2008 Olympic TV Schedule by Lisa Schmeiser, teevee.net.
| Wednesday, August 6, 2008 | 2:00 AM | 2:30 AM | 3:00 AM | 3:30 AM | 4:00 A.M. | 4:30 A.M. | 5:00 A.M. | 5:30 A.M. | 6:00 A.M. | 6:30 A.M. | 7:00 A.M. | 7:30 A.M. | 8:00 A.M. | 8:30 A.M. | 9:00 A.M. | 9:30 A.M. | 10:00 A.M. | 10:30 A.M. | 11:00 A.M. | 11:30 A.M. | 12 P.M. | 12:30 P.M. | 1:00 P.M. | 1:30 P.M. | 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | 4:00 P.M. | 4:30 P.M. | 5:00 P.M. | 5:30 P.M. | 6:00 P.M. | 6:30 P.M. | 7:00 P.M. | 7:30 P.M. | 8:00 P.M. | 8:30 P.M. | 9:00 P.M. | 9:30 P.M. | 10:00 P.M. | 10:30 P.M. | 11:00 P.M. | 11:30 P.M. | 12:00 A.M. | 12:30 A.M. | 1:00 A.M. | 1:30 A.M. | |
| MSNBC | The U.S. women's soccer team plays Norway (their women's soccer team, not the entire country) in a first-round match, airing live. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Telemundo | Olympic kickoff! I have no description beyond that. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday, August 7, 2008 | 2:00 AM | 2:30 AM | 3:00 AM | 3:30 AM | 4:00 A.M. | 4:30 A.M. | 5:00 A.M. | 5:30 A.M. | 6:00 A.M. | 6:30 A.M. | 7:00 A.M. | 7:30 A.M. | 8:00 A.M. | 8:30 A.M. | 9:00 A.M. | 9:30 A.M. | 10:00 A.M. | 10:30 A.M. | 11:00 A.M. | 11:30 A.M. | 12 P.M. | 12:30 P.M. | 1:00 P.M. | 1:30 P.M. | 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | 4:00 P.M. | 4:30 P.M. | 5:00 P.M. | 5:30 P.M. | 6:00 P.M. | 6:30 P.M. | 7:00 P.M. | 7:30 P.M. | 8:00 P.M. | 8:30 P.M. | 9:00 P.M. | 9:30 P.M. | 10:00 P.M. | 10:30 P.M. | 11:00 P.M. | 11:30 P.M. | 12:00 A.M. | 12:30 A.M. | 1:00 A.M. | 1:30 A.M. | |
| MSNBC | Men's soccer: US v. Japan. Let's hope the men actually qualify past this round. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Telemundo | Men's soccer: Honduras vs. Italy. This one will be live! Just imagine dragging your butt into work afterward and yawning about how you've been up for hours. | Men's soccer: Argentina vs. Cote d'Ivoire. Also live! But your coworkers will not be impressed if you watch this game live. They'll be wondering why you're not in the project meeting they scheduled for this time. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Friday, August 8, 2008 | 2:00 AM | 2:30 AM | 3:00 AM | 3:30 AM | 4:00 A.M. | 4:30 A.M. | 5:00 A.M. | 5:30 A.M. | 6:00 A.M. | 6:30 A.M. | 7:00 A.M. | 7:30 A.M. | 8:00 A.M. | 8:30 A.M. | 9:00 A.M. | 9:30 A.M. | 10:00 A.M. | 10:30 A.M. | 11:00 A.M. | 11:30 A.M. | 12 P.M. | 12:30 P.M. | 1:00 P.M. | 1:30 P.M. | 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | 4:00 P.M. | 4:30 P.M. | 5:00 P.M. | 5:30 P.M. | 6:00 P.M. | 6:30 P.M. | 7:00 P.M. | 7:30 P.M. | 8:00 P.M. | 8:30 P.M. | 9:00 P.M. | 9:30 P.M. | 10:00 P.M. | 10:30 P.M. | 11:00 P.M. | 11:30 P.M. | 12:00 A.M. | 12:30 A.M. | 1:00 A.M. | 1:30 A.M. | |
| CNBC | What does the insomniac financial maven watch at this hour? Boxing -- and lots of it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NBC | Who wants to spend four hours of their live watching the opening ceremonies? You do! You do! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Telemundo | There will be an Olympic preview. I hope movie preview guy narrates. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USA | This twelve-hour marathon starts at 11 p.m. the night before, and includes the following: the men's track and field 50K walk; women's table tennis semifinal; a Monk season 2 marathon; canoing finals; a men's water polo semifinal. Guess which one I made up? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saturday, August 9, 2008 | 2:00 AM | 2:30 AM | 3:00 AM | 3:30 AM | 4:00 A.M. | 4:30 A.M. | 5:00 A.M. | 5:30 A.M. | 6:00 A.M. | 6:30 A.M. | 7:00 A.M. | 7:30 A.M. | 8:00 A.M. | 8:30 A.M. | 9:00 A.M. | 9:30 A.M. | 10:00 A.M. | 10:30 A.M. | 11:00 A.M. | 11:30 A.M. | 12 P.M. | 12:30 P.M. | 1:00 P.M. | 1:30 P.M. | 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | 4:00 P.M. | 4:30 P.M. | 5:00 P.M. | 5:30 P.M. | 6:00 P.M. | 6:30 P.M. | 7:00 P.M. | 7:30 P.M. | 8:00 P.M. | 8:30 P.M. | 9:00 P.M. | 9:30 P.M. | 10:00 P.M. | 10:30 P.M. | 11:00 P.M. | 11:30 P.M. | 12:00 A.M. | 12:30 A.M. | 1:00 A.M. | 1:30 A.M. | |
