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26 December 2020 George 0 Comments

Track & field and road racing need sports business professionals

Give the New York Times credit for not burying the lede in their reporting on The Marathon Project. They actually led with the lede - they just didn't know it.

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15 December 2020 George 0 Comments

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 only American track & field athletes held themselves to the same standards of respect and professional identity.

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04 December 2020 George 0 Comments

Sketch-y performance of basic sponsorship at The Track Meet

You’d think a sport that thinks logo placement and brand “exposure” are the alpha, omega and pinnacle of sponsorship activation would at least have the correct brand name and spelling of an athlete’s sponsor on the meet’s start list and results site. Instead, we have...

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02 December 2020 George 0 Comments

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 closely to see who notices and who cares.

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22 November 2020 George 0 Comments

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 if they are undone by conferences and maybe the NCAA itself cancelling championships and seasons?

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18 November 2020 George 0 Comments

How much do college track & field coaches make? (Data viz)

How much pro track & field athletes make is one of the great questions of sport. Every few years an anonymous survey or a heavily-redacted, surreptitiously-transferred document will set off a round of speculation and invective, but no one can point to a credibly and...

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12 November 2020 George 0 Comments

Expand the map, expand athletics: 31,000+ places to throw, jump or run

Some state-by-state counts are better than others. Much better, much more useful and much more important for the things that give us something to look forward to, like athletics.

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06 November 2020 George 0 Comments

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 than in all his previous years on the job.

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05 November 2020 George 0 Comments

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 that's a different story altogether.

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23 October 2020 George 0 Comments

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 article in SportTechie. Most people in track & field - an overwhelming share of people in track & field, most likely - missed them both...

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02 October 2020 George 0 Comments

Find a better place to throw, jump and run with the AirBnB of athletics

Finding a place to jump, throw or run is a great start. Knowing what to expect before you get there will save you even more time and frustration.

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21 September 2020 George 0 Comments

Retiring Nike exec's career explains a lot about track & field

Nike parted ways with their most powerful track & field executive last week. The amount of buzz this generated within the sport and lack of notice outside of it is a fitting coda.

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