t-and-f: Bob Wheeler

2002-08-25 Thread Martin J. Dixon
Joe Henderson wrote about the distance class of 72 in his weekly column and he says that he was able to account for everybody except Bob Wheeler. Anyone know? The only Olympian I can't account for is 1500 man Bob Wheeler. Regards, Martin

Re: t-and-f: Bush running too much?

2002-08-25 Thread JTFlash
In a message dated 8/24/02 6:14:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the instigators believe their actions to be retaliatory. The United States has completely self-serving interests in the Middle East, and has used and abused the local populace for quite a while. But, I believe that merely

RE: t-and-f: Bob Wheeler

2002-08-25 Thread malmo
Did Henderson even bother to look? Last I heard, Wheeler and Duke teammate John Krasny had a chain of athletic stores in San Diego. Being that the All-Time ACC XC Team lists Wheeler's hometown as San Diego, that would be a good coincidence to start with. malmo one degree of separation

Re: t-and-f: Bush running too much?

2002-08-25 Thread Tom Derderian
Bush can certainly out run Saddam at 10 km. But can he out run Putin? Putin is well trained. I'd bet on the Russian leader against the USA leader. Might having athletes as world leaders lead us to replacing wars with track meets? Wasn't that the whole idea of the ancient Olympics? Track and Field

t-and-f: Apology

2002-08-25 Thread Jonas Mureika
I would like to publicly apologize to list members for perpetuating the thread on Bush running too much. I realize that such an inappropriate discussion has no place on a track and field forum, and regret doing so. Whatever their origins, the events of September 11 were a dark day for all of us

t-and-f: FW: High school

2002-08-25 Thread malmo
Confirmation on Jimmy da Ho Howarth. High School in Oregon. I'm betting the confusion is on his often repeated story on how he started running occurred in the Bay Area. malmo Rogue River High School, Rogue River Oregon. Class of 1985. We even won the state Track Title for Class AA. Go

RE: t-and-f: Two-Sport stars

2002-08-25 Thread Bloomquist, Bret
In Texas, JimAnne Baker of Cisco will probably sign with Texas Tech to play basketball (a top 10 program). As a junior she triple jumped in the mid 42s, long jumped 20-6 and ran a 54-second split on the 1,600 relay. She won five gold medals at the state meet here (both horizintal jumps, the 200

t-and-f: Traynor HS

2002-08-25 Thread Ed Grant
Netters: Pat Traynor went to one of the Catholic HS inthe Philly area. Msgr, Bonner stands out in my mind, but I'm not sure of it and will check it out later today. Ed Grant

STOP IT!!! (Was Re: t-and-f: Bush running too much?)

2002-08-25 Thread Philip_Ponebshek
OK guys. The next Political Ranters get tossed from the board for two weeks. Got it? Thanks Phil Erstwhile List Supervisor (taking names from here out...) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday,