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Auto RAcing MONDAY 6:00 p.m. NBCSN ARCA Racing Series Pensacola. From Five Flags Speed- way in Pensacola, Florida. THURSDAY 1:00 p.m. NBCSN IMSA Racing Porsche GT3 Cup: St. Petersburg. 2:00 p.m. NBCSN IMSA Racing Prototype Chal- lenge: Sebring. 3:00 p.m. NBCSN IMSA Racing Michelin Pilot Challenge: Sebring. BAsketBAll SATURDAY 10:30 a.m. WHME N IHSAA Class 1A Tourna- ment, Final: Teams TBA. (N) Noon WHME N IHSAA Class 2A Tournament, Fi- nal: Teams TBA. (N) 6:00 p.m. WHME N IHSAA Class 3A Tourna- ment, Final: Teams TBA. (N) 8:00 p.m. WHME N IHSAA Class 4A Tourna- ment, Final: Teams TBA. (N) Bowling SUNDAY 2:30 p.m. SBT2 USBC Masters. From Reno, Nev. (N) Boxing SATURDAY 10:00 p.m. ESPN Artur Be- terbiev vs. Fanlong Meng. Beterbiev (15-0, 15 KOs) takes on Meng (16-0, 10 KOs) in a 12-round light heavyweight title bout. (N) SHOW Luis Nery vs. Aaron Alameda. Luis Nery (30-2, 24 KOs) vs. Aaron Alameda (25-0, 13KOs), WBC junior featherweight eliminator. (N) equestRiAn SATURDAY 10:30 a.m. NBCSN Dubai World Cup. (N) 6:00 p.m. NBCSN Florida Derby. (N) SUNDAY 1:30 p.m. NBCSN Rolex Grand Prix. gymnAstics SUNDAY 4:00 p.m. NBCSN FIG Gymnastics World Cup: Women's All-Around. From Birmingham, England. mARtiAl ARts SATURDAY 4:00 p.m. ESPN UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Rozenstruik - Prelims Cody Stamann vs. Raoni Barcelos, bantamweight bout. From Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. (N) 7:00 p.m. ESPN UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Rozenstruik Francis Ngannou vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik, heavyweight bout. From Columbus, Ohio. (N) SUNDAY 9:00 p.m. ESPN2 UFC 247: Jones vs. Reyes Jon Jones vs. Dominick Reyes, light heavyweight title bout. From Toyota Center in Houston. RugBy SATURDAY 1:30 p.m. NBCSN Pre- miership Rugby Glouces- ter Rugby vs Bristol Rugby. From Kingsholm Stadium in Gloucester, En- gland. (N) SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. NBCSN Pre- miership Rugby Sale Sharks vs Exeter Chiefs. Stade AJ Bell. (N) skAting SUNDAY Noon NBCSN Red Bull Ice Cross Moscow. socceR THURSDAY 12:50 p.m. ESPN2 2020 UEFA Euro Qualifying Norway vs Serbia. Semifi- nal, 1st Leg. (N) SUNDAY 12:55 p.m. ESPN2 Europe- an Friendly — Netherlands vs Spain. From Johan Cruijff Arena in Amster- dam. (N) winteR spoRts MONDAY 2:00 p.m. NBCSN 2020 World Women's Curling Championship Final: Teams TBA. (N Same-day Tape) Page 2 March 23 - 29, 2020 crossword solution sudoku solution Networks get through first weekend with taped programming S cott Van Pelt was supposed to be breaking down the NCAA Tournament bracket on a busy Sunday night on ESPN's "SportsCenter." Instead, Van Pelt was figuring out how to fill most of the hour with the sports world on hold because of the spread of the coronavirus. "I have no idea. Right now having a rundown is a bit pointless," Van Pelt said. "It's like changing recipes on the fly. Are we making cookies? No, making something entirely differ- ent. I don't know what else can be cancelled on our watch. It's been quite a week." Van Pelt was supposed to be doing halftime seg- ments during last Wednes- day's NBA games. What ended up happening was Van Pelt updating viewers about the NBA season as well as providing inter- views and analysis once the New Orleans Pelicans' game at the Sacramento Kings was postponed. Van Pelt and ESPN weren't the only ones hav- ing to scramble to fill pro- gramming. CBS aired championship games from past Big Ten and Atlantic 10 tournaments on Satur- day and Sunday. During the hour that CBS was supposed to be showing the tournament selections, viewers in New York saw the news while Los Ange- les aired an infomercial. NBC and Golf Channel showed the final two rounds of last year's Play- ers Championship after the PGA Tour canceled the final three rounds Fri- day. Fox left it up to their affiliates to program the gap left by the cancellation of Sunday's NASCAR race in Atlanta and NBCSN re- aired last year's IndyCar season opener. ESPN at least had some live programming on Saturday with a UFC card from Brazil. Sunday was mostly films from the "30 for 30" series while ESPN2 re-aired some of the top college basketball games from the season. On Sat- urday they showed the entire "Basketball: A Love Story" series. ABC also showed "30 for 30" films as well as a couple episodes from the "College Football 150" series. FS1 and FS2 had a mix of college basketball and XFL re-airs. Whether that remains the template for future weekends remains to be seen. Van Pelt said the early plan for Sunday's "SportsCenter" included analyzing players approv- ing the NFL's collective bargaining agreement as well as any signings that took place. He was also planning to interview Penn State senior forward Lamar Stevens on seeing his season end abruptly when the Nittany Lions appeared to be headed to March Madness. At first, Van Pelt won- dered why the NCAA wouldn't release a bracket but then saw the reason, By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 Nobody Knows our Hometown Better!

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