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Former track coach Trevor Graham goes on trial Monday in San Francisco on charges he lied to federal investigators.

Several prominent athletes coached by Graham have been banned for steroid use.

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Bubba Thornton knows the Texas Relays. A track star at TCU, he competed in his first one back in 1967 and has been coming back ever since.

Texas' men's track coach isn't quite sure if he missed some relays in between that first meet back in '67 and this year's 81st Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays, but more than 40 years later, he still gets excited in early April when the focus of the track and field world is on Austin.

If Texas men's track coach Bubba Thornton has a favorite word, it is consistency. And Thornton's fondness for the word isn't just a facade - it is his coaching philosophy.

At the Tyson Invitational this weekend in Fayetteville, Ark., Texas track coach Bubba Thornton's focus on one event paid off.

One week before the Big 12 Indoor Championships, three letters loom large in Texas track coach Bubba Thornton's mind.
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