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Heike Drechsler was one of the greatest track AND field athletes ever. She may have (knowingly or unknowingly) used performance enhancing drugs as an East German athlete and may have not after the fall of the Soviet empire. She did not have the hyper-muscularity of the known (Marion Jones) and...

She's doing something I like a lot, taking on the black super-athletes at their strengths, rather than doing a "white event" and avoiding them: Sweden's Carolina Klüft, the world's greatest all-round athlete, has decided not to defend her Olympic Heptathlon title in Beijing in order to...

He is definitely and athlete and has the numbers to prove it. I am just mocking those who seem to always find a fault in a white running back, no matter what his accomplishments.

This information is from www.dyestat.com, the source for high school track & field. It will be quite difficult for anyone to legitimately say that Sam McGuffie lacks "elite speed" or "elite athleticism" or whatever. But, forget the measurables, he just may not have the "wiggle" to be a top...

2.05 meters is 6'8 3/4" Blanka's back and bouncing higher than ever! 28 February 2008 The Croatian World High Jump Champion makes a triump-hant return from injury before Valencia. Photo by Picture Alliance Europe's women High Jumpers had been waiting with baited breath to witness...

Sell-out crowd are rewarded with a special night in Stockholm's Globe Susanna Kallur in the Globe Arena in Stockholm (Hasse Sjögren) relnewsStockholm, Sweden - For the 8th straight year the Stockholm Globe Arena was sold out - 10,500 spectators - for the GE Galan - IAAF Indoor Permit...

February 20, 2008 Olympic & Amateur Sports: David Woods Boilermakers' freshman runners pick up speed quickly February 20, 2008 Must be Year of the Freshman at Purdue. Not just in basketball, either. In Josh Hembrough and Shane Crawford, the Boilermakers have two of the premier...

Note: Adam Nelson is listed as 6-0, 255 lbs. in his USATF profile, hardly a giant. With massive 22.40m put (about 73'6"), Nelson improves to No. 3 all-time Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA - Arkansas will always have a special place in Adam Nelson's heart. It is especially so after his victory...

This post is closely related to the "Boise State Jumpers" post, the point being that whites can be outstanding horizontal jumpers. They are all white. Interviews : Ryan Grinnell of Boise State by Tom Borish (1/30/08) Grinnell leaped to 53-04.50 in the triple jump this season (BSU...

Sunday, 10 February 2008 NEWS FLASH - Kallur flies to World Indoor record for 60m Hurdles Susanna Kallur punches the air with delight after her PB in Berlin (Getty Images) relnews Karlsruhe, Germany - Sweden's European indoor and outdoor sprint hurdles champion sped to a new World Indoor...

Susanna Kaollur is now #2 all-time for the 60 meter hurdles. Kallur: 'It's really nice to be hurdling well' Tuesday 5 February 2008 With her scintillating 7.72 performance in Stuttgart on Saturday, Susanna Kallur took sole possession of the No. 2 spot among 60m hurdlers all-time. Yet...

They are all white. Interviews : Ryan Grinnell of Boise State by Tom Borish (1/30/08) Grinnell leaped to 53-04.50 in the triple jump this season (BSU Media Relations) 1. You recently earned the NCAA automatic qualifying standard of 53-4.5 in the triple jump. How does it feel to get...

NEW YORK--Civil rights activist Al Sharpton took to the airwaves today and demanded Dana Jacobson apologize to the black community for some reason. Jacobson, host of ESPN's First Take, made some offensive remarks at a roast recently about Notre Dame University, none of which had anything to do...

Very astute observation. It seems that it is obligatory for a writer to note that a white athlete "lacks speed", "lacks athleticism", "lacks physical gifts". Are not the ability "to burst out of breaks" and "outstanding body control" physical gifts, or did i miss something in my sport science...

In the January 21, 2008 issue of TSN it is pointed out in the article about the Patriots offensive line that "They gave up fewer than 30 sacks for the fourth year in a row: only the Colts and Packers have allowed fewer." (p. 11) Don't the Colts, Packers, and Patriots have one black o-lineman...

It is a tribute to what a great season Jason Witten had that he was voted ALL-Pro because, oftentimes, guys will get votes for their reputation and past accomplishments, more so than for their merit. It's similar to how a black athlete will oftentimes be automatically considered better than a...

Hmmm. In "An early mock draft" in the Jan. 14, 2008 edition of Sporting News (p. 39), Matt Flynn is not projected as a 1st round pick. This is only an article in TSN, but . . . Hey, JaMarcus Russell was the the 1st overall draft pick. Why isn't Flynn a first-rounder?

LSU quarterback Matt Flynn threw 4 TD passes and was awarded the Offensive Player of the Game Award in LSU's BCS championship game win. Will he get the same hype and credit as the great JaMarcus Russell or does he lack the elite athleticism due to his lack of African ancestry?

In the playoff LOSS to the Chargers, Vince (All He Does is Win) Young was 16 for 29 for 138 yards, 0 touchdowns and 1 interception. His QB rating was 53.5. He also ran twice for 12 yards. Will he continue to be hyped as the next great QB? Anyone know what the bloggers are saying about him...

Don Wassall wrote: In fact here's how the Dallas Morning News starts its report on the game: Terrelle Pryor has been billed as the next coming of Vince Young, and he looked the part Saturday at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl high school all-star game. I guess that was meant as a...

Good comment to the Schrager article: Everyone is overlooking one of the most important facts: the offensive lineman of todays game versus the offensive lineman in the past. The size and techniques of the offensife has changed. In the past lineman were athletic and less then three hundred...

mastermulti said: In Australia we don't have a culture that tells people they can't do it. Maybe if we had a lot of blacks of west African origin it'd be different. I think that this is an important point. It is hard to accomplish something when one is convinced that he/she cannot do...

TEEN sprint queen Lauren O'Sullivan is a hair's-breadth off becoming Australia's fastest 200m runner. The Brisbane schoolgirl, 15, - who shocked the athletics world in October when she declared she would not even consider an Olympic spot because of her age - smashed a 23-year-old national...

Thanks, i like The Brushback alot. They say what everyone wants to say, but don't.

I wonder too. On the one hand, Hillis was used against LSU and did a great job (even though McFadden won the game "singlehandedly"), so the coaching staff my figure that he may help them win the bowl game, too. He may even get more opportunities than in the LSU game. On the other hand...