Golfer Annika Sorenstam and Major League Soccer player Guillermo Barros Schelotto of the Columbus Crew
Annika Sorenstam closes out her storied LPGA career this weekend at the season-ending ADT Championship. The Swedish sensation has won 10 Majors, earned more then $20 million in prize money, scored an LPGA record 59 round, became a media sensation when she participated in a 2003 PGA Tour event and set a standard for class in the sport. Golf Channel has the...
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Ty Lawson of the North Carolina Tar Heels
Basketball junkies, get ready to lose some sleep. ESPN's College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon starts at midnight/ET Monday with Massachusetts at 2008 NCAA runner-up Memphis, and concludes at 9 pm/ET Tuesday with Kentucky at No. 1 North Carolina. "My friends, that is simply hoops hysteria at its best," ESPN's Dick Vitale says with typical hoop-erbole of the 23-hour slate, which includes a four-hour <i>SportsCenter</i> special at 6 am/ET Tuesday. "They can get a little smorgasbord, a taste of so many different teams." (See the full schedule here.)
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Juan Pablo Angel of the New York Red Bulls
There will be a new Major League Soccer champion this year. Two-time defending MLS Cup winner Houston Dynamo got bounced in the first round of the playoffs by the scrappy New York Red Bulls, a team that barely qualified for postseason play. In fact, due to their low seed the Red Bulls are playing as a wild card in the Western Conference bracket. MLS's New York franchise has never won a league title and this is their first appearance in the second round of the playoffs since 2000. With Colombian striker Juan Pablo Angel — MLS's fourth leading scorer this season — guiding the attack, New York faces Real Salt Lake in the Western Conference finals on Saturday, Nov. 15 (9:30 pm/ET, Fox Soccer Channel).
On the other side of the draw, the Columbus Crew host...
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April Holmes
If you thought the Olympic feats of Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt and Nastia Liukin were impressive, prepare to be overwhelmed by the competitors of the 2008 Paralympic Games. The quadrennial multi-sport festival for disabled athletes — held in Beijing's Olympic venues from Sept. 6-17 — is the subject of a stirring NBC documentary on Sunday, Nov. 9 ay 2:30 pm/ET.
Get more details on the special after the jump.
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Paula Radcliffe during the BUPA Great South Run
p>The New York City Marathon will have unprecedented coverage this Sunday. In addition to a same-day delayed hourlong highlights show on NBC (Nov. 2 at 3 pm/ET) and the local coverage in the New York area on WNBC (starting at 9 am/ET), the 30 million U.S. households with NBC's Universal Sports cable channel can also watch the entire race, live at 9 am/ET. (And if you don't have the channel, you can watch live streaming video at UniversalSports.com.) The 26.2-mile event, which is being run for the 39th time, has roughly 39,000 entrants, making it the largest marathon in the world ...
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Greg Oden of the Portland Trail Blazers
The 2008-09 NBA season tips off Tuesday with a double-header on TNT featuring 2007's No. 1 draft pick, Greg Oden, in his first regular-season outing.
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The Major League Soccer playoff pairings are set and the Columbus Crew are the No. 1 seed overall. The Crew went 17-7-6 to top the Eastern Conference during the regular season. Two-time defending MLS Cup champion Houston Dynamo led the Western Conference at 13-5-12, the second best record overall. The playoffs begin this week with the conference semifinals, a home-and-home series of games in which the team with the most overall goals advances...
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Jimmy Rollins and Evan Longoria
The World Series begins Wednesday with the turnaround Tampa Bay Rays hosting the Philadelphia Phillies. Fox's Tim McCarver says the team that excels at the basics will be the one to enjoy baseball's ultimate champagne bath. "Base-running, for instance, is a major part of the game that's not talked about a lot," says McCarver, who was a part of three Series-winning St. Louis Cardinals teams in the 1960s. "Also, one's ability to turn a double play. These hidden things add up to wins or losses ...A lot of people lump all that in the category of 'doing the little things well.' The little things are not little. They're the difference makers."
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Usain Bolt
Fans of sports magazine shows get a double bonus Tuesday night with the return of Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel and a new episode of ESPN's year-old E: 60. On Real Sports (10 pm/ET, HBO), Gumbel travels to Jamaica to interview Olympic gold-medal-winning sprinter Usain Bolt. Though the world-record speedster isn't a big talker, the piece offers a nice snapshot of his life both before and after the Beijing Games. Bolt tells Gumbel...
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Daniel Dhers
The AST Dew Tour comes to a close this weekend and BMX Park superstar Daniel Dhers has the gnarly moves and consistency to ride into history. If he wins the season-ending PlayStation Pro in Orlando, he'll become the first competitor to go five-for-five on the Tour, plus wrap up his third straight Dew Cup. NBC has coverage Saturday and Sunday (Oct. 18-19, 4 pm/ET)...
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