Daily Sports: Day-Night AL East Baseball On Thursday
A day-night doubleheader in major league baseball is the cornerstone of daily sports action on TV for Thursday, and the AL East race is at the heart of it.
A day-night doubleheader in major league baseball is the cornerstone of daily sports action on TV for Thursday, and the AL East race is at the heart of it.
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).
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.
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.
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.
It doesn’t take long for the NBA to turn the page on one season and get everyone looking forward to the next. Exactly one week after the Miami Heat won an epic NBA Finals over the San Antonio Spurs, we have the NBA draft, on ESPN at 7:30 PM ET, the top option in daily sports programming.
Wednesday night in daily sports is about the AL East and the NBA draft, as most sports fans settle into summer, while fans in Miami and Chicago still pull the confetti out of the hair after the championship celebrations.
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.