NALathletics blog
  • Map
  • Blog
  • Salaries Explorer
  • 2022 Diamond League Earnings
  • FAQ

track & field

Things you'll only find in track & field: Fair weather (literally) athletes

Things you'll only find in track & field: Fair weather (literally) athletes

Successful sports and teams sometimes worry that their fans are fair weather. Track & field won't have to worry about...

read more
What's the matter with Kansas Relays? Cancellation makes little sense

What's the matter with Kansas Relays? Cancellation makes little sense

It’s almost hard to believe that it’s been one year and one day since our first article about colleges taking...

read more
Betting on Olympic track & field 101: Primer for T&F fans

Betting on Olympic track & field 101: Primer for T&F fans

The Tokyo Olympics are the first Summer Games since sports betting became widely legal across the United States. With US...

read more
Sha’Carri owned Oly Trials on the track and YouTube; demand for more throwers?

Sha’Carri owned Oly Trials on the track and YouTube; demand for more throwers?

For the number-crunchers at NBC Sports digging into the YouTube analytics, the US Track & Field Olympic Trials must look...

read more
Where did the track & field Olympic Trials meet records happen?

Where did the track & field Olympic Trials meet records happen?

Twelve athletes set meet records at the US Track & Field Olympic Trials. We know these happened at the new...

read more
Qualified or accepted: Off the bubble and into track & field Olympic Trials (data viz)

Qualified or accepted: Off the bubble and into track & field Olympic Trials (data viz)

Track & field Olympic Trials are underway for about 1,000 athletes. About one-third of them found out earlier this week...

read more
USA Track & Field defaults on another national championship

USA Track & Field defaults on another national championship

If the story of the first half of the coronavirus-induced shutdown was colleges cutting their track & field programs, the...

read more
Four questions for the American Track League and New Balance Indoor Grand Prix

Four questions for the American Track League and New Balance Indoor Grand Prix

Almost the entirety of the US non-college indoor track & field season unfolded over the last five weekends at the...

read more
College track & field coaches' salaries explorer is now live

College track & field coaches' salaries explorer is now live

How much do pro track & field athletes make? Not much. That’s about all we know until / unless someone...

read more
Track & field needs sports business professionals, Part II

Track & field needs sports business professionals, Part II

"Professional" track & field should retreat into some serious soul searching after Ben Blankenship fronted the money to pay the...

read more
Format changes to track & field OT's would fall hardest on unattached athletes

Format changes to track & field OT's would fall hardest on unattached athletes

Format changes to the USA Track & Field Olympic Trials could upend the composition of the athlete fields. Unattached athletes,...

read more
Podcast: Way too little reaction to indoor track & field championships cancellation

Podcast: Way too little reaction to indoor track & field championships cancellation

If a track & field national championship gets cancelled, does anybody make a noise?

read more
USATF cancels Indoor National Championships despite slate of indoor meets

USATF cancels Indoor National Championships despite slate of indoor meets

USA Track & Field prohibited Team USA athletes from competing in the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships in the fall....

read more
Eliud Kipchoge's fans have something to teach American pro track & field athletes

Eliud Kipchoge's fans have something to teach American pro track & field athletes

Track & field and running are actual sports in Kenya, in part because Kenyan fans treat them as such. If...

read more
MAAC cancels indoor track & field: T&F must counter this new normal

MAAC cancels indoor track & field: T&F must counter this new normal

Three Division I conferences have cancelled their indoor track & field championships. They - and others - will be watching...

read more
Will college track & field alumni start funding cancelled seasons?

Will college track & field alumni start funding cancelled seasons?

After all the money and effort expended by alumni and their consultants to save college track & field programs, what...

read more
Clemson AD lays down the challenge to collegiate track & field backers

Clemson AD lays down the challenge to collegiate track & field backers

Clemson's Director of Athletics, Dan Radakovich, may have paid more attention to track & field over the last few months...

read more
Track & field needs to make its peace with making money

Track & field needs to make its peace with making money

Track & field has no problem getting money. All they have to do is ask for it. Making money? Now...

read more
Track & field pops into mainstream sports industry, incuriosity ensues

Track & field pops into mainstream sports industry, incuriosity ensues

Track & field showed up in two unexpected places last week: the Hashtag Sports daily newsletter by way of an...

read more
Minnesota track & field cuts will impact results sheets more than balance sheets

Minnesota track & field cuts will impact results sheets more than balance sheets

The University of Minnesota became the first Power 5 school to cut track & field. The move will not save...

read more
College TF/XC program cuts, Part III: When football doesn't help

College TF/XC program cuts, Part III: When football doesn't help

Football’s surplus is most TF/XC programs’ budget, so surviving the summer was only ever going to be the first trial....

read more
Blue Oval Showcase stirs more thoughts on formats and fans

Blue Oval Showcase stirs more thoughts on formats and fans

Track & field is used to not having fans, so the Blue Oval Showcase was not too jarring to the...

read more
Lessons for long jumpers post-Stockholm DL: Watch more golf and tennis

Lessons for long jumpers post-Stockholm DL: Watch more golf and tennis

Track & field athletes, agents, coaches, brand managers, fans... everyone in track & field, particularly long jumpers, would do well...

read more
Big 10 XC/TF should co-sign football parents' letter to save their sports

Big 10 XC/TF should co-sign football parents' letter to save their sports

Big 10 football players' parents are petitioning the conference to reinstate the fall season. Cross-country and track & field athletes,...

read more
College track & field and cross country program cuts, Part II

College track & field and cross country program cuts, Part II

Our last post on coronavirus-induced track & field program cuts was starting to get a bit unwieldy, so the list...

read more
Pac-12 track & field can't afford football giving up 50% of revenue

Pac-12 track & field can't afford football giving up 50% of revenue

Pac-12 schools need more than 50% of football’s revenue just to keep football afloat, let alone financially draining sports like...

read more
Trying to find the professional track & field athletes at USA Outdoor National Championships

Trying to find the professional track & field athletes at USA Outdoor National Championships

Track & field does not make it easy to know who - or what - a professional track & field...

read more
Endowments show which college sports programs took control of their survival

Endowments show which college sports programs took control of their survival

Collegiate sports programs who secured endowments while times were good have a survival advantage as budget cuts ravage athletics departments....

read more
Collegiate spending on track & field props up the sport: Cuts expose lack of depth

Collegiate spending on track & field props up the sport: Cuts expose lack of depth

The NCAA likes to come back to their line that all but 2% of their 400,000 student-athletes will go pro...

read more
Collegiate track & field cuts: Schools, costs and thoughts

Collegiate track & field cuts: Schools, costs and thoughts

The COVID-19-induced shutdown is driving the need or providing the excuse for colleges to cut their track & field programs...

read more

Jump. Throw. Run. Subscribe.

We want to be able to tell you more. We actually want to be able to tell you everything. Sign up for our e-mail so you can hear it all.

footer-logo

NALathletics makes it easier to be an athlete or fan of athletics. You know, track & field. Find a place to train, find people to train with there, turn those people into a team, do something useful with the team. That’s it.

Where to now?

  • Map: Find places to jump, throw or run
  • College T&F coaches'salaries explorer

Contact us

  • E-mail us

Copyright © 2021 NALAthletics. All Rights Reserved