Track and Field Archives

June 5, 2020

Remembering Bobby Morrow, the Texas Sprinter Who Was Once the World’s Fastest Man

A Rio Grande Valley native, Morrow returned to a quiet life of farming after winning three gold medals at the 1956 Olympics.

May 8, 2014

The Olympic gold medalist tells us about her sports-watching—and playing—habits in a new recurring feature.

February 12, 2014

The legendary Dan Jenkins has been covering sports since the forties. Things have not improved.

June 30, 2004

Meet a diver, a high-jumper, and five other Texas athletes who hope to put the pedal to the medal at the 2004 Olympics.

May 31, 1997

Which sports did Babe Didrikson dominate, and in what Hepburn-Tracy film did she appear?

July 31, 1984

Bobby Morrow was America’s most celebrated Olympic athlete in 1956. Today he wishes he’d never left the starting blocks.

September 1, 1981

All this twenty-year-old University of Houston student wants to do is jump farther and run faster than anyone else ever has.