EUGENE, Ore. | Chris Nilsen has pole-vaulted 19 feet six times this season, five of those efforts coming outdoors. Wednesday night at historic Hayward Field on the University of Oregon campus, the University of South Dakota sophomore broke the NCAA Championships meet record in the event, clearing 19 feet, 1…
Being an Olympic athlete is the experience of a lifetime. A new phalanx of men and women will discover that starting this week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With the exception of Kevin Durant and his NBA cronies, the Olympics is probably as good as it will ever get. Olympic…
EUGENE, Ore. — Even as he attempted to claim the pole vault title at the national collegiate championships in Eugene, Lawrence Johnson of Tennessee had his sights set on something higher. There would be more important heights to negotiate this summer, more urgent marks to attempt to break, like the…
