Saturday, December 31, 2011
College Basketball Viewing Picks
College Football
Texas Bowl, Houston, TX
Texas A&M vs. Northwestern — ESPN, noon
Sun Bowl, El Paso, TX
Georgia Tech vs. Utah — CBS, 2 p.m.
Liberty Bowl, Memphis, TN
Cincinnati vs. Vanderbilt — ABC, 3:30 p.m.
Kraft Fights Hunger Bowl, San Francisco, CA
UCLA vs. Illinois — ESPN, 3;30 p.m.
Chick-Fil-A Bowl, Atlanta, GA
Virginia vs. Auburn — ESPN/ESPN 3D, 7:30 p.m.
College Hockey
Boston University at Notre Dame — Versus, 7 p.m.
Harvard at North Dakota — Fox College Sports Central, 8 p.m.
English Premier League
Manchester United vs. Blackburn — ESPN2, 7:30 a.m.
Arsenal vs. Queens Park Rangers — Fox Soccer Plus, 9:53 a.m.
Chelsea vs. Aston Villa — Fox Soccer, 10 a.m.
Swansea vs. Tottenham Hotspur — Fox Soccer, noon (same day coverage)
Norwich City vs. Fulham — Fox Soccer, 2 p.m. (same day coverage)
IIHF World Junior Championships
Czech Republic vs. Finland — TSN, 4 p.m.
Canada vs. USA — TSN/NHL Network (US), 8 p.m.
NBA
Utah at San Antonio — NBA TV, 8:30 p.m.
Chicago at Los Angeles Clippers — NBA TV/WGN America, 10:30 p.m.
NHL
2012 NHL Winter Classic Alumni Game — CBC/Versus/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 3 p.m./MSG Network, 4 p.m. (delay)
Edmonton at New York Islanders — Rogers Sportsnet West/MSG Network, 1 p.m.
Pittsburgh at New Jersey — Root Sports Pittsburgh/MSG Plus, 3 p.m.
Carolina at Tampa Bay — Fox Sports Carolinas/Sun Sports, 5 p.m.
Phoenix at Minnesota — Fox Sports Arizona Plus/Fox Sports North, 6 p.m.
Montreal at Florida — CBC/Fox Sports Florida, 7 p.m.
Ottawa at Buffalo — CBC/MSG Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Toronto at Winnipeg — CBC, 7 p.m.
St. Louis at Detroit — Fox Sports Midwest/Fox Sports Detroit, 7 p.m.
Washington at Columbus — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/Fox Sports Ohio, 7 p.m.
Boston at Dallas — NESN/KTXA, 8 p.m.
Colorado at Anaheim — Altitude/Fox Sports Prime Ticket, 8 p.m.
Vancouver at Los Angeles — CBC/Fox Sports West, 10 p.m.
2012 NHL Winter Classic Alumni Game Recap — NHL Network, 5:30 p.m.
NHL Plays of the Week: NHL Network Plays of the Year Special — NHL Network, 6 p.m.
Hockey Tonight — CBC, 6:30 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 11 p.m.
Entertainment
Giada at Home: Rise and Shine — Food Network, 11:30 a.m.
French Food at Home: French Way with Vegetables — Cooking Channel, noon
The Three Stooges Marathon — IFC, 6 p.m.
New Year’s Rockin’ Eve: The 40th Anniversary Party — ABC, 8 p.m.
Live from Lincoln Center: Bernstein and Gershwin — PBS, 8 p.m.
Lady Gaga Presents The Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden — HBO2, 9 p.m.
Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve — ABC, 10 p.m.
NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly — NBC, 10 p.m.
New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin — CNN, 11 p.m.
Red Bull: New Year. No Limits (The Human Sacrifice) — ESPN, 11 p.m.
NYE in NYC 2012 — MTV, 11 p.m.
Coldplay New Year’s Eve: An Austin City Limits Special — PBS, 11 p.m.
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2012 — ABC, 11:30 p.m.
NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly — NBC, 11:30 p.m.
New Year’s Eve Live Coverage — CNN, midnight
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Happy New Year!!!
College Basketball Viewing Picks
English Premier League
West Bromwich Albion vs. Everton — Fox Soccer Plus, 7:23 a.m.
Sunderland vs. Manchester City — Fox Soccer, 10 a.m.
NBA
Boston at Washington — NBA TV, 6 p.m.
NHL
Calgary at Nashville — NHL Network (US)/Rogers Sportsnet Calgary/Fox Sports Tennessee, 6 p.m.
2012 NHL Winter Classic Practice Day — NHL Network, 1 p.m.
2012 NHL Winter Classic Practice Day Recap — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 9 p.m.
Entertainment
CBS News Sunday Morning — CBS, 9 a.m.
Shameless Season One Marathon — Showtime, noon-midnight
RV 2012 — HGTV, 3 p.m.
60 Minutes — CBS, approximately 7:15 p.m.
Great Performances: From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2012 — PBS, 7:30 p.m.
The Boondock Saints — IFC, 7:45 p.m.
Cheap Bites — Cooking Channel, 8 p.m.
Extreme Homes Special — HGTV, 8 p.m.
Drugs, Inc.: Crack (season premiere) — National Geographic Channel, 8 p.m.
Dr. G: Inside the Caylee Anthony Case — TLC, 8 p.m.
Drugs, Inc.: Hash — National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m.
Baseball Wives — VH1, 9 p.m.
Angry Boys (series premiere) — HBO, 10 p.m.
Inside Portlandia — IFC, 10 p.m.
Alaska State Troopers: Madman Manhunt — National Geographic Channel, 10 p.m.
Angry Boys — HBO, 10:30 p.m.
