NCAA News *This Weekend’s NCAA Results *Battle Of Beantown Results

• Saturday – Roy Griak: Boise State Women Dominate With 37 Points To Michigan State’s 116 Cal’s Bethan Knights dominated the individual race, beating Boise State’s Allie Ostrander by 16 seconds. *Full Results
• Michigan State Men Win Over Southern Utah At Roy Griak
• Colorado State’s Jefferson Abbey And Jerrell Mock Go 1-2 *Full Results
• Discuss: Boise State women crushed the field
  *Men’s Roy Griak 2015- Why did everybody run so slow?
• Stanford: Stanford Men And Women Both Win At Home Invite Sean McGorty won the individual race, beating an unattached Grant Fisher by 26 seconds. North Dakota’s Erin Teschuk won the women’s race. *Results
  *MB: GRANT FISHER unattached 2nd at stanford invitational!
  *MB: D2 Chico almost EMBARRASSES D1 Stanford 
• OSU: Oklahoma State Sweeps Jamboree For Sixth Consecutive Year OSU’s Cerake Geberkidane and Alabama’s Rachael Reddy were the individual winners. *Men’s Results *Women’s Results
• Virginia: Cavaliers Sweep Their Home Virginia/Panorama Farms Invitational Titles *Results
• Texas: Texas Sweeps At Texas A&M Invy

Friday – LRC No. 3 Syracuse Men And No. 8 Providence Women Crush Competition At 2015 Coast-To-Coast Battle In Beantown Stony Brook’s Christina Melian and Syracuse’s Justyn Knight were the individual winners. After the race, Providence coach Ray Treacy reveals that he thinks this year’s squad is better 1-5 than his 2013 title team and Syracuse coach Chris Fox reveals that superstar Justyn Knight only runs 50-60 mpw.
*MB: Coast to coast battle in bean town at franklin park…
*MB: So sick: Syracuse’s Justyn Knight ran 3:39 and 13:34 on 35 mpw

Recommended Read: Washington Post: “Running For Their Lives, Ethiopians Seek A Safer Track In Washington DC” Article follows story of Ethiopian refugees such as 18-year-old 400 NR holder Genet Lire, who used running as a means to escape political persecution in Ethiopia. They left behind their families and promising running careers to avoid jail and torture and now are struggling to survive in the US.

More Weekend Action

• Deena Kastor Ties Women’s World Masters 5K Record At Rock ‘N’ Roll San Jose She ran 15:48 to tie Colleen De Reuck‘s mark from 2004.
  *MB: This Deserves A Ton of Praise: 42 Year Old Deena Kastor Runs 15:48
• World Junior 1,500 Record Holder Ronald Kwemoi Wins Japan National Corporate Championships With A Meet Record 3:37.54
• Gemma Steel Going For Her Fifth Straight Win At The Great Yorkshire Run 10K On Sunday Chris Thompson leads the men’s field.

Olympic Bidding News

• CBS Reporter Argues That USOC Still Doesn’t Understand Why Boston 2024 Bid Failed
• USOC Extends CEO Scott Blackmun’s Contract Through 2020 With Option Through 2024 He’ll stay at his current contract, which pays him nearly $980,000.
• Paris 2024 Leaders Launch Crowdfunding Campaign The campaign included selling $2.25 wristands as they try to raise their $67 million budget.

Masters News

• Q&A With The University Of Michigan’s First Female Athlete And Coach (And 2-Time Olympian) Francie Kraker Goodridge Her husband, John, is the coach at Eastern Michigan.
• Former 2:10:59 Marathoner Sean Wade Is Training For Sub-4:20 Mile At Age 50 He’s 49 now and recently ran 4:25.
• Master * 2.5 Former Michigan 4 X 400 Runner And Famed Photographer Phil Balyeat Has Turned 100

Odds & Ends

• Allyson Felix Writes Essay On Players Tribune Praising The Role Her Brother Wes Plays As Her Agent
• RRCA Hands Out $57,000 In Grants For Runners In Olympic Trials

Jumps And Throws

• Worth A Look: Check Out Some GIFs Of Chinese HJer And World Silver Medalist Zhang Guowei Celebrating Some Of His Best Jumps Zhang could put some NFL touchdown dances to shame.
• IAAF Profile On World Shot Put Bronze Medalist O’Dayne Richards: Sprints Nation Jamaica Now Making Big Waves In The Throws Richards says before his brother recruited him to throwing, he was a skinny, nerdy bookworm.
• Canadian Hammer Thrower Daniel Novia Gets 3-Year, 8-Month Ban After Testing Positive For Three Banned Drugs He got a reduction from 4 years because he admitted to it and waived his right to a trial.

