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Weekly TV Guide (posted every Monday)

all times pacific, 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

Some game repeats at ESPNU, however I am boycotting ESPNU tv listings until Comcast and ESPN reach compromise and make ESPNU available to their millions of customers

High school games with D1 prospects from Florida's state finals at Recruiting Wars


NBA Summer League

Say goodbye to the college stars of 2006-2007 as they start their professional career

New games daily on NBATV.

The Chinese national team is also participating in the summer leagues (I kid you not!)

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

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


College Basketball Game Repeats

Tue July 10, noon, Missouri State vs Oklahoma State from the 2007 South Padre Island, CSTV

Fri July 13, 5PM, 8pm, BYU vs. UNLV" From 2000, BYUTV

Fri July 13, 6:45 PM, 945pm, BYU vs. UCLA, 1981 NCAA Tournament, BYUTV

Sat July 14, 9am, The Official 2007 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, 1 hour long, CSTV

Sun July 15, 11am, NCAA Division II Championship game, Barton vs Winona State, CSTV

Sun July 15, 1pm, The Official 2007 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, 1 hour long, CSTV

Sun July 15, 2pm, Iowa at Arizona State, Fox College Sports

Sun July 15, 4pm, UCLA at USC, Fox College Sports

Sun July 15, 6pm, Washington State at Stanford, Fox College Sports

Mon July 16, 4pm, NAIA D1 Tournament, semifinal, Concordia vs Robert Morris (used to be NCAA D1 college), CSTV

Tue July 17, 7am, 2007 Pontiac ACIS national championship, Fox College Sports

Tue July 17, 9am, Central Florida (UCF) vs Rice, C-USA Conference tourney quarterfinal, CSTV

Tue July 17, 11am, Houston vs Southern Miss, C-USA Conference tourney quarterfinal, CSTV

Tue July 17, 1pm and 9pm, Tulane vs Tulsa, C-USA Conference tourney quarterfinal, CSTV

Tue July 17, 4pm, SMU at TCU, CSTV

*** Repeat of the NCAA Division 2 Final Four on CSTV below:

Wedn July 18, 9am, Barton vs Cal State San Bernandino, NCAA D2 tournament, national semifinal, CSTV

Wedn July 18, 11am, Centra Missouri vs Winona State, NCAA D2 tournament, national semifinal, CSTV

Wedn July 18, 1pm and 9pm, NCAA Division II Championship game, Barton vs Winona State, CSTV

Fri July 20, 730am, 2pm, 1am (Sat), 2007 Pontiac ACIS national championship, Fox College Sports

Friday July 20, 5PM, BYU vs. UNLV" Taped from 2002, BYUTV

Friday July 20, 8PM, BYU vs. Notre Dame" Taped from 1981, BYUTV. Digger Phelps's favorite game of all time!

Friday July 20, 9:30 PM, BYU vs. Utah, Taped from 2002, BYUTV

Sat July 21, 930am, 2007 Pontiac ACIS national championship, Fox College Sports

*** Repeat of the South Padre Invitational Final Four on CSTV below:

Sat July 21, 3am, 9am, Missouri State vs Wisconsin, South Parde Island semifinal, CSTV

Sat July 21, 11am, Oklahoma State vs Auburn, South Parde Island semifinal, CSTV

Sat July 21, 1pm, Oklahoma State vs Missouri State, South Parde Island final, CSTV

Sat July 21, 330pm, New Mexico State at Loyola Marymount" From Nov. 17, 2006, CSTV

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

Documentaries and more

Mon July 9, 5am, Michael Jordan Air Time, Ahmad Rashad profiles the basketball superstar, ESPN Classic

Mon July 9, at 6pm and 1030pm, In My Own Words featuring Pat Summitt on Fox College Sports.

College Sports year in review repeats at least once a day on Fox College Sports from July 10 to July 20.

Tue July 10, at 2pm, In My Own Words featuring Pat Summitt on Fox College Sports.

Tue July 10, 430pm, Pistol Pete Diaries on Fox College Sports

Wedn July 11, at 630pm, In My Own Words featuring Coach K, Mike Krzyzewski, on Fox College Sports

Wedn July 11, at 730pm, In My Own Words featuring Pat Summitt on Fox College Sports.

ACC All Access has a best of basketball highlight episode. Air times: wedn july 11 at 730am, 7pm and 1130pm, thur july 12 at 1030am, 10pm, and friday july 13 at 6am, sat july 14 at 8am and noon, . All on Fox College Sports. I assume it will also be shown on local FSN stations in ACC markets. Stories featured in the best of basketball: The one and only Ivory Latta, the inspirational story of Kay Yow, Rayshawn Terry of North Carolina and the prehistoric Cameron Open Door Stadium at Duke.

