No April Fools’ piece, just the usual NMN hilarity
What a letdown. After I go to the trouble of building up anticipation for an annual April Fools’ Day article in the April issue of National Masters News, they go and publish without one. That doesn’t mean there’s nothing funny in the latest issue. I got a chuckle reading of Christel Donley’s recent hurdle exploits. The authors of the Page One story? Christel and Jerry Donley.
That made be flash back to my senior year in high school, when I was a sports writer for my school newspaper, the Burke Beat at Harry A. Burke High School in Omaha, Nebraska.
One day I did a story on the Burke track team’s achievements at a UNO indoor meet. I specifically told the editor to leave my name off the story. Oops, she forgot. So the story came out with a blow-by-blow account of my hurdle race, under my own byline. Got a lot of ribbing for that, I assure you.
I also had a deja vu moment when I got to the “Track & Field Report” by USATF Masters Chairman George Mathews. He didn’t write a column so much as copy-and-paste his answers to a recent email note I sent him on doping issues.
The column is headlined: “Drug Testing Questions and Answers”
Since the USATF Masters site is still featuring his January column, I don’t expect the April column to be online at USATF soon. I’ll post his column when I can find his email note to me. It’s pretty revealing.
Overall, a good issue, though. Great column by Mike Tymn on M85 sprinter Dr. Rod Parker.
