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Thursday, May 28, 2009

What's On the Weekend


Professional

The Reebok Grand Prix, an IAAF Grand Prix meet and the fourth stop in the VISA Championship Series, will be held in Icahn Stadium on Randalls Island, NY on Saturday.
NBC will have live coverage from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Let's Run is running a free ticket contest, aka the "five o'clock free crack giveaway".
Meet website / IAAF page / USATF page
IAAF preview / USATF preview
USA Today / AP / Guardian / Athletics Weekly / Jamaica Gleaner / South Florida Caribbean News / EthioBlog

Freihofer’s Run for Women, an IAAF Silver Label road race, will be run in Albany, NY on Saturday.
Race website / IAAF preview
Albany Times-Union / Runner's Web

The Rock N' Roll San Diego Marathon will be run on Sunday. Ryan Hall and Josh Cox will pace a Brit trying to beat his son and win a bar bet.
Race website
Runner's Web / Union-Tribune / San Diego Sports News

The 34th Hypo-Meeting, an IAAF Combined Events Challenge competition, will be held in Götzis, Austria, on Saturday and Sunday.
Meet website / IAAF page
IAAF preview

The 12th Na Rynek marsz z TNT, an IAAF Race Walking Challenge competition, will be held in Krakow, Poland, on Saturday.
Event website / IAAF preview

The Asian AA Grand Prix will come to Hong Kong for an IAAF permit meet on Saturday.
Meet website / IAAF page

The International Meeting Memorial Artur Takac, an EAA permit meet, will be held in Belgrade, Serbia, on Friday.
Meet website / EAA preview

Anhalt 2009, another EAA permit meet, will be held in Dessau, Germany on Saturday.
Meet website (in German) / EAA preview

The first-ever America's Cup of Combined Events will take place in Havana on Saturday and Sunday.
Meet website / USATF preview


College
The NCAA Regional Championships will be held on Friday and Saturday. The qualifying format: the top five in each region automatically advance to the NCAA championships (3 for relays). Beyond that, those finishing sixth through 12th tin each regional will be eligible for an "at-large" bid to the championships based on best marks made during the season.

East Regional: Greensboro, NC
Meet info
Start lists: men / women

Mideast Regional: Louisville, KY
Meet info
Start lists: men / women

Midwest Regional: Norman, OK
Meet website
Start lists: men / women

West Regional: Eugene, OR
Meet info
Start lists: men / women


High School

The Great Southwest Track & Field Classic will be held in Albuquerque, NM on Thursday through Saturday.
Meet website

The Golden South Classic will be held in Orlando on Saturday.
Meet website / Dyestat page
Orlando Sentinel


TV

The Reebok Grand Prix will be covered live on NBC from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Saturday.

The Stockholm Marathon will be shown in a same-day tape-delay format on Universal Sports from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

The Pac-10 Championships will be rerun on Fox College Sports Pacific from 8 to 10 a.m. and 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Friday, 1 to 3 a.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, and 6 to 8 a.m., 2 to 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. to midnight on Sunday; and on Fox College Sports Central from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday and 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

The Big Ten Outdoor Championships will be rerun on the Big Ten Network from 9 p.m. to midnight on Friday.

The Big Ten Women’s Indoor Championships will be rerun on the Big Ten Network from midnight to 2 a.m. on Friday.

The Big Ten Men’s Indoor Championships will be rerun on the Big Ten Network from 2 to 4 a.m. Friday.

The Big 12 Championships will be rerun on Fox College Sports Central from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday, 6 to 8 a.m. on Saturday, noon to 2 p.m. on Sunday.

The Los Angeles Marathon will be rerun on Universal Sports from 1 to 3 a.m. on Friday.

The Doha Super Grand Prix meet will be rerun on Universal Sports from 3 to 6 a.m. on Saturday.

1972 Munich Olympic Games: Bud Greenspan Remembers will be shown on Showtime Extreme from 8:45 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday.

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