Re: t-and-f: USADA Bombshell

2003-10-16 Thread Paul Merca
At 2:34 PM -0400 10/16/03, Michael J. Roth wrote: USADA Bombshell! USADA STATEMENT (snipped for brevity)... More fuel for the fire... http://espn.go.com/oly/news/2003/1016/1639608.html Paul Merca

RE: Re: t-and-f: who lacks intellectual honesty?

2003-10-16 Thread malmo
The truth be told Dan Kaplan, I called you out for repeatedly making false and slanderous statements about me. The profanity was not as much as you really deserve. When I meet you in person it will be clear to you what is unaccepatable. Grow up, punk. malmo -Original Message- From: [E

Re: t-and-f: rutto

2003-10-16 Thread koala
> And I guess that the only way you can argue with my points is >start disparaging me personally. In my professional experience, that means >that my points have sufficient validity that you can't undermine them with >your own evidence, so you have to try to change the subject, focusing on >the

Re: t-and-f: dynamite the bridge. Why?

2003-10-16 Thread Tony Banovich
I've been busy and hadn't really had time to respond to this. And, I think that the whole issue of the list being what we make of it has been pretty well covered. But, I felt the need to take a minute to defend Garry Hill and Track and Field News. To suggest that Garry and T&FN are the reason fo

RE: Re: t-and-f: who lacks intellectual honesty?

2003-10-16 Thread Dan Kaplan
Richard, don't take it personally, Malmo said pretty much the same things to me recently when I had the audacity to call him out from behind his veil of b.s. I'm guessing you've received a few f-bombs and cute little insults in private messages? And I'm sure I'll receive a few more after this one

Re: t-and-f: who lacks intellectual honesty?

2003-10-16 Thread Martin J. Dixon
Richard, I'm pretty sure that malmo is replying to you privately and maybe you can't tell because I think you are on digest. malmo can obviously look after himself but shouldn't private messages be replied to privately? Richard McCann wrote: > At 02:46 PM 10/16/2003 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

RE: Re: t-and-f: who lacks intellectual honesty?

2003-10-16 Thread Richard McCann
At 02:46 PM 10/16/2003 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure there has been error in my posts - but very rare - and certainly never a diliberate attempt at distortion. Are you trying to claim that I've deliberately distorted my posts. I've also had a few errors in my posts, and I have the cou

Re: t-and-f: Lazy Marathoners Before 2002

2003-10-16 Thread Christopher Goss
Alan, you were born in 1978 and have never run in a world class competition. How do you KNOW all of these things? This is what I think hurts the list and cause it to die back from time to time -- too many softball players telling us what it is like in the major leagues. We saw this when Dwight le

Re: t-and-f: Lazy Marathoners Before 2002

2003-10-16 Thread Richard McCann
We're starting to retread the same ground. I previously made the same point about 10k runners moving up in an earlier post. Molvar obviously had missed much of this discussion when he tritely tried to sum up the arguments. As for 1954, the point is that Bannister's mark unleashed a sudden burs

Re: Re: t-and-f: rutto

2003-10-16 Thread Richard McCann
Now you're really confused! My only affiliation with Berkeley is that I'm an alum. I have absolutely no occupational affiliation with UCB or UC whatsoever. I'm a private consultant in a small firm in which I'm a partner. And I guess that the only way you can argue with my points is start d

Re: t-and-f: rutto

2003-10-16 Thread edndana
> >As for your blanket suspicions, again they simply undermine interest in the > >sport. Fans are not interested in a sport where it's assumed that many > >athletes are breaking the rules. If it's factually known that the majority > >of athletes are using drugs and the sport decides to accept tha

Re: t-and-f: rutto

2003-10-16 Thread Richard McCann
And I say that this is a public forum where if you have suspicions, you either need to keep them to yourself or put forward substantial evidence in support. When your evidence is clearly refuted, if this is going to be a discussion forum rather than an assertion forum, you need to accept that

RE: Re: t-and-f: fwd: Marathon debutant Rutto, Boston champ Zakharova win at Chicago

2003-10-16 Thread Richard McCann
At 01:52 PM 10/16/2003 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ARGGGH! Why can't you just say "I misspoke. Ops?" Instead you've chosen to say, "temporarily a WR" Everyone on the planet knew that course was short. Do you need to take reading lessons? I made the correction that his SECOND effort

