SURFING THE TUBE.Byline: Tom Hoffarth TODAY Chris Myers and Craig Kilborne have something in common today - the former ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network ``SportsCenter'' anchors and current L.A. residents are replaced by new faces on their old shows. Gary Miller picks up ESPN's ``Up Close'' afternoon chat show (Troy Aikman is his first guest). And Jon Stewart fills Kilborne's old chair on ``The Daily Show,'' with hope that he'll have enough sports-savvy references to fill the need of viewers like us. Kilborne's gig on CBS' ``Late, Late Show'' begins in March. ``Up Close,'' ESPN, 3 p.m.; ``The Daily Show,'' Comedy Central, 11 p.m. TUESDAY The only live regular-season broadcast of the Fox Sports West 2 high school basketball game of the week schedule lands here. Harvard-Westlake at Chaminade, Fox Sports West 2, 5 p.m. WEDNESDAY An ACC See adaptive cruise control. doubleheader that brings you closer to Ademola Okulaja than maybe you oughta be. Maryland at North Carolina, ESPN, 4 p.m.; Duke at Wake Forest, ESPN, 6 p.m. THURSDAY A Pac-10 doubleheader that brings the Bay Area closer to Los Angeles than maybe it oughta be. Stanford at USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. , Fox Sports West 2, 5 p.m.; Cal at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , Fox Sports West, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY It's billed as the next generation of an American classic. Rollerjam is not Roller Derby but an incredibly reinvented simulation. Under the sanctioning body of the World Skating League - which includes the California Quakes - the seven-women, seven-men teams of blockers and jammers hope to hook the audience that has brought pro wrestling and demolition derby back for a campy go-around. ``Rollerjam,'' The Nashville Network, 8-10 p.m. SATURDAY Moving from Mammoth Mountain to Crested Butte, Colo. - a name that tickles the ``Beavis and Butt-Head'' in all of us - here's 17-1/2 hours of extreme making-angels-in-the-show competition from Disney's sports division. Events run Thursday through Sunday, so today's opener will all be on tape - just like the real Olympics! Winter X Games: Men's snowboarding, free skiing, Channel 7, 5 p.m.; Women's snowboarding, skiboarding, snow mountain bike racing The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) recognised the sport of mountain bike racing relatively late in 1990, when it sanctioned the world championships in Purgatory, Colorado. The first mountain biking world cup series took place in 1991. , ESPN2, 5 p.m. (ESPN and ESPN2 coverage runs through Jan. 21). SUNDAY And finally, a real sport. NFC NFC abbr. National Football Conference championship: Atlanta at Minnesota, Channel 11, 9:30 a.m.; AFC (1) (Application Foundation Classes) A class library from Microsoft that provides an application framework and graphics, graphical user interface (GUI) and multimedia routines for Java programmers. championship: N.Y. Jets at Denver, Channel 2, 1 p.m. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO no caption (Roller derby skaters) |
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