Say hello to the most disastrous start to a television career in the history of moving pictures inside little boxes and/or flat screens.  A.J. Clemente was all ready to make his debut as a weekend news anchor for the NBC station in Bismarck, North Dakota when for some insane reason he uttered a few choice swear words right as the camera turned to him.  The ensuing scene is like a bad dream wrapped inside a nightmare wrapped inside a scene from local access television...

All Times Eastern

College Football
College Football Live -- ESPNU, 3:30 p.m.
CFB Daily: Spring Blitz -- ESPNU, 4:30 p.m.

College Softball
Georgia Tech at North Carolina -- ESPNU, 7 p.m.

English Premier League
Manchester United vs. Aston Villa -- ESPN2, 2:55 p.m.

Golf
Performance Institute: Mastering the Sand (series premiere) -- Golf Channel, 5:30 p.m.
The Haney Project: Michael Phelps: Batter Up -- Golf Channel, 9 p.m.
Feherty: Curtis Strange -- Golf Channel, 10 p.m.

Minor League Baseball
Buffalo Bisons at Lehigh Valley IronPigs -- MLB Network, 10:30 a.m.

MLB
American League
New York Yankees at Tampa Bay -- ESPN, 7 p.m.

The Rundown -- MLB Network, 1:30 p.m.
MLB Now -- MLB Network, 4 p.m.
MLB Tonight -- MLB Network, 6 p.m.
Baseball Tonight -- ESPN, 10 p.m.
Baseball Tonight -- ESPN2, 1 a.m. (Tuesday)
Quick Pitch -- MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Tuesday)

Bad news guys. After tomorrow's 30 for 30, we're unlikely to see any new installments for 5 months plus.  With that in mind, we thought we'd try to soften the blow by giving away 2 free 30 for 30 Blu Ray sets which includes the first 30 documentaries as well as over 5 hours of bonus features. I haven't watched the bonus footage but ideally I would love to see:

- Ricky Williams and his poker buddies smoking weed narrated by Norman Chad

- Hidden camera footage of Donald Trump's hair and makeup preparations

- Footage of Luther Campbell and Miami football players celebrating the student athlete lifestyle

So what do you have to do to be entered to win? Simple.

- We'll be giving away one copy to a lucky individual (random drawing....might involve ping pong balls) who signs up for our newsletter (preview below) between now and Thursday morning. 

- We'll also be giving away one copy to a lucky individual (random drawing....might involve ping pong balls) who likes our page on Facebook.

If you take the plunge on both fronts, you'll be entered to win twice and more importantly we'll like you a lot more. As you can see below, the AA newsletter is an assortment of stories you might have missed from us, the rest of the web, as well as some great media related tweets from the past couple of days. A great way to stay up on the sports media space.

Earlier this week NBC announced Dan Hicks would be taking over for Tom Hammond as the play by play man for Notre Dame football.  The ND job is one of the most glamorous at NBC outside Sunday Night Football and the Olympics.  I's quite a rare occurance in this day and age in broadcasting to see a switch made in such a high profile job, especially when the broadcaster exiting the booth is staying with the network.  Hammond signed a multi-year contract extension with NBC that will take him through the next Summer Olympics in 2016.

It could represent an awkward situation at NBC with the 50 year old Hicks replacing the 69 year old Hammond, but the old voice of Notre Dame football says he wanted cut back his workload while continuing to broadcast the potpourri of NBC's other properties.  Hammond told the Kansas City Star it was a mutual decision...

Discouraging news in the wee hours of Sunday morning as one of the top announcers in this or any era was reportedly arrested in Santa Monica on suspicion of DUI Friday night.  TMZ broke the story that NBC's Al Michaels failed a field sobriety test after being pulled over and was placed under arrest...

All Times Eastern

College Baseball
Illinois at Ohio State -- Big Ten Network, noon
Lafayette at Navy -- CBS Sports Network, 1 p.m.
Texas A&M at Arkansas -- ESPN2, 2 p.m.
Mississippi at Tennessee -- ESPNU, 2 p.m.
Kansas State at Oklahoma State -- Fox College Sports Central, 2 p.m
Southern Illinois at Creighton -- ESPNU, 5 p.m.