| CNBC | Those middleweight and light heavyweight guys take a lickin' but keep on tickin' | Would you like a palate cleanser before the next round of boxing eliminations? Try first-round tennis matches. | And now that your palate's cleansed, watch the light welterweight and welterweight bouts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MSNBC | There's a lot of preliminary-round matches today. In women's soccer, it's Nigeria vs. Germany and Brazil vs. North Korea. In men's singles badminton and women's singles badminton, it's first-round match time. The first round of women's handball commences with France vs. Angola and Russia vs. South Korea. And women's volleyball fronts these matches: Italy vs. Russia and Poland vs. Cuba. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NBC | Hey, did you miss the opening ceremonies the first time because you actually have a life on Friday nights? Then I'm assuming you're just getting in now and would love to catch the replay. | China + bicycles = BFF | The U.S. women's volleyball team tries not to get crushed by Japan. (NB: Women have not medaled since Barcelona.) | China + bicycles = TLA | Men and women's rowing begins. | Do not fret if you miss this hour of beach volleyball, as there are approximately 123 more hours of it being aired in the next two weeks. | China + bicycling = "I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow." | If Michael Phelps' performance is anything like it was at the team trials, this will be short and ugly (for everyone else.) | And beach volleyball's inexorable annexation of the Olympics commences, right on schedule. | Phelpsapalooza continues, right on schedule. | Tonight belongs to the swimmers: there's the men's 400m freestyle, the men's 400 IM, the women's 400 Im and the women's 4x100 freestyle relay. Will Dara Torres get a medal? Will the commentators remind us once every five minutes that she's a mom over age 40? O THE SUSPENSE! | Men's volleyball: U.S. vs. Venezuela: Oh, please, let Hugo Chavez show up and heckle! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Telemundo | Hey, what do beach volleyball, soccer, boxing and indoor volleyball all have in common? Other than I'm bad at them all? They're all on right now. | More beach volleyball, more boxing. | Telemundo's putting something here, but no sabe que es esta. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USA | This one goes to 4 a.m. and includes the following basketball matches: Spain vs. Greece and Lithuania vs. Argentina. There will also be dressage. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sunday, August 10, 2008 | 2:00 AM | 2:30 AM | 3:00 AM | 3:30 AM | 4:00 A.M. | 4:30 A.M. | 5:00 A.M. | 5:30 A.M. | 6:00 A.M. | 6:30 A.M. | 7:00 A.M. | 7:30 A.M. | 8:00 A.M. | 8:30 A.M. | 9:00 A.M. | 9:30 A.M. | 10:00 A.M. | 10:30 A.M. | 11:00 A.M. | 11:30 A.M. | 12 P.M. | 12:30 P.M. | 1:00 P.M. | 1:30 P.M. | 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | 4:00 P.M. | 4:30 P.M. | 5:00 P.M. | 5:30 P.M. | 6:00 P.M. | 6:30 P.M. | 7:00 P.M. | 7:30 P.M. | 8:00 P.M. | 8:30 P.M. | 9:00 P.M. | 9:30 P.M. | 10:00 P.M. | 10:30 P.M. | 11:00 P.M. | 11:30 P.M. | 12:00 A.M. | 12:30 A.M. | 1:00 A.M. | 1:30 A.M. | |
| CNBC | Believe it or not, there are still some light welterweight and welterweight boxers still standing. | First-round singles and doubles matches. In tennis, not boxing. | Watch the wee fists of the featherweights and lightweights fly! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MSNBC | Hope you still have room on your TiVo -- or the ability to record two marathons on two separate channels -- because MSNBC's second long haul includes women's field hockey (USA vs. Argentina), men's soccer (Italy vs. South Korea), badminton, men's volleyball (Serbia vs. Russia -- perhaps they can chat about how tough it is not to have a homogenous population), men's handball, men's trap shooting and -- YES! -- two men's water polo games. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NBC | Attention, those of you just sobering up from drinking every time an NBC announcer marveled that Dara Torres was over 40 and a mom -- see what hot swimming action you missed during your booze-induced blackout. | It's the US "Redeem Team" against Yao Ming and whomever else is playing for China. Just keep any sponsorship foolishness to yourself, USA. | Another tough mother has the nerve to compete in the Olympics -- hi, weightlifter Melanie Roach! | Men's water polo alert: it's the USA vs. China. Also, more of the bicycling and more of the beach volleyball, the endless beach volleyball. | The bicycling ends, the swimming begins with qualifying heats for several events. More Phelps-watching today, and media focus will likely shift from Torres to Katie Hoff and Natalie Coughlin. | Tonight, people with very little bodyfat and very formfitting clothing will entertain you: it's swimmimg finals (not sure which ones, because NBC didn't say andf there's only so much I'll do for this spreadsheet) and the women's team qualifying events in gymnastics. | Women's volleyball: the USA meets four-times-straight champions Cuba. Everyone in Miami stays up to watch. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Telemundo | Apparently, the new definition of "easy like Sunday morning" includes "Ten hours of nonstop sports, covering swimming, beach volleyball, gymnastics and basketball." Get Lionel Ritchie on that, stat! After he's done watching the live Argentina vs. Australia game, of course. | So wrong to have boxing on this channel. It's like we're cuckolding CNBC! | Telemundo's putting something here, but no sabe que es esta. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USA | This one goes to 4 a.m. and includes the following basketball matches: Spain vs. Greece and Lithuania vs. Argentina. There will also be dressage. | LIVE men's soccer! That starts at the slothfully late hour of 4:30 a.m.! It's USA vs the Netherlands. | And now a little something by the ladies: archery team finals and weight lifting. Also, there is some tennis. | Men's soccer: Australia is thinking of new lyrics for "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina"; Argentina is hoping they won't be singing "Another suitcase, another hall." | Fun fact: I began this spreadsheet because I wanted to figure out when women's water polo aired. The answer: in the TEN HOUR sports blockÉ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monday, August 11, 2008 | 2:00 AM | 2:30 AM | 3:00 AM | 3:30 AM | 4:00 A.M. | 4:30 A.M. | 5:00 A.M. | 5:30 A.M. | 6:00 A.M. | 6:30 A.M. | 7:00 A.M. | 7:30 A.M. | 8:00 A.M. | 8:30 A.M. | 9:00 A.M. | 9:30 A.M. | 10:00 A.M. | 10:30 A.M. | 11:00 A.M. | 11:30 A.M. | 12 P.M. | 12:30 P.M. | 1:00 P.M. | 1:30 P.M. | 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | 4:00 P.M. | 4:30 P.M. | 5:00 P.M. | 5:30 P.M. | 6:00 P.M. | 6:30 P.M. | 7:00 P.M. | 7:30 P.M. | 8:00 P.M. | 8:30 P.M. | 9:00 P.M. | 9:30 P.M. | 10:00 P.M. | 10:30 P.M. | 11:00 P.M. | 11:30 P.M. | 12:00 A.M. | 12:30 A.M. | 1:00 A.M. | 1:30 A.M. | |
| CNBC | Those little featherweight and lightweight boxers continue eliminating one another. | Women's Olympic softball: USA vs. Venezuela. At stake: medals, oil rights. | The boxers keep getting tinier! Flyweight and bantamweights try to find, eliminate one another. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MSNBC | LIVE! Women's basketball (Australia vs. Brazil), some beach volleyball (if you miss it now, you can catch it on any one of a dozen other slots), more badminton, some tennis, women's handball, men's weightlifting and -- my personal reason for being interested here, the Italy vs. Russia showdown in women's water polo. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NBC | In recognition that today is a working day, NBC is only making you stay up until 3 to re-watch the swimming. | Beach volleyball cannot be stopped; it can only be contained. Also, there are more swimming preliminaries), men's cycling and rowing. | It's the men's team gymnastics final. This will likely not be an event where the bleachers are packed with people chanting "U-S-A! U-S-A!" The host country is GOOD. Also, there is beach volleyball (OF COURSE) and the men's 10 m synchronized diving final (we know acceleration is constant, but think about how tightly mass has to be controlled to keep the speed of the descent constant). And then there is the swimming -- NBC will be screwed if Phelps, Coughlin and Hoff aren't competing tonight. | US vs. Italy in volleyball; if we lose, we have to promise to burn all Olive Gardens to the ground. So, win-win, I'm thinking. (til 2:30) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oxygen | I don't know whether to be outraged or amused that Oxygen's attitude toward women watching the Olympics is "Ooh, look at the pretty horses!" