NALathletics blog

18 January 2021 George 0 Comments

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

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

08 January 2021 George 0 Comments

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. With World Athletics already bumping World Indoor Championships off the 2021 calendar, did anyone really think USATF would bother with an indoor meet?

05 January 2021 George 0 Comments

NCAA track & field spending and success: Can we buy a point? (Data viz)

The NCAA is the biggest spender on track & field in the United States. Since they are not getting a financial return, are the top schools at least getting their money's worth in results?

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.

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.

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...

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.

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?

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...

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.

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.