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    Tall, well built, blue-eyed, blond-haired Josh Mooney ran that 13.48 high hurdle time into a 0.9 headwind in a winning effort at the New Balance outdoor championships. The race is on Youtube. His alabaster skin is in sharp contrast to the skin-tone of his competitors. At the Connecticut state...
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    Class of 2024

    Thanks to FootballDad for the Ryver Peppers alert. I watched his junior year highlights and can't imagine that there are many 11th grade running backs as good. Peppers has great quickness, good speed, tremendous balance and field vision, and excellent cutting ability. Nearly every time he...
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    Greatest White Sprinter of All Time

    It's very difficult to compare sprinters from different eras. Yes, electronic timing adds two tenths to times in the 100. However, the new rubberized asphalt track surfaces are at least two tenths faster in the 100 and probably five tenths faster in the 200. Moreover, sprinters don't run a...
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    Ellie McCuskey-Hay is another hyphenated-surname girl sprinter to keep tabs on. Yesterday, she took second in the California state championships in the 100, running a wind-legal 11.52. She's only in the 9th grade! Her time makes her the fastest freshman in the United States. She also...
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    Mia Brahe-Pedersen ran wind legal times of 11.11 and 22.71 today in the Oregon state high school prelims. She's only a junior. Given good conditions and competition I think she could break 11 flat this year. Since she's young and improving, she may have a shot at the Olympics next year.
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    Now that it seems we are losing Gatlin Bair to an early graduation a young sprinter to keep an eye on is Peyton Sommers of Cherokee Trail High School in Colorado. Although only a sophomore, at the Colorado state 5A championships last Saturday he took second in 100 in 10.62, first in the 200 in...
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    High Schoolers

    The best example of white kids being allowed to develop into top sprinters right now comes from Legacy High School in Bismarck, North Dakota. Although the school has but 1200 students, there are four boys on the track team who run sub-11 flat in the 100. Dylan McGlothlin has run 10.59 (and...
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    High Schoolers

    Gatlin Bair had an impressive double yesterday at the BYU Invitational, running 10.25 and 20.47, both into a slight headwind.
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    Abby Steiner NCAA National Champion/USA National 200m champ 21.77 100m 10.90

    Edelman's father was only 1/4 Jewish and his mother was purely gentile. By blood Edelman is 1/8 Jewish.
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    Best Boxers by State

    For New York births Benny Leonard is a good choice but I'll take Gene Tunney over him.
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    High Schoolers

    Jimmy Chitwood is absolutely right about the many obstacles put in the way of whites becoming sprinters, especially in areas with significant black populations. I'd like to add one additional point I know has been discussed here before: As a general rule blacks mature physically earlier than...
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    Trevor Bassitt- Division II to American Champ

    There could be no better example of the white athlete coming into his prime two or three years later than the black athlete than Trevor Bassitt. In high school Bassitt's best time in the 100 was 11.10 and in college 10.54. His HS best in the 200 was 22.29 and in college 20.40 indoors and 20.52...
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    2022 BYU Cougars

    In recent years BYU has been recruiting a lot of black players and now has a record 19 on the roster. I suspect not more than one or two of them are Mormons. Jaren Hall looks only a little more black than white. His wife is white. Most of the other blacks are blue-black. The number of...
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    High Schoolers

    Tyler Floyd, a junior sprinter out of Seattle Prep HS in Washington, is one to keep an eye on. Yesterday, he won the state 3A championship in the 100, 200, and 400 in wind legal times of 10.52, 21.01, and 47.13. His 100 and 200 times were personal records but earlier in the season he ran the...
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    2022 World Outdoor Season

    Robert McDonnell, from County Galway, Ireland, is actually still 19. He turns 20 on Tuesday. He looks like a skinny teenager. He has times of 10.43, 20.51 (as Jack from NYC mentioned), and 46.59 (last year when he was 18). Two years ago his best time in the 100 was 10.90. Says something...
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    Charlie Sexton of Auburn High in Alabama ran a 10.15 100 meters today in the state's 7A prelims. Unfortunately, the wind was 4.1. It's worth noting, though, that second place was 3 10ths behind. Sexton is a senior and didn't start running track until his junior year.
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    High Schoolers

    Two possible future decathletes are seniors Landon Helms of Emmett, Idaho, and Patrick Daves of Daphne, Alabama. Helms was a 9th grade prodigy who was hampered by injuries and the Covid lockdown in the 10th and 11th grades but this season already has personal bests of wind-legal 11.21, 22.77...
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    Another 10th grader to keep an eye on is Mason Dossett of Missouri City, Texas. He's run the highs in a windy 13.66 (but has a 13.79 wind legal) and the intermediates in 37.79, simply smoking times for a sophomore. He has a pedigree. His father is Martin Dossett, who was a good sprinter and...
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    High Schoolers

    Until this year, Popelka has specialized in the 100-200 double but Popelka will now be running the 100-400 double for the Texas state meet. I hope his coach hasn't made a mistake. Popelka has improved significantly from his junior year in both the 100 and 200 and I'm not a fan of moving...
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    High Schoolers

    Keep an eye on Gatlin Bair from Kimberly, Idaho. He's a 6'2" 180 lb. sophomore, who won the 100 meters in 10.54 and the 200 meters in 21.19, both wind legal, yesterday at the Boise Relays. Earlier this season he ran a 10.46 100 with a 2.1 wind. His times make him #4 for the 100 and #2 for the...
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    The All Time USA White 100m

    Great work by Avante and JackNYC! Clyde Peach definitely deserves inclusion. In the late 1960s he ran a 9.2 100 yards and a 10.1 100 meters, hand timed. Still absolutely smoking times. FAT is of relatively recent vintage and when first introduced only used in big meets. One thing to...
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    The Willard vs Johnson title fight controversy

    The article Charles Martel links to is written by a Norman Marcus. Could Marcus be interested in promoting Dempsey with a Jewish grandmother? I just made a quick check of the records at Ancestry and several posted family trees and, at least through Jack Dempsey's great grandparents on both...
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    The Willard vs Johnson title fight controversy

    "Dempsey is overrated by the media because of his 1/4 Jewish heritage." Could Charles Martel be thinking of Max Baer, who was 1/4 Jewish? Baer's paternal grandfather was a German Jew but his paternal grandmother was a German Lutheran. Baer's mother was an Irish Catholic. Baer was baptized...
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    2019 BYU Cougars

    Utah has the third largest population of Polynesians in the U.S., behind only Hawaii and California. The Mormons were highly successful in their missions to Polynesia in the late 19th and 20th centuries. About 60% of Tonga is Mormon and a large percentage of Samoa as well. There are a lot of...
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    Matthew Boling 9.98, 19.92, 45.17 and 8.25 LJ

    Two blazing 200 times for Matt Boling today in the U20 championships: prelim 20.30 (w 2.3); final 20.36 (w 0.7). Boling destroyed the field in both races. In the final second place was 20.59, third place 20.84, fourth place 21.09 . . . .
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