What to watch, or how not to leave the house on a Saturday
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What to do? Have some plans but, but, how to leave the television behind? It’s an eclectic sports fan’s dream day.
We’ve already got the PGA on Channel 2, Tiger Woods up four and he hasn’t started yet. Channel 4 has world track and field from Berlin and to me nothing is better than being taken, because of sports, to a new place, and to me Berlin is a new place. Right after track on Channel 4 from Dallas (OK, don’t necessarily want sports to take me to Dallas) is men’s gymnastics and on good authority (OK, the men were on Universal Sports yesterday), it is the men who have been the stars of this USA Gymnastics nationals (the women will be on Channel 4 at 8 p.m.). Check out the high bar routines of Jon Horton and Danell Leyva.
Whew, but there’s more. A quadruple header of Little League World Series games on ESPN. Women’s tennis, NASCAR, men’s tennis on ESPN2. On the NFL Network is a quadruple-header of preseason games: Arizona at Pittsburgh (now), and maybe a chance to check out the progress of Matt Leinart for USC fans; followed by Atlanta at Detroit followed by the Chicago Bears at Buffalo; followed by Seattle at San Diego.
Oh, yeah, baseball too, Giants at the Mets on Channel 11; Dodgers (the sky is falling, right) at Arizona on Channel 9 at 5 p.m.; Angels at Baltimore at 4 p.m. Fox West.
You want soccer? Chivas is at Red Bull New York on Fox West at 4 p.m. or even cooler, a 2010 World Cup qualifier from Baku, Azerbaijan, with Germany against Azerbaijan. That’s at 1:30 on the Fox Soccer Channel.
Yep, not leaving the house today.
Diane Pucin