2012 MLB Wild Card playoffs TV schedule

2012 MLB Wild Card playoffs TV schedule

2012 MLB Wild Card playoffs TV schedule has the Cardinals at the Braves and the Orioles at the Rangers Oct. 5 on TBS. If baseball seems even more unpredictable this fall, it’s because MLB planned it that way. MLB fast-tracked an expanded 10-team playoff system for 2012, looking to re-create something like the final day of the 2011 regular season when eight games with postseason implications were played. The new system adds another wild-card team to each league, with a one-game playoff to determine which team advances to the Division Series. 2012 MLB playoff teams: AL East Champion: N.Y. Yankees [...]

Standup comedian Steve Byrne comes home for “Sullivan & Son”

Standup comedian Steve Byrne comes home for “Sullivan & Son”

By Kate O’Hare Viewers who have been longing to turn on their TV sets and visit a place “where everybody knows your name,” as the Cheers theme song says, may find what they seek when TBS premieres Sullivan & Son on July 19 at 10pm ET. Standup comedian Steve Byrne calls on his background as a guy who’s half-Korean and half-Irish to star as Steve Sullivan, a Wall Street corporate attorney who returns home to Pittsburgh with his sophisticated New York girlfriend for the 65th birthday of his Irish-American father, Jack (Dan Lauria), the owner of a neighborhood bar, which [...]

2012 Sunday MLB on TBS schedule

2012 Sunday MLB on TBS schedule

Like Channel Guide Magazine on Facebook and get a FREE printable MLB national TV schedule! TBS returns with its Sunday MLB on TBS slate of Major League Baseball games beginning April 8 at 1:30pm ET with the New York Yankees at the Tampa Bay Rays. The AL-heavy schedule through May and two press releases from TBS below: RELATED STORY: 2012 Major League Baseball TV schedule Commentators Announced for “Sunday MLB on TBS” which Returns April 8 Ernie Johnson, Brian Anderson and Dick Stockton to Provide Play-by-Play for 2012 Season; Game Analysts Include Ron Darling, Dennis Eckersley, John Smoltz and David [...]

2012 Major League Baseball national TV schedule

2012 Major League Baseball national TV schedule

Like Channel Guide Magazine on Facebook and get a FREE printable MLB national TV schedule! When it came to offseason dealing in Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Angels were on a celestial plane. The Angels landed baseball’s biggest free-agent prize, first baseman Albert Pujols, at the price of $240 million for 10 years. They also made their pitching rotation among the best in baseball by signing C.J. Wilson (five years, $77.5 million). Other big names on the move included first baseman Prince Fielder to the Tigers, shortstop Jose Reyes to the Marlins, closer Jonathan Papelbon to the Phillies and [...]

Watching the NCAA Tournament in Las Vegas

It wouldn’t be March without the madness of the NCAA college basketball tournament, and I admit I never thought there would be anything more exciting than attending these games in person. Until this week. I had the pleasure of being in Las Vegas yesterday for the first 16 games of the second round, and I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. Thousands upon thousands of sports fans descend upon Sin City with the hope of riding the play of college athletes to financial glory. Being a giant sports fans but not a savvy gambler, I showed up to [...]

2012 NCAA Tournament TV schedule

2012 NCAA Tournament TV schedule

Click here for the 2012 NCAA Tournament TV Schedule Which will it be this year: an NCAA men’s basketball tournament dominated by the high seeds or a tournament with brackets busted by the underdogs? The tournament’s script seems to ebb and flow between the two extremes in recent years, with the strongest (2008) and the weakest (2011) Final Four fields in history happening in only a three-year span. Historically, if you add up the seeds of Final Four teams, you typically get a number between eight and 11. A look at recent tournaments reveals how much that number has fluctuated: [...]

MLB playoffs League Championship Series TV schedule on FOX and TBS

MLB playoffs League Championship Series TV schedule on FOX and TBS

By Ryan Berenz Follow @ChannelGuideRAB Major League Baseball’s final four is set, with the best-of-seven League Championship Series starting Saturday, Oct. 8, at 8:05pm ET on FOX with the Detroit Tigers at the Texas Rangers in ALCS Game 1. The NLCS starts the following day, with the St. Louis Cardinals at the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 1 at 4:05pm ET on TBS. FOX has exclusive coverage of the ALCS, withplay-by-play announcer Joe Buck joined by former Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona, who will fill in for Tim McCarver for Games 1 and 2 while McCarver undergoes a minor heart [...]

2011 MLB playoffs Division Series schedule on TBS

2011 MLB playoffs Division Series schedule on TBS

By Ryan Berenz Follow @ChannelGuideRAB Major League Baseball’s playoffs start Friday, Sept. 30, with the best-of-five-game Division Series, starting off with the AL. The first game on Friday has the wild-card Tampa Bay Rays at the AL West champion Texas Rangers (5:07pm ET, TBS), followed by the AL Central champion Detroit Tigers at the AL East champion New York Yankees (8:37pm ET, TBS). The NL begins postseason play on Saturday, with the NL West champion Arizona Diamondbacks at the NL Central champion Milwaukee Brewers (2pm ET, TBS) and the wild-card St. Louis Cardinals at the NL East champion Philadelphia Phillies [...]

Where to watch the 2011 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16

Where to watch the 2011 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16

By Ryan Berenz The NCAA Tournament is down to the Regional Semifinals, or in common parlance, the Sweet 16. CBS and TBS air the games nationally beginning March 24 at 7pm ET and continuing March 25 at 7pm ET. Coverage of the Regional Finals airs on CBS March 26-27. You can find the entire tournament TV schedule and results here, complete with announce teams. Here’s the release from CBS/Turner: CBS SPORTS AND TURNER SPORTS ANNOUNCE TIP-TIMES AND ANNOUNCE TEAMS FOR REGIONAL SEMI-FINALS Exclusive Coverage Continues with Regional Semi-Finals on Thursday, March 24 and Friday, March 25 CBS Sports and Turner [...]