TV guide August 27 - September 10

Do read this! All times pacific, for live games add +3 for eastern, adjust for other time zones... Listings can change at any time, please double check with your local provider prior to airtime... I am boycotting ESPNU tv listings until Comcast and ESPN reach a compromise and make ESPNU available to their millions of customers

The Big Ten Network goes live on August 30, 2007 with Big 10 college football action! Details at the Big Ten Network website. There you will find that 36 of their 39 college football games will be in high definition. Dave Revsine (of ESPN fame) will be the studio anchor/host, with FSN's Charles Davies and Thom (pronounced Tom, but looks fancier on papier) Brennaman doing the games.

High school and recruiting-related tv coverage at Recruiting Wars. No games, just reruns of Future Phenoms this week.

Almost every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd


College Basketball Game Repeats

Fri Sept 7, at 7pm, 1966 NCAA Tournament Championship, Texas Western vs Kentucky, one hour edit, at ESPN Classic

Fri Sept 7, at 8pm, 2006 NCAA Tournament Championship, Illinois vs North Carolina, one hour edit, at ESPN Classic

Every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd


FIBA Americas Championship LIVE from Las Vegas!

all times pacific, check local listings for details

The games are also available at live webcasts online at ESPN360

Mon Aug 27: Second round action begins, with Team USA playing on ESPN2 at 8pm pacific, and NBA-TV with FSN showing other games

Tue Aug 28: More second round games, with Team USA on ESPN2 at 8pm, and FSN/NBATV showing the other games

Wedn Aug 29: Second round games - coverage same as above, with TeamUSA at 8pm on ESPN2. If you miss the games, they will repeat later on on NBA-TV

Thur Aug 30: The second round concludes today, with Team USA playing at 9pm on ESPN2, and FSN and NBA-TV covering the other teams, along with repeats

Fri Aug 31: Rest Day! ESPN Classic and NBATV plan to show a couple of rebroadcasts

Sat Sept 1: The Semifinals!. These are THE BIG GAMES of the tourney. The winners of the two semifinals automagically qualify for the 2008 Olympics. The games will air at 4pm and 6pm (or so) on ESPN Classic. If you miss them, both semifinals will repeat starting at 8pm on NBA-TV, while the Team USA game will repeat at 1030pm on ESPN2.

Sun Sept 2: The Bronze metal game (3rd place) will air at 1pm on NBA-TV, and the Gold metal game at 4pm on FSN and NBA-TV. They will repeat on NBA-TV and FSN. These games are for pride only, they have no impact on the Olympics standings. The two teams playing for the gold metal have already qualified for the Olympics, while the teams playing for the bronze metal have already qualified for the pre-Olympic qualification tournament in July 2008 (teams #3,#4, and #5 from FIBA Americas qualify for that).


Documentaries and more

Tue Aug 28, GLORY ROAD, on Encore. Repeats a few more times during the week on either Encore or Starz Blackz: Wedn Aug 29, Fri Aug 31, Mon Sept 3 (Labor Day), Wedn Sept 5 and Sat Sept 8. Check your local listings for exact airtime and channel availability.

Tue Aug 28, 430pm, Pistol Pete Diaries on Fox College Sports

Tue Aug 28, Howard Stern: Naked Basketball, In-Demand Pay Per View. Oops! Why is this even listed here?

Wedn Aug 29, at 9pm: 2002 Hall of Fame enchrinement, repeat, on NBA-TV. Featuring: Lute Olson, Kay Yow, Larry Brown, Magic Johnson, Harlem Globetrotters and Drazen Petrovic.

Thur Aug 30 at 10pm: Books and Basketball: Bill Bradley, NBA-TV.

Sat Sept 1, 4pm, Under the Lights featuring Bruce Pearl (repeat), Fox College Sports

Tue Sept 4, 430pm, Pistol Pete Diaries on Fox College Sports

Fri Sept 7, 430pm, 2007 Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, from Springfield, Mass, the home of the basketball hall of fame, on ESPN Classic. The event will likely air on NBA-TV as well, but it is not the listings yet.

Every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd



NBA Summer League

NBATV and webcast schedule at NBA.com for the whole month of July 2007


Movies Movies Movies

The TV series "White Shadow" has some repeats on NBA-TV

The movie Glory Road (the story of the 1966 Texas Western with head coach Don Haskins) repeats multiple times on the Starz family of channels and now on Encore.

Other movies on rotation: Basketball Diaries on Sundance, Hoosiers on AMC, He got Game on Starz Black, Harvard Man on Showtime and TMC family of channels, Slam Dunk Ernest on Starz, Rebound (2005) on HBO, The Sixth Man on Starz and Encore, Air Bud on the Animal Planet, Blue Chips on CineMax, The Year of the Yao at the Sundance Channel

The series Arliss is repeating on ESPN Classic. Some episodes are basketball related.

please check with local listings for airtimes of the movies


Directly from the Source

Listings for FSN and Fox College Sports (FCS) (actually all Fox related channels, including Soccer, Espagnol, Speed, but those dont usually show basketball games).

Some of the basketball games, documentaries and movies mentioned in the listings are available on DVD! You can purchase them from Amazon.com via the affiliate link here or the Amazon logos in the blog.