I'm not going to lie to you. This is sort of a disappointing weekend of sports until we hit Sunday's NFL playoff implication games. And, believe it or not, college bowl games start on Saturday. Seriously, that's ridiculous. There should never, EVER, be bowl games before Christmas. The MagicJack Bowl? The EagleBank Bowl? Hell, I'd be embarrassed just to be playing in these games.FRIDAY, DEC. 19
College football: FCS championship game, Montana vs. Richmond, in Chattanooga, Tenn., ESPN2, 8 p.m.
College women's basketball: Duke at Southern California, FSN, 11 p.m.
NBA: Los Angeles Lakers at Miami, ESPN, 8 p.m. Cleveland at Denver, ESPN, 10:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, DEC. 20
College football: EagleBank Bowl, Wake Forest vs. Army, in Washington, D.C., ESPN, 11 a.m. NCAA Division III championship game, Mount Union (Ohio) vs. Wisconsin-Whitewater, in Salem, Va., ESPN2, 11 a.m. New Mexico Bowl, Colorado State vs. Fresno State, in Albuquerque, ESPN, 2:30 p.m. MagicJack St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl, Memphis vs. South Florida, ESPN2, 4:30 p.m. Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl, Brigham Young vs. Arizona, ESPN, 8 p.m.
College men's basketball: Regional coverage, Duke vs. Xavier, at East Rutherford, N.J., or Michigan State vs. Texas, in Houston, CBS, 2 p.m. Louisville vs. Minnesota, in Glendale, Ariz., FSN, 2 p.m. Temple at Kansas, ESPN2, 2:30 p.m. Arizona at UNLV, Versus, 3 p.m. Regional coverage, Connecticut vs. Gonzaga, at Seattle or Purdue vs. Davidson, in Indianapolis, CBS, 4 p.m. Arizona State vs. Brigham Young, in Glendale, FSN, 4:30 p.m. Syracuse at Memphis, ESPN, 6 p.m. Rhode Island vs. Oklahoma State, in Oklahoma City, ESPN Classic, 7:30 p.m. Virginia Commonwealth vs. Oklahoma, in Oklahoma City, ESPN2, 10 p.m.
College women's volleyball: NCAA Division I championship match, Penn State vs. Stanford, in Omaha, ESPN2, 8 p.m.
SUNDAY, DEC. 21College football: R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, Southern Mississippi vs. Troy, ESPN, 8:15 p.m.
College men's basketball: Pittsburgh at Florida State, FSN, 5:30 p.m. Clemson at Miami (Fla.), FSN, 7:45 p.m.
College women's basketball: Kansas at UCLA, FSN, 3 p.m. Stanford at Tennessee, ESPN2, 7 p.m.
NFL: Regional coverage, CBS and Fox, 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Carolina at New York Giants, NBC, 8:15 p.m.








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