The city of Chicago is on championship alert tonight, as the Blackhawks take what can be the first of two chances to hoist the Stanley Cup. Game 6 of the Finals will be in Boston tonight at 8 PM ET on NBC, the focal point of Monday’s daily sports schedule.
The Blackhawks and Bruins are tied at two games apiece in a series as evenly played as the results suggest. Tonight’s Game 5 (8 PM ET, NBC) is the highlight of the daily sports schedule for the weekend.
Friday offers a chance to catch your breath as the championship pace of daily sports takes a break after last night’s exciting Game 7 of the NBA Finals in Miami. The Heat are in the books as champions, and the Stanley Cup Final doesn’t resume until Saturday when the Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks play Game 5.
There’s only one game that matters in the daily sports docket for Thursday, and it’s the last Battle In Miami, as the Heat and the San Antonio Spurs meet in Game 7 of the NBA Finals, at 9 PM ET on ABC.
The legacy of LeBron James begins a two-part test tonight in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. If the Miami Heat lose tonight, and the San Antonio Spurs wrap up the NBA title in six games the blame in this series will be placed on LeBron’s shoulders. Unlike a lot of cases, where that blame is woefully misplaced and rooted in absurd expectations, there’s no denying that LeBron’s on-again, off-again play is the biggest reason his team has lost three of the first five games to the Spurs.
If the first two games of the Stanley Cup Finals have been any indication, get ready for a long Monday night. The Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins hook up for Game 3 of the Finals, and the first two have seen a combined four overtime sessions. The series is tied at a game apiece, and tonight’s battle in Boston will begin at 8 PM ET on NBC Sports Network.
Friday has a pretty quiet schedule for TV daily sports. Unless, that is, you’re a golf-lover, and you can spend all day watching the second day of the U.S. Open on ESPN. Or, if you’re stuck at work, just make sure you don’t know the results and then tune into the same network at 8 PM ET for a “Best of the U.S. Open” feature.
Wednesday’s daily sports menu is subordinate to the Bruins-Blackhawks, but there are other options.
The New Jersey Devils kept their focus and kept playing the solid team defense that’s characterized their work in these Stanley Cup Finals and it finally paid off with a victory as the pulled away from the Los Angeles Kings in a 3-1 win at the Staples Center Wednesday night. With the Kings still needing just one more win in the next three games it’s almost certainly just a stay of execution, but it was something Jersey could feel could about and it’s pointed to areas Los Angeles needs to improve if they’re close out this championship without giving their fans a heart attack.