The Fox network will kick off their Thursday Night Football package this week in Week 4 with a showdown of NFC playoff teams, as the Minnesota Vikings visit the Los Angeles Rams at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Sep. 27 8:20 PM ET, Fox/NFLN). Fox will broadcast 11 Thursday Night Football games between Weeks 4-15 […]
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Week 3 features matchups of division rivals from the NFC South (New Orleans-Atlanta, Sep. 23 1:00 PM ET on Fox) and AFC South (Tennessee-Jacksonville, Sep. 23 1:00 PM ET on CBS), as well as an inner-city rivalry of recently-transplanted squads: Los Angeles Chargers (formerly of San Diego) at Los Angeles Rams (formerly of St. Louis) […]
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The Ohio Buckeyes-TCU (Texas Christian) Horned Frogs non-conference, ranked matchup (Sep. 15 8 p.m., ABC) will be played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The showdown will be just the seventh-ever matchup between the two schools and their first matchup outside of Columbus, Ohio. ESPN’s prime-time matchup features the top ranked Crimson Tide in their […]
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Week 2 represents the first CBS national weekend with doubleheader games showcasing the Oakland Raiders at the Denver Broncos (4:25 PM ET) and the New England Patriots visiting the Jacksonville Jaguars at Jacksonville’s EverBank Field in a rematch of last season’s AFC Championship Game (4:25 PM ET). It’ll also be NFL Network’s first 2018 edition […]
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In a matchup of SEC rivals, Georgia heads to Williams-Brice Stadium for a Week 2 match with South Carolina (Sep. 8 at 3:30 p.m. ET on CBS). The teams have met 70 times before with Georgia holding a 50-18-2 advantage, including wins in the past three games. Both teams won their home openers in Week […]
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NBC Orders ‘Law & Order: Hate Crimes’
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NBC has given a 13-episode order to “Law & Order: Hate Crimes” from producer Dick Wolf. Co-created with former “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” showrunner Warren Leight, this latest installment of the “Law & Order” franchise is based on New York’s actual Hate Crimes Task Force, the second oldest bias-based task force in the U.S. […]
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The season begins with the NFL’s annual primetime kickoff game, as the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles host the Atlanta Falcons at Lincoln Financial Field on September 6 (8:20 PM ET, NBC). Week 1 is a Fox network national weekend with key games on Sunday, September 9 featuring the Dallas Cowboys at the Carolina […]
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The opening week of the college football regular season features many interesting cross-conference matchups: Louisville-Alabama, Miami-LSU, Washington-Auburn, Oregon State-Ohio State (sans suspended Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer) and Ole Miss-Texas Tech. But a matchup between two prominent and historically prestigious college football programs may be the highest profiled game of them all this week: Michigan […]
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NBC Sports is scheduled to televise 109 NHL regular-season games during the 2018-19 season – its most since acquiring NHL rights prior to the 2005-06 season. Coverage begins Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN, when Alex Ovechkin and the Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals raise their championship banner to the rafters and […]