– Nike founder Phil Knight writing in a column entitled “My Fill-In Father” in the New York Times on Father’s Day. Knight really bonded with Bowerman and not so much his emotionless own father but recently found out that his dad had written Bowerman (whom he knew as they both attended Oregon together) letters about his son before Knight enrolled in Oregon.
Melissa Bishop went 1:58 for the 2nd time in 3 days.
Court documents reveal that Nike certainly didn't agree to pay Berian a minimum of $375,000 over three years ($125,000 per year). Nike wanted to have the right to terminate the agreement entirely if Berian was injured and didn't compete for 180 days. If Berian got injured and only competed a handful of times and didn't make Worlds and wasn't ranked in the top 10 in the world, they wanted to be able to reduce his pay from $125,000 to $6,250. If he died or was permanently disabled, they also wanted to be able to cancel the deal. Berian says that's one reason why he doesn't want to run for Nike - the other is he doesn't like their shoes as he bombed out of USAs the first time he competed in them last year.
Ryan Hall Gets Profile In Men’s Journal About His Transformation From Rail-Thin Runner To 40-Pounds-Heavier Weight Lifter Hall says he has more energy now, has fixed his testosterone levels and is eating more now than when he was running 20 miles a day.
*MB:Ryan Hall: a dozen eggs per day (yes, that’s 84 eggs per week !!!!)
Stop Pre Phe: Phoebe Wright Selling “Stop Phe” T-Shirts
LRC Who’s In? Who’s On The Bubble? 2016 US Men’s Olympic Trials Descending Order Lists Given past history, we know there is bound to be a ridiculous controversy so we’ve tried to get ahead of it and let you know how things stand two weeks from the Trials.
LRC Who’s In? Who’s On The Bubble? 2016 US Women’s Olympic Trials Descending Order Lists
New Balance Outdoor Nationals Schedule, Entries, Results And Streaming Info First broadcast starts at 9:30am ET Friday. *Entry Lists
*Event Previews:*Distance*Sprints*Jumps*Throws
Reeva Steenkamp’s Father Says Oscar Pistorius “Must Pay For What He Did” Barry Steenkamp gave an emotional testimony where he said his wife had forgiven Pistorius, but “forgiving doesn’t exonerate you from the crime.”
USATF Files Lawsuit Against Entire Suspended Youth Executive Committee As activist Becca Gillespy Peter explains, these volunteers will now “have to pay a significant amount of money to defend themselves against this lawsuit.”
*Full Lawsuit Document
*MB: USATF & Max Siegel Continue Their Powergrab – This Time Against The Youth
LRC Not A Misprint: True Freshman Donavan Brazier Runs 1:43.55 To Win NCAA 800m In One Of The Greatest American Junior Performances Ever America, it’s time to meet your newest track and field phenom.
*MB:Oh My God!!! 1:43.55!!!!!!!! for Brazier The kid whom many had written off is now a BEAST. And our friend who said last year that Brazier was more talented than Grant Fisher may have been proven correct.
*Video: Watch Donavan Brazier Shatter Jim Ryun’s Collegiate 800 Record Which Celebrated Its 50th Anniversary Yesterday
*Video: Donovan Brazier Talks About His 1:43.55 NCAA Record That Broke Jim Ryun’s Record
LRC A League Of His Own: Clayton Murphy Destroys The Field Over The Final 100 To Win NCAA 1,500 Title In 3:36.38 The Akron star is officially one of America’s two newest mid-d stars as the 800 champ had no problem with the super fast pace and won in the third fastest time ever. If it wasn’t for Brazier, everyone would be going ga-ga over his fine run.
*MB: Clayton Murphy Destroys the 1500m Field – Wins in 3:36!!
Rest Of The Meet LRC Full Friday Men’s Recap: Jarrion Lawson Pulls Off The 100-200-LJ Triple, King Ches Wins #15, Mason Ferlic Dominates 2,800m Of Steeple And Florida Claims The Team Title It had been 80 years since a man had won three events at a single NCAA meet but Arkansas’ Jarrion Lawson equaled the feat last pulled off by Jesse Owens. He wasn’t the only equaling history as Edward Cheserek won a record-tying 15th NCAA title.
LRC 2016 Bislett Games Full Meet Recap: Asbel Kiprop Crushes Everyone In The Mile, Dafne Schippers Crushes Everyone In The 200, And Hagos Gebrhiwet Wins The Loaded 5,000 We break every event down for you including wins by Joe Kovacs and Andre De Grasse as well as 3:59 equivalent for a 15-year old!
