The lads at the tavern kept the suds a flowin' this past week and I did not even think of posting this old story of the Battle of Agincourt so well documented by one W. Shakespeare,  when cross country was a true sport of nations.  Now days visa procurement, becomes more important than simple invasion of another country in order to compete on their playing fields.  And who the hell would want to invade Greenland in order to run a meet dressed half bare arsed across melting glaciers, or tramping through the oil and tar sands of the Orinoco Valley?  Aye lads instead the swamps north of the Everglades were the scene of  that sacred gathering, dodging stray boa constrictors and drug test units.  That aside, let us go back to better times when there was no question whether to vax or not to vax,  when survival was truly of the fittest. When the cross bow was not yet invented and the long bow was the ultimate weapon in our arsenals. (Military enthusiast...

                                                              Lopez Lomong                                                        Going through Walt Murphy's newsletter "This Day in Track and Field"  yesterday,  Walt mentioned it was the birthday of Lopez Lomong.   As some of you may recall, Lopez was  one of "The Lost Boys" refugees from South Sudan who came  to the US back in 2001.   He was adopted by an American couple who went on to take in five more young men to their home and raise them to adulthood.  Lopez of course went on to running fame, representing his adoptive country in international competition.  In this time of internal turmoil in o...