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TIME EVENT ON THE AIR

AUTO RACING

11:30 a.m. NASCAR Cup Series, FanShield 500, qualifying TV:FS1

1 p.m. NASCAR Xfinity Series, LS Tractor 200 TV:FS1

BASEBALL EXHIBITIONS

10 a.m. Houston vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla. TV:MLB Network

Noon Arizona vs. Angels at Tempe, Ariz. TV:Prime R: 830

Noon Colorado vs. Dodgers at Phoenix TV:SNLA

BASKETBALL

5:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Golden State TV: 7

BOXING

5 p.m. Heavyweights, Adam Kownacki vs. Robert

Helenius

TV:11, FOXD

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

8 a.m. Women, Atlantic 10 tournament, semifinal,

Dayton vs. St. Louis

TV:CBSSN

9 a.m. Villanova at Georgetown TV: 11

9 a.m. Wisconsin at Indiana TV:ESPN

9 a.m. Auburn at Tennessee TV:ESPN2

9 a.m. Marquette at St. John’s TV:FSW

9 a.m. Women, ACC tournament, semifinal, Florida State

vs. Louisville

TV:ESPNU

9:30 a.m. South Carolina at Vanderbilt TV:SEC

10 a.m. Kentucky at Florida TV: 2

10 a.m. Women, Big East tournament, DePaul vs.

Providence

TV:FS2

10:30 a.m. Women, Atlantic 10 tournament, semifinal, VCU

vs. Fordham

TV:CBSSN

11 a.m. Kansas at Texas Tech TV:ESPN

11 a.m. Georgia at Louisiana State TV:ESPN2

11 a.m. Virginia Tech at Notre Dame TV:ACC

11 a.m. Rutgers at Purdue TV:Big Ten

11:30 a.m. Seton Hall at Creighton TV: 11

11:30 a.m. Alabama at Missouri TV:SEC

11:30 a.m. Women, ACC tournament, semifinal, North

Carolina State vs. Boston College

TV:ESPNU

12:15 p.m. UCLA at USC TV: 2 R:570, 790

12:30 p.m. Missouri Valley tournament, semifinal, Drake vs.

Bradley

TV:CBSSN

12:30 p.m. Women, Big East tournament, quarterfinal, Butler

vs. Seton Hall

TV:FS2

1 p.m. Louisville at Virginia TV:ESPN

1 p.m. Oklahoma State at Texas TV:ESPN2

1 p.m. Penn State at Northwestern TV:Big Ten

1 p.m. Syracuse at Miami TV:ACC

1:30 p.m. Arkansas at Texas A&M TV:SEC

1:30 p.m. California at Oregon State TV:Pac-12

2 p.m. Women, SEC tournament, semifinal, Arkansas vs.

South Carolina

TV:ESPNU

2:30 p.m. Mountain West tournament, final, San Diego

State vs. Utah State

TV: 2

3 p.m. North Carolina at Duke TV:ESPN

3 p.m. Oklahoma at Texas Christian TV:ESPN2

3 p.m. Missouri Valley tournament, semifinal, Valparaiso

vs. Missouri State

TV:CBSSN

3:30 p.m. Washington State at Arizona State TV:Pac-12

3:30 p.m. Women, Big Ten tournament, semifinal, Maryland

vs. Indiana

TV:Big Ten

3:30 p.m. Mississippi at Mississippi State TV:SEC

3:30 p.m. DePaul at Providence TV:FS1

4 p.m. Women, Big East tournament, quarterfinal,

Marquette vs. Villanova

TV:FS2

4:30 p.m. Women, SEC tournament, semifinal, Mississippi

State vs. Kentucky

TV:ESPNU

5 p.m. Ohio Valley tournament, final, Belmont vs. Murray

State

TV:ESPN2

5 p.m. Temple at Cincinnati TV:CBSSN

5:30 p.m. Butler at Xavier TV:FS1

6 p.m. Women, Pac-12 tournament, semifinal, Arizona

vs. Oregon

TV:Pac-12

6 p.m. Women, Big Ten tournament, semifinal, Michigan

vs. Ohio State

TV:Big Ten

6:30 p.m. Women, Big East Tournament, quarterfinal,

Creighton vs. St. John’s

TV:FS2

7 p.m. Washington at Arizona TV:ESPN

7 p.m. West Coast tournament, quarterfinal, Pacific vs.

