June 9, 2006

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Watch senior Richard Phillips live on CSTV as he competes for the national title, along with eight of the nation's other top hurdlers, in the men's 110-meter hurdles finals slated for Friday at 5:15 p.m. PT (8:15 p.m. ET) at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships at A.G. Spanos Sports Complex in Sacramento, Calif.

Lining up in the finals with Phillips will be UCLA's Kevin Craddock, Mississippi's John Yarbrough, Texas Tech's Marlon Odom, Tennessee's Aries Merritt, South Carolina's Jason Richardson, Oregon's Eric Mitchum, Middle Tennessee State's Linnie Yarbrough and Maryland's Dominic Berger. Merritt, Richardson, Odom, Mitchum, Linnie Yarbrough and John Yarbrough entered the meet ranked one through six in the nation, respectively, in the event. Phillips entered the meet with the 15th fastest time in the country.

CSTV will broadcast two hours of competition (8 - 10 p.m. ET) on Friday. Never before has the next-to-last day of the NCAA Championships been televised live. The final day of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships will air live on network television when CBS airs two-and-a-half hours of live coverage from 3:30 - 6 p.m. ET on Saturday.