Daily Sports: The Fight For The Cup Starts In Chicago
Wednesday’s daily sports menu is subordinate to the Bruins-Blackhawks, but there are other options.
Wednesday’s daily sports menu is subordinate to the Bruins-Blackhawks, but there are other options.
The NBA Finals come back tonight, with Game 3 of the battle between the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs being the lead item on Tuesday’s daily sports docket. The series shifts to San Antonio tonight and will be here for the next three games, as the Finals use a 2-3-2 schedule format that differs from the previous three rounds. Tip time is 9 PM ET on ABC.
There’s no championship action in the NBA or NHL tonight, so baseball will key the daily sports diet for Monday. It starts with a key game in the American League East, as the Boston Red Sox visit the Tampa Bay Rays (7 PM ET, ESPN). Boston has a game and a half lead in the division, while Tampa Bay is four out, and while calling the series “huge” would be a stretch, the Rays don’t want to get too far behind in a four-team race where it’s likely someone will always be playing well.
One team joined the party in the NHL’s Stanley Cup Finals, when Boston beat Pittsburgh to complete a four-game sweep. The other spot can be filled tonight, when Chicago hosts Los Angeles in Game 5 of their Western Conference finals. NBC Sports Network has the call at 8 PM ET, and it marks the biggest game on the daily sports schedule for the weekend.
The Boston Bruins will go for their second trip to the Stanley Cup Finals in the last three years tonight in front of a raucous crowd in the Garden. The cameras of the NBC Sports Network will be live at 8 PM ET for Game 4 of the NHL’s Eastern Conference Finals, with the Pittsburgh Penguins hoping for to keep alive and at least get the series back to the Steel City.
TV cameras will be honed in on the city of Boston tonight, as hockey and baseball coverage goes to the Hub for the two highlights of the Wednesday daily sports schedule.
One of last June’s champions answered the bell with the money on the table, as the Miami Heat won last night’s Game 7 against the Indiana Pacers and reached the NBA Finals. Now the other team that won a title in a June of 2012 that was Fit For A King has to stand up.
There’s an array of good action on TV tonight, but there’s no question what the daily sports highlight is—the Battle In South Beach, as the Indiana Pacers visit the Miami Heat for Game 7 of their Eastern Conference Finals. Tip time is 8:30 PM ET on TNT, with the pregame show of Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley starting a half-hour earlier.
The first weekend of June has the conference finals possibly ending in the NBA and just beginning in the NHL. Baseball’s most storied rivalry takes center stage, and there are quality matchups among contenders elsewhere on the diamond. Here’s a look at what fans have on TV for daily sports on Saturday & Sunday
The last day of May provides sports fans with the first real taste of summer—there’s no NBA or NHL playoff action, so it’s all about baseball on the daily sports docket for Friday.
Sometimes the attraction of the daily sports schedule lies in its quantity—a Saturday afternoon of college football or basketball being a good example. And sometimes it’s about the quality of one big game. For example, a Game 7 where a heavy favorite has been pushed the limit by a team that might be an
Major league baseball is in the midst of a run of interleague rivalry games that began yesterday, and ESPN has a bi-coastal doubleheader tonight, starting with Mets-Yankees at 7 PM ET, and then showing Angels-Dodgers at 10 PM ET.