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Never Mind That Last-Minute $37M Doha Paid To Win The IAAF Championships
Last week, Doha, Qatar was named the host city for the 2019 IAAF Track and Field World Championships, beating out Eugene, Oregon, and Barcelona, Spain. Now it emerges that the Doha bid offered up about $37 million in "incentives" in the minutes before the vote, and the IAAF wants everyone to know th...
It Takes A Couple Of Corporations To Raise An Olympian
The 21,000-member Atlanta Track Club and athleticwear maker Mizuno USA are having a go at Olympic development. The two organizations struck up a partnership, with one of their goals being:...
Michael Jordan Keeps It Real, Calls Barack Obama A "Shitty Golfer"
Michael Jordan still doesn't give any fucks, for those wondering. He'll call out Barack Obama for being a shitty golfer and shrug it off, as if Obama were nothing more than another in a long line of LaBradford Smiths....
Not One Single MLB Expert Predicted A Royals-Giants World Series
It's deja vu for the Major League Baseball pundits: For the second consecutive year, not one of the 64 pundits we tracked pegged the World Series correctly before the season began....
Oscar Pistorius Could Be Out Of Prison In 10 Months
Immediately upon his sentencing to five years for his role in the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, Oscar Pistorius was taken to a holding cell in the bowels of the courthouse. Today is his first day in prison, but his first of how many depends on who you ask....
Justin Gatlin's Glory Lap Turning Contentious And Weird
Justin Gatlin, track and field's most controversial athlete of 2014, has had a doozy of a last few weeks. And he's not even running currently....
Tennessee Track Coach Cuts Six Athletes Just Weeks Into The School Year
New Tennessee track coach Beth Alford-Sullivan cut six women from her team in September, just a month after proudly announcing her predecessor's entire recruiting class would arrive intact....
Athletics South Africa Begs, Pleads For Mercy
No two ways about it, the governing body of track and field in South Africa has made itself into one big international boob. Nothing new there. But a recent lawsuit by a former athlete is threatening to take it to the cleaners, and Athletics South Africa, the country's governing body of sport, is be...
15-Year-Old Russian Twins Busted For Doping Because Russia
Famous for its dash cams and terrifying lo-fi drugs, Russia now adds a new blemish to its resume: doping up its youth....
Russia Too White To Be Good At Track
Once the reigning European king, this year Russia finished a dismal fourth at the European Athletics Championships. The reason, the head of its athletics federation says, is because Russia isn't black enough....
NCAA Unionization Means Sink-Or-Swim For Smaller Sports
At this point, the professionalism of collegiate athletics seems to be not a question of if, but when. This inevitability has triggered those high in the NCAA food chain to insinuate that every sport save football and basketball is doomed. Case in point: the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athl...
Grindcore Gods Puig Destroyer Are Back, And We've Got An Exclusive Track
Last summer, we introduced you to Puig Destroyer, a supergroup of scream-y grindcore enthusiasts and baseball fans named in honor of a certain Dodgers phenom. Today, we are pleased to report that the quartet (a "virtual band" featuring dudes from Thrice, Kowloon Walled City, and Curl Up and Die) i...
How Well Does Sports Science Prevent Injuries?
Hang around sports stat nerds long enough, and you'll hear one of them spew out, "Injuries are the new Moneyball," or something near enough to carry the message. Point is, injuries are bad for business, and teams are increasingly throwing "sports science" at the problem. So how's it working so far? ...
Beyoncé's VMAs Performance, With Her Vocals Isolated
When we put up the isolated vocal track from Taylor Swift's MTV Video Music Awards performance last night, skeptics protested that "you could do that with any performer and it would sound just as bad." In response, here's Beyoncé's full 16-minute, show-ending mini-set, using just the unaltered audio...
Can David Wilson Have A Second Career In Track & Field?
David Wilson, the former New York Giant who ended his career earlier this month due to a neck injury, announced yesterday in an interview with Yahoo Sports that he's planning a return to track and field....
Tim Howard and Clint Dempsey Got A Call From The President
A top-16 finish is a success, so yesterday the two most prominent members of the USMNT received a phone call from Barack Obama congratulating them on their World Cup....
John Carlos: "Individuals Have To Stand Up"
Iconic. There is no other way to describe the picture—that picture—from the 1968 Olympics. Two of the best athletes in the world, confirmed just moments before, stand on the medals podium raising their gloved fists in protest....
High School Runner Eats It Ten Meters From State Title
There are a number of pain-filled track and field disciplines, but none combine to break your heart and body quite as perfectly as the 3000-meter steeplechase. ...
Old Lady Is Not Amused By Juggling Cracker Jacks Vendor
What at first seems like a wholesome bit of Americana, becomes just regular, old everything's-a-pain-in-my-ass Americana. On first blush, we've got a concessions worker at Miller Park, juggling Cracker Jacks. Who doesn't love Cracker Jacks and Baseball? It's in the song, for crissakes. That lady in...