1. Tyson Gay will be fine by the time the 100 meters rolls around.

2. Great to see people diving for the line. They’re hungry. Took me back to watching my son’s cross country races, when those guys would dive…

Our colleagues at the Indianapolis Star have written a nice story on a fund-raiser for Brigette Schutzman, the cross country and track runner at St. Louis University who suffered severe injuries in a car accident on New Years Eve. Given…

Nice job, Sarah Haskins, on the silver medal at the ITU World Championships in Vancouver. She’s picked a good time to put her best foot forward on the international scene.

A graduate of Parkway South, Haskins crossed the line in…

Just found out that a wheelchair race has been added to the Brigette Schutzman Festival of Miles, 6:30 p.m. April 28 at the St. Louis University High track.

Racers from the Disabled Athletes Sports Association will compete in a high…

St. Louis native Sarah Haskins tempered her disappointment and enthusiasm after finishing second in the Olympic Triathlon trials Saturday in Tuscaloosa, Ala. She has one last chance to qualify, and the odds are in her favor.

She has done everything…

Could the organizers and the nearly 15,000 runners have asked for a better day than Sunday to run a marathon, half-marathon or marathon relay? With temperatures in the low 40s at the start and nearing 60 at noon, hardly.

Just…

OK, how many of us have had a subpar workout or race and the first thing we do is reach into the old bag of excuses? Kenenisa Bekele had a boatload Sunday at the World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh,…

Members of the 180 Energy Runners and Big River Running gather before the St. Patrick’s Day Parade run. Photo courtesy of Jeff Bockhorn/180 Energy Runners.

I bet all you guys who checked the forecast Friday night and decided that the weather…

St. Louisan Jillian Petersen has joined Sarah Haskins at the Olympic triathlon training center in Colorado Springs for elite athletes.

Petersen got 2008 off to a good start, finishing 3rd last weekend in the International Triathlon Union’s Pan American Cup in…

The men’s and women’s cross country teams at Washington University and Southern Illinois University Carbondale were honored this week for being swift afoot and swift of thought.

The U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association honored both schools as All-Academic…