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New York Times
28 minutes ago
- New York Times
Bill Dellinger, Track Coach Who Mentored Stars, Dies at 91
Bill Dellinger, who ran the 5,000 meters for the United States in three Olympics and then became a successful longtime coach at the University of Oregon, his alma mater, nurturing the careers of such standout runners as the Olympians Steve Prefontaine and Joaquim Cruz and the marathon runner Alberto Salazar, died on June 27 in Eugene, Ore. He was 91. His death, in a care facility, was from cancer, his son Joe said on Friday. At Oregon, Dellinger coached the track teams for 26 years (1973-98) and the cross- country teams for 30 (1969-98). During that span, Oregon won three N.C.A.A. team championships in cross-country and one in outdoor track. In retirement, he coached Mary Decker (now Mary Slaney), probably the best American female middle-distance runner of all time. His coaching success followed a productive running career of his own. At Oregon, Dellinger started as a 5-foot-9, 137-pound miler and won the N.C.A.A. title in 1954. He later switched to the 5,000 meters (3.1 miles), which he ran in the 1956, '60 and '64 Olympics. After winning a bronze medal in 1964, he retired as a runner. As a coach, he was a laid-back philosopher whose athletes called him Bill, not Coach. Many went on to glory. Prefontaine set multiple long-distance records in the early to mid-1970s, won gold in the 1971 Pan American Games and competed in the 1972 Olympics in Munich. He died at 24 in an automobile crash in Eugene in 1975 while preparing for the 1976 Games. The Cuban-born Salazar won three New York City Marathons in the 1980s and the 1982 Boston Marathon. Cruz took the gold medal in the 800-meter event at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. And another of Dellinger's runners, Matthew Centrowitz Jr., won the gold medal in the 1,500 meters at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Dellinger preached moderation in training. He told Runner's World magazine in 1980: 'Most runners have the false impression that the more miles they can run, the better they're going to be. Mileage is beneficial only to a certain point, and once that's reached, it becomes damaging. I do think holding a runner back is what the true art of coaching is about.' William Solon Dellinger was born on March 23, 1934, in Grants Pass, in southwest Oregon, to Shirley and Avril (Swacker) Dellinger. His father worked for Shell Global delivering heating oil. Dellinger's introduction to track came as a high school freshman when the track coach asked the physical education teacher to have the class run three laps around the track. 'I can still remember the coach waving his arms at me as we came around the first lap, yelling for me to slow down,' he recalled. 'I came around again on the second lap and had a big lead on everyone else, and he's screaming at me to slow down again. I guess he figured I must've been pretty good, because my time for the three laps was faster than any of the guys on the track team.' Dellinger joined the team, and a few weeks later he placed high in the state mile championship. Before graduating, he won it. During college and after, he won three national and two N.C.A.A. titles as well as the 5,000 meters at the 1959 Pan American Games. He broke the world indoor records for two and three miles. And he set American records outdoors, once for 1,500 meters and three times for the 5,000. At Oregon, Dellinger earned a bachelor's degree in 1956 and a master's in 1962, both in education. After college, he spent three years in the Air Force and then taught and coached in high school and briefly coached in junior college. From 1967 to 1973, he was assistant track coach at Oregon under his former college coach, Bill Bowerman, a co-founder of the Nike footwear brand, with Phil Knight. Dellinger coached the United States men's distance runners in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He was elected to several track and field halls of fame. His wife, Marol, died in 2014. In addition to his son Joe, he is survived by another son, David, 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Dellinger was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1998, had a stroke in 2000 and underwent surgery in 2012 to have a malignant tumor removed from his stomach. He retired at 64, but he continued to work out every other day on the Oregon track for a time, preferring it to running on the campus grounds or in the streets of Eugene. 'I go to the track in the evening when no one's around,' he told the running magazine The Harrier in 1998. 'I don't like to jog.' Frank Litsky, a longtime sportswriter for The Times, died in 2018. Ash Wu contributed reporting.
