Whats Hot On TV

Somehow, even in a weekend without pro football, we still have a sports-themed afternoon, with pro basketball, high school football, and Little League baseball. Of course, the baseball comes courtesy of The Bad News Bears, the original and far superior version, in my opinion. We were just talking about this version the other night, saying there’s no way you could get away with being that politically inccorrect in a kids movie anymore.

1. NBA Basketball: Mavericks at Celtics. Boston won both of the meetings between these two teams last year. 12:00 PM CT ABC

2. Varsity Blues This is the closest we’ll get to pro football today, a movie about a backup QB for a high school team that gets pressed to play, not getting along with the coach very well. James Van Der Beek and Jon Voight star. 1:00 PM CT TBS

3. The Bad News Bears. It’s the original with Walter Matthau and Tatum O’Neal. Just watching the clip below had me smiling. It’s the movie that set the barometer for underdog sports movies. 1:00 PM CT Turner Classic Movies

4. NBA BAsketball: Spurs at Lakers. When the two teams met a few weeks back, San Antonio’s Tim Duncan had a near triple-double to lead the team to a one point win. 2:30 PM CT ABC5. Figure Skating U.S. Championships. From Cleveland, the men’s finals are expected to include Johnny Weir, Stephen Carriere, and defending champion Evan Lysacek. 3:00 PM CT NBC

6. 60 Minutes. Featured tonight are Wilmington, Ohio residents losing their jobs because of DHL closing, Israelis and Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank, and resveratrol, a substance found in red wine which has proven to slow aging in mice. 6:00 PM CT CBS

7. Dateline NBC. Going head-to-head with 60 Minutes, tonight ten stories of survival are featured, as well as Olivia Newton-John’s boyfriend who disappeared in 2005 during a fishing trip. 6:00 PM CT NBC

8. America’s Funniest Home Videos. Included tonight are practical jokes, a man scaring his family with a fake spider, a dog caught in the refrigerator, kids saying funny things, and a puppy’s run-in with a cat. 6:00 PM CT ABC

9. Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? We get an extra helping of 5th grade curriculum tonight. 6:00 PM CT Fox

10. Cold Case. The body of a brush salesman that was murdered in 1967 is found at the bottom of a duck pond, and the investigation reveals the victim new certain secrets that others didn’t want revealed. 7:00 PM CT CBS

11. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. In injured Iraq War veterans house, that had been destroyed by a tornado, gets redone by Ty and the others. At the reveal, Gavin Rossdale sings Love Remains the Same. 7:00 PM CT ABC

12. Simpsons. Lisa makes friends with the new girl, and they end up writing a book about a fantasy world called Equalia, where they will both be queens. Fall Out Boy performs the theme song at the end. 7:00 PM CT Fox

13. Loving Leah. A single doctor is forced to honor a Jewish custom of marrying his late brother’s childless widow to carry on the dead man’s name. 8:00 PM CT CBS

14. The Last Templar. An archaeologist and FBI agent go on a quest around the world to dig up secrets of the medieval Knights Templar after an artifact is stolen from New York’s Metropolitan Museum. Stars Scott Foley and Mira Sorvino. 8:00 PM CT NBC

15. American Dad. Steve faces indignities in school because of the back brace he wears for scoliosis, and Stan admits that he wears a wig, because he’s bald. Roger only has two passes to a posh spa, yet invites both Francine and Haley, requiring him to sneak Hayley in in a suitcase. 8:30 PM CT FoxPhoto courtesy of associatedcontent.com

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