Christian Cantwell of Columbia became only the second shot putter to win two World indoor titles with a toss of 21.77 meters _ that’s 71 feet 5 1/4 inches _ in the world indoor track championships in Valencia, Spain last…

Former Berkeley High and Lindenwood University sprinter Michael Rodgers has burst onto the national track scene, just in time to create buzz for the Olympic Trials.

Rodgers stunned the field by winning the 60-meter dash in 6.54 seconds at the…

Reader Rudy Schwarz wanted a little more detail on the Frostbite series half-marathon, how Mike Farrell beat Zac Freudenburg by just one second, in 1 hour 11 minutes 22 seconds. So, we went straight to one of the sources for…

Though the season is young, a couple records fell at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games over the weekend.

• Meserat Defar of Ethiopa crushed the women’s indoor world record in the 2-mile, finishing in 9 minutes, 10.50 seconds. The time smashed…

A lack of funding for a triathlon in Honolulu has forced USA Triathlon to change the venue of the next chance for an American man and woman to qualify for the Olympics to Tuscaloosa, Ala. on April 19.

The athletes won’t be…

This one is an example of finishing what you start, of running the good race. Distance runners are skinny, but they are anything but fragile.

Thanks, Tom Valentino of the News-Herald, which serves Cleveland and northeast Ohio, for the basics of…

The Olympic marathon trials in New York were overshadowed by the news of the death of Ryan Shay, considered an outside favorite to make the team. Shay collapsed about 5 1/2 miles into the race and was taken to Lenox…