| Sat, 19 May 2012 Mara's marathon aim | Four years since finishing sixth in the Olympic marathon in Beijing, Team GB hopeful Mara Yamauchi is confident she can reproduce the goods on the streets of London in her second Olympic appearance this August. | The 38-year-old from Oxford qualified for the London Ga... | Javelin mark smashed | Sean Keller will be big in Finland. | The Heritage High javelin thrower has been invited to compete in an elite event this summer in the Nordic country, which has a national obsession over javelin. | Just how popular is it? | “It’s like the NFL there,&rdqu... | British duo fifth in three-metre synchro diving final Britain's Chris Mears and Nick Robinson-Baker finished fifth in the three-metre synchro final at the European Diving Championships. | They scored 436.74 last time out at the final World Series leg in Mexico but could only manage 390.84 in Eindhoven. | "We'... | Friday's roundup: G.P. South dashes away with girls track and field title By Tom Markowski The Detroit News Comments | Grosse Pointe- There was little doubt Grosse Pointe South would repeat as girls regional champions at the Division 1 track and field meet at South on Friday. | The question that faced coach Steve Zaranek was how many of his a... | WPIAL track meet was golden for A-K athletes | Alle-Kiski Valley athletes ascended the medal stand about as fast and high as they moved around the oval and leapt through the air at Thursday’s WPIAL track and field championships at Baldwin. | The locals collected 11 gold medals in all. | Bringing home titles in C... | Malaga and Liverpool chasing Wigan Athletic midfielder Mohamed Diame | Liverpool has been thought to be the leading candidate to sign Wigan Athletics’ out of contract midfielder, Mohamed Diame. | However, TalkSport has heard reports that Spanish upstart club Malaga could be vying for the player’s signature as well. Diame enjoyed a se... | Change Of Heart For Richards-ross | Sanya Richards-Ross admits she has changed her mind on the issue of lifetime Olympic bans for drug cheats and is wishing Dwain Chambers well for London 2012. | The British Olympic Association has officially rescinded their lifetime ban for athletes found guilty of dop... | Talent showcase at Southern Section track and field championships The Southern Section track and field championships will be held Saturday at Mount San Antonio College, with field events beginning at 10:30 a.m. and running events at 1 p.m. | Sprinter Khalfani Muhammad of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, the second-place finisher in the state ... | Manchester will test Dwain's campaign to reign once again | Britain's highest profile "drugs cheat" hardly needed any kind of backing from the sporting world's most notorious dabbler in the dark arts, Chambers' path to London 2012 having been opened by the lifting of the British Olympic Association bar on the selecti... | Weekend preview: Ferris loath to lose Ulster's winning habit at final hurdle | "It's been a long journey these last four or five years, getting here from a point where we were sitting at the bottom of the Celtic League and not even making the quarter-finals of this tournament," the Ulster flanker said yesterday. "In coming out of ... | Collegiate athletic spending rising faster than revenue Major-college athletics departments increased the amount of money they generate by nearly $190 million in 2011, but they increased their spending by more than $267 million, a USA TODAY Sports analysis finds. In addition, only 22 out of 227 public schools in NCAA Divisio... | Rutgers' athletic subsidy among nation's highest While Rutgers reduced spending by $4 million in 2011 from the previous fiscal year, its athletics department received the nation's third largest subsidy, according to a USA TODAY special report examining spending and revenue among NCAA Division I public u | ... | Like father, like son: Alexander seeks track and field gold | In the beginning, Willie Alexander Jr. said nothing of his track and field accomplishments to Willie III. | And Junior couldn't have been blamed if he did because he was pretty darn good. | "I never told him anything," dad says before today's Central Section Masters C... | Sneak preview: Track and field Central Section Masters Championships | CENTRAL SECTION MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS | Today: Field events begin at 4 p.m., running events 5 p.m. at Buchanan's Veterans Memorial Stadium | Admission: $7 for adults, $5 for students and seniors | State qualifiers: The top-three finishers in each of the 16 boys and gi... | GIRLS' TRACK AND FIELD: Pioneers ready for another title run After winning first cross country championship in the fall, Simi Valley looks to make history again with Div. II crown.By Erik Boal erik.boal@dailynews.com Staff WriterPosted: 05/18/2012 10:26:29 PM PDTUpdated: 05/18/2012 11:14:17 PM PDT | Amanda Hamilton ... | 4A Track and Field | High School Sports | MARYSVILLE - With most participants looking ahead to state, Ballard's Emmaline Suchland found ways to stay focused on events at hand Friday at Quil Ceda Stadium. | Suchland won the 100 meters in 12.09 seconds and the 200 in 24.8 during the KingCo/WesCo 4A bi-district ... | Friday's results from Kentucky track and field meet individual: 5 numChar :2042 | -->individual: 14 numChar :2241 | -->individual: 21 numChar :2293 | -->individual: 29 numChar :2045 | -->individual: 37 numChar :2141 | -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 40 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 11297 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 10762 | L... | | |
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