SURFING THE TUBE.Byline: TOM HOFFARTH TODAY While Arizona takes on Colorado and San Francisco plays nice-nice with St. Louis, the Dodgers get three chances to make up for giving two games away to San Diego last week. Be careful: San Diego actually has a better-than-.500 record in the spacious confines of Qualcomm. Baseball: Dodgers at San Diego, Channel 13, 7 p.m. (Fox Sports Net 2 has Tuesday's 7 p.m. game and Wednesday's 2 p.m. game); 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 : Orlando at Sparks, Fox Sports Net 2, 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY Great, here's Hudson, Zito and Lidle back for more. At least the Angels miss Mulder. Baseball: Oakland at Angels, Fox Sports Net, 7 p.m. (FSN (Full-Service Network) A communications network that provides shopping, movies on demand and access to databases and a variety of interactive services. has Wednesday's 7 p.m. game and Thursday's 1 p.m. game). WEDNESDAY Have the Florida Marlins won since dumping Cliff Floyd and Ryan Dempster? As if it matters. Baseball: Atlanta at Florida, ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network , 10 a.m.; Philadelphia at Chicago, WGN, 11 a.m. THURSDAY Maybe Tiger can stay in town, pretend he's older, and try to win this one to keep his Grand Slam hopes alive. What harm could it do? Golf: Senior British Open first round, ESPN, 8 a.m. (ESPN has the second round Friday and 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 the third and final rounds Saturday and Sunday tape delayed); Baseball: St. Louis at San Francisco, ESPN, 12:30 p.m. FRIDAY Rested up enough yet, Barry? Having just turned 38 this week (Wednesday), maybe he'll realize there's not much time to reach the 600-homer mark (he's five short). Doing it this series would be appropriate. Baseball: Dodgers at San Francisco, Channel 13, 7:30 p.m. (Channel 11 has Saturday's 1 p.m. game and Channel 13 has Sunday's 1 p.m. game); Angels at Seattle, Channel 9, 7 p.m. (Channel 9 has Sunday's 1:30 p.m. game). SATURDAY Combined, they've won 131 out of 142 career fights with 92 knockouts. But what have Larry ``Butterball'' Holmes and Eric ``Butterbean'' Esch done lately to deserve a pay-per-view bout? For $19.95, you can watch the 53-year-old Holmes go 10 rounds with ``The King of Four Rounders'' in Norfolk, Va. A winner could be determined, but no one knows exactly why. Later, a real heavyweight champ, current WBA title holder John Ruiz, gets in the ring against a real challenger. Boxing: Larry Holmes vs. Eric ``Butterbean'' Esch, pay per view ($19.95), 6 p.m.; Francois Botha vs. Clifford Etienne, Showtime, 9 p.m.; John Ruiz vs. Kirk Johnson and Tim Austin vs. Adam Vargas, 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.; Arena Football League playoffs: Tampa Bay at Avengers, 4:30 p.m., TNN or ESPN2. SUNDAY When last seen holding a tennis racket at a public gathering, Andre Agassi was playing in a shopping mall parking lot as a member of the Sacramento Capitals of World Team Tennis against the Springfield Lazers on Thursday night. ``This is what it's about for me,'' Agassi said. ``It's bringing tennis straight to the parking lot. I've never played in a parking lot before - at least not tennis.'' Cracked pavement won't be the surface at the 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 Tennis Center this week when he comes back to defend his Mercedez-Benz Cup title. Tennis: ATP ATP: see adenosine triphosphate. ATP in full adenosine triphosphate Organic compound, substrate in many enzyme-catalyzed reactions (see catalysis) in the cells of animals, plants, and microorganisms. Mercedes-Benz Cup finals, Fox Sports Net, 1 p.m. (FSN has the semifinals Saturday at 1 and 7 p.m.); Baseball: Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, ESPN Classic, 10:30 a.m.; 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 final stage, Channel 2, 11 a.m. (tape); 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. : Pennsylvania 500 Winston Cup race, TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. , 10 a.m.; IRL: Michigan Indy 400, Channel 7, noon; Baseball: Chicago at St. Louis, ESPN, 5 p.m. CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: Former heavyweight champ Larry Holmes, training for his fight against Butterbean on Saturday, is careful to avoid water-weight gain. Chris Gardner/Associated Press Box: TV TODAY |
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