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"Formula Kersee" has been the recipe for a foot-long turd sandwich in 2023
Harried and misguided pundits like Alison Wade will remain immune to the presence of the very problems they bemoan unless and until they actually start…
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After Shelby Houlihan washes up in the results of a half-marathon, pro-cheating Alison Wade plays bully-by-proxy
Sadly, it's no mystery why sponsors support her newsletter. Perhaps she at least appreciates the irony of the multiple undeserved handouts she's…
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Alison Wade either wants no talk about Shelby Houlihan besides her own, thinks Houlihan didn't dope, or both
The insistence on making Shelbo a special case suggests that pro distance running needs both worthier idols and a more discerning congregation
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Alison Wade gives another "let the poor girl DOPE!" seminar, this time on behalf of protégé-of-scumbags Addy Wiley
The milking of assigned female victimhood for every drop of sour discharge this leathery teat can provide has no place in sports punditry
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Running media aimed at women are fiercely determined to glorify rule-breakers and male deviants
As already postulated, Kara Goucher has spilled her heart into a moral void; the era of men with long records of ugliness coaching America's top women…
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Pushback against running's sleaze-distributors gained a blip of momentum last week
The sport's anti-integrity voices all bear the warble of keen self-interest, even if this is sometimes obscured by the noise of artless deflection
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Some Lauren Fleshman comments
Egomaniacs, however smart or successful, have always made poor role models. At least the reviews of "Good for a Girl" are good for a guffaw
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Runner's World, for whatever strange reason, suggests that cheating is wrong
A publication laden with immoral actors should clean its own house before remarking on messes elsewhere
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Running from the Facts: "Only harpies and lechers are entitled to free speech" edition
If Twitter imposed consistent ethical and epistemological standards, the Wokish would be toast. And a Tesla just might be driving those standards
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I was wrong about David Roche
If you continually upload trash to the Internet, don't be surprised when your "neighbors" complain about the stink
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A round-up of general foolishness
On Global Running Day, look who's spreading the message "Don't run!"
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The sanctification of Nikki Hiltz's "nonbinary" status is only one of many reasons pro running is in the toilet
Hiltz could grow a handlebar mustache at this point and her fans wouldn't blink
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