Universal Sports will be broadcasting a portion of the Reebok Grand Prix LIVE.  NBC will have coverage from 4:30 – 6:00 PM ET and the Universal Sports Network will then broadcast coverage from 6:00 – 7:00 PM ET. 

Rotterdam Marathon:  Last weekend’s exciting finish, which was the 2nd and 3rd Fastest Marathon Times in History

On-Demand Coverage of the Rotterdam Marathon

Highlights of Rotterdam Marathon:

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Race directors of the Boston, Chicago and New York City marathons spoke exclusively with Universal Sports via conference call during the Running USA 2009 summit in San Diego earlier this year. Guy Morse (Boston), Carey Pinkowski (Chicago), and Mary Wittenberg (NYC), who spoke from New York, talked candidly about the future of the World Marathon Majors series. They also addressed whether the races in London and Berlin are stealing the States’ marathon thunder and registration fees and where how they view their races evolving.

By their own admissions, the race directors are fiercely competitive with each other and unabashed champions for their events. Not surprisingly, they each believe theirs is the greatest marathon in the world. Universal Sports broadcasts all five Marathon Majors races.

Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man, headlines today's Gatorade/The University of the West Indies (UWI) Invitational track and field meet at the National Stadium.

The meet, set to start at 9 a.m., will attract over 2,000 athletes from the nation's top clubs, MVP and Racers, along with high schools; but most attention, like last week's Camperdown Classic, will be on Bolt.

Usain Bolt’s amazing efforts at last year’s Olympics in Beijing has brought him yet another award.

This time it was the Sportsman of the Year 2008 for Jamaica, an award he said topped all he received for his breathtaking runs.

Olympic hurdles champion Dayron Robles will miss the rest of the indoor track season because of a left hamstring injury.

The Cuban aggravated the injury during a 60-meter hurdles heat in France on Tuesday. That came after a strained hamstring had already kept him out of recent events in Goteborg, Sweden, and Stuttgart, Germany.

Shawn Crawford confirmed that he gave his Olympic silver medal to Churandy Martina, the sprinter who finished second in the 200 meters but was later disqualified for running out of his lane. 

"I’m like, if a guy is 10 meters in front of me, I don’t care if he stayed in the middle of his lane," Crawford told The Associated Press on Friday after finishing third in the 60 at the Millrose Games. "He was going to beat me anyway. He didn’t impede in anybody’s race."

If Barack Obama wants a new totem for the American dream, he might look to a woman who dragged herself up from a squat in a church basement to a shot at the top of the Olympic podium. These being hard times, however, there was one last hurdle and she stumbled. Literally.

Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt led the way for Caribbean athletes, who secured ten top places on the 2008 Track and Field News Male World Ranking, released on Monday.

Bolt, the Olympic sprint double champion and world record holder in both events, was ranked world number 1 in the 100m and 200m.

Usain Bolt’s coach, Glen Mills, has vowed that the Jamaican double world record holder will become the fastest starter at his height in the next two seasons.

Bolt dominated the 100-metres dash all season — winning all but one race, which he lost to countryman Asafa Powell, who used a blinding start to see off the strong finish from the record holder at a Grand Prix meeting in Stockholm, on July 22.