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LRC The Restraining Order That Nike Sought Against Boris Berian Is Now Out – Read It Here – Plus Under Penalty Of Perjury, Nick Symmonds, Jesse Williams And Sally Bergesen Support Berian We’ve received the copy of the minute order from a legal expert and they provide a little analysis of what it all means. We also have copies of sworn affidavits in support of Berian from Jesse Williams, Nick Symmonds and Sally Bergesen. Under penalty of perjury, Williams said he’s never signed an athlete to a contact with reductions in it in 12+ years at Brooks.
LRC Nike Is Granted Temporary Restraining Order In Its Lawsuit Against Boris Berian Nike got the 14-day temporary restraining order (TRO) it was seeking even though under the penalty of perjury New Balance’s John Evans said his contractual offer to Berian had no reductions in it.
*MB: Official Discussion Thread For Boris Berian’s Contract Dispute
*MB: Wow: Nike’s mafia-themed party where LetsRun.com was allegedly one of 3 parties to be ‘hit ‘makes it into the WSJ
Berian Podcast From Monday Night Where He Talks About The Lawsuit *Itunes
LRC LetsRun.com Olympic Trials Q&A: Who Are The Favorites To Make Rio? What Big Names Are Going To Stay Home? Wednesday marks three weeks to go until the Olympic Trials. With that in mind, it’s time for the LRC crew to start looking ahead. Who looks good? Who needs a lot of help? Who might surprise? Dare we say who will make the team?
LRC Recap: David Rudisha Is BACK – Runs World’s Second Fastest 600m Ever But Is Nearly Beaten, Mo Farah Gets The One Record He Didn’t Have, Asbel Kiprop Sub-3:30, And The American 800m Women Struggle AgainRudisha is back but beatable, Farah now owns all the British records, the 800m is a different event this year, and Caterine Ibarguen‘s 38-win streak in the triple jump came to an end as English Gardner and Andre De Grasse got wins.
The Pre Classic is this weekend and the Bowerman Mile is LOADED with Olympic champ Taoufik Makhloufi, all three medalists from Worlds last year, plus studs like Matthew Centrowitz, Silas Kiplagat and Ayanleh Souleiman. But the headliner is Asbel Kiprop, and our man on the ground in Kenya, Andy Arnold, says hand him the victory and world record later this summer after getting a behind-the-scenes look at his preparation for Pre.
*MB: The secrets of Asbel Kiprop revealed - Our man on the ground in Kenya says hand him the gold and WRecord
LRC Brooks PR Recap: Could Nick Symmonds And Andrew Wheating Be Watching The Olympic Trials From Home? Symmonds’ ankle injury kept him out and Wheating still doesn’t have an Olympic Trials auto qualifier after windy conditions slowed down the 1,500m. In positive news, Leo Manzano took a big step in the right direction.
More Saturday US Action: MB:COLBY ALEXANDER RUNS 3:36.26 AT PRINCETON The guy who didn’t even make the NCAA finals last year missed the Olympic standard by just .06.
LRC Harry Jerome: Duane Solomon Pulls Up And Runs 1:50, Bishop Defeats Martinez In 800 Clash, De Grasse Doubles, Wariner Still Doesn’t Have A Trials Qualifier And McNamara Wins And Reveals He’s One Of YouA little drama with Solomon’s injury and a great 800m north of the border. Plus Jordan McNamara talks about the message boards and gives some advice.
*Record Crowd Of 6,000+ Showed Up At Harry Jerome To See De Grasse
LRC Full Stockholm DL Recap: Upsets Galore – David Rudisha And Many Favorites Get Beaten As Ibrahim Jeilan, Ferguson Rotich And Angelika Cichocka Pull Off Stunners On a cool and damp evening in Stockholm, there were a lot of surprise winners, including Angelika Cichocka and Ferguson Rotich, but the real question is should Mo Farah be concerned as Ibrahim Jeilan is in the form of his life for 5,000. *Full Results
Amazing Read From The Front Page Of NY Times: “Even With Confession Of Cheating, World’s Doping Watchdog Did Nothing” Lengthy article painting a damning picture of WADA, which was tipped off about Russian systematic doping in 2012 but did nothing. Actually, they did worse than nothing. They forwarded the athlete’s email to the accused Russian officials.
Ultra Runner Robert Young Denies Allegations That He Is Cheating During His Trans-America Run Record Attempt There have been accusations and videos saying that Young is spending time at night riding in his support vehicle rather than running the miles himself.
*MB: Robert Young fakes run across America
LRC Clayton Murphy Turns Pro And Misses Olympic Standard By .03 At Portland Track Festival Murphy wins again and goes pro.
LRC DOMination: Arkansas’ Scott Claims First NCAA Outdoor Title In Women’s 10,000Dominique Scott dominated the final 2 laps to help the Razorbacks team title hopes.
