No Mas Weekend TV Guide

MUST-SEE NO MAS TV
Carribean World Series
SNY - games all weekend
SportsNet New York is carrying the entire Carribean World Series, start to finish, which I must say is a great get for this channel that has otherwise seemed unbearably Busch League since its debut last year. Mexico v. Puerto Rico is tonight at 7:30. Click here for a complete listing of gametimes and dates.

UFC 67: All or Nothing
PPV, Saturday night, 10 p.m.
Lutter vs. Silva. Cro Cop vs. Sanchez. Rampage vs. Eastman. Hope they have
some long undercard fights planned because we are expecting a lot of
first-round knockouts.

BEST OF THE REST
2/2
The Millrose Games
ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Two hours of coverage of the Millrose Games tonight on ESPN2, presumably to include the Wanamaker Mile, which will be run tonight. The race features an all-star lineup that includes Alan Webb, Aussie Craig Mottram, and four-time Wanamaker champion Bernard Lagat.

WWE Smackdown
CW, 8 p.m.
'Taker makes his first appearance on Smackdown since winning the Rumble last week. Will he continue his mind games with World Heavyweight Champion Batista or will he announce his Wrestlemania intentions immediately?

Friday Night Fights
ESPN2, 9 p.m.
Tonight's card features Brownsville's own Curtis "Showtime" Stevens, who has f'real knockout power, but who got rope-a-doped last July at the Hammerstein by cagey veteran Marcos Primera (click here for CI's fine reportage of that bout). Stevens subsequently decisioned Primera in a rematch and tonight he fights Yusaf Mack, a highly-considered super-middleweight out of Philly.

Urban Cowboy
HBO-S, 12:55 a.m.
Tony Manero moves from Brooklyn to Bumfuck, Texas, marries Debra Winger, and gets obsessed with riding mechanical bulls in bars. And all's I have to say to that is... "Sassy! Git me a beer!"

2/3
Freddy vs. Jason
SciFi, 1 p.m.
I don't think that I'm ruining anything when I tell you that Jason wins, and that my money was on Freddy. A rematch once seemed imminent, but four years later the bout hasn't been made. Promoters...

Tomasz Adamek v. Chad Dawson
Showtime, 9 p.m.
If styles make fights, this one has some definite aesthetic potential - Adamek the Polish brawler up against "Bad" Chad Dawson, a slick boxer. For Adamek's WBC light heavy belt.

Walter Payton SportsCentury
ESPN Classic, 12 a.m.
Never seen it - Large has it all Tivo'ed up.

Legendary Nights: The Tale of Leonard/Hearns
HBO-E, 3:15 a.m.
One throws around a lot of superlatives concerning big fights of the past, but really this one has GOT to be top five all-time, without qualification. This is a great doc, too, and it was produced by a true friend of No Mas, Little Stephen Palgon.

2/4
Highlights from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships
ABC, 1 p.m.
It's Super Bowl Sunday, yes. But you know you want it.

Super Bowl XLI
CBS, 6:30 p.m.
a. A good excuse to start drinking at eleven o'clock in the morning without anyone hitting you with any "I think you have a problem" bullshit.
b. A good excuse to get your girlfriend/wife/fashion-industry-roommate out of the house for about nine hours.
c. A good excuse to make chili (not that you need a good excuse for that, but you know).
d. A good excuse to pretend that you're a real man, and not the Golden Globes-pool-entering ponce that you are.
e. All of the above.

Bobby Deerfield
ESPN Classic, 8 p.m.
Al Pacino as a Grand Prix driver in Europe who breaks through the hard shell of his own self-absorption by falling in love with a dying woman. It's like Love Story meets Days of Thunder and yet somehow it's still pretty awesome.

Caddyshack
Cinemax, 10 p.m.
It's 10 p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday, you've had nine beers and some Maker's Mark, the Colts won by like 78 points and you can't even remember the second half. You're full of chili and booze and party mix and weed and you feel about half a Hot Pocket away from barfing in the popcorn bowl. So look, don't do anything drastic, kimosabe. Just put on Caddyshack and sit there quietly until the despair passes. That's just your life you feel slipping slowly out of your hands. Nothing Carl Spackler can't cure.