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Telemundo | It's the ladies of evening! Women's volleyball, women's swimming, women's gymnastics. What? There's more than one definition for "ladies of the evening." | It's the women's 3 meter synchronized diving final! Also, there will be beach volleyball. | Telemundo's putting something here, but no sabe que es esta. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USA | É as I was saying, the ten hour sports block USA is airing now. I guess it's habit -- "Whoops! We have ten hours to fill and we misplaced the Law & Order. Let's air canoing, water polo and beach volleyball." Seriously, USA, TEN HOURS IN A ROW? | Just in case your TiVo still has space left, USA network queued up another ten-hour block É | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tuesday, August 12, 2008 | 2:00 AM | 2:30 AM | 3:00 AM | 3:30 AM | 4:00 A.M. | 4:30 A.M. | 5:00 A.M. | 5:30 A.M. | 6:00 A.M. | 6:30 A.M. | 7:00 A.M. | 7:30 A.M. | 8:00 A.M. | 8:30 A.M. | 9:00 A.M. | 9:30 A.M. | 10:00 A.M. | 10:30 A.M. | 11:00 A.M. | 11:30 A.M. | 12 P.M. | 12:30 P.M. | 1:00 P.M. | 1:30 P.M. | 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | 4:00 P.M. | 4:30 P.M. | 5:00 P.M. | 5:30 P.M. | 6:00 P.M. | 6:30 P.M. | 7:00 P.M. | 7:30 P.M. | 8:00 P.M. | 8:30 P.M. | 9:00 P.M. | 9:30 P.M. | 10:00 P.M. | 10:30 P.M. | 11:00 P.M. | 11:30 P.M. | 12:00 A.M. | 12:30 A.M. | 1:00 A.M. | 1:30 A.M. | |
| CNBC | The littlest boxers keep trying to eliminate one another. That's right, bantamweights, I'm talking about you. | Women's softball: USA vs. Australia. If we lose, we have to publicly apologize for Outback Steakhouse. | Boxing: We're back to big, meaty men pummeling each other. The world makes sense again. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MSNBC | The Serbs play the Croats in men's water polo; one is reminded of the infamous Yugoslavia vs. Russia match of 1968. If you're not up for watching the aquatic resolution of historical tensions, tune in for women's soccer (Nigeria vs. Brazil, USA vs. New Zealand), some Greco-Roman wrestling, weightlifting, badminton, tennis and China vs. Brazil in men's basketball. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NBC | Admit it: you're going to stay up to watch men abuse their pommel horses. For once, that's not a euphemism for gay porn. | It's That Sport In Which A Ball Is Volleyed Whilst On A Beach, but really, stay fro the men's water polo match between the USA and Italy. | Hey, remember what I said about Phelps, Coughlin and Hoff last night? Good -- then I don't have to repeat it. Also, the women's team gymnastics event is tonight, as is the women's synchronized 10m diving final. | USA vs. Venezuela in women's volleyball. Is it too much to hope Chavez attends and cheers THIS time? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oxygen | Oxygen continues aiming its coverage squarely at my 10-year-old niece with day #2 of horsies and gymnastics. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Telemundo | You know what you're going to see a lot of on this channel? Beach volleyball. Someone alert Manhattan Beach! Also, there is gold-medal action in men's gymnastics and in swimming. | Women's soccer: Nigeria vs. Brazil. If they ever stop playing against one another, they can team up to form an oil cartel. Shh! Don't tell them! | Telemundo's putting something here, but no sabe que es esta. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USA | É and this slog (which started last night) includes whitewater kayaking and canoeing, plus rowing. | Are we all familiar with the drill? I warn you that ten hours of viewing is coming up É | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wednesday, August 13, 2008 | 2:00 AM | 2:30 AM | 3:00 AM | 3:30 AM | 4:00 A.M. | 4:30 A.M. | 5:00 A.M. | 5:30 A.M. | 6:00 A.M. | 6:30 A.M. | 7:00 A.M. | 7:30 A.M. | 8:00 A.M. | 8:30 A.M. | 9:00 A.M. | 9:30 A.M. | 10:00 A.M. | 10:30 A.M. | 11:00 A.M. | 11:30 A.M. | 12 P.M. | 12:30 P.M. | 1:00 P.M. | 1:30 P.M. | 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | 4:00 P.M. | 4:30 P.M. | 5:00 P.M. | 5:30 P.M. | 6:00 P.M. | 6:30 P.M. | 7:00 P.M. | 7:30 P.M. | 8:00 P.M. | 8:30 P.M. | 9:00 P.M. | 9:30 P.M. | 10:00 P.M. | 10:30 P.M. | 11:00 P.M. | 11:30 P.M. | 12:00 A.M. | 12:30 A.M. | 1:00 A.M. | 1:30 A.M. | |
