What Your Television Is Doing This Weekend

By Brian Powell
- The NFL heads into Week 15 with just about no intriguing match-ups. The top announcing teams for FOX and CBS will call the Cowboys at Eagles and the Jets at Patriots, respectively, with the best match-up of the weekend -- Jacksonville at Pittsburgh -- receiving CBS’ second team of Gumbel and Dierdorf. I guess the Patriots are going to dictate where Nantz and Simms go in Week 16 also before they end their season on the NFL Network against the Giants.
- ESPN will give us a special treat this weekend as they pull their 10-year-old correspondent Jason Krause out of his toy room and into the studio for Sunday Countdown. Krause will be tabbed to strut his football “stuff” in a debate against ex-Bears Coach Mike Ditka. Krause is from Chicago, and the two would have a lot to talk about if the kid was actually alive when Ditka was coaching.
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- With bowl games set to start next weekend we’ll be getting the lower divisions championship games tonight and tomorrow. The Division 1AA (or Championship Sub Division) will kick off the weekend as Appalachian State meets Delaware for the title on ESPN2 tonight. The Division II Championship between Northwest Missouri State and Valdosta State will air at Noon on Saturday with the D-III Championship between Mount Union and Wisconsin-Whitewater airing at 4PM. Sean McDonough and Chris Spielman get the D-1AA game, Dave Pasch and Andre Ware get the D-II contest, and Pam Ward and Ray Bentley have the call for the D-III game.
- College Basketball doesn’t have many great match-ups this weekend either, but ESPN will have three of the AP top 10 (Pittsburgh, Kansas, and Memphis) in action on Saturday and No. 1 UNC on Sunday. CBS’ lone game for the weekend will be No. 20 Louisville at Purdue.
-Tonight the NBA on ESPN will be at Charlotte and Golden State for the evening. ESPN has been focusing its efforts on a day long look into the Bobcats today, and will feature some of the day’s events in tonight’s telecast. Head Coach Sam Vincent will be wired and interviewed throughout the game. Other features will include ESPN.com chats with management and robotic (ESPN’s word not mine) locker room cameras with audio. It should be interesting to see what goes into an NBA team’s pregame and halftime talks, even if it’s just the Bobcats. Hopefully we won’t get a shot of Adam Morrison crying in a corner.
Watch These Games:
- D-1AA Title Game: Delware at Appalachian State, Friday at 8PM on ESPN2
- Oklahoma State at Pitt, Saturday at Noon on ESPN
- Ohio at Kansas, Saturday at 5PM on ESPN2
- Jaguars at Steelers, Sunday at 1PM on CBS
- Jets at Patriots, Sunday at 1PM on CBS
- Cardinals at Saints, Sunday at 1PM on FOX
- Eagles at Cowboys, Sunday at 4:15 on FOX
- Redskins at Giants, Sunday at 8:15 on NBC
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