TV guide September 3 to September 15

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 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.

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

There is no coincidence these two games were scheduled, both the 1966 Texas Western team and Roy Williams are going into the Hall of Fame earlier in the day! See our listings below for tv coverage of the Hall of Fame induction ceremony to be covered on ESPN Classic and NBA-TV

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 Sept 3 at 1pm, repeat of the Gold medal game between Team USA and Team Arjentina on NBA-TV. Both teams have qualified for the 2008 Olympics.

Mon Sept 10 at noon, the 1972 Olympic final, USA vs USSR, 90 minutes long on ESPN Classic. Followed at 130pm by an episode of SportsCentury covering this very game, also on ESPN Classic.


Documentaries and more

Mon Sept 3, GLORY ROAD, on Encore. Repeats a few more times during the week on either Encore or Starz Blackz: Wedn Sept 5, Sat Sept 8 Wedn Sept 12, Thur Sept 14, and Fri Sept 14. Check your local listings for exact airtime and channel availability.

Mon Sept 3, at 330pm, "The Heart of the Game" (2005): Filmmaker Ward Serrill profiles Bill Resler, a university professor who coaches a girls basketball team at a Washington state high school on Starz Cinema. Repeats on Starz Black on Saturday Sept 8 and Sept 15.

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

Wedn Sept 5, NBA-TV recaps previous Basketball Hall of Fame inductions, 1998 at 3pm and 2000 at 5pm. These are edited for time (obviously)

Thur Sept 6, at 4am, Harlem Globetrotters: The "Crown Princes of Basketball" bring laughs and ball-handling wizardry to fans across the world on the Biography Channel.

Thur Sept 6, NBA-TV repeats the HoF Induction ceremonies of 2002 at 230pm and 230am

Fri Sept 7, NBA-TV repeats the 2003 HoF ceremony at 2pm, 630pm and 2am

Fri Sept 7, 430pm, 2007 Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, LIVE, from Springfield, Mass, the home of the basketball hall of fame, on ESPN Classic and NBA-TV. Repeats at 430am on NBA-TV

Sat Sept 8, 3pm, Pistol Pete Diaries on Fox College Sports

Sat Sept 8, 4pm, repeat: 2007 Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony from Springfield, Mass on NBA-TV. A repeat. Also ESPN2 will air a one hour edit later on. Stay tuned for more details.

Sat Sept 8, 3pm, Howard Stern: Naked Basketball, In-Demand Pay Per View. Oops! Why is this even listed here?

Tue Sept 11, 430pm, Pistol Pete Diaries on Fox College Sports

Thur Sept 13, 6am, SportsCentury featuring Dean Smith, ESPN Classic.

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.

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


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

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.