Slow the hype so Hunter, latest high school track phenom, has time to grow

Slow the hype so Hunter, latest high school track phenom, has time to grow

In a very small corner of U.S. sports fandom, the biggest story last weekend was not the Super Bowl.

It was the performance of a high school runner named Drew Hunter in a mile race Saturday afternoon at the Armory in New York.  Hunter clocked 3 minutes, 58.25 seconds, breaking Alan Webb’s 15-year-old U.S. high school indoor mile record by 1.41 seconds.

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