Sat July 14, 630am thru 2pm, Hardwood Heavens marathon on MojoHD (formerly INHD). High definition tuner and subscription required. Hardwood Heavens is a 30 minute edit of longer documentaris on some of the most storied arenas in college basketball.

Sun July 15, 2pm, Championships of the NCAA (1 hour), CSTV

Tue July 17, 430pm, Pistol Pete Diaries on Fox College Sports

Wedn July 18, 930am, NCAA on Campus, ESPN Classic

Thur July 19, 7pm, 7am (Fri), Whatever happened to Michael Ray (Richardson), 1 hour, NBA-TV

Thur July 19, 9pm, 10pm, Basketball Showmen: The Harlem Globetrotters, 1 hour doc on NBA-TV.

SEC TV has its own best of basketball highlight episode. Air times: thur july 19 at 330pm and 730pm, fri june 20 at 630am, 1030am, 4pm, sat june 21 at 230am and 830am. All on Fox College Sports. I assume it will also be shown on local FSN stations in SEC markets. Stories featured on the best of basketball: Davis Nwankwo of Vandy, Bruce Pearl and Tennesee, Mindy Price of Ole Miss, and the women's SEC conference tournament championship.

Sat July 21,4am thru 3pm, Hardwood Heavens marathon on MojoHD (formerly INHD). High definition tuner and subscription required. Hardwood Heavens is a 30 minute edit of longer documentaris of some on the most storied arenas in college basketball.

A 30-minute program called "2007 ACIS championships" will be airing multiple times on Fox College Sports. I do not know what it is, but it will be airing almost daily. Check local listings as they are way too many to post here.

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.

Basketball Diaries on Sundance

Hoosiers on AMC

He got Game on Starz Black

Harvard Man on Showtime and TMC family of channels

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

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

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).

all times pacific, add +3 for eastern, adjust for other time zones

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

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Near a TV today?

Near a TV today? Have access to Fox College Sports (FCS)? A number of games will repeat today, including the epic Florida at Florida State, Florida State vs Duke, the battle of Los Angeles (UCLA vs USC) and a couple more ACC Sunday Night Hoops. FCS has three channels so they can stack them up in parallel. Check my weekly tv schedule post posted every monday for more details.

Weekend update

Discover three new basketball blogs

John Clay's Sidelines mailbag tries to find an answer to the Mickie DeMoss mystery

Goodman has a number of updates: LeBron's skills academy bringing along Coach Dirty Rat K, Calhoun, Izzo State, along with many college players; Thabeet's dream, Thad Matta recovering (not from the departure of Oden and Conley), while Ole Roy got lucky when the 10% won over Tywon Lawson.

TAD (Truth About Duke) talks about Josh Mecha-Roberts plunging to the 2nd round. If it wasn't for the AAU connection to Greg Oden, hello basketball league of Luxermberg!

SEC rivarly at A Sea of Blue, Kentucky vs Tennessee

Work in progress, a gigantic 2007-2008 season preview, with links to many sites and previews.

HoopsCoach talks about paying your dues, the good and the bad, and a lot more

Recruiting stuff at Recruiting Wars

Latest teams to be previewed by CHN's 144 previews are Bucknell, Utah, StJohns

While the next John Beilein (Jerry Weinwright of DePaul) is busy with the under 19 team, Jay Wright and Mark Gottfried are working with a 30-man roster for the Pan-Am games. Among the college stars involved with that team are Hibbert, Ellington, Hendrix (not Jimmy), Devendork (typo intended), Chalmers and Collins, Taz Mitchell, Kyle Weaver, Chris "3" Lofton, and many more, well 30 to be precise.

Fran Fraschilla takes a look at the U19 team, in an Insider story that is currently free to read. (Oh the silliness!)

Every 2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament game on DVD!

Discover new blogs!

A new blog on player development, entitled Play the Right Way is now published by the Hoopscoach

Xs and Os fans, coaches and players, this blog is for you, Triple Threat Basketball looks at the inner workings of the game, including Xs and Os diagrams, drills and plays by coaches such as Dana Altman, Tom Izzo and more. Includes an interesting quote on zone defense by Arizona's new prime-minister, Kevin O'Neill.

More for Xs and Os fans, players and particularly coaches, at Mens Basketball Hoop Scoop - a free service designed to help out young and old coaches with their coaching skills by Coach P, a former NCAA D2, NAIA and JuCo basketball coach.

This is Friday, feels like Tuesday?

Every 2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament game on DVD!

Hamilton of Miami of Florida gets a top 100 of 2008. Also at Recruiting Wars, the top 40 players of the class of 2009 and which schools they are considering, a comprehensive and must read and bookmark post by Goodman.