Indianapolis Star
29 minutes ago
- Indianapolis Star
Tamika Catchings, Caitlin Clark and more: All Indiana Fever players in WNBA All-Star games
The WNBA All-Star game will be held in Indianapolis for the first time in 2025. While the league began in 1997, the Indiana Fever did not become a franchise until 2000. A year later, the Fever drafted Tamika Catchings, who would become the team's greatest player and make 10 All-Star games. But Catchings isn't the only player who has stood out. Here is a list of every Fever player who has participated in a WNBA All-Star game. Rita Williams has the distinction of being the first WNBA All-Star for the Fever. Williams made the game as an injury replacement and played nine minutes, contributing an assist for the East. The West won the game, 80-72. Tamika Catchings' first of many All-Star games occurred in 2002. Catchings started the game and put up 12 points, nine rebounds and four blocks. The West won, 81-76. The 2003 All-Star game marked the first time the Fever had multiple players participate. Catchings started and led the East with 17 points. Natalie Williams, in her first season with the Fever, was a reserve in the game. She scored six points, grabbed 11 rebounds and notched three steals. Williams was also an All-Star for the Utah Starzz from 1999 to 2001. The West won, 84-75. While 2004 was not considered a standard WNBA All-Star game due to the Olympics, Catchings and Williams once again participated in a mid-season exhibition contest. Dubbed "The Game at Radio City," it pitted the U.S. Olympic team against a WNBA squad. Catchings was a starter on the Olympic team while Williams was a reserve on the WNBA side. The USA won, 74-58. Catchings was a starter on the East squad for the third time and had 18 points and six rebounds. The West won, 122-99. Catchings was voted a starter once again, but was injured and did not play. Whitmore, whose lone All-Star game appearance came in 2006, scored nine points, grabbed four rebounds and registered two blocked shots. The East won, 98-82. Catchings started and put up a double-double of 15 points and 11 rebounds. She also had seven assists. In her second All-Star game (first and only while playing with the Fever), DeForge started and had two points and an assist. Sutton-Brown, in her second All-Star appearance (first and only while playing with Indiana), came off the bench and grabbed three rebounds. The East won, 103-99. Both Tamika Catchings and Katie Douglas started for the East squad, which lost to the West, 130-118. Catchings had seven points, five assists and four rebounds. Douglas, an Indianapolis native who played at Purdue, was already a two-time All-Star with the Connecticut Sun by the time 2009 came around (Douglas was the 2006 All-Star game MVP). In the 2009 game, Douglas had 11 points, five assists and three rebounds. The Fever's Lin Dunn coached the East team. Like in 2004, 2010 was not considered a standard WNBA All-Star game. Dubbed "Stars at the Sun" (played at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut), the game once again featured Team USA against a WNBA team. Catchings started for Team USA and Douglas started for the WNBA squad. Team USA won, 99-72. A 3-point contest was also held, which Douglas won. Catchings and Douglas teamed up again in the starting lineup for the East. Douglas contributed 15 points, three rebounds, two assists and two steals. Catchings had 11 points, four rebounds, three steals and two assists. The East won, 118-113. Catchings started for the East and scored six points and grabbed five rebounds. Shavonte Zellous, in her only All-Star game appearance, came off the bench and had four points and two assists. The East lost to the West, 102-98. Lin Dunn, who won a WNBA title with the Fever a season prior, coached the East squad. Catchings started and had a productive game of 14 points, 13 rebounds, five steals and two assists. Briann January, who is currently an assistant coach for the Fever, had nine points and four assists in her lone All-Star game appearance. The East won in overtime, 125-124. Catchings started and contributed eight points, 10 rebounds and six assists. Coleman, in her only All-Star game of her career, came off the bench and had six points and two assists. The West won, 117-112. Tamika Catchings retired in 2016, so the streak of Indiana having an All-Star game starter ended in 2017. However, Candice Dupree came off the bench for the East and had 14 points, six rebounds, two assists and two steals. Dupree made seven All-Star games during her career. The East lost, 130-121. In 2018, the WNBA switched up formats and had the two leading vote-getters select the teams. A year later, the format remained and A'ja Wilson and Elena Delle Donne served as captains. Both Dupree and Wheeler were selected by Wilson and came off the bench. Wheeler had an impressive performance of 25 points, seven assists and four rebounds. In her lone All-Star game, she was named the MVP for her efforts in a 129-126 win for Team Wilson. Wheeler, who went undrafted in 2013, currently plays for the Seattle Storm. Dupree had eight points and five rebounds. In 2023, Aliyah Boston became the first rookie to start a WNBA All-Star game since 2014. At the time, she was just the eighth player to do so. Boston started for A'ja Wilson's team and recorded six points and 11 rebounds. Boston's teammate, Kelsey Mitchell, also made her first All-Star game in 2023. She came off the bench for Breanna Stewart's team and had two points, three rebounds and two assists. Team Stewart won, 143-127. Stephanie White, the current coach of the Fever, coached Team Stewart. That season, White was the head coach of the Connecticut Sun. Like Boston, Clark became an All-Star game starter as a rookie. Clark was on Team WNBA, which faced off with the U.S. Olympic team. She scored four points and had 10 assists in a 117-109 win. It was the U.S. Olympic team's only loss (they won the gold medal at the Paris Olympics that summer). Boston came off the bench for Team WNBA and had four points and two rebounds. Mitchell also came off the bench and had 13 points and two steals. Clark received the most votes for the 2025 All-Star game and will serve as a team captain. The league reported that Clark received almost 1.3 million votes.