LRC Women’s Day 1 Thursday Recap: PRs But Not A Ton Of Drama In Distance Qualifying, NCAA Records In Jav, Shot, Oregon’s Title Hopes All But Gone Raven Saunders of Ole Miss got the NCAA shot record, Maggie Malone of Texas A&M got the NCAA jav record, Arkansas’ title hopes started well while Oregon’s likely fell by the wayside.
*Squire: Thoughts On Day 2
Outside Coverage
Thursday Men’s Update:LRC Freshman 800m Phenom Donavan Brazier Says He Will NOT Run The Olympic Trials And Has No Idea Who Jim Ryun Is
LRCBailey Roth, American High School Record Holder In The Steeplechase, Is Back With 8:37 PR After Running 9:14 At End Of May Medical issues had his season going in the wrong direction, but now it’s trending up.
Full Coverage On Our 2016 NCAA Outdoor Event Page
Day 1 Full Results King Ches won his 14th title, the 800 prelims were amazing and there was a sub-10 100.
LRC Business As Usual: Edward Cheserek Cruises To Third Straight NCAA 10,000 Title King Cheserek is back on top. As expected, no one could match Cheserek on the final 400m Wednesday. Futsum Zeinasellassie was 2nd and Gabe Gonzalez a surprise 3rd.
LRCDay 1 Recap – Look Out – Tremendous 800 And 1,500 Finals Set For Friday As McBride, Brazier, Yorks, Murphy, Kidder, Wynne Look Great Jim Ryun‘s NCAA record turns 50 on Friday and now is officially in jeopardy. We recap all of day 1’s distance action plus Texas’s Senoj-Jay Givans went sub-10 for first time.
LRCMen’s Day 1 Video Interviews
Day 1 On The Message Board
Women Compete Thu./Saturday: *MB: Official 2016 NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track And Field Discussion Thread
Full Coverage On Our 2016 NCAA Outdoor Event Page
LRC Q&A:David Torrence Talks About Why He’s Switching Nationalities To Peru, Seb Coe’s Criticism And Why He Wants To Run The 800/1,500 Double In Rio Torrence said he’s hoping to inspire the people of Peru by representing them in Rio and said that he had to do some soul searching before reaching a decision. “I’ll acknowledge that getting to the Olympics now is a much easier task. But if anything, that made me want to run for the U.S. even more.”
*MB: David Torrence request to compete for Peru granted!
Other Citizenship News: GB Olympian Julia Bleasdale Hopes To Run For Germany In Rio She was 8th in the 5K and 10K at London 2012.
LRCRussian Ban Remains: 9 Takeaways From IAAF Press Conference The IAAF has upheld Russia’s doping ban ahead of the Rio Olympics. We pull out the most important/interesting details that came out of the press conference with Seb Coe and the independent task force leader, Rune Andersen.
*MB:A great day for the sport. Russia remains banned for Rio
LRC Updated Wow: Mississippi State’s Marta Freitas Wins Women’s 1,500 But A Premature Celebration Nearly Costs Her The Title As Stanford’s Elise Cranny Almost Steals It What a race. Freitas led it wire to wire but Elise Cranny is back and better than ever as she PRed and lost by the tiniest of margins. *MB: Cranny is Back!
LRC Updated From 54th At State Meet To NCAA Record Holder: Courtney Frerichs Wins Women’s NCAA Steeplechase Title In Style, Breaks Jenny Simpson’s Collegiate Record By Running 9:24.41 Frerichs wanted the record and she got it!
LRC Updated Oregon’s Raevyn Rogers Wins Her Third Straight NCAA 800m Title In Dominant FashionShe’s a class above at the NCAA level.
Jenn Suhr’s Husband Still Complaining And Campaigning Against The US Olympic Trials Rick Suhr: “We have to be top three that day, that day only or we don’t go. We’re stuck with it and we’ll make the most of it.” … So does everybody else.
Full Coverage In Our 2016 NCAA Section
LRC Find Out What Pro Track And Field Runners Make: Boris Berian’s New Balance Contract Offer Revealed We’ve got all the details on the contract including base pay, bonuses, and more.
LRC New Court Filings Reveal What The Nike Vs. Boris Berian Lawsuit Is Really About – The “Dreaded” Reduction Clause Nike agreed to match New Balance’s offer to Boris Berian, then sent him a contract that included reduction clauses, whereas the New Balance offer sheet did not mention them. Nike justified this by saying the clauses are “standard in track and field endorsement contracts.”
LRCThe LetsRun.com Summer Of Greatness Kicks Off With Advice To The High School Hopefuls June is here, the Olympic Trials start in one month, and the LRC Summer of Greatness is officially here. We want everyone to pursue a little greatness this summer and start with some advice for high schoolers. How are you going to pursue greatness this summer?
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