Take the first part of the week off, because it’s pretty lame. Save for a couple baseball games on Wednesday, you don’t have anything to pick from until Friday. The Little League World Series dominates the listings this weekend on the ESPN family. The NFL preseason continues as well.
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Hard to say because I refuse to list a preseason game as the spotlight anymore. I’d check out the baseball action, specifically Sunday night’s Angels at Minnesota matchup at 8 p.m. on ESPN.

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Don’t let the sheer amount of games in the schedule fool you. If you take away the Tour de France, it’s a bleak week for sports. The British Open is there to ease us into the hardest part of the summer, when baseball is really the only remaining major sport. Monday night is one of the few nights of the year when none of the big four have a game scheduled. With the World Cup done (wither Oranje!!), it’s time to start looking for alternate entertainment means, especially if you’re …

Sadly, the US went out in the first round of the knockout stage at the World Cup. That leaves a pretty big hole in the July 4 week viewing. Not that the World Cup stops there, my adopted team – The Dutch – are still in it. This week we’ll get to the quarterfinals of the event. Elsewhere, Wimbledon comes to a close Sunday morning on NBC after a week of action on ESPN and NBC. The 2010 Tour de France almost takes over Versus starting Saturday. Happy 4th!

UPDATE: Added the teams for the round of 16 games for World Cup on Saturday-Monday.
For the first time since last September, we have a HD Sportsman with no NBA or NHL on the schedule. Luckily we have the World Cup and Wimbledon to keep us company for the next couple weeks. The Beautiful Game will enter the round of 16 Saturday, with the USA playing at 2:30 p.m. Saturday or 10 a.m. Sunday, assuming it advances. ESPN2 has Wimbledon covered all week, with NBC picking things up on Saturday. Lots …

Finally, a respite from the relative lack of events as the FIFA 2010 World Cup kicks off in South Africa on Friday. ESPN2 and ABC have coverage all weekend, and the ESPN Networks and ABC will carry the event to its conclusion on July 11. Elsewhere, the Stanley Cup will be decided this week on NBC and the NBA Finals continue on ABC. One note on the World Cup Coverage, ESPN’s site doesn’t indicate HD coverage, but it’s my understanding that all games will be carried in HD. If that’s …

UPDATE – The Stanley Cup Finals start Saturday night on NBC at 8 p.m.
An extra day of coverage this week due to Monday’s Memorial Day Holiday. The Stanley Cup Finals are already half-determined with Chicago’s sweep of San Jose. This week will determine the other half. The NBA Finals will also be set by the end of Memorial Day, if the series go that long. The French Open kicks off Tuesday with 12 noon coverage on ESPN2 all week, picked up by NBC Saturday and Sunday and back to ESPN2 …

The NBA and NHL have both been pared down to four teams each, setting up some interesting semifinal action this week. Other than that it’s Major League Baseball. Things get slower and slower as we more into the summer.
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Luckily we have some great international soccer to keep us busy this week. Bayern Munich and Inter Milan square-off in the UEFA Champions League Final Saturday on FOX at 2:30 p.m. Consider this a warm up to the World Cup in June.
Here’s the rest of the week, big games in BOLD.
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I feel asleep at the wheel and posted a day late this week, but you haven’t missed much. It’s a light week overall, baseball, NBA and NHL playoffs pretty much cover it. The second PGA Tour Major of the year on NBC with The Players Championship 2-7 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday (1080i).
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Cleveland and Boston are locked in what is looking (after two games) to be a pretty good series. Catch game three on Friday (7 p.m. ESPNHD) and Sunday (3:30 p.m. ABC).
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UPDATE – I’ve added team names and NHL games to the late-week and weekend schedule.
A big snoozer this week. The Kentucky Derby highlights the weekend’s action. Meanwhile, NBA and NHL playoffs continue during the week. That’s about it. Note that since we’re nearing the end of the first round in both the NHL and NBA, the schedule toward the end of the week is very fluid. Though Vs lists no games after Wednesday, it’s likely they will have coverage as the second round starts later in the week.
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ZZZZZZZZZ. That about sums up this first post-NCAA Tournament post-Masters week. A lone MLB game on Monday and a two-game outing on Friday (NHL playoffs) makes this among the slowest weeks in recent memory. To be fair, the NHL and NBA both begin playoffs this week, so the games that are on start to mean something.
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Saturday. All day. In a slow week, Saturday tries to salvage things with NHL and NBA playoffs and MLB on FOX.
Here’s the rest of the week, big games in BOLD.
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