t-and-f: Death & Drugs

2006-01-28 Thread altda
Thank you, Thank you very much! - Elvis Bring out your dead! mew--vut. Bring out your dead! meooow--vut. - MP's HG Things are cooking again. Thanks for the annual depth charts Roger, I see my old coach has 3 athletes in the top 100 in S. Korea. I have to agree with Dan. There are still se

t-and-f: Where did the list go?

2006-01-25 Thread altda
Wow, I haven't contributed to the list in a long time and now only occasionally peruse the digest version. But I just received the digest version today with posts dating as far back as November. Is this list dead or is Roger the only person left living on the list? Could it be that the UofOregon

t-and-f: test

2005-03-31 Thread altda
I sent a message the other day and it still hasn't gone through. This was sent 3/31/05 - 7:30 p.m. Allen

t-and-f: Talent ID Camp

2004-06-25 Thread altda
T&F List, I'm late getting the word out to this list. If you are or know any athletes that have qualified for NCAA's any division or NAIA's in Track & Field or Cross Country over the past 3 years and are age 25 & under, please pass this along. We are conducting a Racewalking Talent ID Camp. Plea

Re: t-and-f: Futility, absurdity, jewelry

2003-02-20 Thread altda
How far does it have to go. Last fall at the NYS Section 2 Championships at Saratoga Spa State Park one of the girls from Class D upstart Argyle pulled her hair band out during the race and not wanting to lose it she put it on her wrist. Sorry missy, no can do.DQ! BTW, keep an eye on this tw

Re: t-and-f: long jump with a flip

2002-11-08 Thread altda
I recall going to one of the old ITA Pro Indoor track meets. I recall a picture, possibly on the cover, of Delamere in his WSU jersey. My older brother and I started doing it too. He ended up a whacked out skier doing all kinds of flips and me, well, though never injured doing a flip, chose an e

t-and-f: RE: What's Embarrassing

2001-10-10 Thread altda
I was going by individual performances at major competitions ie. World Champs. By virtue of Curt Clausen's finishes in '99 (4th) and '01(7th) walkers have obliterated anything the runners have done. Granted this past year's x-c season was tremendous and things are looking well for our distance co

t-and-f: What's Embarrassing?

2001-10-07 Thread altda
I know I might be a bit late on this, but I feel I must defend myself. If you think its embarrassing to have Michelle ranked 6th, how about an a guy doing 20 miles per week not 200(k or mi) getting bumped to 8th if you put her into the mix. Yeah, that's right, I'm deeply offended that I'm not mo

Re: t-and-f: Fullerton humor

2001-04-05 Thread altda
To answer why basketball players are called cagers, I looked up the answer.   Professional basketball began (1896) in New York City and was at one time played on courts enclosed by wire mesh (basketball players are still occasionally referred to as “cagers”).   To my knowledge college hoops

t-and-f: Parting Shots & Enjoyable debate

2001-01-16 Thread altda
Brian McEwen wrote: It is not that these ARE NOT VALID complaints ... they may be. But you folks only complain about something (that the CRITERIA is invalid and inconsistently applied) WHEN IT IS IN AN EVENT THAT you have a vested interest in. - I'd be the first to admit that I'm a walker.

Re: t-and-f: The storm by the numbers

2001-01-16 Thread altda
Netters, I received a comment on my post that I'd like to clarify re: > #5. Jan the man. Worthy of a lifetime achievement award. 7 > panelist > didn't vote for him. I only mentioned the "lifetime award," because someone last month thought JZ should be number one. He had a decent year worthy

t-and-f: A narrow view for some

2001-01-14 Thread altda
Garry said- Bottom line on bitching about the Rankings: every time you advance a case for A and against B, just remember that if we reversed them, the other side would bitch as loud. Nobody is ever truly happy but the No. 1 Ranker, and I'm afraid to report that the laws of mathemetics mand

t-and-f: The storm by the numbers

2001-01-13 Thread altda
Netters, I guess we all anticipated the fact that the rankings would smell...welljust a bit rank. In fact after a quick glance I've determined that they absolutely stink. Yeah, so I'm a walker, who cares, right. I actually don't mind a thrower getting the vote, he actually may have deserved

t-and-f: coaching selections etc...

2001-01-02 Thread altda
Netters, I've experience the good ole boy system way too many times. I must say the U.S. coaching staff for World's looks like one of the best ever. Coaching staffs should have nothing to do with coaching, with the possible exception of the relay teams. My experience from the previous administ

t-and-f: Enough on changing the walks....

2000-12-21 Thread altda
Just one additional note. Of those few DQ calls I received during my 24 years as a walker, from youth to being the dominant walker in the US for a five year period, the majority of those calls came from inexperienced judges. If you know me or have seen me, you might remember that I am extremely

t-and-f: Enough on the changing the walks!

2000-12-21 Thread altda
Okay, I've been silent long enough. I would like to respond to a couple of statements listed below. Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:20:29 +1300 From: "P. N. Heidenstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: t-and-f: interesting article on changes in the walks snip-- The latter is a poor compariso

t-and-f: AWL & Olympic Adverts

2000-10-16 Thread altda
Netters, I've found the whole topic somewhat amusing. I wasn't too offended by the ad myself. In fact, I thought it was fairly clever, but it was not appropriate whatsoever. I'm glad Nike pulled the ad. On the other hand, I didn't hear the AWL's complaining about the NBC ad for TITAN's. May

t-and-f: Re: AOY

2000-10-08 Thread altda
Netters, All the talk is about drugs and walkers for AOY. Oh yeah, they have a long history together. When USATF first implemented the out-of-competition testing program, who were the ones getting suspended? Yep, the walkers, especially the ones who don't use their front door of their home, you

t-and-f: 4x100 Interview NBC

2000-09-30 Thread altda
Netters, I have a household of family going nuts about the NBC interview with the 4x100 team. Forget about what Mo said and I'm sorry I don't exactly know who is who(Bernard or Brian), but one of the characters was posing behind Mo. This has to be the best moment of the games to date. Hands dow

t-and-f: Comments on Wmn's Walk

2000-09-27 Thread altda
Netters, While trying to keep tabs on the exciting, down-to-the-wire, who's going to win the women's 20k walk, I came across some decent live commentary at http://www.olympics.smh.com.au/athletics/ You have to admit, if NBC carried this one live from 7:45 pm EDT to 9:15 or so, I think they could