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Updated January 6, 2003 Masters don’t
live by training and competition alone. We also enjoy meeting and
making friends, getting involved with clubs and associations --
and sometimes expressing
ourselves online and in letters to the editor of National
Masters News.
Masterstrack.com’s
current views are expressed in our blog.
Some masters
cling to the notion that “negative criticism” of any sort is bad
for the movement. “We shouldn’t knock the volunteers who make our
sport possible,” they'll say. Or: “We shouldn’t compare one record
to another, since aren't all records special?”
Well, yes and
no. We should honor all officials who selflessly give of their time,
but we should also hold them to reasonable standards of conduct
and deportment. And critiquing the elites? It’s done
every day. Check your local sports section.
This section
of Masterstrack.com is an archive of opinion articles on our beloved
sport that aren’t always politically correct. So be it. But if you
feel strongly on a subject -- even contrary to my views – you’re
obligated to express them. I welcome private e-mail.
But I encourage
you to share your thoughts with your fellow masters as well.
Below are a few selected views from the past five years.
Ken
Stone
Stone’s
picks for 2001 USATF Masters
of the Year
Some USATF Masters Awards
are a joke
Mystery
of the Changed Chairman's Report
WMA webmaster race: Ken
Stone’s final thoughts
WMA webmaster race: Courtland
Gray replies to Jordan
WMA webmaster race: Jordan
replies to Clingan
WMA webmaster race: Dave Clingan’s original post
What’s Cushen done for masters
women?
The real doping scandal
of Sydney Games
Schneenbeck best for
masters’ millennium
Kathy Jager and consequences
for us all
Kathy and Carl Jager's statement
to the world
Maximum megawatts of masters
online
USATF Masters Politics: Why
we care
Scott honors masters with
new maturity
What Sydney taught us,
and what we can teach
WAVA needs creative,
aggressive direction
Ken Stone's Masters Manifesto
(circa 1996)
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