| CNBC | Big, big, muscle-y men continue to brutalize each other in the hopes of getting Olympic medals. | Women's softball: USA vs. Canada. Bored Seattlites snort, "So, they recreated my high school league?" | Boxing: We move down the muscle mass scale, stay steady on the blood-flying-with-every-blow scale. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MSNBC | The word of the day: preliminaries. We get preliminary rounds in volleyball (Cuba vs. China), baseball (USA vs. South Korea, Cuba vs. Japan), tennis, men's road cycling and Greco-Roman wrestling. MSNBC also promises "and more," but it's unclear exactly wht that means. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NBC | In a way, NBC's doing us a favor with the primetime replays -- it's one less block we have to program on the TiVo. Unless, of course, you really want to relieve the women's gymnastics team finals. | USA vs. Italy in women's water polo this morning! Focus on that, ignore That Sport In Which A Ball Is Volleyed Whilst On A Beach. There are also swimming prelims to round out your morning dose of chlorine. | Hilariously, NBC's guide promises us Paul Hamm defending his title in the men's all-around gymnastics event. Guess what was written a month prior to the event! In addition to the gymnastics, there will be cycling, men's synchronized diving, and some swimming finals -- pay attention to the 100-meter freestyle because it's going to be a free-for-all. | USA vs. Serbia in men's water polo, swimming semifinals (til 2:30) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oxygen | Today, Oxygen broadens its coverage, and adds women in cute tennis outfits to the horsies and gymnastics. As my niece just discovered tennis, this only confirms my suspicions about the channel's target demo. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Telemundo | Live soccer! It's Honduras vs. South Korea. At this point, if you keep watching games live, you're going to have to convince your boss to let you telecommute so you can pass out around 11 a.m. guilt-free. Just send an email at 3 to make it look like you're working. | Men's soccer: Brazil vs. China. The refs are under orders not to allow free kicks because then it's a hop, skip and a jump to free Tibet. Also, it's the women's gymnastics team final and a gold medal diving competition. Gravity, schmavity! The gymnasts and divers laugh at you, Sir Isaac Newton! | Telemundo's putting something here, but no sabe que es esta. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USA | É then I list the sports in this block. This morning's haul: USA vs. Nigeria and China vs. Brazil in men's soccer, and USA vs. Mali in women's basketball preliminary-round action. Also, whitewater canoeing, rowing (LIVE semifinals). My advice: catch the soccer on Telemundo instead. | This channel continues its quest to knock the Colbert Report off your TiVo forEVER with its ten-hour block of programming É | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday, August 14, 2008 | 2:00 AM | 2:30 AM | 3:00 AM | 3:30 AM | 4:00 A.M. | 4:30 A.M. | 5:00 A.M. | 5:30 A.M. | 6:00 A.M. | 6:30 A.M. | 7:00 A.M. | 7:30 A.M. | 8:00 A.M. | 8:30 A.M. | 9:00 A.M. | 9:30 A.M. | 10:00 A.M. | 10:30 A.M. | 11:00 A.M. | 11:30 A.M. | 12 P.M. | 12:30 P.M. | 1:00 P.M. | 1:30 P.M. | 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | 4:00 P.M. | 4:30 P.M. | 5:00 P.M. | 5:30 P.M. | 6:00 P.M. | 6:30 P.M. | 7:00 P.M. | 7:30 P.M. | 8:00 P.M. | 8:30 P.M. | 9:00 P.M. | 9:30 P.M. | 10:00 P.M. | 10:30 P.M. | 11:00 P.M. | 11:30 P.M. | 12:00 A.M. | 12:30 A.M. | 1:00 A.M. | 1:30 A.M. | |
