It's Friday, But If You Don't Have A Date Tonite...

[gh]

you could always sit and read today's collection of headlines on our front page. I bring it up only becuase we just broke through the 40-post barrier for one of the few times ever. Quite the wide range of material available.

[Daisy]

Re: It's Friday, But If You Don't Have A Date Tonite...

• Nebraska Prep Carter Jumps 7-4 At State
• Aussie 400 Hope Steffensen Prepares For Clash w/ Wariner
• Columnist Says Mathias Was An Easy Choice For Hero
• Shortstop Wins Oregon Title At 6-10 After 5-Meet Career
• Brent Gray Becoming Speedy Success @ Long Beach State
• Kovacs Erases 36-Year-Old Shot Put Record
• PA Prep Chanelle Price Runs 2:07 In Regional Meet
• 5-Woman Team Goes For Cal JC Team Title
• Spike Lee Funds Program For More Black Sportswriters
• Columnist Challenges Ueberroth & Masback On Title IX
• Mo Greene Added To Home Depot 100 Field
• Teg Talks: Round 3 Of Answering The Readers
• Kuehl's 213-2 Takes Collegiate Discus Lead
• mensracing.com Q&A: Matt Gonzales
• EAA Preview: European Walking Cup
• Wariner Headed For Sub-44 At Home Depot?
• Arkansas Hearing w/ NCAA Postponed Until Post-Nationals
• Hogs Disagree w/ NCAA's 'Failure To Monitor' Charge
• 4 Wins, A 45.83 For Steele At SoCal JC Champs
• Trinidadian Putter Borel-Brown Whips Olympic Champ
• No Cal State Threepeat For Injured Ebony Collins
• Hasay Qualifies For State, Looks Ahead To Ostrava
• Seun Ogunkoya Flops In Nigerian Comeback Bid
• Ames Sets 3 State Records At Wyoming State Meet
• Top Swimmers Start Adjusting Body Clocks For Beijing
• Ostrava On Target For Largest World Youth Meet Ever
• Culture Department To Lose London Responsibility?
• General Public To Design Beijing's Olympic Pins
• English Heritage Plaque For Harold Abrahams
• Evangelists Vow To Defy Olympic Ban Next Year
• China Says Boycott Efforts Doomed To Fail
• Carrie Tollefson's NYRR Online Journal
• mensracing.com Q&A: Dathan Ritzenhein
• Mottram Looks For A Threepeat In Central Park
• thefinalsprint Podcast: Galen Rupp
• LeMond Drops Bombshell At Landis Hearing
• New Chair Says London Will Be On Time, On Budget
• Sprinter Omole, Coach Nuttycombe Get Big 10 Honors
• HS Girl Breaks Mother's State Record In 200
• Carlos & Smith Stood Tall For Human Rights

These are the very reason my bookmark is the home page and not the forum. The extra clicks are worth it to scan the headlines.

[gh]

And you hadn't refreshed the home page when you made that list, since these we also there at that point

May 18, 2007

• adidas Meet Q&A: Maurice Greene

• Kenyan Government Will Give Cash To All-Africa Medalists

• Gowda Improves Indian Discus Record In Salinas

• LSU's Coppage Chose Long Jumping Over Football

• Athletics Weekly Preview: Great Manchester Run

• Sotherton Will Long Jump In Glasgow Meet

• Kenyan Armed Forces Championships: Day 1

[Master Po]

thanks, gh! It turns out that I do not have a date tonight. Or tomorrow. Or...never mind. Just keep the links coming

[tafnut]

This excerpt from one of the links is just silly, in a Donald Thomas sort of way.

Vernell Warren, the Grant High School shortstop who moonlights as a high jumper, finished his brief high school track and field career Thursday by clearing 6 feet, 10 inches to win the event at the OSAA Class 6A championships at Hayward Field.

Warren, a senior who hits third in Grant's lineup, will return to the diamond today for a playoff game against Southridge.

His track career: five meets, one practice, one championship. He became Grant's first high jump champion since 1939 by outlasting West Salem's Jordan Bishop.

"The first couple jumps at each height are pretty much natural ability," said the 5-foot-10 Warren, who intends to play baseball for Oregon State next season. "On the last ones I thought more about my form."

Warren cleared 6-10 on his final attempt and then asked to have the bar raised to 7-1/2, a quarter-inch above the state meet record. He missed three times at that height -- more than four inches above his personal best entering the meet.

"That's a little high," Warren said.

[EPelle]

It:s Saturday, Early and Someone:s Wide Awake

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-tra ... &cset=true

One more Q&A session with a star (LA Times and Allyson Felix)

[EPelle]

Sanya Richards Video Interview (News 8 Austin):

http://www.news8austin.com/content/spor ... 69&SecID=5

[EPelle]

Dragila looks forward to vault challenge at adidas Track Classic.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/m ... index.html

"Physically, performance wise, she's very good still," Nielsen said. "She has to understand where she is age wise and give herself that magic pill called rest. She wants to work harder than she ever has. I have to put the reins on."

Dragila credits Nielsen for getting her "out of my Debbie Downer moods," referring to a Saturday Night Live character.

"I'm around the other college girls and sometimes I feel like I'm 21 and can do what they do again," she said. "I really feel I can jump high again and that's what we're working towards."

[eldrick]

i haven't followed dragila much for past few years, but it sruck me that she seemed to be heading to an eventual 4.90 - 4.95 career-end pb a few years back ( when progressing nicely in ~ '00/'01 ) - i assume injury messed up this "expected" progression ?

[tafnut]

i haven't followed dragila much for past few years, but it sruck me that she seemed to be heading to an eventual 4.90 - 4.95 career-end pb a few years back ( when progressing nicely in ~ '00/'01 ) - i assume injury messed up this "expected" progression ?

her achilles - for the past two years. The PV is so 'mental', there really is some realistic expectation that she can go to Beijing and do well (he said with no bias whatsoever :wink: )