Track and Field History - a podcast from the CITIUS MAG Podcast Network - will go back and explore some of the best athletes, races and more from the world's greatest sport. Hosted by Jesse Squire.
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"In the Lab: A Spotlight on AI Pioneers in Milwaukee” is a limited series of executive podcast interviews that aims to shine a spotlight on the local pioneers who are at the forefront of AI innovation. AI is reshaping the world, and this series aims to explore future predictions and practical applications from the experts. It sheds light on game-changing innovations happening in Milwaukee, often hidden by Midwestern modesty. By delving into the labs, the podcast uncovers insights beyond the ...
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AI Upskilling with Israel Squires of Midpoint Consulting
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Israel Squires brings a wealth of knowledge from his diverse background as an M&A/securities lawyer turned AI software investor and entrepreneur. He shares invaluable insights into the practical applications of AI in business, the current landscape of AI technology, and the importance of workforce development. This episode is essential for anyone i…
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AI in the Workplace with Nathan Lasnoski of Concurrency
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Nathan Lasnoski shares his extensive expertise in AI, discussing the transformative impact of AI on enterprise organizations and how businesses can strategically implement AI to drive operational savings and revenue production. This episode is essential for anyone interested in technology, innovation, and AI ethics. Nathan offers practical insights…
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Future of AI and Manufacturing with Nitin Ranjan of Golgix
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Nitin Ranjan shares his deep technical expertise and first-hand knowledge of manufacturing challenges, discussing how AI can revolutionize the industry. This episode is essential for anyone interested in technology, innovation, and manufacturing. Nitin offers compelling insights and practical examples of AI applications in manufacturing, making it …
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Building AI Infrastructure with John Young of Databricks
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John Young shares his extensive expertise in AI and data science, discussing how Databricks is revolutionizing the way enterprises manage and leverage data for AI applications. This episode is essential for anyone interested in technology, data management, and AI innovation. John offers practical insights and real-world examples of AI applications,…
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Insights on Ethical AI with Sarah Alt of Michael Best
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Sarah Alt shares her extensive expertise in ethical AI, discussing the transformative impact of AI in various sectors, particularly within the legal sector. She offers practical insights and real-world examples of AI applications, making this episode essential for anyone interested in technology, ethics, and innovation. Sarah offers touching storie…
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Revisiting Running Movies: 'On the Edge' Starring Bruce Dern
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The podcast returns to take a dive into the 1985 film "On The Edge" starring Bruce Dern. From Rotten Tomatoes: "Banned from competition 20 years ago for exposing payoffs in amateur athletics, former long-distance runner Wes Holman (Bruce Dern) decides to enter the Cielo-Sea Race, a punishing, mountainous footrace in the Pacific Northwest. The compe…
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The Early-70s International Track Association
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Things like the American Track League and its recent string of meets are rare and a huge logistical undertaking. In United States history, I can think of another time when something simpler and similar has happened. I'm thinking of the International Track Association that launched in March 1973. It featured the likes of Lee Evans, Bob Seagren, Jim …
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Sportswriter Ken Goe Reflects on 43 Years At The Oregonian And Covering Track & Field
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Jesse Squire sits down with Ken Goe – a sportswriter for The Oregonian for 43 years who just announced his retirement a few weeks ago. He’s got deep ties covering track and field since he was assigned the beat as he first got his start at the paper. He takes us through those early days in his career and the evolution he’s seen in the sport since. T…
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The Marathon of Hate: Behind the Bowling Green-Toledo Rivalry
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On Wednesday, November 4, the Bowling Green – Toledo rivalry will be renewed with its 85th football game. To celebrate this I will run from Doyt Perry Stadium, the home of the BG Falcons, to the Glass Bowl, the home of the UT Rockets. The course is 26.2 miles and the run will be known as The Marathon Of Hate. If you’re a runner you won’t ask why I’…
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Ekidens In America: Behind the Michigan Pro Ekiden And Race Innovation
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"The club cross country championships are popular because of the team aspect. I can speak to this because when I owned my running stores (Big River Running Co.) we used to send our team (Big River Racing Team) to Clubs and it was our chance to re-live our high school and college glory days. You put on the spikes. You huddle up as a team before the …
