04.16.08
Posted in Yada Yada, Schools, Sports, Politics, History, WTF, Drillers, Education, Driller Noise, Noise Flash!!!, Bakersfield at 9:57 pm by Administrator
the other day the men with the blueprints meet after school and showed the driller adminstration (reese and harvick) what they had planned for the driller football field and track remodel.
from what i hear, they will keep the old concrete grandstand but add to it to make more seating possible. plus they are suppose to build a fieldhouse.
the vistor stands are suppose to moved to the outside of the track too. the discus and shot rings will be moved to the field behind the home grandstand.
the football field is suppose to stay grass. why i dont know, sure artificial turf costs more to put in but in the long run i bet it is cheaper. you dont have to mow it, water it, chalk it etc.
then comes our track. the photo shows how it looked the week after our 400 relay won the west coast relays. it was flooded in several places (didnt rain though) and dispite numerous signs, they still drove on it!
at least the moisture makes the track softer. it is usually as hard as concrete. so far in the remodel plans, we will get a dirt track again. one hopes we can raise money to put in an all-weather track. the kern high school district has one all-weather track and we need more.
sure some will howl that bakersfield high gets everything but it isnt the case by far. i hope the community will support getting bakersfield high a new track and i and others are looking into getting grants to make this happen.
lastly, it sounds like all this construction will start after the 2008 football season. so the drillers wont have a track at all in 2009.
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12.27.07
Posted in Yada Yada, Back in the Day, Results, Athletes, Sports, History, DyeStatCal at 8:28 pm by Administrator
High School Track 2008
Jack Shepard’s High School Track & Field!
ATTENTION PREP TRACK FANS!
The 50th Edition of Jack Shepard’s indispensable reference book
High School Track 2008
is now available.
All-time lists - 2007 performance list - all records (national, class and age)
i bought mine and so should you HERE
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12.19.07
Posted in Back in the Day, Running 101, Athletes, History at 7:09 am by Administrator
Modest pioneer of long-distance running
By Matt Schudel
Washington Post
December 18, 2007
Ted Corbitt, a distance runner who introduced ultramarathon races to the United States and was a quiet, inspirational force in his sport for decades, has died. He was 88.
Corbitt died of respiratory failure Dec. 12 at a Houston hospital. He also had prostate and colon cancer.
A resident of New York, Corbitt competed in the marathon in the 1952 Olympic Games but made his greatest mark by organizing running groups, pioneering the ultramarathon and developing accurate methods of measuring long-distance races.
As one of the few elite African American distance runners of his time, Corbitt encountered discrimination on the track and off, but he forged ahead with a stoic determination that earned the respect of generations of runners.
While supporting himself as a physical therapist, he spent much of his time in training, often running as many as 200 miles a week.
He worked with many running groups, including the organization behind the New York City Marathon. After helping design the course for the inaugural New York event in 1970, Corbitt, then 51, finished fifth in the race. His time of 2 hours, 44 minutes and 15 seconds was seven minutes faster than his mark in the Olympics 18 years earlier.
“He’s sort of the grandfather of our sport,” Bill Rodgers, a four-time winner of the New York and Boston marathons, said in a telephone interview. “He kicked off the modern running boom in America.”
In 1959, Corbitt organized the country’s first ultramarathon, a 30-mile race through New York and its suburbs that pushed beyond the marathon’s 26-mile, 385-yard limit. (Similar races had been run in Europe since Victorian times.)
Corbitt won that 1959 race and went on to compete in 50- and 100-mile runs, as well as grueling events in which he ran for 24 hours without stopping.
During his career, he competed in 199 marathon or ultramarathon races.
The New York Times called him “the patron saint of the ultramarathon in America.”
Although he was not a coach and seldom appeared in the media, Corbitt helped popularize his sport as president of the Road Runners Club of America, which he helped found in 1958, and the New York Road Runners Club.
In the 1960s, he was at the forefront of the important but tedious task of accurately measuring the distances of running routes. He helped develop a technique that employed a calibrated bicycle wheel with a counter that recorded each revolution of the wheel.
“Long-distance runners have to be very strange people,” Corbitt once said of his lonely passion. “You have to really want to do it. You don’t have to win or beat someone, you just have to get through the thing. That’s the sense of victory. The sense of self-worth.”
Corbitt was born in Dunbarton, S.C., on Jan. 31, 1919. He was a track star at the University of Cincinnati, where he received a bachelor’s degree.
Because he was African American, he was sometimes not allowed to compete in meets in the South and Midwest.
He served in the Army during World War II and received a master’s degree in physical therapy at New York University in 1950. He spent many years as chief physical therapist at the International Center for the Disabled in New York and taught physical therapy at Columbia University and NYU.
He often ran to his office from his home, sometimes completing the 31-mile circuit around the island of Manhattan on the way. He estimated that he had been stopped more than 200 times by police, who were not accustomed to seeing a black man running through the streets of New York.
Corbitt lamented his poor showing in the 1952 Olympics, when he finished 44th in the marathon, but he went on to hold the U.S. records for the 25-, 40- and 50-mile runs.
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11.19.07
Posted in Yada Yada, Sports, History, Skateboarding at 7:45 pm by Administrator
Board out of their minds
More than 30 years ago, the Signal Hill Speed Run was a precursor of the X Games and gave skateboard daredevils a chance to show their stuff. After a series of crashes, it was ruled too dangerous to go on.
By Mike Horelick
Special to The Times
November 18, 2007
It was 1975 and skateboarding was hugely popular when Jim O’Mahoney, head of the U.S. Skateboard Assn., got a call from the producer of ABC’s television show, “The Guinness Book of World Records.” Read the rest of this entry »
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09.26.07
Posted in Yada Yada, History, Jobs, Education at 11:22 am by Administrator
Racial preferences may be setting up many black and Latino law students for failure.
By Vikram Amar and Richard H. Sander
September 26, 2007
IMAGINE, FOR A MOMENT, that a program designed to aid disadvantaged students might, instead, be seriously undermining their performance. Imagine that the schools administering the programs were told that the programs might be having this boomerang effect — but that no one
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Posted in Yada Yada, Politics, History, WTF at 11:06 am by Administrator
Navy to mask Coronado’s swastika-shaped barracks
Ground level isn’t a problem but aerial views of the Coronado site spark outrage.
By Tony Perry
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 26, 2007
CORONADO, Calif., — The U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from the air. Read the rest of this entry »
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08.13.07
Posted in Yada Yada, Schools, Sports, College, History, CSUB, Education at 11:19 pm by Administrator
Bakersfield hopes sports get city’s ball rolling
Investing in Cal State Bakersfield’s step up to Division I athletics is seen as a way to fuel growth of a college-educated community.
By Ken Fowler
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 13, 2007
BAKERSFIELD — Around here, people tend to focus more on what they have rather than what they’re missing.
It’s just the way it is in the dusty Central Valley, a locale that has been the target of jokes from the big city to the southwest. Read the rest of this entry »
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08.04.07
Posted in Yada Yada, Road Stories, History, WTF, DTL, Driller Noise, DTC at 6:04 pm by Administrator
The Hoovers wear orange, and sport “HCG” tattoos, standing for Hoover Criminal Gangster.
click HERE for more info.
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