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University of Texas senior Leo Manzano has been named USA Track & Field's Athlete of the Week after running the winning anchor leg in two events for the Longhorns last week at the 114th Penn Relays in Philadelphia.

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Texas cruised to a pair of victories Saturday at the Penn Relays, becoming the third school in 28 years to complete a sweep of the three distance relays. Texas added wins in the 4-mile and 3,200-meter relays on Saturday to its victory in the distance medley relay on Friday.

In its nine year history, USA vs. The World has featured Americans oftentimes sweeping all six relays featured. Not so on Saturday afternoon, at the 114thth running of the Penn Relays. On an overcast day, Team Jamaica won two of the first three relays - the first time they've crossed the finish line first in two races at this event -before the Americans regrouped to win the final tworaces.

In perfect weather conditions Friday at the Penn Relays, a Team USA quartet of hurdlers stamped their mark on the track record books in the men's 4x120 yard shuttle hurdle relay. Competing in the Olympic Development division and wearing Team USA jerseys, 2008 American indoor champion David Oliver, 2005 USA indoor champion Joel Brown, 2001 NCAA indoor champion Aubrey Herring, and 2006 NCAA champion Aries Merritt teamed up to run 53.31. The time was announced as a world best - the fastest time ever recorded by a national team in the event. Team USA Blue was second in 55.55, with DC Capitol third in 59.67.

Allen Johnson, the 1996 Olympic 110-meter hurdles gold medalist, will open his 2008 outdoor track season in the hurdles at the Drake Relays in Des Moines in Saturday. Johnson is a seven-time USA hurdles champ outdoors and was World Champion outdoors in the 110-meter hurdles in 1995, 1997, 2001, and 2003 and indoors at the 60-meter hurdles in 1995, 2003, and 2004. He was fourth in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. His best 110-meter hurdles time, 12.92, is the former U.S. record. Johnson was originally recruited by the University of North Carolina as a decathlete. This 2008 indoor season, Johnson won the 60-meter hurdles at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 7.60, was second at the USA Championships in 7.55, and was second at the World Indoor Championships in 7.53. Johnson, now 37, spoke to reporters by teleconference last week.

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The legendary McDonnell, the most successful NCAA coach (on any sport) has announced that he will retire at the end of the 2008 Outdoor Track and Field season. McDonnell won 42 NCAA titles, and 83 conference titles.

Nearly all of the world's top sprinters, including Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell, Allyson Felix, Jeremy Wariner, Sanya Richards and Lauryn Williams, are slated to compete Saturday at USA vs. The World at the Penn Relays.

Alan Webb, who had the fastest 1500-meter (3:30.54) and mile (3:46.91) times in the world in 2007, will run his first track race of 2008 at the Drake Relays in Des Moines on April 26. A year ago, he ran a virtually solo 3:51.71 at Drake to break Steve Scott's 25-year-old meet record. That 3:46.91 we mentioned, run in Belgium last summer, broke Scott's longstanding American record. Webb also ran the world's second fastest 800 in 2007, a 1:43.84. He was the USA 1500-meter champion in 2008 (3:34.82) and also won the mile at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York in 3:52.94.

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China's World and Olympic champion and World record breaking high hurdler Liu Xiang, tops the first batch of headlining stars to be announced for the Reebok Grand Prix in New York on 31 May 2008. The Reebok Grand Prix is an IAAF Grand Prix status event within the 2008 IAAF World Athletics Tour.

Track and field's world governing body dismissed doping allegations against former Olympic sprint champion Maurice Greene, throwing its support behind the man who once held the 100-meter world record. Greene also denied the accusations, which were made by a witness in a U.S. government investigation into sports doping and reported this past weekend in the New York Times.

Lisa Koll has been named USATF's Athlete of the Week after setting an American collegiate record in the women's 10,000 meters Friday at the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif. A sophomore at Iowa State, Koll won the women's 10,000m crossing the finish line in an American collegiate record of 32 minutes 11.13 seconds. The previous record of 32:19.97 was set by Alicia Shay of Stanford in 2004. The collegiate record is 31:56.72 by Kenya's Sally Kipyego for Texas Tech in 2007.

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After 84 years of tireless service to the New York faithful, the "House that Ruth Built" will give way to a brand-spankin'-new stadium, set to begin its tenure in 2009. Most people don't know that the old Yankee Stadium, as it will soon be called, was intended to be a multi-sport stadium. The field was initially surrounded by a quarter-mile running track, which effectively also served as a warning track for outfielders, a feature now standard on all major league fields. The left and right field bleacher sections were laid out at right angles to each other and to the third base stands, to be properly positioned for both track and field events and football.

2008 USA Men's 10 km champion Abdi Abdirahman (Tucson, Ariz.) will defend his title against a field that includes two fellow Olympians at the USA Men's 10 km Championship in Richmond, Va., this Saturday. This year's championships are hosted by the Metropolitan Richmond Sports Backers in conjunction with the Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10K.

Three reigning World Champions - Tyson Gay, Allyson Felix and Jeremy Wariner - are set to compete at the adidas Track Classic on May 18, organizers announced today. Among them, the trio brought home eight gold medals from the 2007 World Championships, and all are destined for the Olympic spotlight later this summer.

Double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius' appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to overturn a ruling that he is ineligible to compete at the Olympics will be heard April 29-30. Pistorius is seeking to overturn the decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations in January that he cannot participate in the Beijing Games - or any other sanctioned able-bodied competition - because his prosthetic racing limbs give him a clear competitive advantage.

Olympic 100-metre champion Justin Gatlin of the United States will have his appeal against a four-year doping ban heard next month by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The hearing will take place May 28-29. The CAS, which is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, did not say where the hearing will be held.

2008 Sullivan Award finalist Phil Raschker set yet another world record Saturday at the 2008 USA Masters Indoor Track & Field Championships, topping a three-world-record day that also saw WRs from Kevin Solomon and Orville Rogers at the Reggie Lewis Center.

A pair of world marks in the men's 800 and a women's relay record marked a busy, record-filled final day of competition Sunday at the 2008 USA Masters Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center.