TV guide September 17 to October 13

All times pacific, for live games add +3 for eastern, adjust for other time zones. For movies and documentaries, the time depends on the individual channels, some have an east/west feed, others broadcast everything live... Listings can change at any time, so 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... High school and recruiting-related tv coverage has been moved here from Recruiting Wars.

Summary: We are starting to warm up! Midnight Madness is Saturday October 13, 2007, along with Conference Media Days. The complete TV information for those has yet to be made available, but it will be posted here once it's available. But you can watch more hoops on your dvd player because every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game is on dvd. Because there is so little on TV, I merged all listings together.


TV Listings

No college basketball game repeats scheduled :-(

Spotlight

Sat Oct 6, the NBA Preseason starts on NBA-TV with games from all over the world. Games will air almost daily on different channels, NBATV, ESPN2, FSN, and Comcast Sports Net (CSN).

Thursday October 11, 3pm, Conference USA Media Slam, aka Media Days, on CSTV. It will repeat at 8pm that night, and three more times on Friday. Also shown on CSTV are the women's C-USA Media Slam, back to back.

Sat Oct 13, 5am, Who's #1: Greatest college basketball players, a repeat on ESPN Classic, preparing us for Midnight Madness!

Sat Oct 13, Midnight Madness! TV coverage information coming later on.

Everything else

Future Phenoms, repeats, on Fox College Sports. This is a 30min magazine show with legendary Pat Summerall spotlighting some of the upcoming student-athletes. Regularly features basketball players such as Kevin Love, Dallas Lauderdale, Jarryd Bayless, Nick Calathes, and more.

Wedn Sept 19, 930am, NCAA on Campus, on ESPN Classic. The show ends with Winston (student-athletes) asking Big Brother (Myles Brand) NCAA-related questions.

Thur Sept 20, GLORY ROAD, on the Encore family of channels. Repeats a few more times during the week on either Starz or Starz Blackz: Fri Sept 21, Mon Sept 24, Fri Sept 28, Sun Sept 30, and Oct 1, 2, 5, 6, 12, and 13. Check your local listings for exact airtime and channel availability.

Sat Sept 22, 8pm, and Sunday at 8am, Larry Bird: a basketball legend, on NBA-TV

Sun Sept 23, 1030 am and pm, Books and Basketball with Princeton great Bill Bradley on NBA-TV.

Starting Mon Oct 1, and shown daily, The Dream to Play Pro on NBA-TV. A reality series covering thirty aspiring basketball players compete for a roster spot in the NBA D-League.

Wedn Oct 3 to 10, shown daily, The Heart of the Game, on the Starz family of channels. Filmmaker Ward Serrill profiles Bill Resler, a university professor who coaches a girls basketball team at a Washington state high school.

Thur Oct 4, 7pm, Whatever happened to Michael Ray "Sugar" Richardson on NBA-TV. Repeats at 7am the next day.

Tue Oct 9, 6pm, high school basketball game repeat on Fox College Sports. Game details not available yet.

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



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.

The short film "Hoops" (around 20 minutes) repeats on BYU-TV on Monday Sept 3 at 535pm and 835pm. This is a religious-themed short as the tv station name may hint at :)

please check with local listings for airtimes of the movies


Webcasts and Internet

HoopScoop on Radio every Sunday night from 10pm to midnight (EST, 7pm to 9pm PDT) with Clark Francis and Ron Neclario (the coach of Cardozo in New York). This is a live internet radio show but don't worry, you can listen to it at any time online. FREE and no subscription required.

Webcasts of AAU summerball and more at HSBNetwork.tv. Lots of games to chose from. This is unprecedented for basketball fans as before the internets the only way to see the future superstars play was to actually go to the camps. Not anymore! There's webcasts and DVDs too.



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).

The Big Ten Network two week schedule. The Big Ten Network went 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.

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.