If you like college basketball, clear your Saturday schedule, because while there’s interesting games throughout the week, it’s the penultimate Saturday of the regular season that features big battles with possible conference championships at stake. So our walk through the week in TV sports will begin with the end in mind, as we start with all there is to look forward to on Saturday.
The stars come out in the NBA on Sunday night in Houston, when TNT televises the NBA All-Star Game. And the two biggest stars go head-to-head on Thursday night, when LeBron & Miami take on Durant’s OkC in an 8 PM ET tip on TNT that helps send the league into the All-Star break. Otherwise, this week in sports is about big college basketball games, as the race for conference titles heats up and teams on the fringe of the NCAA Tournament know the margin for error is tightening. Let’s walk through the week day-by-day and line up the best games to watch in TV sports…
The week of the Harbaugh Family’s conquest of the American sports culture isn’ t limited to Sunday night’s Super Bowl in New Orleans (6:30 PM ET, CBS). Nope, before Baltimore and San Francisco tee it up, the extended family gets into the act. The sister of the Brothers Harbaugh is married to Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean, and his Hoosiers are not only in the spotlight on the weekend, but they have a Saturday night prime-time date with Michigan (9 PM ET, ESPN). You can block off about a 24-hour period where this entire extended family owns American TV sports.
And then suddenly there was nothing to do—at least so says the fan whose primary interest is football. For the first time since late August, we have a week with no football on the agenda, making this the lead-in to our sports lives through February, save one brief interlude to watch the Harbaugh Family in New Orleans. But never fear, there’s plenty of good action in college basketball, and some worthwhile games in the NBA & NHL. Let’s run through the week in sports that lies ahead…
Christmas Week sports is always led by the NBA, with the NFL coming in at the end, and then a mix of a few college basketball games and the start of the glut of minor bowls in college football. TheSportsNotebook is here on Christmas Eve morning to sort out what the fans have on tap…
The city of New York opens the week in sports tonight, with the Jets playing Tennessee in Monday Night Football (8:30 PM ET, ESPN) and the Big Apple comes close to closing it as well, when it’s Giants-Ravens (4:25 PM ET, Fox) in the featured late afternoon game next Sunday. The Jets are unexpectedly in the playoff picture if they win tonight and the Giants are unexpectedly in danger of falling out, having lost control of their destiny in the NFC East and struggling to hold on for a wild-card.
If you like Boston sports—and I do—this promises to be a fun week of TV action, with the week bookended by prime-time Patriots’ games and sequence of Celtics games sandwiched in between, as we take a look at what the coming week in sports offers sports fans.
After a weekend of intense college football, with conference championship, debates over the BCS and the final settling of the national title matchup, the time has come for the NFL to take center stage and basketball to get some increased prominence
he calendar for the sports fan this week is defined by college football, with six conferences holding championship games, two more holding de facto title clashes and still two more having high-profile games with at least a share of the league title on the line. Thus, it’s the college football schedule that begins TheSportsNotebook’s look at the week in sports for November 26.