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NCAA Track and Field: 5 Offbeat Takeaways from the National Championships

Last week's 2015 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Eugene, Oregon's Hayward Field provided plenty of excellent performances, rivalries, controversies and backstories. The sports pages and online sites dedicated to track and field left little uncovered in the areas of straight reporting, analysis and prognostication.

After all, the American college sports scene (especially in track and field) is sprinkled with international talent and is an accurate indicator of future Olympic drama. Fittingly, those topics were thoroughly fleshed out by a worldwide pool of journalists.

With that (and the fact that Eugene will host the NCAAs through at least 2021) in mind, I wanted to pen a few of the more subtle yet relevant observations which stuck in my mind in the afterglow of a terrific championship meet.