A cool idea for an online newsletter-blog hybrid for Marquette fans

more coming up in the next 59 minutes

If you lost track on how many transfers has Donnie Jones managed to pick up in his few hours at Marshall you are not alone. But Goodman keeps track of them. It's three now, including recent Floridian transfer Brandon Powell (along with P-Mac and Spann of Georgetown). Two Final Four transfers on their roster, not bad for Marshall!

Randy Hill of FauxSports takes an early look at the 2008 NBA Draft. Another take on the 08 draft by Goodman. This is not a recipe, but mayo, rose and OJ are included ;-)

A couple of sad news, Al Williams, a member of the 1969 Drake Final Four team died at the age of 60, while Vandy-to-Missouri transfer DeMarre Carroll was shot in the ankle outside a club. Coach (and uncle) Mike Anderson said that everyone is going to be fine.

To balance the sad news with some good news, here at the latest good news in sports, including stories on Derek Fisher, Drew Brees, and the New Orleans Saints cheerleaders.

New Orleans head coach Buzz Williams will instead become an assistant coach at Marquette

Gary Parrish looks at the future of the Godfather, Sonny Vaccaro.

Joining the commentary parade on Billy Gillispie and Kentucky is Mike DeCourcy

A Sea of Blue looks at all the commentary on Gillispie and Kentucky and wonders whether he has changed the perception of UK basketball

CHN's 144 previews continue with Bucknell, Utah and St Johns

The latest updates on the ACC at the ACC Basket Blog

Latest updates from the Big East from the Big East Repor(t)

Michigan State and Drew Neitzel are the subject of this Rivals at Yahoo Sports story

Bob McClellan of Rivals via Yahoo Sports posts an excellent write-up on the top returning rebounders spotlighting former LSU forward Kentrell Gransberry. Get to know the names on his list. Arizona Reid is probably the coolest of those names!

Bob also looks at the top thieves - the returning steals leaders. He spotlights Jerell McNeal of Marquette. Others mentioned are former scoring machine Paul Gause of Seton Hall, and a number of mid-majors.

One more Rivals on Yahoo Sports link. This time Andrew Skwara opens up his mailbag and answers reader questions

And the last Rivals on Yahoo Sports story is Purdue's Chris Kramer's bounceback. Kramer earned his PT as a gutsy, Keady-type of a player. Watch out for Purdue next year Big Eleven!

A story on the U19 team by CarolinaBlue.com with emphasis on neon Deon Thompson

Every 2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament game on DVD!

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NBA Summer League Basketball starts tomorrow on NBA-TV

NBA Summer League Basketball starts tomorrow on NBA-TV at 9pm pacific / midnight eastern with the Dallas Mavericks facing off the Seattle Supersonics. I do not know if Kevin Durant will play. Action continues with at least two games per day including the Portland Trail Blazers. I do not know if Greg Oden will play. Check with your local cable/satellite provider for NBATV. The games continue throughout July. So if you are suffering from hoops withdrawl, there's plenty to watch! NBATV's webpage. Also check the NBATV and webcast schedule

Mid-week Report

Every 2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament game on DVD!

More recruiting updates at Recruiting Wars

John Clay's Sidelines blog reports that Kentucky hires a new basketball strength and conditioning coach out of Syracuse. More on this at A Sea of Blue

Florida blog Orange and Blue Hue has its own take on Billy Gillispie

Louisville, Pitino, GQ and a runner. Need I say more?

Gary Parrish reacts to reaction over his recent story on Billy Gillispie at Kentucky

Dick Hoops Weiss talks about UCLA's recruitment of J'Rue Holiday. He also plugs the debut of the documentary "The Palestra" on ESPN Classic tonight. Check my weekly TV listings for air times.

The 144-part series of previews at CHN continues with Utah, St John's, and Charleston

Baseball fans: Free MLB EXtra Innings July 12 thru 18

I just saw this and thought it might be of interest to baseball fans reading this blog. MLB Extra Innings will be having a free preview from July 12 through July 18. On Comcast for sure, I do not know about the other cable or satellite providers. MLB Extra Innings is a pay-per view package showing out of market baseball games, similar to ESPN Full Court for college basketball, ESPN Game Plan for college football and NBA League Pass for the NBA. Oh the NFL and NHL and MLS have something similar as well.

Thanks for the link UTEP Rivals fans!

Thanks for the link to the UTEP Miners forum at Rivals!

Breaking News: UCLA gets big SoCal recruit

The CSTV ticker is reporting that UCLA has picked up J'Rue Holiday. Details at 11 (or at Recruiting Wars