Tim Layden Refers To "The Smart Guys At Letsrun.com"

Speaking of smart, it appears that Tim Layden believes that the new men's 400 meter World Champion is named James Kirani...

Guys? Why is that plural?

Nice tounge-in-cheek insult, there, Timmy.

chet wrote:

According to the smart guys at letsrun.com, he covered the half-lap from 400 meters to go through 200 remaining in 26.4 seconds.

Who knew you guys were smart?

Of course they're smart. They're Ivy League graduates.

chet wrote:

Who knew you guys were smart?

I've officially reached the pinnacle of my life. My dreams have become reality.

Props from the magazine I worshiped as a kid (Memo to anyone more after 1990 - a magazine is something that is printed on paper and comes out about once a week).

I'm very pumped to hear that I'm respected by SI and Layden..... although not as much as Boldon.

Tim Ladyen wrote:

I have great respect for Johnson, the men's distance coach at Cornell; and especially for Boldon.

The pinnacle of my life - a backhanded compliment?

Or proves that even morons can go to Princeton

oldcoach wrote:

Or proves that even morons can go to Princeton

Ah BIN knowin' that, my friend...

I like the wholesale redefinition of "lavishes praise." Dude referred in one paragraph to "the smart guys at Letsrun.com," which can just as easily be construed as facetious as it can be viewed as sincere, and in another mentioned Rojo's comments about the 100 without pretending to agree.

Still, there's no doubt that even the top track journalists in the world hit this place before they hit any other running site, and that even when Wejo or Rojo says something highly suspect, their comments are noticed. Beats being some assface like me who can't run for crap and whose opinion doesn't matter to his cat, much less any of you equally brain-dead loudmouths.

Newport Richie wrote:

I like the wholesale redefinition of "lavishes praise." Dude referred in one paragraph to "the smart guys at Letsrun.com," which can just as easily be construed as facetious as it can be viewed as sincere, and in another mentioned Rojo's comments about the 100 without pretending to agree.

Here are the references to letsrun in the article:

1. "According to the smart guys at letsrun.com, he covered the half-lap from 400 meters to go through 200 remaining in 26.4 seconds."

2. "In the hours after Usain Bolt's false-start disqualification, both NBC Sports' Ato Boldon and letsrun.com's Robert Johnson discovered on videotape that gold medalist Yohan Blake's left leg twitched slightly before Bolt moved. Johnson argued that Blake's twitch "subconsciously'' caused Bolt's false start. . . .

I have great respect for Johnson, the men's distance coach at Cornell; and especially for Boldon . .."

3. "although there another dozen or so compadres from wire services like AP and Reuters and sport- or Olympic-specific outlets like Track and Field News, letsrun.com and FloTrack, the latter three of which do sensational work for hard-core devotees of the sport"

Maybe that doesn't qualify as lavish praise, but it certainly is praise.

asdgfh wrote:

Here are the references to letsrun in the article:

3. "although there another dozen or so compadres from wire services like AP and Reuters and sport- or Olympic-specific outlets like Track and Field News, letsrun.com and FloTrack, the latter three of which do sensational work for hard-core devotees of the sport"

Maybe that doesn't qualify as lavish praise, but it certainly is praise.

Quotes from anyone who thinks T&FN & Lets Run are Olympic specific sites should not be used for chestpuffing.

As to FloTrack being Olympic specific all I can do is shake my head in wonder.

If the author is not conversant with the character of a site his opinion of it must be suspect.

Even if his only mistake is thinking Olympics and Athletics are synonymous his creditability is equally syspect.

fa for 200 Alex wrote:

asdgfh wrote:

Here are the references to letsrun in the article:

3. "although there another dozen or so compadres from wire services like AP and Reuters and sport- or Olympic-specific outlets like Track and Field News, letsrun.com and FloTrack, the latter three of which do sensational work for hard-core devotees of the sport"

Maybe that doesn't qualify as lavish praise, but it certainly is praise.

Quotes from anyone who thinks T&FN & Lets Run are Olympic specific sites should not be used for chestpuffing.

As to FloTrack being Olympic specific all I can do is shake my head in wonder.

If the author is not conversant with the character of a site his opinion of it must be suspect.

Even if his only mistake is thinking Olympics and Athletics are synonymous his creditability is equally syspect.

You highlighted "or Olympic-specific outlet". Perhaps you should have looked at what came before the "or". Certainly, T&FN, Letsrun, and Flotrack are all "sport specific".

asdgfh wrote:

fa for 200 Alex wrote:

Quotes from anyone who thinks T&FN & Lets Run are Olympic specific sites should not be used for chestpuffing.

As to FloTrack being Olympic specific all I can do is shake my head in wonder.

If the author is not conversant with the character of a site his opinion of it must be suspect.

Even if his only mistake is thinking Olympics and Athletics are synonymous his creditability is equally syspect.

You highlighted "or Olympic-specific outlet". Perhaps you should have looked at what came before the "or". Certainly, T&FN, Letsrun, and Flotrack are all "sport specific".

I stand corrected.

thank you

asdgfh wrote:

I have great respect for Johnson, the men's distance coach at Cornell; and especially for Boldon ..."

There's an important BUT missing from the above, doncha think?

I wrote to Tim Layden once. Like over a dozen years ago. He agreed that Flo-Jo was surely doped but couldn't say that as a journalist without evidence. It's cool that some SI writers are accessible, even if it's mainly because they cover sports that almost no one cares about.

Think Tim Layden might have to retract his statement!

rojo wrote:

Props from the magazine I worshiped as a kid (Memo to anyone more after 1990 - a magazine is something that is printed on paper and comes out about once a week).