Steve Lapa says last week’s employment news was encouraging – over 900,000 new jobs and counting – the biggest increase we’ve seen in over six months. With the hope of an expanding economy in mind, Lapa asks, “Are you ready for local business leaning into a recovery mode? The smart managers and sellers will be prepared with plans and packages that show advertisers the flexibility and creativity that only radio can offer.” See his five-point checklist
Former KROQ, Los Angeles Morning Host Gene Baxter’s ‘Podcast Radio’ Profiled in Forbes. Former longtime KROQ, Los Angeles morning personality
Gene “Bean” Baxter (pictured here) has been living in the UK since he retired from LA radio and his current
Elsewhere,
Al Jazeera reports that head of the UK genetic surveillance programme
Sharon Peacock has warned that the B.1.1.7 variant which was first recorded in Kent in September is likely to “sweep the world” and become the most dominant global strain of the virus.
PS: In arts news, the Adelaide Fringe festival has been left scrambling ahead of its February 19 start date,
The Guardian reports, after South Australia shut its border to Melbourne residents.
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NCAA May Not Accept Christian Noble’s 13:37 Division II 5K Record Due to Pacing Lights
On Sunday night,
Christian Noble of Lee (Tenn.) University ran the fastest indoor time ever by a Division II 5,000-meter runner. Noble’s 13:37.39 at the Magic City Elite meet in Birmingham, Ala., was an 11-second personal best and almost four seconds faster than the previous DII best of 13:41.08, run by Abilene Christian’s
Nicodemus Naimadu 16 years ago. It was a stellar performance, run mostly alone Noble led every step of the final 15 laps after pacemaker
Garrett O’Toole stepped off the track after two kilometers.
Good News: There Will Be A 2021 Indoor Track Season But It Will Look Much Different Than Normal
January 7, 2021
We are into January, which means it is time for indoor track. Well, what’s left of it.
Already, the Millrose Games in New York, the crown jewel of the US indoor season, have been cancelled for the first time in the event’s 114-year history. As for the USATF Indoor Championships,
LetsRun.com can report that the meet is tentatively scheduled for February 19-20 in Albuquerque (though you’d never know that from looking at the USATF website)
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but whether that meet will actually be held is another question.
Pro Track Series.
Milner, along with Jesse Williams and Abby Stanley of Sound Running, Craig Rice of Portland Track, Blake Bolden of Drake Relays, and Nick Dwyer and Max Paquette of the Ed Murphey Classic plan to host a formal track season, running from May to August 2021. Athletes will compete against each other for prize money through a point system at six established meets and one new event the Iowa High Performance.
As the
schedule stands now, the series will kick off with the Track Meet in Los Angeles on May 14, 2021. The next event will be the Portland Track Festival on May 29, followed two days later by the inaugural Iowa High Performance meet in Des Moines on May 31. The next event will be the Music City Carnival on June 5 in Nashville.