Daily Sports: All-Day Baseball For The Fourth Of July
The Fourth of July means baseball, and the MLB Network is set to oblige with a tripleheader of action that mark daily sports on this holiday Thursday.
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MLB Coverage: Are The Angels Finally Ready To Fly?
The Los Angeles Angels have won seven in a row coming into Wednesday’s games. The Halos are now at 40-43, and though that’s still 8 ½ games off the pace in the American League West, there’s still a half a season to play and a lot of talent in Anaheim. Let’s take a closer look at the Angels and see if this is the start of them making a definitive move in this division.
Daily Sports: Matt Harvey & A Couple Old Rivalries On Wednesday
Could Harvey follow up R.A. Dickey who won the award with the Mets last year? If you haven’t had a chance to see Harvey pitch, then tonight is your chance, as he goes up against the Arizona Diamondbacks from Citi Field. ESPN has the coverage starting at 7 PM ET.
MLB Coverage: Miami Picks Up The Pace
The Miami Marlins have been well off everyone’s radar this season, and given their current record is 30-51, that’s with good reason. But the Marlins have begun to show some signs of life lately, and some talk about their young players is quietly picking up. ESPN’s Aaron Boone singled them out for praise on Monday Night Baseball last night, and quoted San Francisco Giants’ manager Bruce Bochy doing the same. So let’s take a look at the Marlins and see what we might expect.
TV Daily Sports: Tuesday Looks A Lot Like Monday
The summer reruns have started on sports. Tuesday is a day that looks an awful lot like Monday in terms of daily sports choices on TV. Afternoon coverage of Wimbledon goes up to 4 PM ET on ESPN2. Then at night the baseball focus is the San Francisco Giants and Cincinnati Reds (7 PM ET, MLB Network).
MLB Coverage: Minnesota Hangs Around In The AL Central
The continued dithering of the Detroit Tigers has kept the AL Central race interesting. Most of that attention rightly centers on the Cleveland Indians, who are in a virtual tie for first coming into Monday’s games. Some media observers have noted Kansas City on the outside. There’s one more team in the mix too—completely under the radar is the fact the Minnesota Twins are only six games out of the lead. Is it time to consider the Twins a legit dark horse contender if Detroit can’t get it together?
TV Daily Sports: Giants-Reds Start Key Series On Monday
The rise of the Pittsburgh Pirates has created problems for a lot of teams in the National League, but in writing yesterday’s feature on the Buccos here in TheSportsNotebook, I was thinking that perhaps the two biggest victims were San Francisco and Cincinnati.
MLB Coverage: The Dodgers Get A Second Chance
It’s been a troubled year for the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have joined their local brethren in the Angels and Lakers as overpriced disappointments. But the weakness of the NL West means hope for the Dodgers, whose 37-43 record coming into Sunday has them only 4 ½ games off the pace. The second half of the season at least resembles the chance for a new beginning. Is the worst now behind the Dodgers, and can they take advantage of this second chance?
MLB Coverage: Pittsburgh Has The Best Record In Baseball
After twenty years of losing baseball and a September collapse last season, the Pittsburgh Pirates have their share of doubters. One of them has been TheSportsNotebook. I’ve resisted and resisted acknowledging this team, especially on my Monday podcasts with Pirate believer Greg DePalma, but here we are on the final day of June and coming into today’s games it’s the Pirates who have the best record in all of baseball.
The Weekend Ahead In TV Daily Sports
A rematch of last year’s AL East race, and subsequent showdown in the Division Series is the focal point of TV daily sports action this weekend. The New York Yankees are in Baltimore to play the Orioles, and with this rivalry at its highest point since the days of 1996-97, the national television crews are heading to Camden Yards.
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: Truex Takes Momentum To Kentucky
Martin Truex is riding a wave of momentum as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series goes to the Kentucky Speedway for Saturday night’s Quaker State 400 (7:30 PM ET, TNT). After a strong third-place finish two weeks ago, Truex got the win last week in Sonoma and with it vaulted into 10th place overall, the cutoff point for automatic qualification for the postseason.
TV Daily Sports: Len Bias & Fab Five Documentaries Tonight
There’s good baseball on TV, and the NBA draft yesterday needs to be rehashed, but the most compelling television on Friday night’s daily sports docket lies in a couple documentaries on college sports.