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Donavan Brazier Has Unfinished Business at Hayward Field: “I Wanted to Go to Oregon, But They Never Gave Me a Scholarship” Over the next two years,  Donavan Brazier will run some pretty important races at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field. On June 21, he’ll line up for the final of the Olympic Trials, where he’ll attempt to make his first Olympic team. And in July 2022, he’ll be back at Hayward Field for the World Championships (Brazier, who set an American record of 1:42.34 to win the world title in 2019, receives a bye as the defending champion). Perhaps after those race...

Gymnast Simone Biles is leaving Nike for a partnership with Gap-owned Athleta.  Biles told The Wall Street Journal that she's attracted to Athleta's values and female-focused team. Sprinter Allyson Felix also signed a deal with Athleta following a high-profile split with Nike. Gymnast Simone Biles is leaving Nike for a new partnership with apparel brand Athleta.  The five-time Olympic medalist has signed a deal with the Gap-owned athleticwear company that includes her own line of performance wear, according to The Wall Street Journal's Louise Radnofsky. Biles told The Journal that Athleta's...

Book Review: “Win At All Costs” Tells the Definitive Story of the Rise and Fall of the Nike Oregon Project October 29, 2020 There have been so many revelations about the Nike Oregon Project in recent years that it has been difficult to keep track of them all. In 2015, there was the bombshell BBC/ProPublica investigation that explained how NOP head coach  Alberto Salazar doled out prescription medication like candy and described an experiment in which Salazar rubbed testosterone on his sons in order to determine what amount would trigger a positive test. Article continues below player In...

Font Size Nike’s role as a cultural and "progressive" icon and the most powerful brand in sports can’t be overstated. The Swoosh logo is everywhere, and the multinational  corporation is linked at the hip with social justice warriors like Colin Kaepernick and Megan Rapinoe, the LGBT movement and other left-wing causes. This image was shattered Tuesday night by a damning report on the HBO program Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. David Scott’s Real Sports report was an indictment of Nike’s Oregon Project and its obsession with winning. The distance running training progr...

Malcolm Gladwell Opens Up on His Love of Running, Saving Track & Field, Nike, Super Shoes, Doping, and More By LetsRun.com Back in 2013,  Malcolm Gladwell said LetsRun.com was his favorite website. Yet somehow, despite producing a weekly podcast for the last two years, we had yet to have the bestselling author and running fanatic on the LetsRun.com Track Talk Podcast. We decided to remedy that last week, as Gladwell — who also hosts his own popular podcast, Jonathan Gault and LetsRun.com co-founder  Weldon Johnson (Wejo) to discuss distance running’s shoe revolution, performance-enhan...