SURFING THE TUBE.Byline: TOM HOFFARTH TODAY You know how sloppy these All-Star hoopfests get - it ends up just a bunch of uncontested missed layups. WNBA WNBA Women's National Basketball Association WNBA World Ninepin Bowling Association WNBA Wannabe Nasty Boys Association WNBA Women's National Book Association, Inc. WNBA Warszawski Nurt Basketu Amatorskiego All-Star Game, ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network , 4:30 p.m.; Baseball: St. Louis at Dodgers, Fox Sports Net 2, 7 p.m. TUESDAY Two important high-noon showdowns today in the wild National League West. Baseball: St. Louis at Dodgers, Fox Sports Net 2, noon (replayed at 7 p.m.); Arizona at San Francisco, ESPN, noon. WEDNESDAY The San Diego Padres have won only 13 road games this season. How unlucky for them. Baseball: San Diego at Dodgers, Fox Sports Net 2, 7 p.m. (FSN2 has Thursday's game at 7 p.m.); Angels at Oakland, Fox Sports Net, 7 p.m. (FSN has Thursday's game at 7 p.m.) THURSDAY Only two players - Arnold Palmer in 1960 and Jack Nicklaus in '72 - have gone to the British Open with hopes of winning golf's four professional majors in the same year. Neither returned home with the third piece of the puzzle. That's what faces Tiger Woods in the 131st British Open at Muirfield, home of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth Noun 1. Firth of Forth - a large firth on the east coast of Scotland and the estuary of the Forth River; location of Edinburgh Scotland - one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part . Muirfield is relatively short at 7,034 yards (par 71), but it has 148 bunkers that have walls so steep that the only play sometimes is to go backward. Golf: British Open first round, ESPN, 5-11 a.m., highlights show, Channel 7, 12:05 a.m. (ESPN has second-round coverage at 5 a.m. Friday, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. has third-round coverage at 6 a.m. Saturday and final-round coverage at 5 a.m. Sunday); Baseball: Arizona at Colorado, ESPN, noon; WNBA: Sparks at New York, ESPN2, 5 p.m. FRIDAY ``If you play for the wild card, that means you'd settle for second place,'' San Francisco Giants The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California that currently play in the National League West Division. New York Giants history Early days and the John McGraw era pitcher Jason Schmidt said recently. ``Nobody here is thinking that way. We're shooting for first place.'' Meaning, the Dodgers are on their radar. As usual. Baseball: San Francisco at Dodgers, Channel 13, 7 p.m. (Channel 11 has Saturday's game at 1 p.m.); Seattle at Angels, Fox Sports Net, 7 p.m. (FSN has Saturday's game at 7 p.m. and ESPN has Sunday's game at 5 p.m.) SATURDAY The Avengers have clinched a place in the upcoming ArenaBowl playoffs, but the last regular-season game has to mean something. Arena football: Buffalo at Avengers, Fox Sports Net 2, 7:30 p.m.; Boxing: Vernon Forrest vs. Shane Mosley, HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy , 6:30 p.m.; WNBA: Sparks at Cleveland, Channel 4, 11 a.m. SUNDAY It can't be a good omen that a new show on TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. is called ``Worst-Case Scenario'' just as the cable channel takes over carrying NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. events. NASCAR: New England 300 Winston Cup race, TNT, 11 a.m.; Women's soccer: U.S. national team vs. Norway, ESPN, 10 a.m.; Cycling: Tour de France Tour de France World's most prestigious and difficult bicycle race. Staged for three weeks each July—usually in some 20 daylong stages—the Tour typically comprises 20 professional teams of nine riders each and covers some 3,600 km (2,235 miles) of flat and 14th stage, Channel 2, noon. CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: How tough will the rough be at this week's British Open? Well, this is the fairway on the third hole at Muirfield, where a course worker attempts to cut a crossing path for spectators. Ian Stewart/Associated Press Box: TV TODAY |
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