SURFING THE TUBE: THE WEEK AHEAD : TODAY.Psst . . . lookin' for some floor seats to the Lakers-Bulls game? Come on, got a pair right here. For you, special today: Six grand. All I need is two forms of ID and . . . hey, I'm not a scalper, I'm a broker. And if you want to see the trouble I have to go through just to let you see these beauties, watch my pal Jim Lampley go behind the scenes to investigate my buy low, sell high-stakes business. It's the latest edition of ``Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel is a monthly sports newsmagazine on HBO that debuted on April 2, 1995. The show was "spawned by the fact that sports have changed dramatically, that it's no longer just fun and games, and that what happens off the field, beyond the scores, ,'' which, unfortunately for me, is probably the best in depth sports show on TV today. By the way, Lamps wouldn't bite on the Laker duckets, but you shoulda seen his ``immeasurable interest'' when I showed him some Senate seats for the WWF See Windows Workflow Foundation. . HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy , 10 p.m. (with replays Thursday,, Sunday, Aug. 5, 6 and 9). TUESDAY The gruesome impulse is to tune into Larry Holmes' latest I-don't-need-to-retire fight, this time against someone named Maurice Harris Maurice Harris, born February 21, 1976 as Wilbur Maurice Harris, is a light heavyweight turned heavyweight boxer with a record of 20 wins, 14 losses, 2 draws, and 10 knockouts. , whose record (9-8-2) looks more like the area code to Bordom, Wyo. Hey, big guy, how about sitting this one out and renting ``When We Were Kings,'' the Academy-Award-winning documentary on the '74 Ali-Foreman ``Rumble in the Jungle'' that finally found its way to video stores. You'll see yourself back when you were Ali's sparring partner, pounding the former champ in a pretty tough workout. Yeah, a very young superfulious Don King is in it, too, so that's the downside. But that's more of the Holmes we'd rather remember, not the one here trying to spark interest in the WBA WBA West Bromwich Albion (English Soccer Club) WBA World Boxing Association WBA Weekly Benefit Amount WBA Wisconsin Broadcasters Association (Madison, WI) WBA Wireless Broadband Access Senior Tour. USA Network, 9 p.m. WEDNESDAY When we played high school basketball, Carver High was never on our schedule. And we wanted them bad since they won the '80 L.A. City title (you can look it up). But ``The White Shadow'' was always in our hearts. The series lasted only three seasons in the late '70s and early '80s. But thanks to cable, we're never really far away from Salami, Thorpe and Coolidge. Tossed in among ``Petticoat Junction,'' ``Love American Style'' and ``Petrocelli'' re-runs, this may just be another filler program to some. Not to us. All 54 episodes. Every single day. God Bless coach Reeves. (Hurry and watch before it's replaced by ``Room 222.'') TV Land, Monday through Friday at noon and every day at 3 a.m. THURSDAY On a very special ``Wonder Years,'' Kevin has baseball tryouts, but finds out his dad is pulling strings with the coach to get him on the team. Man, can't we ever get a break from this Little League controversy stuff? Channel 11, noon. FRIDAY Lifetime has this really great drama, like, called ``Highway Heartbreaker heart·break·er n. 1. One that causes sorrow, grief, or disappointment: "one young and chaste, the other a dissolute heartbreaker of 48; one prim, the other passionate" ,'' with that ``Dukes of Hazzard'' hunk John Schneider, and he's, like, this con man who rips off Linda Gray and Heather Locklear and Tracy Nelson. But, like, the TV listings say it starts at 8 p.m. but then it goes ``time approximate after basketball.'' Uh, hu-LLO. This is Lifetime, television for me. When did I say I wanted basketball? I'm setting the VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. , and if my story isn't on when I get back, Lifetime can come to my house and make a new movie. It'll be called ``One Psycho Chick'' and I'll throw my TV off the balcony. You think I'm kidding? Sparks will fly. L.A. Sparks vs. Houston Comets, Lifetime, 6 p.m. SATURDAY Bill Murray. Woody Harelson. Randy Quaid. ``Kingpin.'' What golf is to ``Caddy A plastic container that holds a CD or DVD disc for added protection. The bare disc is placed in the caddy, and the caddy is inserted into the drive. A caddy is not a jewel case. A jewel case protects the disc for transportation. A caddy protects the disc while reading and writing. Shack,'' what football is to ``North Dallas Forty,'' what baseball is to . . . I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. . . . ``The Slugger's Wife''? . . . bowling is to ``Kingpin.'' It's the world TV debut. Enough said. Showtime, 8 p.m. SUNDAY ``A wwwwwoon, a ttttooo, a thrrrr . . . Taaaaaake me oubbbawwa baaawwwwrrrrgaaa ...'' Harry Caray gets time off for bad behavior when the Cubs meet the Dodgers in the Sunday night Game of the Week. Night games at Wrigley are scary enough. ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network , 5 p.m. (the two teams also play on TV Thursday at 5 p.m. on Channel 5 and WGN WGN Wellington WGN White Gaussian Noise WGN World's Greatest Newspaper (Chicago, IL, USA) WGN World Gastroenterology News WGN We Got Nomar WGN World's Greatest Network WGN Wireless Network Gateway WGN Wagon , Friday at 12:10 on WGN and possibly Saturday on Channel 11 at 1 p.m.) CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1) no caption (Larry Holmes) (2) no caption (The White Shadow's Heyward and Coach Reeves) (3) no caption (Bill Murray in `Kingpin') |
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