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Toms Black 8 Ball predictions for HDSports this week
Most beautiful: give it to CBS, again teaming up with USA HD
for four, countem four, days of Live PGA HD Golf (2 hrs Thurs+3 hrs/day
x 3).
Most watched:
the NBA Playoffs Friday night on ESPN-HD.
Most traditional:
INHD (4) & ESPN-HD (1) bring us five HD MLB games. Most frightening: gotta
be NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs on ESPN-HD. Most varied: HD Sports/Day:
Saturday, with 6 possible Live HD events. Most quick-action: HBO-HD
brings us Saturday night Boxing and my favorite! Most Speed: NASCAR HD on
HDNet Sunday.
Guys, please your lady with
this one. Hmmm, OK- well, ah yeah, for our women...
TWinHDSports readers:
Get home early on Friday because we get HD Womens Bicycle Racing:
HDNet 5:00pm ET
presents the first of two cool events: Indiana Universitys Little 500
Womens Race. The Mens big cycling race is Saturday. These 2 are
classic races and the largest annual intramural event for college racing
cyclists. What great bicycle coverage in HDTV!
Of course, main stream
sports programming in HD. MLB, MLS, NBA playoffs, Golf, NHL Stanley Cup...
From last week: lasting impressions from this writer are the bone jarring
& stunning, Live ESPN-HD pictures & sound of the NHL Stanley Cup
playoffs. Nothing like the wide screen 16:9 format & advanced high
resolution of HDTV to really bring the NHL Hockey Rink to life. HD Soccer
is also much improved (Ever had good seats at a Hockey match, then tried
watching the action by looking through the bottom of your popcorn box?
Thats your old SDTV4:3 format!) NOTE: Active TWiHDSports reader, Hi Al,
wrote: MLS Soccer is on HDNet Every Sat night, for remainder of this MLS
season. Thanks
The usual disclaimer: I
believe all these programs are HDTV Live broadcasts. Start times are
all ET, best available at press time. Toms notes: I like Auto Racing so I
listed Nascar, though not Live, its a Same Day, Tape Delay at 5pm ET.
Cheers. PVRs etc. Check your local listings.
HD
Sports hit list for this week...
Thursday: PGA Golf tees up first round HD
coverage, INHD 4:00 ET, the Shell
Houston Open. Well, once again its INHD 7:00pm
ET, showing us their MLB coverage, Tampa Bay Devil Rays vs.
Orioles from Camden Yards, Baltimore. This will be a good look at this
cool Retro Baseball Park. I thought INHD did a fine job last
week with Baseball. If youre bored, I would check on ESPN-HD at
4:30pm. Only the SDTV (4:3) Stanley
Cup playoff is listed, keep checking their HD Sports web page, seems its
changing almost daily:
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tvlistings/espnhd/index:
Friday:
Todays HD Sports starts with nice 2nd round PGA Golf: INHD
3:00PM, Hold on, it builds fast. We
get our first viewing of Live HD Bicycle Racing! HDNet,
5:00pm ET. If youre on the Right
Coast, you may know whats up next: HOT ticket: ESPN-HD
7:00pm, NBA Playoffs Indiana Pacer at
Boston Celtics, from the Fleet
Center? Oh, I miss Boston Gardens. Hmmm, Dont get ESPN-HD? Easy,
find someone or somewhere that does! Link to the new Boston Fleet Center +
click to the history of the Gaadens
http://www.fleetcenter.com/arena_history.asp
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Saturday:
CBS HD 3:00pm ET: PGA Golf, shows
Shell Houston Open, Redstone Golf Club, hosted by the HGA,
Houston Golf Assoc.. Lets check HDNet: also
3PM ET, Mens Bicycle racing, same. NBA is next, ESPN-HD
7:00pm ET Sac. Kings at Dallas Mavs in
this fine match up. Football fanatic? AFL jumps on the HD Sports radar:
Arena Pro Football. This fast running, walled & wacky, exciting game comes
on ***INHD2 8:00pm ET***=Odd Channel.
HDNet MLS continues Sat. 10:00pm ET
with MLS Columbus Crew at LA Galaxy. Boxing is on HBO at
9:30pm ET
Sunday:
ESPN-HD 1:00pm ET shoots & makes 1+1, with their second NBA Playoff from
Boston in 3 days.
http://www.nba.com/playoffs2004 Veteran HD provider CBS Sports,
3:00pm ET, continues with Final Round PGA Golf coverage. INHD
4:30pm ET shows MLB Padres at Arizona Diamondbacks. Speed it up with
NASCAR Grand National Div. Busch North Series, comes on HDNet from Lee USA
Speedway, NH. 5:00pm ET(Delayed). This will be a good look at
Northeast area drivers in this regional series. 8:00pm ET Sunday is
now home to HD MLBaseball. ESPN Sunday
 Night
Baseball, Atlanta Braves visit the World Champion, Wow what a series!
Florida Marlins. Broadcast is HD 720p as all ESPN/ABC HD broadcasts
originate.
Monday:
ESPN-HD 8:00pm ET keeps slamming the boards with NHL Stanley Cup
Playoff action. San Jose Sharks at Colorado Avalanche. INHDs MLB
coverage lists Seattle at Baltimore Os 7:00pm ET
Tuesday: Quiet day
for HD Sports, INHDs keeps it going with MLB: Seattle at Baltimore Os
again
Wednesday: Face-Off! More NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, ESPN-HD
7:00pm ET
I will be bringing on more
HD related Sports news in the coming weeks. Special Page 2 sections, MLB
HD, NASCAR Autoracing in HD: including the latest from HDTV Racing
coverage provider, HDNet, reported direct from Trackside. Were hoping to
take you to an ESPN-HD Sunday night Baseball game. Giving you more inside
info. from TWinHDSports, on what it takes to put these great HDTV
broadcasts together. Remember that these HD programs are Live beamed
right to your HDTV Home Theatre system.
Programs listed are
National HD feeds which are served up with the, may or may not be
available in your area. FoxNetHD is, at this time, regional although
they may start popping up all over the dial.
Corrections: Last week
Page2 mentioned an 18-week NFL sched. Wrong: is a 17-week NFL sched. With
one bye (off) week for each Team.
Lets keep watching HD
Sports. Forward any comments, corrections, additional info or suggestions
to
[email protected]. Personal notes, barbs, jokes or most
anything else you care to fwd my way, send to the email(s) below.
Regards,
Tom Vrolyk
San Francisco, CA
[email protected]
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