No Hurdle Too High

Bastrop's Jimmy McIntire competes with bloody knees in San Antonio's Prickly Pear 50-kilometer trail run in 2022 By Jim Irish Courtesy photos, Austin American-Statesman, Jim Irish Jimmy McIntire can never predict when a Crohn’s attack will strike. On Easter weekend, he and his daughter, Megan, drove from Bastrop, Texas to New Orleans to compete in the Crescent City Classic 10K. On Friday, after checking into a hotel, he ventured across the Mississippi River to Algiers, the qu

Power Memorial's record-setting two-mile relay team (left to right): Andy Walsh, Tony Colon, Pete Lovett, John Lovett and coach, John Bielen

By Jim Irish As a teenager, Michael Regan yearned to connect with his father, John, a disabled Vietnam veteran. He discovered that...

Ward Melville 1969 cross country team. Front row (left to right): Craig Macdonald, Russ Hebert, John Brubaker, Kenny Robinson. Back row:...