Here ya go folks. The super late Not Trackie 2022 Athletics Canada Track and Field prediction contest is here -> https://forms.gle/VFwmdN3MWNtH2JZd7. Unfortunately, it took us an hour to make this silly video, so now there are about four hours left to enter (not five). Deadline is June 24, 8pm Pacific Time (11pm Eastern). THE...
Continue readingThe Guelph Athletics Scandal Two Years In: What have we learned?
In the room of Canadian university athletics, it would seem, only the elephant remains. Two years ago this week, the biggest and most salacious sports misconduct story in Canadian university athletics history broke on none other than front page of our putative national newspaper, the Globe and Mail. The now infamous story—written by former...
Continue readingWin City Boys Fortnite Chirp Seshy
Win City answers the call! According to the Lancers, It’s the END OF THE ROAD for the Golden Bears. A big response by Win City to Alberta’s flawless chirp seshy from a couple days ago sets them up nicely for the big Fortnite battle. Beat Provided By https://freebeats.io Produced By White Hot...
Continue readingBerta Boys Fortnite Chirp Seshy
The Golden Bears throw some heat around the airwaves prior to their big Fortnite matchup against the Lancers this Friday. Will the Lancers respond? Beat Provided By https://freebeats.io Produced By White Hot...
Continue readingFacilitating Sports in a COVID-19 Pandemic World
The Short Read If we want sports to go on during a raging global pandemic, we should not simply advocate for sports while ignoring the harms they entail. We need to come to terms with the unjust decisions that have led to the cancellation of sports, and pay attention to the social implications of...
Continue readingA Not Trackie New Years
*The Basement* It’s New Year’s Eve, and Trevor Hofbauer finds himself locked-in to a high-intensity mini-sticks training session to make sure his RunningHotTakes marathon ranking score improves for 2022. Kieran Lumb watches intently from the stands; since he doesn’t go to school, he has a lot of free time. Trevor *Snipes top cheese* Ahhhhhhh...
Continue readingTrackside Lounge: Ceili McCabe
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/F18cHlA2iv4 Interview Start: 2:22 Serious Stuff: 5:59 Fun Zone: 17:12 Beat Provided By https://freebeats.io. Produced By White Hot Speech-to-Text 20:18:30 (Evan) Alright, we are coming at you live from the RunningHotTakes studios for this live episode of the Trackside Lounge, not trackside not in the lounge not live.20:18:42 If you’re new, our...
Continue readingACXC HOT TAKES
Intro Haha that’s right, ACXC decided to absolutely bungle this one (per sources). Usports XC might have featured a starting “Danger Gauntlet,” (and I witnessed not one, but two fellow runners absolutely eat it in the Danger Gauntlet, I hope they survived) but ACXC has decided to one up them by blasting the course...
Continue readingNot Trackie Usports Fun Zone: Fin
Intro Alright, we’re at the part of the fun zone that makes you start thinking about fish. Just a few more sentences for you to swim through. Make sure you enter the Prediction Contest if you haven’t yet. I feel like you should have more than enough irrelevant background after this to make some...
Continue readingNot Trackie Usports XC Fun Zone: Part 3
Intro Alright we’re back. After a hectic Part 1 and 2 we needed a day off to recharge and eat some pizza pockets. During this time, I realized I made an unfortunate omission that has since been corrected (see bold below). My apologies for missing this important detail earlier. 6. McMaster Unfortunate injuries did...
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