44 ex-Colorado runners have publicly come to the defense of Colorado track and field and cross country coaches Mark Wetmore and Heather Burroughs, voicing their support and sharing their positive experiences at the University of Colorado. Nearly all of the biggest CU stars are on the list, which includes 12 of the 14 NCAA champions coached by Wetmore.

The two 800m stars will be at the same meet three times in a four-week span -- including Saturday's New Balance Indoor Grand Prix -- but aren't slated to face each other.

Wetmore called for a lifetime ban for Brown and revealed how he keeps a healthy environment for his women at Colorado. "Our system is not created by men for men. I try to be polite and stay out of the way."

The Colorado women hadn't been on top of the winner's circle at the NCAA xc champs in 14 years but their drought was broken in style on Saturday as they won both the team and individual titles.

Plus a funny clip of Jenny Simpson delivering good news on national football signing day.

Coburn had an incredible and hectic 2016 - she set two American records, won an Olympic bronze medal and got engaged to longtime boyfriend (and now coach) Joe Bosshard. After the dream year, she surprisingly announced she was splitting from coaches Mark Wetmore and Heather Burroughs. LRC caught up with her on Wednesday to talk about all of that as well as the biggest thing she's learned from training with Jenny Simpson.

Is #1 Colorado Mark Wetmore's best team ever?

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh also was on hand to pump up excitement for the United States' first-ever street meet, which will be free for all on the Boston Common.

GA&M president Mark Wetmore: "It’s been a great run on Randall’s Island, New York, and now we’re looking ahead to producing a new event. As we look forward, we believe that changing our focus to a street meet is one way to make the event attractive to a younger audience."  

Syracuse is back on top of the NCAAs for the first time since 1951 while Edward Cheserek is back in the only place he knows- on top. Full recap with interviews of Chris Fox, Mark Wetmore, Justy Knight, Grant Fisher, Patrick Tiernan and more.

The pre-NCAA XC press conference was held today and we share the highlights with you, including Molly Seidel's refusal to talk about the "Foot Locker curse" and where their coaches expect Ben Saarel and Grant Fisher to finish. Also be sure to tune to our live, on-course NCAA radio show Saturday at 11 a.m.

Alberto and Galen were notably absent but the stars were out in full force at the Portland Track Festival with Shannon Rowbury, Steve Magness, the Gouchers, Alan Webb, Kevin Hanson, Desi Davila, Mark Wetmore, Shalane Flanagan, Evan Jager, Chris Solinsky, and many more in attendance. Employee 1.0 is back to recount the surreal scene in light of the Nike Oregon Project Doping investigation.

With the race mere hours away, we pass on what we learned this afternoon.

Those who know him best insist there aren’t any secrets to Mark Wetmore’s success as a distance coach. Yet few can match his accomplishments. How does he do it? We do our best to explain. Chris Lear has read this piece and loved it, "This is why I go to letsrun. Thanks for the read."

We're done counting down the top 10 men's and women's teams in America, but we've still got some thoughts on the team races at NCAAs this year that didn't make it into our previews. We re-score 2013 NCAAs minus seniors, tell you why the Pac-12 (men) and Great Lakes (women) are loaded and explain how women's collegiate running is deeper than it's ever been.

Both Colorado and Iowa State have been consistent top-15 programs for several years. Both teams lost their top 2 from last year's meet, but still have a chance of being top 10 in 2014. Well tell you how.

As usual, Stanford is loaded on paper with the Rosa brothers, Sean McGorty and grad student Maksim Korolev, but that still may not be enough to topple defending champion Colorado, which returns its entire top seven plus its top runner from 2012, Jake Hurysz (13:38 5k PR).