This year the Clippers are on 710. Joe Safety, Clippers vice president of communications, said in an e-mailed statement, "Right now we're looking forward to the remainder of this season at 710 ESPN. . . . As this season unfolds we'll certainly be reviewing all the options."
Bill Lennert, marketing director at 710, said the Clippers will not be on that station next season. "We will have only the Lakers starting next year," Lennert said.
Right on schedules
If you need to know what college football and basketball games are being televised, go to http://mattsarz44017.tripod.com. Matt Sarzyniak, a 30-year-old computer programmer from Cleveland, posts a weekly grid of every football and basketball game. For example, tonight at 5 p.m. if you have satellite television, Sarzyniak's site will tell you that the Iowa State at Iowa game is on the Big Ten HD Network.
Sarzyniak spends about three hours a week putting together his grid, done by hand. He uses Google, contacts college sports information directors and even has an occasional phone call from a network director returned. In the last year his site has gotten more than 141,000 hits.
Friday best
It's an NBA kind of night. At 5 p.m. on ESPN you can gauge how well Boston is playing in its bid to have the best record in the league when the Celtics face New Orleans. At 7:30 on FS West, the Lakers will aim to avenge their loss to Sacramento.
Oh, and the Clippers do play and, yes, you can watch them against Portland on Prime Ticket.
Saturday best
The Pac-5 high school football championship game between Tesoro and Long Beach Poly is at 7:30 p.m. on Prime Ticket and if you're up early, at 9 a.m., Long Beach State will play basketball at Syracuse on ESPNU. This is the kind of game where a fearless underdog (Long Beach) can take advantage of a perhaps nonchalant Big East team that must be looking forward to conference play.
Sunday best
Again, up early? Check out the Maggie Dixon Classic women's basketball games on ESPNU, Army versus Rutgers and Penn State against No. 1 Connecticut. Dixon, from North Hollywood, was the talented young Army coach who died unexpectedly from a congenital heart defect nearly two years ago.
Later, it's the New York Giants at the Dallas Cowboys at 5:15 on Channel 4.
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