San Francisco

TV:ESPN2

8 p.m. Stanford at Oregon TV:FS1

8:30 p.m. Women, Pac-12 tournament, semifinal, UCLA vs.

Stanford

TV:Pac-12, Pac-12

LA

9 p.m. West Coast tournament, quarterfinal, St. Mary’s

vs. Pepperdine

TV:ESPN2

GOLF

9:30 a.m. Arnold Palmer Invitational, third round TV:Golf

11:30 a.m. Arnold Palmer Invitational, third round TV: 4

2:30 p.m. Champions Tour, Hoag Classic, second round TV:Golf

GYMNASTICS

9:30 a.m. American Cup TV: 4

HOCKEY

10 a.m. Washington at Pittsburgh TV:NHL

1 p.m. Minnesota at Kings TV:FSW R:iHeart

4 p.m. Tampa Bay at Boston TV:NHL

7 p.m. Columbus at Edmonton TV:NHL

7 p.m. Colorado College at Denver TV:CBSSN

MIXED MARTIAL ARTS

5 p.m. UFC 248, Adesanya-Romero prelims TV:ESPN

7 p.m. UFC 248, Israel Adesanya vs. Yoel Romero; Weili

Zhang vs. Joanna Jedrzejczyk; Denell Danush vs.

Drakkar Klose

TV:Pay-per-view,

ESPN+

PRO FOOTBALL

11 a.m. XFL, Seattle at Houston TV:7 ESPND

2 p.m. XFL, New York at Dallas TV: 11

SOCCER

6:30 a.m. Germany, Wolfsburg vs. Leipzig TV:FS1, FOXD

7 a.m. England, Arsenal vs. West Ham United TV:NBCSN

7 a.m. Spain, Atletico Madrid vs. Sevilla TV:bein1, beinES

9:30 a.m. England, Burnley vs. Tottenham Hotspur TV:NBCSN

9:30 a.m. Spain, Barcelona vs. Real Sociedad TV:bein1, beinES

12:30 p.m. MLS, Miami vs. D.C. United TV:KMEX, TUDN,

Unimas R: 1330

2:30 p.m. Mexico, Cruz Azul vs. Tijuana TV:ESPND, TUDN,

Unimas R: 1330

3 p.m. Mexico, Monterrey vs. Atletico San Luis TV:FOXD

5 p.m. Mexico, Pachuca vs. Santos Laguna TV:ESPND, TUDN

R: 1220

7 p.m. Mexico, Atlas vs. Chivas Guadalajara TV:KMEX, TUDN,

Unimas R: 1220

7 p.m. MLS, Vancouver at Galaxy TV:SpecSN R:

