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Selected stories from my five decades

in the greatest sport

Tales & Tips

Jun 12, 20222 min read

You mean like a U-bolt?

I taught PE classes and took on the assistant track job at Loyola in 1988, glad to get back into coaching after Arnold Weber's debacle at...

Jun 5, 20222 min read

Before there was the iPhone and the iPad. Before the small digital cameras of the 90's or the shoulder-mounted VHS camcorders of the...

May 29, 20223 min read

Every coach has had their share of official decisions that went against their team, like the time our women's DMR was egregiously...

May 22, 20222 min read

Tom Cooney, former Loyola University track and field coach in the 70's, often used a quote that captured one of my thoughts into a neat...

May 15, 20222 min read

I learned a long time ago that my sense of humor was better suited to college-aged athletes, some of it a little "blue", even though most...

May 8, 20222 min read

I was surrounded by an eclectic group of people on my University of Iowa track team in the early 70'. Coach Cretzmeyer, the head coach,...