We’re all out of ideas. Let’s face it. This account was created and peaked long, long, long ago. Our jokes are old, our opinions stale, and the ink in our quills has long run too dry to write down our tweets for Intern Chase to put onto the internet. This stuff happens from time to…
FACT: In one semi-popular North American sport, 78% of athletes go broke within two years of retirement. FACT: Financial situations are difficult and oftentimes scary to talk about. FACT: Those situations become a lot less scary when you’re equipped with the tools, know-how, and horse sense to handle the situation like an adult. Now, why…
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Every once in a while there comes a meet that is so talked about, so heavily promoted, and so exaggerated in importance, all of America takes note. The meet we are referring to is of course the Stanford Invitational. It’s like the Catalina Wine Mixer of Track and Field events. Before you fire up your…
In watching a race, one is able to bear witness to the entire chaotic breadth of the human experience. From physical, emotional and mental anguish to the rushing sweet bliss of success. We see failure, adaption, failure to adapt, and skinny kids throwing elbows at each other for 30 straight minutes. Basically, it’s fucking great. As a…
We don’t post on this blog much these days, but the excitement of the 2016 NCAA Cross-Country season has us plotting and projecting all sorts of wild stuff. Now that the “BIGGEST WEEKEND EVER OF ALL TIME IN 2016 CROSS COUNTRY WEEKENDS OF ALL TIME” has passed, we’re able to get a good reading of…
I hate shopping. I hate going to the mall. I hate standing in lines. I hate trying to pick the *perfect* present for my family and loved ones. I hate pretending to look at the tile as I walk past Victoria’s Secret. I hate going to Target for a video game and walking out with…
I was greeted this morning by news of an offense committed not just on one of our readers, but in turn, an attack on the good name of our dear friends at Flotrack. Please don’t think I’m being overly dramatic, as this is a situation that requires all of our full attention. Hopefully, as you…
Black Friday. The origins of the name are unclear, but a general consensus seems to be that it refers to the day out of the year where retail businesses begin to operate “in the black” (turn a profit). Retailers from Amazon, to Gap, to Baby Gap, to Athleta, the women’s athletic clothing store owned by…
In the first century AD, Chinese Emperor (and secretly amazing name for a rapper) Wang Mang took a soldier, covered him in bird wings, and told him to jump out of a tower.
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