Competing for the first time since winning a silver medal in the London Olympics, Erik Kynard faced just one other competitor in Ahearn Field House on Saturday afternoon for the Wildcat Invitational.

Oklahoma State’s Taylor Buck was done jum...

By Kevin Haskin
THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
MANHATTAN — Underneath the backboard, the matchup wouldn’t be fair.
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Until they squeezed into a booth at the Cheesecake Factory last fall, the only place Nick Ross and James Frazier had ever met was in the UA's track and field media guide.

Separated by a few inches in a restaurant and by 31 years in the record book...

EUGENE _ The pressure is squarely on Jesse Williams, which is just the way he likes it.The reigning world high jump champion and No. 1 ranked high jumper in the world in 2011, Williams is the early favorite to win Olympic gold this summer in London....

Still gunning for Olympics, high jumper joins Mavericks’ staff
By Jim Rueda Free Press Sports Editor

MANKATO — Seven years ago, Wisconsin native Jim Dilling was the toast of the Minnesota State University track program....

The 2011 World Championships high jump silver medallist Aleksey Dmitrik is raring to start his indoor season and the Russian is hoping to emulate his success at getting on the podium in the South Korean city of Daegu under cover in Istanbul in Marc...

by Elliott Denman — posted on 12/5/2011
"I'm excited, really excited," Jesse Williams tells one and all.

And it's obvious why the the North Carolina-reared, California-schooled, Kansas-trained, Oregon-resident high jump star i...

Reigning World indoor champion Ivan Ukhov will headline both stops of the eighth edition of the Moravia High Jump Tour series in late January.

 
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BY TYLER HICKS | Summer Reporter

A Purdue athlete has a goal of competing in the Olympics next year and he is in a good position to succeed.
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It probably won’t come as a surprise to learn that Jesse Williams plays pickup basketball. He’s a regular at the rec center on the Oregon campus, just a hop, skip and a high jump from Hayward Field.

His game can be fairly quiet, though...