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One Small Step - A column By Bryan Green
Bryan Green
Athletics Writer
Email: buraian [at] lifeofburaian.com
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'One Small Step' is a regular column of news, opinions and comments on American and international athletics. Feel free to leave a comment or send us an email
February 24, 2010
By Bryan Green People are easily distracted. Sometimes these distractions are convenient, like...
January 25, 2010
By Bryan Green It's been an interesting first couple weeks in the new year. Deena Kastor came...
January 8, 2010
By Bryan Green... We all have our favorite punctuation marks. Some people "love" their...
The Internet Decade: By Bryan GreenDecember 30, 2009
By Bryan Green Even if this isn't officially the end of a decade, it feels like it, and that's good...
December 13, 2010
By Bryan Green I hope you all got to watch the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships on...
December 9, 2010
By Bryan Green Watching the Nike Cross Nationals (NXN) online this past weekend, I couldn't...
December 7, 2009
By Bryan Green. Once again the NCAA Cross Country Championships lived up to expectations and provided...
November 19, 2009
November 2, 2009
By Bryan Green (@bryangreen1 ) It's about time. It's about time an American man won a marathon...
November 1, 2009
By Bryan Green (@bryangreen1 ) LetsRun nailed it with their quote of the day, today. It comes...
October 8, 2009
As we approach the fall marathon season, it's hard to believe that some of the biggest road races of the year are yet to come...
September 25, 2009
I've spent the past week in Japan with my wife's family in a small town named...
August 30, 2009
Nine years ago, in the fall of 2000, Dathan Ritzenhein entered his senior year of high school as the defending Footlocker Nationals Cross Country Champion. He was the favorite to win again, and...
August 25, 2009
The final three days of the World Championships had a tough act to follow as day six was far and away the most dramatic and exciting of the entire meet. The rain on day seven didn't help much, but...
August 21, 2009
When you look at a distance race, the first third is always about getting out to a good start, finding a good position, and doing so without any major issues. The last third is about covering dramatic...
August 18, 2009
The World Championships has gotten off to a cracking start, and with three days and 12 finals in the books, it's time to look at the first third of the meet. Here's a mix of my favorite themes,...
August 16, 2009
I don't think we could have scripted a better ending to that women's 10,000 meter final. Tactical race, broken open by five Africans with 3000 meters to go. All five runners still together...
August 14, 2009
Writing about someone you know is always difficult. Writing about someone you know who just got let go from their dream job, to which they'd dedicated almost 20 years of their life...
August 8, 2009
Ryan at Flotrack wrote a post recently called Magic of the Mind, where he looks at the central role Belief plays in success on the European circuit. He takes a look at Maggie Vessey's journey to...
July 29, 2009
We've got major meets going off in Europe, road championships being raced, athletes getting busted for doping, and marathon fields being announced. It's been a crazy week. And there are a...
July 14, 2009
It's official. Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player in history. Not one of the greats. Not the greatest of his generation. The Greatest. Ever. I know this because...
July 5, 2009
For 28 years, UCLA has had one thing that no other program could match: Art Venegas. A throws guru, a rousing speaker, and a fierce competitor, Art Venegas built up a throws program at UCLA that...
July 2, 2009
For the two hours leading up to the USATF Championships last Sunday, I watched the US give Brazil a run for its money in the Confederations Cup final. I can't get that game out of my mind....
June 27, 2009
Living in the States, the coverage for the 2009 USATF Championships has been an experience in and of itself. ESPN is covering the meet for a couple hours a night, mostly showing replays of earlier...
June 25, 2009
Brass. When I think of Anthony Famiglietti, I think of brass. It's partly because he comes to race every day. It's partly because he willingly takes the lead in his races and defies...
June 22, 2009
I've been thinking a bit about football recently. Specifically, I've been thinking about how we could go about determining who the best player is at each position. Imagine if, at the end of...
June 14, 2009
Few meets can rival the NCAA Championships for drama, intrigue, and upsets. It combines elite, world-leading performances with tight team competitions in which the difference between 6th and 8th...
June 10, 2009
Track and field is about competition, and competition is about one thing: gambling. Er, I mean winning. Okay, winning at gambling. In Pat Butcher's most recent blog , he laments the rise...
June 4, 2009
Track and field is competition in its purest form. Athletes compete head-to-head to see who can run faster, throw farther, and jump higher. Of course, competition isn't necessary for...
May 25, 2009
Coaching changes are normal. Every year, thousands of high school and NCAA athletes graduate and change locations, training groups and coaches. Every year coaches retire or transfer schools. ...
May 20, 2009
By Bryan Green Outdoor season opens up with the time trial meets. The Cardinal Invite, Mt. SAC, Brutus Hamilton and Payton Jordan. It's pretty common for elite Americans to open up at one...
May 8, 2009
By Bryan Green I had to choose between two track meets last weekend, Payton Jordan or the UCLA-USC dual meet. There was a lot I wanted to see at Payton Jordan. I knewChris Derrick andGerman...
April 27, 2009
With the finish of the London marathon on Sunday morning, we wrapped up the most entertaining seven days of marathoning in the calendar year. And if we go back to Rotterdam and...
April 24, 2009
By Bryan Green About one month ago, I couldn't wait for the Boston Marathon. I wanted to see a rejuvenated Ryan Hall running the granddaddy of 'em all, and a baptized Kara Goucher taking on...
April 16, 2009
By Bryan Green In my previous article , I discussed the closure of Trackshark within the context of a larger argument about the web. I argued that ads alone can't support sites creating...
April 6, 2009
By Bryan Green It's been a few weeks since Trackshark announced it was closing. The news was certainly a surprise, but I also can't say that I'm experiencing a major sense of loss as...
March 27, 2009
By Bryan Green One of my favorite columns from one of my favorite columnists is the annual NBA Trade Value column by The Sports Guy at ESPN. In it, he basically tries to rank all the top players...
German Fernandez and World Cross
March 19, 2009 By Bryan Green I don't make any claims to be a track and field historian, but I can't think of any precedent for the decision recently made by German Fernandez. A freshman, arguably a favorite...
March 16, 2009 By Bryan Green This weekend was about more than just the NCAA meet, however. Unprecedented performances were seen at two national high school meets--Nike Indoor Nationals (NIN) and National Scholastic...
March 11, 2009
By Bryan Green Bryan ran cross country and track and field for UCLA, as well for Japanese ekiden teams while living in Japan. He now pretends to be a runner (mostly on weekends) and a writer (mostly after...
March 7, 2009
By Bryan Green If we thought Steve Hooker and Yelena Isinbayeva were (Just for fun: What's the combined number of meets if we add javelin stud Andreas Thorkildsen, high jump...
Febuary 22, 2009
By Bryan Green Can it really be that time of year already? Time for a national track and field championship? You bet your sweet tuckus it is. The USA Indoor Track and Field Championships is...
Febuary 16, 2009
By Bryan Green So much wacky stuff has been happening in track/running to start this year, I thought it was best to sit down and make sense of it. First it was the Project 30 Task Force's report...
Febuary 12, 2009
By Bryan Green The USA Cross Country Championships are over, and four more national titles have been handed out. Two of those went to repeat winners, Meb Keflezighi (3-time champ) and German Fernandez...
