Boston to host AT&T USA Indoor Championships

INDIANAPOLIS - Many of America's finest athletes will compete this weekend at the 2008 AT&T USA Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center in Boston, Mass, where national indoor titles and Team USA roster spots for the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Track & Field Championships, March 7-9 in Valencia, Spain, are at stake.

The concluding event of USATF's Indoor Visa Championship Series, the AT&T USA Indoor Track & Field Championships is the world's oldest indoor track championship, with the first meet being held in 1888 in New York. The AT&T USA Indoor Championships will be televised Sunday, February 24 from 5-7 p.m., Eastern Time on ESPN2.

The men's 60 meters will feature reigning world indoor champion Leonard Scott, who won at the Millrose Games in New York on February 2 in 6.59 seconds. He'll be challenged by 2007 World Outdoor Championships 4x100m relay gold medalist Leroy Dixon and 2008 Reebok Boston Indoor Games winner Dabryan Blanton. The men's 400m also should prove interesting as 2003 World Outdoor Championships silver medalist Tyree Washington battles three-time World Outdoor and 2004 Olympic 4x400m relay gold medalist Derrick Brew and five-time NCAA Outdoor relay winner Kelly Willie, who posted the second-fastest time (46.54) by an American this indoor season with his win in Fayetteville, Ark., on January 26.

Khadevis Robinson and Nick Symmonds will face each other in what always makes for an interesting race. A four-time USA Outdoor champion and two-time USA Indoor titlist, Robinson faces a strong challenge from Symmonds, the reigning USA Indoor champion and 2007 USA Outdoor runner-up to Robinson. The men's 1,500 meters features 2007 U.S. 3,000m steeplechase champion Josh McAdams, 2000 Olympian and 2006 USA Outdoor 1,500m runner-up Gabe Jennings and 2003 NCAA Outdoor 1,500m champion and Pan Am Games bronze medalist Grant Robison.