6/29
Wimbledon
ESPN2, 8 a.m.
Two seeded Spaniards went down yesterday, David Ferrer and Tommy Robredo, while the only other surprise in the men’s draw was a five-setter for sixth-seed Nikolay Davydenko against unseeded Aussie Chris Guccione. Only upset yesterday in the women’s draw was 13-seed Dinara Safina losing to Akiko Morigami, spoiling what I thought would make a fine women’s third-round match between Safina and Venus. The cradle will start to rock now, at least in the men’s draw – some third-rounders to get worked up about include Blake/Ferrero, Federer/Safin, Nalbandian/Baghdatis.

Still We Believe – The Boston Red Sox Movie
IFC, 2 p.m.
The 2004 Red Sox movie of collective mourning, ironically titled, given what happened in 2004. Fans, players and front office alike chime in about the miserable 2003 seven-game ALCS Grady Little-designed loss to the Yankees.

Friday Night Smackdown
CW, 8 p.m.
I have no idea what’s happening on Smackdown tonight. Look, for a complete sports-obsessed lifelong slacker, I’m a pretty busy guy. Is Vince McMahon still dead? Anybody out there want to interview for Franchise’s now-vacant post?

Michael Moorer v. Evander Holyfield
ESPN Classic, 8 p.m.
What is with all the Holyfield fights on Classic lately? Jesus, give us a break. Anyway, this is an important one, Michael Moorer getting the crazy pep talk from Teddy Atlas in his corner with Teddy sitting on his stool, etc. I wrote about this one this past April in a post called Southpaw Jinx.

60 Minutes on Classic
ESPN Classic, 10 p.m.
Two half-hours of classic 60 Minutes – the first is devoted to Tiger Woods and his effect on golf, and the second profiles Pete Sampras and James Blake.

James Toney v. Adolpho Washington
ESPN Classic, 12 a.m.
If you are a fan of ole Lights Out (and I know you is) then you’ll enjoy going back to a much slimmer edition’s of JT handing out a beatdown to Adolpho Washington in this cruiserweight bout from 1999.

Ali
TNT, 1:30 a.m.
Hey you really really need to watch Will Smith do a mediocre job of pretending that he’s the most charismatic man in the world in a bunch of strung-together scenes of The Greatest that primarily re-create moments that, if you so chose, you could watch actual footage of… well, if that’s your bag, then here you are. The Champ meets The Fresh Prince.

6/30
Wimbledon
ESPN2, 8 a.m.
Third-round finishes up.

Wimbledon
NBC, 2 p.m
NBC takes over the coverage. It goes back to the deuce at 3.

Ringside
ESPN Classic, 2 p.m.
The Mike Tyson collected Ringside, by which I mean it’s the early and late editions – six total hours of Iron Mike. It features, among others, George Chuvalo’s commentary for some reason. I can’t remember what exactly Chuvalo has to say on the Tyson legacy. It is my belief that Chuvalo did not fight Tyson, but I could be wrong on that. He fought just about everybody else.

There’s Something about Mary
FX, 6 p.m.
Yeah there is. She can golf.

Ringside
ESPN Classic, 8 p.m.
This Ringside is all about the great rivalries of boxing lore – you got your Ali/Frazier and your Zale/Graziano and your Holyfield/Bowe and your Robinson/LaMotta. Not sure if Pep/Saddler made the cut on this show. It is, as might imagine, a heavy duty Bert Sugar joint.

7/1
Classic Battle Lines
ESPN Classic, 7 a.m.
Calling all Sooners and Huskers – it’s an early wake-up call on Sunday. This show documents the history of the Oklahoma/Nebraska football rivalry, paying special attention to the 1971 donnybrook, known as The Game of the Century and routinely hailed as the greatest college football game of all time.

Monster in a Box
IFC, 7:10 a.m.
Dah… don’t they mean “Dick in a Box”?

Wimbledon
NBC, 12 p.m.
Seems like the first Sunday always ends up getting some tennis anyway due to all the rain, but even if they don’t play, presumably NBC will show the first week’s highlights.

Lords of Dogtown
Starz, 2:10 p.m.
I never saw this, and having seen Dogtown and Z-Boys, I never thought there was much point. Then again, I like to watch androgynous blonde pubescents on skateboards as much as the next pervert, and there’s a very good chance that I will have nothing to do on Sunday at 2:10 p.m. and that I may suddenly decide to subscribe to “Starz” whatever that is.

Brazil v. Chile
Mexic0 v. Ecuador
Univision, 4 p.m.
La Copa America, two matches back to back.

Born to Run
FMC, 10 p.m.
Here’s TV Guide on this – “Richard Grieco as an outlaw drag racer whose love of the sport is threatened by the local mob boss.” And you know what I say to that – Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend I wanna guard your dreams and visions…