The Week That Was – Our Weekly Recap

LRCWTW: Craig Virgin's Insight On Drugs At Nike's Athletics West, RIP Niall O'Shaughnessy, Sarah Sumpter And Cameron Bean, And How Does Alan Webb Stack Up At Karaoke?

Study: Sitting For Long Stretches Of Time Is Also Bad For Kids After sitting for 3 hours, 9- to 12-year-old girls  showed “a profound reduction in vascular function.”

Pro Distance Stuff: Berlin 2015 Is Sunday

• The Eternal Bridesmaid, Emmanuel Mutai Is Going For Victory In Berlin Mutai has finished runner-up three times in London, twice in NY, once in Chicago and once in last year’s Berlin Marathon where he broke the previous WR, but still lost to Dennis Kimetto. On Sunday, he hopes to notch the second WMM victory of his career.
• Five Reasons Berlin Is So Fast If the WR goes down again, it will be the sixth time in the last nine years.
• RunBlogRun: Ben True And Ryan Hill Edge Closer To The Summit True and Hill talk about their 2015 seasons which saw them finish 6th and 7th at Worlds and break out from Galen Rupp‘s shadow.
• Sarah Brown Talks To Runners World About Her Unexpected Pregnancy And Plans For Training And The Olympic Trials She’ll have the baby less than 15 weeks before the OT, but her husband and coach Darren Brown says, “I’ve seen her do a lot more with a lot less time.”
• Oct. 18: World Marathon Champ Mare Dibaba And Bernard Koech (58:41 PR) Lead Fields For Rock ‘N’ Roll RTP Half Marathon Dibaba faces Berlin/Tokyo champ Tirfi Tsegaye while Koech is up against 2011 world 10,000 champ Ibrahim Jeilan and Alex Oloitiptip (59:28).

Doping (aka Russian) News

• Stop Us If You’ve Heard This One Before: Six More Russian Racewalkers Banned After Testing Positive No, this is not an old article; these are six new suspensions. Remember in the summer when Russia said it wouldn’t send any racewalkers to Worlds to avoid “disgrace”? Well, that was because they already knew about these six suspensions.
• WADA And China Sign Groundbreaking Agreement To Work To Eliminate Illegal Manufacture And Supply Of PEDs A recent investigation found that the majority of substances originated from Chinese laboratories, so WADA is attempting to stop doping at the source.

Olympic News

• LA 2024 Flexes Financial Muscle By Funding Its Bid Budget Of $35 Million In A Week LA 2024 chairman Casey Wasserman: “We are funded and ready to go and looking forward to the next two years.” However, France looks to have a bigger planned budget of $68 million.
• RIP: Last Surviving Priestess From The First Olympic Flame Lighting Ceremony Passes Away Maria Horss passed away at 94. She was only 14 when she took part in the first lighting of the Olympic flame for the 1936 Berlin Games.
• Good: Low Budgets For Rio Opening And Closing Ceremonies A Brazilian filmmaker who is part of the team said he would be “ashamed to waste what London spent in a country where we need sanitation” and that he is “very glad we’re not spending money like crazy.” London spent $104 million.
• Belgian Designer Pressing Ahead With Plagiarism Cause Against IOC Over Tokyo 2020 Logo This despite the fact that the IOC is no longer using the logo and the theater that owns it withdrew the charges.
• Rio 2016 Claims Several Olympic Venues Are Approaching Completion, But Track Isn’t One Of Them
• Opinion Piece: Paris 2024 Olympic Bid “Offers Certainty”

The Integrity Of The Sport Is At Stake – Mike Rossi Is A Marathon Cheat And Should Have Been DQed From The 2014 Lehigh Valley Marathon

Lehigh Valley Got It Wrong: The Evidence Is Conclusive: Mike Rossi – The Viral Boston Marathon Dad – Is A Marathon Cheat And Should Never Have Been On The Starting Line In Boston In April, Mike Rossi gained international fame for his snarky response to a letter from his kids’ principal scolding him for taking them out of school for several days to watch Boston. A LetsRun.com investigation has revealed that Rossi’s principal was correct, the kids should never have been in Boston as the evidence is conclusive – their father didn’t legitimately qualify for the 2015 Boston Marathon. How confident are we that Rossi cut the course when he “ran” his 3:11:45 BQ qualifier at Lehigh Valley? Extremely. We’ll pay Mike Rossi $10,000 if he qualifies again in the next 12 months – and the qualifying time is 13+ minutes slower – 3:25.
*MB: Did Mike Rossi (viral marathon dad) cheat his way into Boston?