All Times Eastern

Australian Rules Football
Essendon Bombers vs. Carlton Blues -- Fox Soccer Plus, 5:30 a.m.
Greater Western Sydney Giants vs. Geelong Cats -- Fox Soccer Plus, 11:30 p.m.

College Baseball
NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
Super Regionals

Chapel Hill Super Regional, Chapel Hill, NC
Game 1: South Carolina vs. North Carolina -- ESPN2, 1 p.m.

Raleigh Super Regional, Raleigh, NC
Rice vs. North Carolina State -- ESPN2, 4 p.m.

Baton Rouge Super Regional, Baton Rouge, LA
Oklahoma vs. LSU -- ESPN, 7 p.m.

Fullerton Super Regional, Fullerton, CA
UCLA vs. Cal State-Fullerton -- ESPN2, 7 p.m.

Who knew Bud Selig was such a fan of time travel? 

The 78-year old Major League Baseball commissioner repeatedly referred to the 2013 First-Year Player Draft as the 2000 edition while announcing the selections on MLB Network.

One slip of the tongue might be forgiveable, but Selig made the mistake three times within the first eight picks and four times in the opening round. First overall selection Mark Appel (Houston Astros), sixth pick Colin Moran (Miami Marlins), eighth choice Hunter Dozier (Kansas City Royals) and 19th pick Marco Gonzales (St. Louis Cardinals, not shown in the video) all had their big moments incorrectly dated.

Selig also did this while standing right next a large "Draft 2013" graphic, which you'd think would be hard to miss.

The First-Year Player Draft has been televised since 2007, but the man making the picks official is apparently still celebrating the start of the new millenium.

Video via Larry Brown Sports

Remember just a couple of days ago when we discussed that this NBA playoff commercial might be the best playoff commercial of 2013? We'd like to take our vote back. ESPN has raised the bar with this incredible piece of animation from London-based animator Richard Swarbrick which highlights some of the greatest moments in NBA Finals history. 

Swarbrick uses his unique style to paint some of the most iconic moments in a way we've never seen before. Set to the tune of "Save Your Season" by Mint Julep, this ad perfectly captures the magic, intensity and emotion of the NBA Finals. 

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The most compelling matchup of this year's NBA Finals beginning tonight isn't Kawhi Leonard trying to guard LeBron James or Tim Duncan matching up with Chris Bosh, or even to see who flops better between Manu Ginobili and Dwyane Wade... it's the most combative, entertaining, long-running battle in the Association.

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich vs sideline reporters.

Pop's less-than-forthcoming interviews have evolved into one of the great struggles of sports television.  It's become something of a sport for Popovich as he has battled with numerous sideline reporters over the years.  They try to get information, quotes, or insights from the coach in league-mandated interviews between quarters and Pop does everything in his power NOT to give information, quotes, or insights.  Here's one of my favorites with one of his most frequent foils, David Aldridge, from the beginning of this season:

ESPN's Marc Stein has a fantatsic column before Game 1 speaking to a number of sideline reporters from a few of the men and women who have interviewed Pop over the years.  A brief selection:

Although it doesn't quite carry the same cache as past generations, there are still millions who tune in to the major networks' nightly newscasts.  NBC's Brian Williams anchors the most watched of those newscasts with NBC Nightly News.  While Williams is the straightest of straight news men, he's also a great target and participant in comedy bits.  If anything, Williams has distinguished himself from the competition because of his comedic aptitude.

We're just a couple months away from the launch of Fox Sports One in mid-August.  The network has been gobbling up personalities to fill out the 24/7 network like Charissa Thompson, Jay Onrait & Dan O'Toole, Regis Philbin, and others.  We're also starting to see advertising and promotional campaigns for Fox Sports One begin to roll out.  Here's a selection of spots focusing on the "One" in FS1 and what great fun the new network will be...

If just talking about sports ever gets boring, many of TSN's staffers might have a second career creating funny videos. The network's long been famed for knowing when to insert humour into sports (a big part of what led to the hilarious Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole being hired by Fox Sports One), and their NHL guys in particular have taken it to a new level this year. First, there was the impressive March video where NHL panel host James Duthie got Vancouver Canucks' goalies Roberto Luongo and Cory Schneider to discuss their "rivalry" for the number-one job and pretend to inflict all sorts of harm on each other. TSN then followed that up with April's "Panel Hangover," which included a Duthie face tattoo, a Matthew Perry cameo, Darren Dreger wandering around dazed in sunglasses and Aaron Ward preparing for a spa day. For sheer originality and brilliance, though, the "Puck Over Glass" music video TSN aired during the first intermission of Monday night's L.A. Kings - Chicago Blackhawks game, the final NHL game on TSN this year, might just take the cake:

Tiger Woods is back at #1 in the World Golf Rankings, he's winning tournaments aplenty once again (although still nary a major in quite some time), even gotten his love life back on track with Lindsey Vonn, and is reportedly close to re-signing with Nike.  A few years ago, at the height of his scandal ridden downfall, you'd be hard pressed to envision one of those as being possible.

Even though Tiger's life and career are back on track, it still doesn't mean we can't have some fun at his expense with easy jokes involving Nike's famous slogan, right?  That's just what Jimmy Kimmel did this week with a spoof on a new, somewhat wordier, Nike ad for Tiger.  So far it's still way better than anything we've seen Nike produce for Rory McIlroy. 

H/T For the Win

Would Ian Darke have thought in 1994 when he was calling a USA-England friendly from Wembley Stadium in London that he would become the voice of American soccer nearly two decades later?  Here's a video from ESPN's coverage of the USA-England game after the '94 World Cup that features ESPN's future voice of soccer.  You can see and hear some of the qualities that have made Darke such a hit across the pond 20 years later in this classic clip.  Sadly, there was no "Go go USA" on that day as the Americans lost 2-0 thanks to 2 goals from Alan Shearer.

Thankfully, we kept Darke and left that wretched mid 90s fashion behind.

H/T mookiealexander

All Times Eastern

College Football
College Football Live -- ESPN, 3:30 p.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
Lyoness Open, Atzenbrugg, Austria
First Round -- Golf Channel, 9 a.m.

LPGA Tour
LPGA Championship, Pittsford, NY
First Round -- Golf Channel, 12:30 p.m.

PGA Tour
St. Jude Classic, Memphis, TN
First Round -- Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

Champions Tour
Regions Tradition, Shoal Creek, AL
First Round -- Golf Channel, 6:30 p.m. (same day coverage)

19th Hole -- Golf Channel, midnight