From "Poopgate" to the Abbott World Marathon Majors screwing over Eliud Kipchoge to Devon Allen's DQ to Max Siegel's salary, 2022 was a wild year on and off the track.

How Max Siegel and USATF handled Chattanooga's Olympic Marathon Trails bid is far different than how they handled giving out a "six-figure, no-bid contracts to Indianapolis marketing firm Matchbook Creative, a marketing firm that previously billed itself as 'a Max Siegel company.'"

Highlights and lowlights of USATF Board meeting with the biggest lowlight being when the Board violated its USATF's own bylaws to extend the terms of two of its members.

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

Believe it or not, optimism is in the air.

Settling the lawsuit is a win for athletes (they can try and monetize the small log on their jerseys), a win for USATF (it costs them nothing but pride and the controversy is gone), and a win for the entire sport.

USATF has quietly hired convicted doper Dennis Mitchell to lead the USA Relays program. Sadly, they are afraid to take ownership of the decision and have Dennis and Max Siegel discuss why Dennis is the best man to lead Team USA or have Dennis publicly account for his doping past.

Siegel is critical of the law which allows businesses to refuse services to people for religious reasons.

We wonder if it's normal for an official to tell a coach about a foul he admits he didn't see. Then we start to go off into la-la conspiracy land as we notice a key part of the report regarding Salazar shows up in a different font. To us, the whole report reads like a 5th grader's book report, not a report worthy analysis of a decision that (illegally) fixed the outcome of a national championship race.

Eight years after USATF accidentally appointed convicted doper Dennis Mitchell (of the "five bottles of beer and sex with his wife at least four times" excuse) to be a USA National Team coach, USATF has done it again, but this time for real with the full backing of the USATF national office. 

In a groundbreaking deal, Nike is taking over USATF. The deal is a "win-win" as it will end any conflicts of interests between USATF and Nike and allow USATF to cut its marketing and timing budgets entirely. Some other shoe company execs are wary of the deal, exposing how Nike's dollars float the sport. However, Warren Buffet, owner of Brooks and former owner of Nike, is supportive.