LANE ONE: Are the IAAF World Championships the last laugh for Lamine Diack?
For those who care about track & field – as I do – the current edition of the IAAF World Championships are at the...
LANE ONE: Why Russia’s situation for Tokyo rests with the World Anti-Doping Agency and...
At Friday’s joint news conference between the International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach of Germany and IAAF President Sebastian Coe of Great Britain, the...
LANE ONE: The U.S.’s unequaled collegiate Olympic-sport programs may be heading to implosion, starting...
For those who have followed the long-running debate over amateurism and intercollegiate athletics, the issue is finally front and center. For those in the...
LANE ONE: USOPC Hall of Fame committee selections renders USOPC’s protest sanctions toothless
Remember the awards ceremony protests during the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru last month by American gold medalists Race Imboden in fencing and...
LANE ONE: Here we go again – Russia could be suspended after evidence of...
Last week was a great one for Russian sport ... until the news began leaking out about a possible calamity.
Russia hosted the men’s World...
LANE ONE: World Anti-Doping Agency report shows progress, but SafeSport needs more help right...
On Tuesday (17), the World Anti-Doping Agency released its 2018 Annual Report that showed continued, steady progress in its activities against doping and considerably...
LANE ONE: The USOPC is working, changing, but its reach is shorter than its...
The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) held its annual U.S. Olympic Assembly last weekend in Colorado Springs, Colorado and the new leadership...
LANE ONE: How the U.S. failure at the 2019 FIBA World Cup could be...
There wasn’t a lot of attention given to the U.S. team in advance of the 2019 FIBA World Cup in China. It was a...
LANE ONE: No matter what the IOC does, the heat is still on, now...
There are a lot of folks who despise the International Olympic Committee, as many or more who really need its support – and money...
LANE ONE: “We have to thank Willie Banks for everything”
That was the headline on a feature story from the pre-meet news conference before last Friday’s AG Van Damme Memorial in Brussels, Belgium, the...
LANE ONE: New high school participation numbers show first overall decline in 30 years
It finally happened.
The U.S. National Federation of State High School Associations published its annual participation numbers for American high school sports for the 2018-19...
LANE ONE: Iranian hatred of Israel sends its own World Champion fleeing to Germany
If this story was offered as a movie concept, it would be rejected as too wild, too fanciful to be believed. But truth is...
LANE ONE: Which of the three team nominees for the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic...
You still have time for vote for the Class of 2019 for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame – click here –...
LANE ONE: World Champion asks “Why does a popular Olympic sport struggle?”
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has an online feature called “Player’s Own Voice” and Melissa Humana-Paredes was the guest columnist last Wednesday (21st) with...
LANE ONE: You can vote on the next class for the U.S. Olympic Hall...
The concept of a U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame got going pretty late, conceived in 1979 and only admitting its first class in 1983....
LANE ONE: If you think track & field could once again be a high-profile...
People who care deeply about track & field in the United States decry the low profile the sport has today. The symptoms are obvious:...
LANE ONE: USOPC tries self-vaccination to ward off possible Congressional surgery over governance
Over the last 150 years, medical science has created solutions for many diseases which have plagued people for centuries. We often take these miracles...
LANE ONE: U.S. survey says most kids quit sports by age 11, but is...
A breathless story posted last Friday on the Web site of station 41 KSHB in Kansas City announced:
“Study shows more young athletes calling it...
LANE ONE: With a possible 2032 bid ahead, Australia’s Queensland region is now having...
The tumult over bids for the Olympic and Olympic Winter Games should have subsided after the selection of Milan-Cortina to host the 2018 Olympic...
LANE ONE: If you’re looking for sponsorship, the only thing worse than track really...
The recent USA Track & Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, were not only the selection meet for the United States team for the...
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