From My ESPN blog:
“Eugene, Oregon aka Track Town, USA and the storied oval of Hayward Field will be host to the 2008 USA Track and Field Trials beginning today. The 2008 Beijing hopefuls will strive to hear the crescendo of encouragement and the applause of admiration bestowed upon them for a race run well and/or a field event effort worthy of kudos from the track and field savvy crowd assembled in the famed grandstand of the track that Pre and Bill built…
(Burning at a high school track meet)
After a 28 year hiatus, the track and field trials have returned to a neo-nostalgically improved Hayward Field. In a recent article, for the New York Times, John Brant wrote, “Hayward Field, often referred to as the Carnegie Hall of American track and field, has undergone an $8 million facelift, with expanded seating (now 16,000, up from 10,500), new lighting, and a high-tech scoreboard. Though the ubiquitous Nike swoosh is emblazoned on the upper right-hand corner of the scoreboard, next to the words “Historic Hayward Field,” the stadium doesn’t seem to have sacrificed too much of its intimate retro charm. BLOGNOTE: My old boss at the Swoosh aka Nike, Tinker Hatfield the designer of the sneaks donned by MJ, helped with a great deal of the design efforts that will be on national display this weekend…”
Historic Hayward Field:
(Photos by Kim Carroll)
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