1330

TODAY ON THE AIR

College Basketball

Favorite Line Underdog

at USC 41 ⁄ 2 UCLA

at Cal State Fullerton 61 ⁄ 2 Long Beach State

at Cal State Northridge 3 Hawaii

at UC Riverside 4 UC Davis

at UC Santa Barbara 131 ⁄ 2 Cal Poly

at Rio Grande Valley 2 Cal Baptist

Villanova 6 at Georgetown

at Dayton 22 George Washington

at Tennessee 2 Auburn

Marquette 1 at St. John’s

at Indiana 11 ⁄ 2 Wisconsin

South Carolina 4 at Vanderbilt

at West Virginia 11 ⁄ 2 Baylor

at Florida 31 ⁄ 2 Kentucky

Kansas 21 ⁄ 2 at Texas Tech

at Notre Dame 61 ⁄ 2 Virginia Tech

Syracuse 1 at Miami

George Mason 11 ⁄ 2 at Fordham

at Purdue 5 Rutgers

at St. Joseph’s 11 ⁄ 2 La Salle

at Louisiana State 9 Georgia

at Missouri 1 Alabama

Colorado 21 ⁄ 2 at Utah

at Creighton 4 Seton Hall

at Kansas State 5 Iowa State

at Virginia 1 Louisville

at Texas 41 ⁄ 2 Oklahoma State

Penn State 7 at Northwestern

at Florida State 171 ⁄ 2 Boston College

Arkansas 31 ⁄ 2 at Texas A&M

at Oregon State 9 California

Idaho State 2 at Idaho

at Eastern Washington 11 Weber State

Northern Colorado 51 ⁄ 2 at Montana State

at Duke 12 North Carolina

Oklahoma 1 at Texas Christian

at Princeton OFF Cornell

at Pennsylvania OFF Columbia

at Mississippi State 5 Mississippi

at Arizona State 10 Washington State

at Providence 91 ⁄ 2 DePaul

Rhode Island 21 ⁄ 2 at Massachusetts

at Dartmouth OFF Brown

at Harvard OFF Yale

Southern Methodist 1 at South Florida

at Grand Canyon 4 Cal State Bakersfield

at Cincinnati 11 Temple

at Saint Louis 71 ⁄ 2 St. Bonaventure

at Xavier 21 ⁄ 2 Butler

at Montana 7 Southern Utah

at Arizona 11 Washington

at Portland State 41 ⁄ 2 Sacramento State

at Oregon 9 Stanford

at Texas-San Antonio 1 Marshall

at Middle Tennessee 41 ⁄ 2 Southern Mississippi

at Rice 3 Texas El Paso

at Louisiana Tech 81 ⁄ 2 Charlotte

Western Kentucky 11 ⁄ 2 at Florida International

at Ala.-Birmingham 3 Old Dominion

Mercer 11 ⁄ 2 Western Carolina

UNC Greensboro 51 ⁄ 2 Chattanooga

Drexel 4 UNC Wilmington

Elon 11 ⁄ 2 James Madison

North Dakota State 111 ⁄ 2 Denver

South Dakota State OFF IPFW

at Louisiana Lafayette 3 Arkansas State

at Texas Arlington 51 ⁄ 2 Coastal Carolina

NHL

Favorite Underdog

Minnesota -142 at KINGS +132

at NY Islanders -121 Carolina +111

at Pittsburgh -126 Washington +116

at Dallas -144 Nashville +134

at Boston -132 Tampa Bay +122

at Florida -125 Montreal +115

at Philadelphia -220 Buffalo +200

at San Jose -155 Ottawa +145

at NY Rangers -183 New Jersey +168

at Edmonton -147 Columbus +137

ODDS

If I’m Justin Turner or

Clayton Kershaw or Kenley

Jansen, and I’ve been killing

myself for a very long time

trying to win a champi-

onship, and now our new star

player, Mookie Betts, who

potentially helped cheat the

Dodgers out of a World Se-

ries, asks to address the

team, “speaking from the

heart,” I’m thinking to my-

self, “Great, he will address

whatever the Red Sox did, or

didn’t do to us in the World

Series, and the air will be

cleared.”

Instead Mookie (with his

one-year contract) tells his

new teammates (who have

won seven straight division

championships without

him), they need to “produce

urgency.”

That doesn’t strike me as

a great tone-setter for the

season. Maybe somebody

should “produce” some eye

black, and put it in Betts’ cap.

Anthony Moretti

Lomita

Not Angelic

People like Tyler Skaggs

simply do not do drugs by

themselves. They typically

party with friends and others

but very rarely solo.

This means more than

likely other Angels players

and/or team officials were

aware of and may have par-

ticipated in using.

This is a very difficult

realization for Arte Moreno,

who is unquestionably a good

and decent man who is about

to be hit with severe financial

penalties not of his making.

Jim B. Parsons

Carpinteria

Move it along

If Major League Baseball

wants games to speed up this

season, they should play

them without crowds, using

the coronavirus as an excuse.

Because the players will have

no reason to showboat, the

games will move along very

quickly. I see games ending in

two, 2^1 ⁄ 2 hours tops, just like

the old days.

Vaughn Hardenberg

Westwood

That’s rich

Question: Why does Steve

Ballmer want to buy the

Forum? Answer: Because he

can. Mere mortal wallets are

wasting their time trying to

justify how one of the world’s

richest guys spends his mon-

ey. At least he’s not flooding

the airwaves with political

ads.

