Tales & Tips

Jun 5, 20222 min read

The Wonder Years

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

I can't believe it worked!

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

MacGyver would have been impressed!

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

Acronym: an abbreviation formed by...

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

Scandinavian Somersault?

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,...

May 1, 20223 min read

A Rose by any other name...

I would like to think I am a learned man, someone who would know this quote was from "Romeo and Juliet" - but the truth is it probably...