No Mas TV Guide - 4/11
Wonderful World of GolfGolf Channel, 2 p.m.
I know that I am the only person in No Mas land who is into these things, but yo, this one is from 1964, and it's in Puerto Rico, and it features a young Chi Chi Rodriguez. I'm not even sure Chi Chi had the matador thing going yet in 1964.
AC Milan v. Bayern Munich
ESPN2, 2:30 p.m.
More quarterfinal Champions League action, with the second leg of Milan/Munich. Milan have their hands full after conceding two away-goals in the first leg. Check out Madsear's preview above.
NBA's Greatest Games
ESPN Classic, 3 p.m.
I'm not sure I'm prepared to call a Nets/Bulls first-round playoff game from 1998 one of the NBA's greatest games, even if it did go into OT, and even if MJ did go all bubonic. Then again, I can't remember this game for the life of me, so maybe it's the straight-up illy-dilly. Who the hell was on the Nets in '98 anyway? Was that still ole "Hey Check Out My Gun" Jayson Williams? Van Horn? Man, I'm old.
PSV Eindhoven v. Liverpool
ESPN Classic, 5 p.m.
Wash down that Nets/Bulls instant classic with some more Champions League action. Again, consult the one and only Madsear above for the breakdown.
White Men Can't Jump
TVLand, 6 p.m.
Oh man shut your anorexic malnutrition tapeworm-having overdose on Dick Gregory Bohemian diet-drinking ass up.
Stanley Cup Playoffs
VS., 10 p.m.
Game one, Stars/Canucks, NHL playoffs get under way. Look, I promise, we're going to get someone on here to cover this, someone good. Franchise would naturally be our man, but he's swamped these days. So I don't know. But we'll get somebody. We will not turn on our backs on hockey with the rest of the world.
Willie Gibbs v. Raymond Joval ESPN2, 10 p.m.
Philly's own Willie "The Gladiator" Gibbs tries to redeem himself from a less-than-manly outing with Edison Miranda by taking on Holland's finest, and a recent victim of Fernando Vargas, Raymond "Hallelujah" Joval. I know, I know, it isn't exactly the wide world of sports I'm hawking here, but something about boxing on Wednesday night gets me all excited. It's like an unexpected treat.
Legends
TVG, 12:30 a.m.
A profile of hall-of-fame horse trainer Ron McAnally, who trained, among many others, the great John Henry.
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"Champs by '01: Count on it."
So read the cover of SLAM magazine heading into the playoffs that produced that Bulls/Nets series. As you can see from the cover photo (http://slamonline.com/online/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/25nets.jpg),
the team featured Sam Cassell at point guard, Kerry Kittles at the two, Kendall Gill at small forward (who, at the time, was in the midst of the longest active streak of consecutive double digit games after MJ), Van Horn at the four, and Jayson Williams (who apparently almost shot Wayne Chrebet that year) at center. I think Williams, who was in good health, averaged something like 13.5 rebounds that year.
Whoops. I guess I have to break up that link.
http://slamonline.com/online/wp-
content/uploads/2006/08/25nets.jpg
That hyphen is not to denote continuity; it is part of the link.
Also, I might be wrong on this, but I think Bison Dele was on the Bulls at that time. If I'm right, that was definitely the only playoff series that featured a murderer/murderee pivot matchup in NBA history. And you questioned the game's greatness.
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