9) at the Southeastern meet in Durham, North Carolina, on May 4.” […]

May 15, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Germans drop baton, may miss deadline for Riccione

According to the Koops’ masters site, Germans wanting to enter the Riccione worlds in September may be up a creek without a beer stein. “They are acting goofy over there,” writes one of my German-speaking friends. “Set their own deadline on May 31 while the WMA deadline is May 31 as well. If they go […]

May 15, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Say it ain’t so! Stallone was juiced to the gills in ‘RB’

Well, yeah. Those were Sly Stallone’s real muscles in “Rocky Balboa,” which I gave a glowing review. But had Steroid Stallone been drug-tested after making his masters boxing movie, he would have been banned for three or four lifetimes. Now we learn he was mainlining human growth hormone, which for most athletes is, like, kind […]

May 15, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Willie Gault, 46, lays down a legal 10.89 for 100

Willie Gault celebrated his company’s recent sale of a part of Aloha Airlines to United by running 100 meters in 10.89 seconds Saturday at the same Oxy Invitational where Jim Sorensen ran his M40 AR in the 800. The wind on Willie’s race was a legal 1.2 meters per second. Willie ran 10.72 last year […]

May 14, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Results delayed from Hayward Masters Classic

The folks at the Oregon Track Club Masters pride themselves (rightly) on putting on one of the best masters meets in the world. Their annual Hayward Masters Classic attracts hundreds of age-groupers from around the country to the University of Oregon’s famed Hayward Field. But the meet was held over the weekend (Saturday and Sunday), […]

May 14, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Mark Coogan wins $250 for sub-4:30 mile in N.Y.

Atlanta Olympian Mark Coogan clocked 4:29.53 to win the inaugural masters mile at the Kip Keino event Sunday sponsored by letsrun.com. It was a great M40 time for the windy conditions. And he collected $250 for his efforts. Mark was interviewed for a podcast about a year ago. The Ithaca Journal reported on the event.

May 14, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed