SPORTS ON WEEKEND TV

Sunday Silence sets out to make history this weekend, and the Lakers will try to bolt from the starting gate as well.

Trainer Charlie Whittingham’s favored colt will strive to become horse racing’s 12th Triple Crown winner in the Belmont Stakes airing from Belmont, N.Y., today at 1:30 p.m. (7)(3)(10)(42).

Closer to home, the beleaguered Lakers will look for their first win Sunday against Detroit in the NBA Finals. CBS will cover Game 3 from the Forum at 12:30 p.m. (2)(8).

French Open, anyone? In the women’s tennis final, Steffi Graf faces Arantxa Sanchez today at 3 p.m. on NBC, with 17-year-old Michael Chang of Placentia meeting Stefan Edberg in the men’s final Sunday at 8 a.m. (4)(36)(39).