I'm not sure why USA Track & Field chose Wednesday to announce the 2020 U.S, Olympic Trials would be at Mt. Sac Community College,.
The announcement came the day before the first TrackTown Summer Series meet at Stanford.
I don't think USATF could have picked a worse moment for the summer series, already fighting an uphill battle for attention.
The announcement effectively squashed whatever chance the Stanford meet had to generate attention and momentum heading into Thursday night.
It's baffling, given the summer series is an attempt to revitalize professional track in the U.S.. something USATF should be trying to aid in every way possible.
OK, the BBC story reporting the FBI and IRS are investigating the successful bid by TrackTown and USATF to bring the 2021 World Outdoor Championships to Eugene, also came out Wednesday. It also undercut the summer series rollout.
USATF can't control that. It could have chosen any of 364 different days to announce the trials site.
TrackTown USA president Vin Lananna also is president of USATF. I suspect he isn't happy.
It was hard to tell for sure from the TrackTown webcast of last night's meet on Facebook Live, but there didn't appear to be many people in the stands at Cobb Track and Angell Field.
The series resumes Sunday afternoon at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham. Here is more information about that meet.
I don't know if Lananna and TrackTown can make the summer series work.
But they have a better chance if USATF is helping the effort, and not hindering it.
OK, more links:
Paul Chelimo of the Portland Pulse wins the 3,000 at Stanford.
Chelimo gives fans a reason to celebrate in the TrackTown Summer Series.
The experts at LetsRun.com: Hannah Fields' nearly six-second personal record gives the TrackTown Summer Series a highlight performance at Stanford.
Paul Merca: Fields and Alexa Efraimson go 1-3 in the women's 1,500 to take the San Francisco Surge to the top of the team standings at the TrackTown Summer Series meet.
FloTrack has a full video recap of Thursday's TrackTown Summer Series meet webcast, and it's free.
Robby Andrews will be chasing the world 1,500 standard on Sunday afternoon at Mt. Hood CC.
Bowerman Track Club steepler Colleen Quigley says running in the Olympics only made her more hungry to excel in the sport.
The only track athlete on this list of the world's 50 most marketable athletes is ... Canadian Sprinter Andre De Grasse at No. 23. Usain Bolt isn't included because he is retiring.
De Grasse got a hero's welcome at the Harry Jerome Track Classic,
The UO track & field and cross country program made a major contribution to the Ducks' No. 9 ranking in the final Director's Cup standings.
Will sprinter Deajah Stevens return to the Oregon Ducks next year? She tells FloTrack, she isn't sure. (video)
University of Portland distance runner Parkes Kendrick has been nominated for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
Mo Farah says there is more work to do before the World Outdoor Championships.
That Sara Vaughn made Team USA for the World Outdoor Championships gets more remarkable the more you know about it.
All-star field set for the UATF 10 km Championships -- including Chris Derrick, Shalane Flanagan and Jordan Hasay -- in Atlanta.
Ron Tabb -- once married to Mary Decker and once coach at Pacific University -- takes over as a high school coach in Fort Myers, Florida.
Doug Robinson of the Deseret News: Reset on track records is regrettable, but probably necessary. Baseball should consider doing the same thing.
As Gabe Grunewald shows, victories aren't always defined by order of finish.
Sydney McLaughlin says she will take a break from the 400 hurdles next year as a Kentucky freshman.
Vaulter Armand DuPlantis gets the Gatorade National Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year award.
The experts at LetsRun.com preview Saturday's Diamond League meet in Paris.
Omar McLeod eyes a world record in the 110 hurdles in Paris.
Devon Allen, the UO two-sport star, is in that hurdle race in Paris too.
Some of the hurdles Sally Pearson had to overcome weren't on the track.
Daniel Stahl breaks the Swedish discus record.
Jamaican sprinter Novlene Williams-Mills talks about competing with cancer, and about being proud of the scars on her body,
Polish mid-distance runner Marcin Lewandowski says championship mid-distance runners need to be prepared to run rounds.
The front page from LetsRun.com.
The links package from Track & Field News.
The links from Duck Sports Now.
The links from Beaver Sports Now.
-- Ken Goe