College Lacrosse
Penn State at Johns Hopkins -- ESPNU, noon

College Softball
Iowa at Michigan -- Big Ten Network, 3 p.m.

Formula 1
Bahrain Grand Prix -- NBC Sports Network, 8 a.m.

F1 Extra -- NBC Sports Network, 10 a.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
Open de España, Valencia, Spain
Final Round -- Golf Channel, 9 a.m.

PGA Tour
Heritage Classic, Hilton Head, SC
Final Round -- Golf Channel, 1 p.m./CBS, 3 p.m.

Champions Tour
Greater Gwinnett Championship, Duluth, GA
Final Round -- Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

Emotions were running high following a moving pregame ceremony as the Boston Bruins hosted the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday afternoon, just hours after an extensive manhunt for one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects concluded. 

Unfortunately, this emotion apparently got the best of NESN announcer Jack Edwards as he made an inappropriate (and bizarre) comparison between Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke and Sirhan Sirhan, the man that assassinated Robert F. Kennedy, just over 10 minutes into the first period.

Before today's Red Sox game in their first game back in Boston, David Ortiz unleashed a raw, emotional, awesome speech thanking the Boston police department and fans.  He ended by saying "This is our f*cking city!" and encouraging a packed Fenway Park to stay strong.  I think this is one time few people are going to complain about letting that get through the network censors.

UPDATE: Here's the official FCC response:

David Ortiz spoke from the heart at today's Red Sox game. I stand with Big Papi and the people of Boston - Julius

— The FCC (@FCC) April 20, 2013

The Boston Red Sox return home today for their first game in Boston since the marathon bombings and manhunt for Dzhokar Tsarnaev came to a triumphant conclusion Friday night.  The city of Boston returns to life after being shut down for the length of the day Friday after Thursday night's shootout and subsequent hunt for the younger brother.  Both the Red Sox and Bruins were supposed to play last night, but those games were postponed until this afternoon.

MLB Network will air the Red Sox-Royals game from Fenway Park at 1:00 PM ET in what is sure to be an emotional scene that will parallel Wednesday night's Bruins-Sabres game.  In addition, both MLB Network and ESPN will have live pregame coverage from Fenway.  ESPN will have coverage anchored by Jeremy Schapp while Greg Amsinger anchors MLB Network's coverage.

NHL Network will also provide national coverage of today's Penguins-Bruins game at 12:30 PM ET.

All Times Eastern

Arena Football
Chicago Rush at Utah Blaze -- CBS Sports Network, 10 p.m.

Australian Rules Football
West Coast Eagles vs. Carlton Blues -- Fox Soccer Plus, 5:30 a.m.

Boxing
Fight Night, New York
Tyson Fury vs. Steve Cunningham -- NBC, 4 p.m.

Championship Boxing, San Antonio, TX
WBA/WBC Super Welterweight World Championship Unification
Canelo Alvarez vs. Austin Trout -- Showtime, 10 p.m.

All Access: Mayweather vs. Guerrero: Episode 2 -- Showtime, 9:30 p.m.

College Baseball
Rice at Houston -- Fox Sports Net, 1:30 p.m.
Louisville at St. John's -- CBS Sports Network, 2:30 p.m.
Texas A&M at Arkansas -- ESPNU, 8:30 p.m.

College Football
Notre Dame Blue/Gold Game -- NBC Sports Network, 1 p.m.
Michigan State Spring Football -- Big Ten Network, 2:30 p.m.
Alabama Spring Football -- ESPN2, 3 p.m.
Wisconsin Spring Football -- Big Ten Network, 5 p.m.

College Lacrosse
Bucknell at Colgate -- CBS Sports Network, noon
Princeton at Dartmouth -- Fox College Sports Atlantic, noon
Villanova at Notre Dame -- ESPNU, 2 p.m.
Navy at Johns Hopkins -- ESPNU, 4 p.m.

College Softball
Florida State at Virginia Tech -- ESPNU, noon
South Carolina at Auburn -- ESPNU, 6 p.m.

Formula 1
Bahrain Grand Prix, Sakhir, Bahrain
Qualifying -- NBC Sports Network, 7 a.m.