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89: Implementing the Swift Runtime in Swift, with Jordan Rose
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What’s in a Swift runtime? Swift on Mac OS 9 Heap Objects Type Layout Type Metadata Uniquing Caches Class Metadata Class Metadata Initialization Other links Layout guarantees Steve Troughton-Smith’s BitPaint @ksherlock’s mpw An explainer on Swift weak references About Jordan Twitter @UINT_MIN Belkadan Citizens’ Climate Lobby Sponsors Instabug - Get…
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A Lasting Message Of Hope: Terry Fox's Run Across Canada, 40 Years Later
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Like many of you, I try to keep myself in shape by working out through running. I often need some sort of goal in my future to keep myself honest on following my workouts. Usually, that's a race. The problem is that no races have been held in the United States since early March and it doesn't appear as though we'll have any for a while yet. I need …
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Quick question: Which city has the record for most Olympic bids without winning or hosting? The answer is Detroit. Detroit is now a cautionary tale of a city built on a single industry and how white flight can destroy an entire region. However, Detroit was once one of the most important and wealthy cities in America. It was either the fourth or fif…
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We're going to take a look at one of America's greatest and most forgotten competitors – Earlene Brown. She is the greatest American women's thrower of the 20th century. Four years ago, Michelle Carter won the women's shot put title at the Rio Olympics. She was the first American woman to win gold in that event at the Olympics. She was the first me…
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It feels a bit uncomfortable for me to be blathering on about sports history with all that is going on in this nation right now. But no less a man than Pope John Paul II said “the dignity of the human person is the goal and criterion of all sporting activity”. And we desperately need humanity and dignity at the moment. So on we go. If you’re on Twi…
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If you run, jump or throw, it’s likely you have worn something that Ron Hill Sports has helped pioneer. This episode takes a look at Ron Hill, who is maybe best known as a marathon world record holder and definitely has a record-setting running streak, but you might not realize you wear his inventions every day. ▶ Follow CITIUS MAG: twitter.com/Cit…
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I want to discuss a man who is largely not remembered a whole lot and certainly, many of today's younger runners probably haven't heard of him. He was an extremely important person in the history of long-distance running and marathoning. I'm talking about the British marathoner from the early 50s, Jim Peters. He did more to change the marathon than…
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One of The Most-Watched Sprint Races: Conrad vs. Kaplan Revisited
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Let me tell you about one of the most-watched sprint races in history – at least in American history to an American audience. Sportswriter Bill Simmons calls it his favorite YouTube clip. It's not his favorite track and field YouTube clip or his favorite sports YouTube clip, it's just flat-out his favorite YouTube clip of all-time. To do this, we n…
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The Top 10 Greatest Canadian Track and Field Athletes Since World War II
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Just about two weeks ago, the wonderful show "Schitt's Creek" came to an end after six seasons. The plot seems very topical because people who had lots, suddenly have nothing due to circumstances out of their control. All they have is each other and their family. That seems very timely. I was thinking about something that CBC (the show's originator…
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When College Track and Field Had Much Less Money
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One of the things that I find very useful for history – especially while looking at track and field history – is looking at the past and allowing it to educate us on how we got to where we are now, how things changed and what we can learn from the past. Most recently, a very important point has been raised that we may have significantly less money …
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This week I talk about the influence of Don Canham. He was an NCAA champion high jumper for the University of Michigan, then the Wolverine head track coach for two decades, and then the athletic director for another two decades. He was a president of the USTFCCCA. He co-founded the USTFF which fought the AAU for control of track and field in the US…
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Joan Benoit Samuelson: The Greatest American Distance Runner of All-Time
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This week, LetsRun.com released a bracket of 64 runners to determine the greatest American distance runner of all-time. It had 32 men's nominees and 32 women's nominees. They'll play it out over the next couple weeks to determine who the greatest of all-time is. I thought, 'This is a really hard thing to determine because there's so many different …
