Quote of the Day

"It's fun to win individual national championships. It's a goal of mine. But the bigger thing is to help the team win by getting points. It's not an issue of how many individual championships I win."

- Oregon's Galen Rupp who said he'll run a leg on the DMR if Vin Lananna asks him to. We'd be shocked if he ran on the DMR.

NCAA D1 Indoors *Live Webcast on ESPN360 Starting at 8pm
Women
*Heat Sheets/Schedule/Results  
*TFN's Women's Predictions - Tennessee 1st, A&M 2nd
*Sally Kipyego's Unbelievable Career To Come To An End As She Eyes A Record 10th NCAA Title Amazingly the nursing student is on her feet 8 to 10 hours a day.
*Is Kipyego The Greatest Ever?
*Pat Henry & A&M Excited To Be Hosting Meet on Mondo Track

Men *Heat Sheets/Schedule/Results  
*TFN Men's Prediction - Oregon Edges Arkansas
*Oregon Paper Has Ducks Blowing Away Competition Interesting to point out that that Wheating has a blister.
*Galen Rupp Will Do Whatever It Takes To Give Ducks The Title Oregon women going for 1st ever top 10 showing.
*Jacob Hernandez Hoping To Beat Wheating, Mulder and His Own Teammate Hernandez lost the school record to Tevan Everett
*Oregon Plane Makes Emergency Landing On Way to Meet
*Rupp, Fernandez and Rojo Honored By USTFCCCA

NCAA D2 Meet
*Start Lists/Heat Sheets/Results

*DII Indoor Predictions

NCAA D3 *Results *Live Video (Mile starts at 4pm)

LJ Controversy?
*Spanish president: Bayer's 8.71 was a measuring error!
*Spanish President Unhappy With Medal Performance of Team - Says Long Jump Judge Messed Up This page is the original page translated from Spanish
*Germans Dismiss Spanish Whining "We have no reason to doubt it."

We're Making None Of These Headlines Up
1. Dwain Chambers Working With Victor Conte Again
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3,000 young Chinese Athletes Found To Be Older Than They Claim
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Dwain Chambers Wants To Be a Youth Mentor
Maybe he should go to China and teach them to lie and cheat.

AK Won't Let Any Athletes Or Officials Travel Without Insurance Of course, they have to pay for it themselves.

Kenya Rules Out Sacrificing Some Runners For Others At World XC -
Additionally, last year's 4th placer at world jrs has been added to the team.

Dwain Chambers 'Strongly Considered' Suicide During Drug Ban

A New Site For Track Stat Nuts: All-Athletics.com

Seb Coe Thinks Olympics & Commonwealhts Will Result In Golden Decarde Of Sport for UK

Sierra Leone Names World XC Squad

Italian Distance Runner Roberto Barbi Gets Lifetime Doping Ban He's tested positive 3 times.

Preview of This Weekend's South African Outdoor Champs

A Must Read Erin Donohue Dealing With The John Cook Drama Donohue is moving on in pursuit of her dreams coaching herself with help from Gags while Cook isn't looking back either. Cook, "I didn’t recruit any of those girls.... Erin was waddling around the Nike campus 10 pounds overweight."

Today's Kiwi Christchurch Meet Brit Andrew Baddeley is going for a sub 3:50 mile paced by Rob Myers.

World XC Is Coming
*A Look at Japanese World XC Squad: Can Japanese Girls Win Bronze for 9th Time in 11 years?
*A Look At Australia's Jr Distance Running Revolution & Ryan Gregson
Some think the Aussies will be the 1st non-African team.

City-Pier-City Run Is Saturday
Geb Geb Wants To Get His Half Marathon World Record Back
"The fact that Wanjiru broke my world record here is an extra motivation. It proves the course is very fast. When my running career is over I will have broken at least 30 world records. The Fortis City-Pier-City Run half marathon looks like an excellent opportunity to bring this goal nearer.”
*Geb To Compete in Manchester Run in May - May Go For 27:04 WR

Dwain Chambers/British News
*Math Geek Says Despite Lack of Medals Britian Did Well At Euros
- Scoring the top 8, they had their 4th best ever showing.
*Berlin Ripped By Other Meet Directors For Letting Chambers In You gotta admit its genius on their part to create buzz.
*Dwain Chambers To Be Asked By UK Athletics Why He's With Victor Conte

A Look at A Reinvigorated 32-Year Old Rui Silva Countryman Carlos Lopes won gold at 37.

Good News: Drake Relays To Be On National Television For 1st Time Since 1961 The 100th running will be part of the Visa Championship Series as USATF will broadcast from both Penn and Drake. Interesting to learn that ABC's Wide World Of Sports debuted in Drake in 1961.
*USATF's Visa Championship Series TV Ratings Up 22% Indoors

Drug News
*European Researchers Call for New Doping Standards Based on Ethnicity
*Canada Anti-Doping Agency No Longer Will Hide Identity of Marijuana Abusers

Research Undermines Hi-Tech Shoes Australians reveal no study as ever proved they limit injury or help performance so they plan to do a study later in the year.

Jamaica's Olympic Heroes Including Bolt To Run in Jamaica on May 2

After Injury & Bereavement Sentayehu Ejigu Eyes World XC Champs She's the one that beat Flanagan in Boston.

Gate River Run is Saturday and 8 Olympians Will Compete in US 15k Champs
Fam, J. Torrres, D. Browne,  Dobson, De Reuck, Dryer, Rudolph and Yoder Begley.
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Gate River Run Won't Finish In Stadium This Year

Thanks to Distance Squad, Oregon Is Favored For Men's NCAA Indoor Title

Back In The Limelight: Geb Attempts To Blast Wanjiru's Half Marathon Record This Weekend If Geb can get his record back, it would be his 27th World Record. Ryan Hall will be there too, tuning up for Boston. has pulled out of the race.

Anyone Remember Chelanga?