Thursday, December 6, 2007

On Tap

Helping you get your weekend viewing priorities straight since 2007

Thursday

9:30 (ESPN) LSU @ #21 Villanova.


Friday

8:00 (ESPN2) Richmond @ Appalachian State. Football Championship Subdivision (1-AA) semifinal #1. App. State is the two time defending 1-AA champion. Last week Richmond beat Wofford who beat App. State just 3 weeks after their dramatic upset of then #5 Michigan. Key Fact: If Jerry Moore (App State Coach) were 10 years younger he would be picked by a 1-A school about 2 hours after his team’s season was over.


Saturday

12:00 (ESPN) #24 Arizona @ Illinios

2:00 (ESPN) DePaul @ #3 Kansas

2:00 (CBS) Michigan @ #7 Duke

2:00 (ESPN2) Dayton @ #11 Louisville

3:00 (FSN) #9 Pitt @ Washington

4:00 (CBS) Kentucky @ #15 Indiana

4:00 (ESPN) Delaware @ Southern Illinois. 1-AA semifinal #2. Southern Illinois is the only seeded team (#4) left in the playoff. Delaware knocked off #1 seed Northern Iowa last week to advance to the semifinal. Key Fact: Delaware’s mascot is the Blue Hens, if that does not get you fired up to root for a football team I don’t know what will.

Both the NCAA division II and division III will be holding their semifinal games this day. I could not find if there are any national (or local) broadcasts for these games, but that is due to a complete lack of trying.

(Update: Grand Valley State @ Northwest Missouri State is on ESPN2 at 9:00 PM)


Sunday

4:00 (CBS) Cleveland @ NY Jets. Cleveland is coming off a debatable loss at Arizona and the Jets are coming off a whooping of Miami. This game is key for Cleveland’s playoff hopes. Key Fact: Romeo Crennel vs. Eric Mangini would probably be the best head coach sumo wrestling match up imaginable (NFL only, cause Mark Mangino, Kansas head coach, would obviously handle them both).




Notice the complete lack of information about the college basketball games. I have yet to watch more the about 5 full halves of Ohio State games and about 31.5 combined minutes of other hoop action. Once I have the faintest idea of what is going on, I will provide my usual limited/skewed/blatantly wrong analysis.

* there is very little respect for the word fact around here.

all times eastern

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