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One of the Sport's Greatest Rivalries: Marty Liquori vs. Jim Ryun
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Episode 2 of the Track & Field History podcast takes a look at one of the great individual rivalries not only in track & field but in all of sports: Jim Ryun vs Marty Liquori. All nine of their head-to-head matchups took place between 1967 and 1971, the last of which was known as the "Dream Mile" and had as much hype as a title fight. Ryun was the …
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Why Jim Bush Was The Greatest College Coach of All-Time
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"The things that he did for track and field are just too much to put into words. Besides building one of the best track facilities in the entire country – it still is one of the best track facilities in the countries, he then started up invitational meets to put together the best collegians and post-collegiates. Usually, these were sponsored by Pep…
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Introducing Track and Field History with Jesse Squire
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Track and Field History is a new podcast from the CITIUS MAG Podcast Network, where Jesse Squire will re-visit, examine and inform listeners about the greatest athletes, races and moments from the world's greatest sport. ▶ Follow CITIUS MAG: twitter.com/CitiusMag | instagram.com/citiusmag | facebook.com/citiusmag ✩ Connect with Jesse and the show v…
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The way Swift reports compilation diagnostics like errors, warnings and fixits is about to improve in Swift 5.2. Blog post Forum discussion Thanks to this episode's Sponsors Vettery Vettery is an online hiring marketplace that's changing the way people hire and get hired. Make a free profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from …
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Would you like some Swift in your Swift? The compiler driver is getting a shiny new implementation in Swift and there's no shortage of opportunities to contribute. Forum discussion Project on GitHub Thanks to this episode's Sponsors Clubhouse.io Clubhouse is the first project management platform for software development that brings everyone togethe…
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The Swift of tomorrow... today! The Standard Library Preview Package would allow you to try out upcoming Swift features before they officially ship with new language versions. Proposal: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0264-stdlib-preview-package.md Forum: https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-standard-library-preview-packa…
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Proposal SE-0246 Exploring Swift's Numeric Types and Protocols Proposal SE-0259 Proposal SE-0233 Thanks to this episode's Sponsors Clubhouse.io Clubhouse is the first project management platform for software development that brings everyone together so that teams can focus on what matters – creating products their customers love. With a simple API …
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Proposal SE-0258 Review threads: First review Second review Third review Blog post by Vincent Padreilles on using property wrappers Blog post by John Sundell on The Swift 5.1 features that power SwiftUI’s API Originally pitched in the Swift forums as "Property Behaviors" in 2015-2016 NSHipster article Thanks to this episode's Sponsors Clubhouse.io …
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Relevant Links SE-0255: Implicit returns from single-expression functions Tweet from Ben Cohen Swift Forums Acceptance Post SE-0257: Eliding commas from multiline expression lists Swift Mint Thanks to this episode's Sponsors Sentry.io Sentry tells you about errors in your code before your customers have a chance to encounter them. With Sentry, you’…
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Relevant Links UTF-8 String blog post on swift.org Piercing the String Veil post on Swift forums SE-241 Deprecate String Index Encoded Offsets SR-9749: The bug that led to deprecating encodedOffset Thanks to this episode's Sponsors Sentry.io Sentry tells you about errors in your code before your customers have a chance to encounter them. With Sentr…
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72: Pitch for Official Style Guide & Formatter for Swift
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Relevant Links Announcement Post on Swift Forums Open Sourcing Post on Swift Forums GitHub Repository: apple/sourcekit-lsp NSHipster article on Swift Development with Visual Studio Code using SourceKit-LSP Language Server Protocol Website Thanks to this episode's Sponsors Sentry.io Sentry tells you about errors in your code before your customers ha…
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Proposal Forums review phase one Forums review phase two * Implementation Railway Oriented Programming Get in Touch If you're enjoying the show and want to say thank you, the best way to do that is by leaving us a review on iTunes! It lets us know what you think of the show and helps us climb the charts so other people can find the show. We've als…
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SE-0200 Enhancing String Literals Delimiters to Support Raw Text Paul Hudson’s What’s New in Swift 5 Playground Discussion thread Announcement thread Implementation Get in Touch If you're enjoying the show and want to say thank you, the best way to do that is by leaving us a review on iTunes! It lets us know what you think of the show and helps us …
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