American track & field loses a true friend and advocate of the sport...

One of the key figures in the modern history of USA Track & Field, and an international advocate for women's sports, Patricia Rico (left/photo courtesy USA Track & Field) of Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., died Sunday of respiratory failure. She was 76.I first had the privilege of working with Pat Rico 26 years ago in the run-up to the 1984 US Olympic Marathon Trials in Olympia, where I was the assistant