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Where To Watch The Indy 500 And NASCAR Coca-Cola 600

May 21, 2009 Ryan Berenz

The Sunday of Memorial Day weekend has become the best day of the year for auto racing. There’s the one IndyCar race people still watch, followed by the early evening NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte, N.C. Here’s the TV schedule of events for both races: Indianapolis 500 Sunday, May 24 on ABC 12pm ET — Prerace Show. The one-hour prerace show will include interviews with many of the 33 starting drivers as well as four special features, including a look at the roller-coaster year of polesitter Helio Castroneves; the special relationship between Danica Patrick and […]

Spelling Bee Finals Live Blog Announcement!

May 20, 2009 Ryan Berenz

By Ryan For the third year in a row, we’ll be doing our live blog of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Finals. My colleague johnnysweeptheleg (renowned for his blogging of Lost and The Office on this site) and I have a good time covering this event, and there’s always some good-natured ribbing of the bee geeks participants. The Bee finals are Thursday, May 28 at 8pm ET, live on ABC. This year, we’re going to do something different — the whole live blog will be done via Twitter, not here on the Channel Guide Magazine blog. We’ll be sending out […]

Cincinnati Bengals To Be On HBO’s “Hard Knocks” For Some Reason

May 14, 2009 Ryan Berenz

By Ryan Good news: HBO is returning another season of Hard Knocks in August. Bad news: It’s going to be about the Cincinnati Bengals. Good news: It can double as a season of COPS. HBO Sports, NFL Films and the Cincinnati Bengals will team up for an all-access look at what it takes to make it in the National Football League when Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Cincinnati Bengals debuts Aug. 12 at 10pm ET/PT on HBO (HD). It is the show’s fifth season. Other seasons have followed the Dallas Cowboys (twice), Baltimore Ravens and Kansas City Chiefs.

“The Haney Project: Charles Barkley” Recap: On My Own

May 14, 2009 Ryan Berenz

By Ryan So it’s been a while since we’ve seen Sir Charles swing the golf bats on The Haney Project. The last episode, “Lights, Camera … Hesitation?” aired nearly a month ago. So the show gives us a little recap of what we’ve seen so far, and it’s a video montage interspersed with words pulled from those motivational posters: OPTIMISM… HOPEFUL … FRUSTRATION… RECOMMITTED… It’s been 30 weeks since Charles began working with Hank, and after the debacle that we saw in the last episode, Charles is going to go back to work and fully commit himself to fixing his […]

NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race XXV On SPEED Channel

May 13, 2009 Ryan Berenz

By Ryan The NASCAR All-Star Race is an event that gets tinkered with so often, fans might need Digger the NASCAR on FOX gopher to explain the current rules and format in layman’s terms. But for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race XXV, May 16 on SPEED Channel (HD), you only need to know two things: 10 laps and $1 million. This year’s race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, N.H., will feature a 10-lap shootout with a $1 million prize as its final segment, something that has provided some of the event’s most spectacular finishes, including Dale Earnhardt’s 1987 “pass […]

“E:60”: UFC President Dana White, Binghamton Bar Brawl, Matt Steven, And Sports Gambling In Delaware

May 12, 2009 Ryan Berenz

Features on the Tuesday, May 12 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60: UFC President Dana White — At 39, Dana White, the president of Ultimate Fighting Championship, is both czar and star of one of the world’s fastest growing sports — mixed martial arts. He is at the epicenter of an enterprise that has moved from spectacle to sport in less than a decade. Mostly, White is outside the box, and at times, out of control. E:60 had unprecedented access to White over a four-month period, following him to UFC events in the United States and Canada. […]

“E:60”: Dustin Pedroia, Polo Horse Deaths, Terrance Haynes And Jason Belmonte

May 5, 2009 Ryan Berenz

By Ryan Features on the May 5 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60: The Darkest Day in Polo — A few weeks ago, the genteel world of polo was rocked when 21 prized horses died during the U.S. Open Polo Championship in Wellington, Fla., the Super Bowl of the sport. Lechuza Caracas, one of eight teams in competition, was one win away from the semifinals and favored to win until the team’s horses became ill and started falling to the ground one by one. Spectators watched in horror as veterinarians, players, grooms and total strangers worked together […]

Where To Watch The Kentucky Derby

April 30, 2009 Ryan Berenz

By Ryan For those of you interested (I’m mostly talking to you, degenerate gamblers and C-list celebrities in ugly hats), the Kentucky Derby is this Saturday on NBC. I really can’t tell you anything about this year’s Derby, other than every day this week it seems like some potential favorite has been scratched due to injury. Are there even any horses left in this thing? I Want Revenge as been installed as the 3-1 favorite. I’m taking Papa Clem at 20-1. What the hell. I like his name. He’ll probably have to be put down right on the track. Here’s […]

“E:60”: Stephon Marbury, James Stewart, Matthew Stafford, Maria Sharapova And Gregg Valentino

April 27, 2009 Ryan Berenz

By Ryan Features on the Tuesday, April 28 (7pm ET), edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60: Stephon Marbury Revealed — E:60’s Lisa Salters explores the conflicting sides of Boston Celtics guard Stephon Marbury as he opens up about the most tumultuous chapters of his life. Topics covered include his public divorce with his hometown New York Knicks last winter, his feud with former Knicks coach Isiah Thomas, and his shocking testimony in Thomas’ sexual-harassment trial. More intimate matters are also discussed, leaving Marbury in tears and exposing a side of him hardly anyone has seen.

Where To Watch The 2009 NFL Draft

April 22, 2009 Ryan Berenz

NFL Draft weekend is April 25-26, and there will once again be plenty of hype and more in-depth coverage than ever before as teams select their new saviors. You’ll hear more scouting data about players than you ever cared to know. You’ll hear how every pick is great and fills a need. But really, no one can judge in one weekend in April if any of these draft picks are any good. You can’t measure a draft’s success until the season after — or even a few seasons after — the draft. So take what happens on draft day with […]