When an athlete gives a weather report on a local news station, it's usually a recipe for comedy gold. Phoenix Coyotes forward Mikkel Boedker's report for ABC 15 of Phoenix is just one of the most recent and most comical examples which proves that athletes stumbling through the weather is a sight worth beholding. 

Give Boedker credit. He actually handles himself pretty well while providing some truly hilarious lines. From telling viewers they don't need to worry about the cold temperatures at the Grand Canyon as they only need about five minutes to see it, to struggling to locate Phoenix on a map, Boedker's segment is loaded with unintentional comedy. 

Boedker is quite blunt in his forecast, admitting that he's never been to several areas on the map. He also mentions that the Coyotes are in town Monday and Tuesday, but that he doesn't care about the weather the rest of the week because the team will be on the road. All of this combined with his understanding of the English language as a Danish hockey player left us laughing several times.

ESPN covered Tuesday night's USA-Mexico World Cup Qualifier like it was the Super Bowl of soccer and their coverage delivered with a championship level broadcast.

New England Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski had the pleasure of doing the ol' Bristol Car Wash today as part of SportsNation's Madden cover vote.  As an added perk, he got to sit behind the anchor desk with Chris McKendry for the live open to the 11 AM ET episode of SportsCenter.  The result was like watching a botched "This is SportsCenter" commercial as Gronk introduces himself twice and teases Robert Griffin's third recovery...

One of the faces of our Mount Rushmore is planning his exit from the broadcast booth.  Fox's Tim McCarver announced he will retire at the end of the 2013 MLB season.  He's called every World Series on Fox since the network won World Series rights in 1996 and will have worked a total of 23 in his announcing career when he steps away later this year.  The former Cardinals catcher has the unique distinction of calling games for all four major networks over the course of his career in the booth.

Matt Lauer is anything but happy with NBC right now. The embattled today host is reportedly irate that he had to interview controversial filmmaker John Ziegler and anchor coverage of the Jerry Sandusky interview Monday morning.  Lauer, who's seen his public approval plummet since Ann Curry's messy departure from the Today Show, apparently feels he was set up to be in the middle of a negative PR storm for giving Sandusky more publicity.

As expected, Today airing the interview turned into quite the PR disaster.

Ziegler is the man who actually did the interview with Jerry Sandusky as part of a documentary he made called The Framing of Joe Paterno.

Sports fans will remember Robin Roberts as a SportsCenter anchor throughout the 1990's and into the early 2000's and one of the bedrocks of ESPN's flagship program.  Along with Bob Ley and Charley Steiner, Roberts was one of the most respected anchors at ESPN.  Her work at ESPN drew her to ABC News and Good Morning America, where she took over as a full-time anchor in 2005.

Over the last decade, Roberts has made a name for herself in the news world and she's drawn even more support in the last several years as she's heroically battled first breast cancer and then MDS.  Roberts returned to GMA last month after a 4 month leave of absence for a bone marrow transplant and has been a transcendent, inspiring figure to anyone who's witnessed her battle.

For those reasons, Robin Roberts will be honored with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at this year's ESPYs.  Roberts spoke about the honor on SportsCenter yesterday...

The 2013 MLB season is just around the corner.  This week as Opening Day draws near we'll break down each network that covers America's pastime including announcers, schedules, and quick facts about the coverage coming your way this season.  Next on the docket - TBS.

Quick Hits

-TBS air Sunday afternoons (with local blackouts) throughout the season
-TBS will announce the All-Star Game starters on MLB on Deck studio show
-Post Season coverage of both Wild Card Tie Breakers, Divisional Series and NLCS
-Like Fox, Turner extended their contract with Major League Baseball through 2021.

After the news was reported last week, ESPN made the announcement official on Monday.  Rick Reilly will be sticking around Bristol for the foreseeable future.  And he'll basically be fulfilling the same role he's had for the last few years skipping around ESPN's various online and television properties.  The central roles will be his weekly column and his television essays, which according to ESPN "ran the gamut from poignant to humorous."  I kid you not.  Details from ESPN's glowing release...

