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Cleveland Plain Dealer sports columnist Bill Livingston’s book on gold medal pole vaulter Tim Mack -- “Above and Beyond: Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Quest for Olympic Gold” -- took a silver medal (second-best in the country) for excellence in sports books in a recent competition conducted by F...

Kent State Press now has the Maraniss blurb up on its Website.

"Above and Beyond -- Tim Mack, the Pole Vault and the Quest for Olympic Gold'' by Bill Livingston won the 2009 National Media Award from the Pole Vault Development Committee of USA Track and Field. Although it was too late for a jacket blurb, this is noted at the Kentstateuniversitypress.com We...

there is a very nice column on the book in jim bemiller's hometown paper in mansfield, oph., today, with quotes from mack';s coach. see:



http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/art ... 20318/1006

first review of tim mack book is in.

http://cleve.live.advance.net/entertain ... xml&coll=2

tim mack excerpts are at:

www.cleveland.com/livingston

there's also a sidebar about the interview with bubka.

barnes& noble bookstore, crocker park,westlake,. oh., tonight. his biography is now available in bookstores and at http://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com and http://www.amazon.com.

please see this blog:http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2008/09/golds_glory_isnt_in_the_metal.html

Posted: 20 Jul 2006 13:50 Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i find the table of stats on the 6-meter jumpers on tandfnews board fascinating. but, as a fan of the pv on the ground only, i have a couple of questions. the pushoff stat ? pleas...

perhaps the historians and old vaulters who read this board can help me. i have read that don bragg was the world record-holder on steel poles. was it really steel? if so, it had to be a soft grade, no? or were aluminum or some other metals used? what was the usual material for vaulting poles betwee...

Does anyone know of athletes and/or Hollywood stars who are really into t&f and specifically the pole vault? Any celebs/football-baseball-basketball athletes with a distinguished or even undistinguished past in the event? Don't tell me Shaq was a pole vaulter, although it would be nice if it wer...

i'm sure some readers of this board are familiar with rick suhr, outside rochester, n.y. is he the guru he seems? some say he's a self-promoter, others that he is a good coach with superior athletes (see saxer in the lj) and some say he has channeled the wisdom of the eastern bloc coaches. intereste...

it appears you're talking strictly american coaches? otherwise, someone would have mentioned that vitaly petrov had a bronze medalist in gibilisco in athens and, of course, helped make bubka the best ever.