SURFING THE TUBE.Byline: TOM HOFFARTH TODAY My, how Jennifer Capriati has grown up. The new fan favorite returns to the scene of her emotional renaissance in Australia, but she looked shaky during a warm-up tournament last week, losing to Alexandra Stevenson and suffering hip-flexor pain during the match. Tennis: Australian Open early rounds, ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network , 10 a.m. and ESPN2, 6:30 p.m., delayed (ESPN and ESPN2 have coverage in same time slots or 8 p.m. all week); NBA: Memphis at Lakers, Fox Sports Net, 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY After nearly two weeks away from Staples Center, the Kings come back and don't have to leave Southern California again until Jan. 28. Best of all, the ice is nice and fresh from all those lightweight figure skaters. NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there : Nashville at Kings, Fox Sports Net, 7:30 p.m.; NBA: San Antonio at Washington, TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. , 5 p.m. WEDNESDAY The celebs expected to participate - or, as they say, compete - in the pro-am of the PGA's Bob Hope Chrysler Classic The Bob Hope Chrysler Classic is a professional golf tournament played each January in California's Coachella Valley. Part of the PGA Tour's early season West Coast Swing, this tournament is well known for its celebrity pro-am, as well as having five daily 18-hole rounds of in the Palm Springs area include Joe Pesci, Justin Timberlake, Leslie Nielsen, Goldberg, Alice Cooper, Rick Dees, Glenn Frey, Samuel L. Jackson “Samuel Jackson” redirects here. For the senator from Indiana, see Samuel D. Jackson. Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning actor. , Michael Bolton and Matthew McConaughey. And, in what is anything but a rematch from the last World Series, Randy Johnson and Roger Clemens will attempt to hit the stationary balls with their metal sticks. Golf: Bob Hope Classic, first round, ESPN, 1 p.m. (ESPN has coverage at noon Thursday and Friday, Channel 7 has coverage at noon Saturday and Sunday); NHL: Detroit at Dallas, ESPN, 5 p.m.; NBA: Miami at Lakers, Fox Sports Net, 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY The Trojans' top spot in the Pacific-10 standings is challenged again, this time during an always-hot weekend trek to Arizona. College basketball: 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 at Arizona State, Fox Sports Net 2, 5:30 p.m.; USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. at Arizona, FSN2, 7:30 p.m.; Maryland at Duke, ESPN, 6 p.m. FRIDAY Come see the West Coast Conference favorites zig and zag Zig and Zag can refer to:
SATURDAY All those years the Raiders used to go to the East Coast in January for a playoff game and ended up looking like a silver-and-black Popsicle. Imagine playing in New England at 8 p.m. local time. Another silver-and- black bunch, the San Antonio Spurs The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and are the current NBA Champions after defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2007 NBA Finals. , meet the Lakers for the first time this season, and NBC wants it. NFL playoffs: Philadelphia at Chicago, Channel 11, 1:30 p.m.; Oakland at New England, Channel 2, 5 p.m.; NBA: Lakers at San Antonio, Channel 4, 10 a.m.; NHL: N.Y. Islanders at Kings, FSN, 1 p.m.; College basketball: UCLA at Arizona, Channel 2, 11 a.m. SUNDAY Out of respect for Kurt Warner and the throat injury that he suffered, which kept him from speaking last week, we turned down the sound on the Campbell's soup commercials. NFL: Baltimore/Miami at Pittsburgh, Channel 2, 10 a.m.; Green Bay/San Francisco at St. Louis, Channel 11, 1:15 p.m. CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: This year, Jennifer Capriati will be the one who is hunted as she tries to defend her Australian Open champioinship. Steve Holland/Associated Press Box: TV TODAY |
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