A Sports Filled Weekend Ahead
The NBA’s All-Star Weekend in New Orleans will dominate TV through Sunday with a variety of attractions – the D-League All-Star Game, the All-Star Celebrity Game, the actual All-Star Game – so your thirst for basketball will surely be slaked.
We’ll pick and choose among those and other items to compose our Weekend TV Six-Pack. So gently deposit your heiner in the recliner and prepare for extended periods of visual stimulation…
The NBA All-Star Game is actually the last of the weekend’s attractions. It’s generally a high-scoring show that doesn’t really mean much. It’s at 8:20 p.m. ET Sunday on TNT/TBS. Also fun is All-Star Saturday Night, which is a series of competitions relying on a variety of basketball skills, 3-point shooting and slam dunking among them. Catch this on (duh) Saturday night at 8 p.m. on TNT.
Down a level, you can see a marquee Big Ten matchup on Sunday at 1 p.m. on CBS when No. 11 Wisconsin hosts No. 23 Maryland. This could well decide the Big Ten championship and the Badgers come off a loss on Thursday night to Michigan.
Even bigger is Saturday’s meeting between No. 3 Kansas and No. 4 Baylor. The Bears have never beaten the Jayhawks, who will likely clinch a 13th straight Big 12 title if they win. This is at 1 p.m. on CBS.
Hockey fans will want to see Friday night’s meeting between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Columbus Blue Jackets at 7 p.m. on the NHL Network. The Penguins are in second place in the Metropolitan Division, a mere two points ahead of the Jackets.
For the golf crowd, the final round of the Genesis Open is Sunday and CBS picks it up at 3 p.m. from the Golf Channel and carries to conclusion.
There’s your six…to go. Just don’t go too far or too fast.
Post By: Larry Weisman, a longtime sportswriter for USA TODAY, blogs for Twistity.com. Follow him on Twitter @MrLarryWeisman
Brown Out: No QB For Needy Cleveland?
-
Correa joined the Mets with a $315 million contract. Recently, baseball player Carlos Correa announced that he had cut...
-
Oklahoma and Texas will depart from the college sports conference at the end of the season. The Big 12...
-
Robert Kraft wants to re-sign Brady just long enough that he can retire as a Patriot. Earlier this week,...
-
The skilled third-baseman will be enshrined in Cooperstown. Scott Rolen is one of the most skilled and recognized third-basemen...
-
Brady’s 23rd football season has ended. On Monday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Dallas Cowboys went head-to-head for...
-
Smith has been fired after one season with the team. Over the weekend, the owners of the Houston Texans...
-
Pelé passed due to complications related to colon cancer. On Thursday night, the sporting world received unfortunate news: Pelé,...
-
His return heralded a victory over the Phoenix Suns. On Sunday, Houston Rockets coach Stephen Silas needed to take...
-
Mayfield will be available on waiver to other NFL teams. After an underwhelming performance in his current role as...
-
Mike White led the team to a decisive victory over the Bears over the weekend. On Saturday, the New...
-
The game has been moved out of New York due to an encroaching snowstorm. This weekend, the Buffalo Bills...
-
Negative pushback prompted the team to give the role to someone else. Recently, the Brooklyn Nets have been in...