NCAA Track and Field Preview, Texas, “Ballsyness”, Bill Simmons on Matthew Boling, Praise for IAAF & Gabe Grunewald
Episode description
The NCAA Track and Field Championships are Wednesday to Saturday and LetsRun.com's boots are on the ground in Austin ,Texas for our NCAA preview podcast.
We preview everything NCAAs (10:08-47:32), touch on the Rome Diamond League (47:32), gender and sex issues with Caster Semenya and CeCe Telfer and praise the IAAF (51:44), have audio from Bill Simmons' podcast on Matthew Boling (71:28), plus deleted threads of week and inspiration from Gabe Grunewald (86:34).
Pod is sponsored by Running Warehouse which in addition to having FREE 2 day shipping on running shoes is the sponsor of our $200,019 NCAA Prediction Contest
Notes:
0:00-10:08 Texas, Open Carry Guns, Jon goes to Flotrack HQ
10:08 NCAA Preview (World #1s Grant Holloway and Daniel Roberts are after Renaldo Nehemiah's collegiate record. World #1 Mondo Duplantis vs World #2 Chris Nilsen in pole vault).
39:18 Men’s NCAA 5000 Talk and Grant Fisher vs Morgan McDonald “ballsyness”
47:32 Rome DL
51:44 Caster Semenya, CeCe Telfer, & Deadspin
62:03 Duane Solomon vs Sammy Watson’s Olympic Chances
71:28 Bill Simmons Podcast Discusses Matthew Boling & Donald Trump with Chuck Klosterman
79:03 Deleted threads of Week: Violence in Baltimore
86:34 Threads of Week: Gabe Grunewald Still Inspiring Us