Live On NBC Sports Network Feb. 8 4:30-6pm Eastern

LRCSolomon Vs. Symmonds Vs. Andrews: 4 X 800 AR Assault At NBIGP Gets Better

Mary Cain And Matt Centrowitz Headline Millrose Games Mile Fields

Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial To Have Its Own 24-Hour TV Channel In South Africa The channel will launch on March 2, the day before Pistorius goes on trial for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last February.

Today In Dusseldorf

IAAF Profile On World 800 Bronze Medalist And 3:30 1,500 Man Ayanleh Souleiman, Who’s Running The 3k In Dusseldorf Today Souleiman doubled at Worlds and thinks he would have won the 1,500 if he hadn’t run the 800 (he didn’t make the 1,500 final). He’s training partners with Olympic 1,500 champ Taofik Makhloufi and two-time World Indoor 800 champ Abubaker Kaki.
*PSD Bank Meeting In Dusseldorf Today: Germany’s PV World Champ Raphael Holzdeppe Vs. Olympic Silver Medalist Bjorn Otto Poland’s double European Indoor champ Adam Kszczot will defend his title in the 800.

Oregonian’s Ken Goe Asks: One question for the critics: if not Eugene, where? This is in response to several articles (including Rojo‘s “Eugene Fatigue: It’s Not In The Sport’s Best Interest To Have Every Big Track Meet In Eugene”) Eugene’s stranglehold on big track events in the US.

European Stuff: Will The World Finally See A New Pole Vault WR?

• After Going 6.04m Last Weekend, Renaud Lavillenie Eyeing Sergey Bubka World Indoor PV Record
• Laura Muir Is Excited Ahead Of World Indoors After Setting A Huge Indoor 800 PR To Break The Scottish Record With 2:00 The 20-year-old’s previous best during indoors was only 2:08, although she had ran 2:00 outdoors.
• UK Athletics CEO Niels De Vos Reacts To Amateur Athletic Association’s Statement Criticizing UKA AAA spoke out against De Vos’ salary bonus, but De Vos said their criticisms were “ill-informed.” We’ve already pointed out how De Vos is underpaid compared to others in his position.
• UK’s Defending Commonwealth Games Heptathlon Champion Coming Out Of Retirement To Defend Her Title She just “retired” back in September, but says that Jessica Ennis taking the year off with pregnancy was a “game changer.” Hazel was only 27th at the London Olympics.
• British Magazine To Reprint Cover Because Of Similarity To Boston Bombing Tribute Cover

Q&A With US Distance Stars

• Kara Goucher Q&A With RunnerDad.com She hasn’t ruled out returning to Nike but says, “It would be foolish on my part not to see what my other options are.” On her coaching change: “It was not a personality thing … it’s just me. I just needed a refresher. I’m 35 years old so I just felt like I just needed something big, some big refresher if I was going to make it another 3 or 4 years.”
  MB: Kara: I am a free agent
• Q&A With Gabriele Anderson, Who Is Now Married And Gabriele Grunewald We call first dibs on the children as her hubby is an OT marathon qualifier. As for Gabriele, she’s focused on trying to make World Indoors.

Kenyan News

• Recommended Read: Alan Webb’s Wife Blogs On His Career Change From Track To Triathlon A great blog post by Julia Webb who walks through the decision to move to the triathlon. She admits that Alan has made some “mistakes” during his career, including moving from coach to coach, but emphasizes that his lack of success in recent years hasn’t been due to lack of effort or dedication.
  *MB: Webb’s Wife’s Blog on His Career Change (link fixed)
• Great Athletics Illustrated Interview With Yuki Kawauchi, Who Talks Extensively About His Interesting Training And Racing Schedule Kawauchi says he actually thinks the best race of his life was a 30K which he thinks was equivalent to a 2:06 marathon.
• Leo Manzano Blogs About His Training And Is Looking Forward To Racing New Balance GP Mile Next Saturday He said he was getting “very distracted with financial concerns” due to his lack of sponsorship, but his concerns were eased through help from his “supporters” who funded his training trip to Mexico.
• Extensive Gary Cohen Interview With Ultramarathoner Catra Corbett Corbett is one of only four people to have finished over 100 events of 100 miles or more. She talks about her life-changing transition from substance abuser to vegetarian ultramarathoner.

Drug News

• Swimming WR Among 12 Russians To Test Positive In Latest Doping Scandal There were 12 athletes from 7 sports including 3 from track and field.
• Roid Rage: Pop Star Justin Bieber’s Erratic Behavior Linked To Dependence On Steroids A report says he’s been taking Clenbuterol, a diet drug which is most commonly used on the horses.