All Times Eastern

College Basketball
Men's
NCAA Tournament
NCAA Basketball Tournament Press Conference: Syracuse vs. Indiana Sweet 16 Pregame -- Big Ten Network, 2 p.m.
NCAA Basketball Tournament Press Conference: Arizona vs. Ohio State Sweet 16 Pregame -- Big Ten Network, 4 p.m.
Big Ten Basketball & Beyond: Tournament Edition -- Big Ten Network, 9 p.m.

National Invitation Tournament
Quarterfinals
Iowa at Virginia -- ESPN2, 7 p.m.
BYU at Southern Mississippi -- ESPNU, 8 p.m.
Providence at Baylor -- ESPN2, 9 p.m.

Women's
NCAA Division II Tournament, San Antonio, TX
Semifinals
Augustana vs. Dowling -- CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
Western Washington vs. Ashland -- CBS Sports Network, 9:30 p.m.

College Football
CFB Daily: Pro Days -- ESPNU, 2:30 p.m.

College Lacrosse
Men's
Brown at North Carolina -- ESPNU, 6 p.m.

Women's
Ohio State at Northwestern -- Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m.

College Swimming
Women's
NCAA Championships, Indianapolis, IN
Final -- ESPNU, 10 p.m.

Cycling
Three Days of De Panne -- Universal Sports, 11 a.m.

Golf
Golf Channel Academy: Gary Player: Putting -- Golf Channel, 7:30 p.m.
On the Range: Houston Open -- Golf Channel, 8 p.m.

MLB Spring Training
Philadelphia vs. Detroit -- ESPN, 1 p.m.
Texas vs. Anaheim Angels -- MLB Network, 3 p.m.
New York Yankees vs. Baltimore -- MLB Network, 7 p.m.

MLB Tonight -- MLB Network, 10 p.m.

NBA
Miami at Chicago -- ESPN, 8 p.m.
Brooklyn at Portland -- ESPN, 10:30 p.m.

NBA GameTime -- NBA TV, 7 p.m.

NFL
Path to the Draft: USC Pro Day -- NFL Network, 3 p.m.
Game Changers: 2013 Wide Receivers -- NFL Network, 4 p.m.
NFL Live -- ESPN, 4 p.m.
Path to the Draft -- NFL Network, 6 p.m.

NHL
Montreal at Boston -- NBC Sports Network, 7:30 p.m.

NHL Live -- NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Live -- NBC Sports Network, 6:30 p.m.
NHL on the Fly -- NHL Network, 7 p.m.
NHL Live -- NBC Sports Network, 10 p.m.
NHL Tonight -- NHL Network, 10 p.m.
NHL Overtime -- NBC Sports Network, 11:30 p.m.

Sports Talk
NFL AM -- NFL Network, 6 a.m.
The 'Lights -- NBC Sports Network, 6 a.m.
Morning Drive -- Golf Channel, 7 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show -- Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBC Sports Network, 9 a.m.
Tim Brando Show -- CBS Sports Network, 9 a.m.
Sky Sports News -- Fox Soccer 9 a.m.
The Box Score -- Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBC Sports Network, noon
The Best of the Dan Patrick Show -- NBC Sports Network, 4 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption -- ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
ROME -- CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
The Crossover -- NBC Sports Network, 6 p.m.
SportsNation -- ESPN2, 6 p.m.
Sportfolio -- Bloomberg, 9 p.m.
Lead Off -- CBS Sports Network, midnight
UNITE -- ESPNU, midnight

Tennis
Sony Open, Miami, FL
Men's & Women's Quarterfinals -- ESPN2, 1 p.m.

Bomani Jones was on ESPN's Dan Le Batard Is Highly Questionable yesterday (geez that's a pain to type in its entirety) to expand on his afternoon talk show repetoire.  After talking about the Miami Heat, Gonzalo Le Batard slips and jokingly (?) tells Bomani to "go to hell!"  Once again, it's Bomani's facial expressions that take this clip to another level.  Weirdly enough, the dynamic between these three actually works, at least compared to most of ESPN's other daytime programming.  I wouldn't mind seeing Gonzalo v Bomani become the next Skip vs Stephen A, or at the very least John Clayton vs Sean Salisbury...