73rd Eastern States Championships 2010

  NEW YORK -- Ed Grant, whose career covering track and field began 66 years ago, has been named the recipient of the fourth Stan Saplin Sports Media Award.

Jonathan Vitez, Darrell Wesh, Monica Williams, Megan Tiernan, and Emily Kianka impress in NJ and VA over the weekend.  (Photos by Ryan Kelly and Matt Shatkus)

The meet is on as scheduled.  Live webcast begins at 6pm.

The last time Haddonfield’s Jon Vitez took the baton for the anchor leg of the distance medley relay, he felt great for the first few steps. Then his baton hit the runner’s foot to his outside and the stick clink-clinking to the infield, blowing the race and robbing spectators of a showdown between Vitez and West Orange’s Curtis Richburg.

She didn’t want to celebrate early. A couple times already, she brushed the high jump a couple times earlier and she watched those bars shake until they dropped.