Fox Sports
2 hours ago
- Fox Sports
Marta Hopes to Lead Brazil to Copa América Title After Coming Out of Retirement
It was just a year ago when Marta left the Olympic final with tears in her eyes, emotionally marking the end of a storied career with the Brazilian national soccer team. Turns out, the six-time world player of the year wasn't quite finished. The 39-year-old forward has come out of retirement and is playing for Brazil at the Copa América Femenina in Ecuador. The Brazilians have won eight titles in the premier women's tournament for South America. The Copa América is among three big continental women's tournaments this summer, along with the European Championship and the Africa Cup of Nations. Even though Marta had stepped away from the national team, Brazil coach Arthur Elias pulled her back in late May for a pair of friendly matches against Japan. Marta started in another Copa América tune-up match against France in late June. Marta said she's just living in the moment. "My work doesn't change, the feeling doesn't change, the pride doesn't change, the desire to help the team doesn't change, and it never will, regardless of whether I'm playing or not," she said in a news conference when she was brought back. "But the way I'm facing things, not only here in the team, but I think in my day-to-day life, is a different way. I'm aware that I don't have many years left to play, so the little I have, I want to make the most of it." Before last year's Paris Games, Marta said she would be retiring from the national team after the Olympics to make way for the next generation of players. The Brazilians went on to win the silver medal after a 1-0 loss to the United States in the final. But she continued to play for her club team, the Orlando Pride in the National Women's Soccer League. Last season, she scored 11 goals with the Pride, who won the NWSL title. She re-signed with the team through 2026 earlier this year. Overall, Marta's national team career has spanned more than 20 years. She's played in 204 games for Brazil, scoring 119 goals. She's played in six World Cups and six Olympics. Brazil's best finish at the World Cup was runner-up in 2007. The nation has reached the Olympic final three times, including in Paris, but a gold medal has remained out of reach. Marta started in Brazil's Copa América opener, a 2-0 victory over Venezuela, then came off the bench in a 6-0 win over Bolivia. Next up is a match against Paraguay on Tuesday (8 p.m. ET on FOX and the FOX Sports app). She has said she'll accept any role that Elias gives her, realizing that Brazil has a host of talented young players, including 25-year-old Kerolin, who plays professionally for Manchester City, and 22-year-old Luany, who plays for Atlético Madrid. But there's also an elephant in the room: the Women's World Cup is coming to Marta's home country in 2027. Previously, Marta said she didn't see herself playing in it — she'd be 41 — but she hasn't exactly ruled out the possibility either. "The coach has always made it very clear that he'll be calling whoever is best at the moment, regardless of age, and I think that the way he's doing it is the most correct way," she said. "There's no point in coming here and saying, 'I'll be playing in the World Cup in two years.' It will depend on what happens in my day-to-day life, and that's why I'm thinking this way today and living one day at a time." She may also have another plan for her future. "I still have a very strong desire to be a mother, so maybe I'll wake up one day and decide to call my doctor and see if it's still possible," she said in a recent interview with Globo's Esporte Espetacular. "If it is, bye, I have to go now." Reporting by The Associated Press. Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily ! FOLLOW Follow your favorites to personalize your FOX Sports experience Copa América Femenina Brazil FIFA Women's World Cup Get more from the Copa América Femenina Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more