Jeff Heister

Chatsworth

Off-color

There are play-by-play

announcers and color com-

mentators broadcasting

football games that are better

than others. But I don’t know

anyone that has tuned in,

tuned out, changed the chan-

nel or just didn’t watch a

football game because of who

the color commentator was.

Sports fans watch the game

because they are interested

in the teams that are playing,

not who is broadcasting the

game or what network it is

on. For CBS to pay that much

money for Tony Romo be-

cause they think more people

will watch, they really don’t

know sports fans.

If the Hallmark Channel

showed “Monday Night

Football,” we would watch it.

Steve Shaevel

Woodland Hills

All the Kings men

I must admit I got a bit

verklempt when in the same

week the Kings unloaded

Kyle Clifford, Tyler Toffoli

and Alec Martinez. It sad-

dened me until I saw Mar-

tinez, now playing for Vegas,

run rookie goalkeeper Cal

Peterson’s coconut into the

post Sunday night.

Sadness gone, the Kings

put a thumping on Vegas that

night, as they did the Pen-

guins and New Jersey in

consecutive nights previous.

Maybe no playoffs this sea-

son, but this group is looking

very sharp and is exciting to

watch.

Dan Johnson

Salem, Va.

Westwood, go!

As Jalen Hill and Cody

Riley lead the resurgent

UCLA Bruins to a possible

NCAA berth, one must won-

der whatever happened to

the third player involved in

the China sunglasses inci-

dent. I’m sure Jalen Hill and

Cody Riley received proper

advice from their parents to

accept responsibility, go back

to school and rejoin the team.

Now these two players may

be drafted in the NBA and

make millions.

I’m sure LiAngelo Ball

also received advice from his

parents to not accept respon-

sibility, drop out of school,

play against 30-year-old men

in Europe and make peanuts.

Richard Katz

Los Angeles

::

John Wooden always said

his favorite team was not

ones with Kareem or Bill

Walton, but his first champi-

onship team of 1965, which no

one picked to go anywhere.

I’m not predicting this year’s

team will get even close to a

national championship, but

the run has been impressive,

wherever they end up.

#beatSC.

William David Stone

Beverly Hills

Horrible!

The fact that UCLA was

fighting for first place in the

Pac-12 wasn’t enough to hold

the interest of the Walton-

Jefferson-Pasch trio during

last Saturday’s exciting

Bruins-Arizona game. To-

tally insensitive to their

viewers, they blabbered on,

reminiscing about events and

players from 10, 20, even 30

years ago. The “Who cares?”

quotient went through the

roof. We were even forced to

watch the three of them

having fun courtside while

the game became back-

ground.

To avoid having a stroke, I

finally muted the sound. Only

in the final three minutes did

they recall why they were

there, to actually comment

on the game. I’ve always had

sympathy for Dave Pasch,

who tries so hard to insert

game commentary whenever

Walton pauses to take a

breath. But this time it was

two to one, and poor Dave

didn’t have a chance.

ESPN should send these

guys to a neighborhood bar,

where, as they do on the air,

they can all talk to each other

— undisturbed by a pesky

basketball game.

Ron Levin

Pacific Palisades

::

Bill Walton was a great

basketball player, but he is a

terrible broadcaster. It is not

the Bill Walton show. I would

rather hear commentary

about the game instead of his

past experiences. Can’t

ESPN see what’s happening?

Don Smith

Santa Barbara

::

Would someone please

find a ticket in the UCLA

stands for Bill Walton to sit

with his basketball buddies

so they can reminisce at

length about their past while

the rest of us watching the

games on TV can listen to

expert analysis and actually

follow the game being

played?

Joyce Joseph

Del Mar

Do the wrong thing

The same thing that

happened to Spike Lee at

Madison Square Garden

happened to me at Staples

Center. Jeanie Buss wouldn’t

let me park my Lamborghini

in the players’ VIP lot any-

more, and on top of that she

stopped my personal court-

side beverage service. So

incredibly unfair.

Marty Foster

Las Vegas

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LETTERS

Dodgers will need more

than speeches by Betts

READERSwould like Bill Walton to stick to the

commentary on the game he is watching.

D. Ross CameronAssociated Press