| CNBC | It is official: the number of boxing matches CNBC is airing now exceeds the number of Rocky movies made. Hope you like welterweights! | Women's softball: USA vs. Japan. Angry infielders confuse Jennie Finch with Gwen Stefani, extract brutal revenge for harajuku girls stunt. | Aww! We're back to the featherweight boxers and their light little knockout punches. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MSNBC | Hey, remember when the Grateful Dead sponsored the Lithuanian basketball team's uniforms? Good times, gooooood times. Relive the magic and light a candle for the thirteen-years-gone Jerry Garcia when you wake-n-bake to the Russia vs. Lithuania bout. China plays Japan in men's volleyball (prepare for some old WWII scores to be settled with a set-n-spike) and there's men's handball, which is sort of like volleyball only a heck of a lot more horizontal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NBC | You can re-air the men's all-around gymnastics event all you want, NBC, but Paul Hamm still won't be showing up to defend his title. | This won't be your morning if you're afraid of water: there are whitewater kayaking finals, rowing finals, and swimmimg prelims. (Personally, I love the prelim rounds -- that's where all the best surprises tend to be.) | Aaron Piersol (whom I dig) and Michael Phelps will likely be competing in the men's 200 m back and 200 m IM respectively. It's also the women's gymnastics all-around finals. I recommend eating a lot of ice cream when watching the finals, because then, when one of those little pixies performs some joint-popping, muscle-twisting move, you can mutter, "Sure, that's all right -- but I get to eat Chubby Hubby ANY TIME I WANT." | Stay tuned for lots of water action -- swimming, kayaking (til 2:30) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oxygen | Alas, it's the last day of dressage competition. We'll always have women's tennis! And gymnastics. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Telemundo | It's the men's gymnastics all-around final. I cannot watch men's gymnastics without thinking about "American Anthem" and wondering why we don't have more movies about elfin acrobatic stud muffins. Get on it, Hollywood! Also, there will be swimming. | Beach volleyball is to Telemundo what boxing is to CNBC. Also, there is diving. | Telemundo's putting something here, but no sabe que es esta. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USA | É and today's block includes USA vs. Netherlands in baseball and USA vs. Germany in women's field hockey, women's fencing, women's archery, and, of course, your RDA of bikini-clad athletes with some beach volleyball. | Why does this channel start its blocks this late at night? Is it afraid of cutting into a Psych marathon? Tonight's roster É | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| CNBC | The bantamweight boxers continue to eliminate one another, as do the featherweight boxers. Then the featherweight boxers hunt down smartasses making "Chicken Little" jokes. | Women's softball: USA vs. Chinese Taipei. Or, as we like to call them, "Taiwan." | The flyweights and middleweights have not stopped eliminating one another yet. Apparently, every Olympic team fields approximately 256 boxers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MSNBC | So, the good news first: you'll be able to see TWO women's water polo matches today (Netherlands vs. Australia, Hungary vs. Greece). Also, you can check out USA vs. China in women's volleyball, some random beach volleyball games (watch out: that sport has infected NBC's coverage like a virus), women's badminton and women's soccer. The bad news: MSNBC doesn't appear to be shaking this "12 brutal hours at a stretch" approach. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NBC | Have y'all ever seen "Stick It"? You should, because it makes the gymnasts seem like live humans and not wind-up toys with piping voices. Starz usually has it on -- go watch that instead of this replay. | USA vs. Russia in women's water polo! You know how much the world has changed when this matchup is shuffled to a morning slot instead of hyped as a massive, speedo-clad battle of political ideologies. | I know Gary Hall Jr., got waxed during the team trials this year but I still think they should have brought him along just to mess with the Australians right before the 50 m sprint. Also, assuming Phelps makes the trials, he'll be swimming the 100m butterfly tonight. And there will be shotput. | It's the women's 10,000 meter track event. Or, as we like to call it in the jog-and-get-a-tshirt-world: the 10K. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oxygen | Good news, sweet niece o'mine! We now have horses jumping! And more tennis. And more gymnastics, just in case the other two to three channels' worth of coverage isn't doing it for you. | </ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||