Re: t-and-f: rutto

2003-10-16 Thread Richard McCann
At 06:57 PM 10/16/2003 +, alan tobin wrote: "And I say that this is a public forum where if you have suspicions, you either need to keep them to yourself or put forward substantial evidence in support." Public forum...free speech...I can pretty well say anything I want regardless of substan

Re: t-and-f: rutto

2003-10-16 Thread alan tobin
"And I say that this is a public forum where if you have suspicions, you either need to keep them to yourself or put forward substantial evidence in support." Public forum...free speech...I can pretty well say anything I want regardless of substantial evidence. Alan From: Richard McCann <[EM

t-and-f: Major USADA Drug News!!!!!

2003-10-16 Thread alan tobin
http://www.letsrun.com/2003/usadastatement.php Exactly what I've said in the past. Steroids are still the drug of choice: USADA STATEMENT (Oct. 16, 2003) - Early in the summer, USADA received a call from a person represented to be a high-profile track and field coach, who provided the names of

t-and-f: USADA Bombshell

2003-10-16 Thread Michael J. Roth
USADA Bombshell! USADA STATEMENT Early in the summer, USADA received a call from a person represented to be a high-profile track and field coach, who provided the names of U.S. and international athletes who he said were using an ???undetectable??? steroid. The coach subsequently sent USADA a

Re: t-and-f: rutto

2003-10-16 Thread alan tobin
Who says I'm not suspicious of Radcliffe? I've said in the past that any current or former WR holder is suspicious in my mind. The only proof I need is the fact that these people hold world records. Is every WR holder drugged up? Probably not, but that doesn't mean one can't be suspicious. Alan

t-and-f: This is reasonably big...

2003-10-16 Thread Martin J. Dixon
...and apologies in advance to those that don't think that this lives up to the soul of the t-and-f list. gh posted it on TFN and I can't find a link. No surprises here if you paid any attention at all and connected a few dots. Go here for more: http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/tfn/discussion/view

Re: t-and-f: rutto

2003-10-16 Thread Mpplatt
Alan, you are in no danger of legal action. Back to law school boys, you have no clue about "libel". mike platt In a message dated 10/16/2003 12:37:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > "but if the statement comes down to "he ran fast, so he must be on drugs" > then

RE: Re: t-and-f: fwd: Marathon debutant Rutto, Boston champ Zakharova win at Chicago

2003-10-16 Thread Richard McCann
I misspoke. I confused Salazar's 1980 and 1981 marks at NYC. It was his second marathon that was under the old WR, albeit temporarily due to course measurement error. RMc At 09:15 PM 10/15/2003 -0400, malmo wrote: Perhaps you misspoke, or perhaps this is yet another of your embellishments? Sa

Re: t-and-f: rutto

2003-10-16 Thread Richard McCann
At 04:37 PM 10/16/2003 +, alan tobin wrote: "but if the statement comes down to "he ran fast, so he must be on drugs" then these type of statements have two problems. First, they border on libel, which may expose the writer to legal actions." It doesn't boil down to "he ran fast, so he must

RE: t-and-f: Lazy Marathoners Before 2002

2003-10-16 Thread alan tobin
This is not 1954. HUGE difference in training between now and then. HUGE difference in tracks between now and then. HUGE difference between mindset between now and then. Alan From: vincent duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: vincent duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'John Molvar'" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: t-and-f: rutto

2003-10-16 Thread alan tobin
Exactly. That's my point. The fact that I have these opinions says something about our sport that needs to be fixed. Alan From: "Martin J. Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Martin J. Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: rutto Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:42:57

Re: t-and-f: rutto

2003-10-16 Thread alan tobin
"but if the statement comes down to "he ran fast, so he must be on drugs" then these type of statements have two problems. First, they border on libel, which may expose the writer to legal actions." It doesn't boil down to "he ran fast, so he must be on drugs". Do I have proof that he or anyon

Re: t-and-f: Lazy Marathoners Before 2002

2003-10-16 Thread MOrfuss
I could as easily believe there's widespread drug use by marathoners as the next guy, but does it not seem to you that some of today's really fast 10K runners have moved up to try 42K--and that could explain the fast times? Marathoners of the past were not typically competitive at 10K. (Zatopek