It’s a Sunday of rivalries, with the NFL schedule highlighted by a battle amongst the brothers and a huge divisional grudge match, baseball’s schedule being marked by its most storied rivalry and a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race that opens under a cloud of bad feeling
The game most college football fans see as the Game of the Year goes today in College Station. ESPN’s Gameday is on the scene for Alabama-Texas A&M, and CBS has the telecast itself at 3:30 PM ET. I’m not sold at all on the Aggies, so I don’t buy the whole Game of the Year thing. But I’ve been known to wrong—quite often in fact, and there’s no denying that if A&M wins, I think they deserve to be ranked #1 in the country.
It will come as no surprise to anyone that the big markets of the East Coast are in the spotlight for Thursday’s daily sports. Whether it’s the NFL or major league baseball, New York is prominent, Boston is heavily involved, and you throw Baltimore in the mix as well.
After the five-day pounding of football, Tuesday marks baseball’s time to regain the daily sports spotlight, and MLB Network is taking full-advantage, going right into the high-profile AL East for split coverage of two big divisional showdowns that include all four playoff contenders.
It’s going to be a busy night on the Beltway, from the opening Monday Night Football game, to key playoff race baseball. The patch of I-95 between Washington D.C. and Baltimore should be packed, with the cities of Philadelphia and New York also involved, Monday night’s daily sports amounts to a virtual Mid-Atlantic war.
The first Sunday of the 2013 NFL season is here, with its standard run of an early afternoon where most people watch their local teams, a marquee late afternoon game and then a prime-time battle setting the agenda. The powers of the NFC are the focus today, and the daily sports card is ably filled out with big baseball games both early and late.
College football Saturday focuses in on the SEC East, and the MLB playoff races lock in on two hot races, with great all-day agenda of daily sports TV action.
The great city of Boston takes the lead in Friday’s TV daily sports agenda, with a mix of high-profile baseball and under-the-radar college football.
The 2013 NFL season finally gets underway tonight, with the cornerstone of Thursday’s daily sports agenda being the battle in the Rocky Mountains. The Baltimore Ravens meet the Denver Broncos in a rematch of last year’s epic second-round playoff game to start the year. Kickoff is at 8:30 PM ET on NBC.
ESPN’s MLB coverage is getting locked in for the playoff drive, as the network will show a rare Wednesday night doubleheader tonight, with fans watching both ends of the race for the AL East title in today’s daily sports TV docket.
Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer, signals the beginning of baseball’s stretch drive and concludes college football’s first weekend. Those elements come together to create an attractive daily sports TV package on this holiday Monday.
The Sunday of this holiday weekend represents the last Sunday sports fans will be without NFL football until the off-week prior to the Super Bowl. At least a mix of baseball, college football and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series keep the daily sports activity flowing for anyone looking for something to watch.