23rd June 2009
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The 2009 Prefontaine Classic at legendary Hayward Field on the University of Oregon campus came and went almost with a whisper. There was no bang and except for Dwight Phillips mighty 28-foot-8.25-inch long jump—the longes...
22nd June 2009
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Mead High School of Spokane, a legendary distance-running powerhouse, found a new way to win another title at the 2009 Washington State Track & Field Meet at Mount Tahoma Stadium in Tacoma (WA) in late May.
The Panthers h...
22nd June 2009
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When I moved from the East Coast to the West Coast in 1973, credit card companies doing business in the State of Washington could not legally charge more than 12% interest on an account. That was because credit card interest...
19th June 2009
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There was an 8-year period of my life when I owned and operated a community publishing company that published a weekly newspaper among other print products.
I made it my business, as the editor and then publisher, to sepa...
06th June 2009
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It's a funny thing about the lessons you learn in life. Not all of them are learned on the way to school. Some are learned on the way home from school.
Take Mikey (pronounced Mike-ee), one of my classmates. I wouldn't kno...
05th June 2009
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Stop this American nonsense of government bailouts with taxpayer money for businesses that cannot survive because of poor management.
Let the poorly run businesses collapse and sink into bankruptcy, foreclosure or receive...
05th June 2009
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With the collapse of our America economy and ongoing recession, hardly a day goes by without reading or hearing about an underperforming chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 company getting bounced out on his ear.
On ...
04th June 2009
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I recently received an email asking this question: Is there an Internet site that lists the best times in Washington for youth track and field performances other than high school?
Bill White of Kalama (WA) then added, "I ...
03rd June 2009
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The American marketing nightmare that is the Boston Marathon is not going away, but at least two American-born athletes have now offered us a glimmer of hope that we might at sometime in the 21st Century win the race that we...
03rd June 2009
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Finland's first great distance runner was Paavo Nurmi, who would burst onto the world scene in the 1920 Antwerp Olympics held in Belgium's northern port city on the Scheldt River.
Nurmi, then 23, took home 3 Gold Medals af...
01st June 2009
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Perhaps it was the air, or perhaps the water, or even the fact that high school league, district, regional and state meets are fast approaching, but a dozen superb high school athletes set 6 American records during the last ...
05th May 2009
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It's good to be Jordan Hasay of Mission Prep in San Luis Obispo (CA). She captured the heart of America's running community by competing as a junior in the U. S. Olympic Trials last year, not qualifying for the 2008 Beijing ...
01st May 2009
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You can call her "Destiny's Child" but the label would be inaccurate. Prep phenom Jordan Hasay understands that she will have to run her way to greatness, and would not have it any other way.
Hasay attends Mission College...
24th April 2009
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After receiving my 2009 All-Time World Indoor List of the records and best performances compiled by Ed Gordon, I asked myself, "What are the best United States high school middle distance indoor records?"
This question po...
21st April 2009
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Thomas Edison said it and I believe it: "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
There are more losers than winners in the game of life because losers many...
