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22 February 2021 George 0 Comments

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 American Track League and New Balance Indoor Grand Prix. Through those events, track & field popped its head out of its burrow and appeared on...

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17 February 2021 George 0 Comments

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 wants to send us a tranche of documents, anonymity guaranteed.

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02 February 2021 George 0 Comments

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 top finishers at a race in an American Track League meet.

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26 January 2021 George 0 Comments

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, normally the largest group, may find their few roads closed off in an already dismal year.

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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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