MIAMI, Feb. 4 (UPI) — The beginning of the 2022 Winter Video games in Beijing and NFL and NHL All-Star video games headline this weekend’s reside sporting occasion menu. Dozens of regular-season NBA, school basketball, NBA and soccer video games additionally pack the slate.
A PGA Tour golf event and a singular NASCAR Cup Sequence season-opening race on the Los Angeles Coliseum additionally spotlight the sports activities schedule.
Almost 3,000 athletes from 91 nations competing in Beijing will entice essentially the most world consideration over the subsequent month.
Competitions on the 2021 Winter Video games began Wednesday in Beijing. The Opening Ceremony, which airs Friday morning on NBC, marks the official launch of the Olympics.
Competitors continues by way of the Feb. 20 Closing Ceremony in Beijing.
Winter Video games
Ice hockey, curling, alpine snowboarding, ski leaping, the luge, cross-country snowboarding, determine skating, freestyle snowboarding, the nordic mixed, snowboarding, velocity skating and different occasions might be featured from Friday by way of Sunday as a part of 2022 Winter Video games protection on NBC-affiliated networks and platforms.
Most of the occasions will air very early within the morning in the USA, as a result of Beijing time is 13 hours forward of Japanese Time. NBC additionally will re-air some competitions and have different reside occasions in prime time.
Viewers can tune in at 6:30 a.m. EST Friday to catch the Opening Ceremony. A few of Group USA’s prime snowboarders are in motion for ladies’s slopestyle {qualifications} at 10 p.m. Friday on USA.
The boys’s moguls freestyle snowboarding finals air lead off Saturday’s schedule at 6:30 a.m. on USA. A preliminary girls’s ice hockey match between Group USA and the Russian workforce follows at 8:10 a.m. on the identical community.
Further occasions air beginning at 2 p.m. on NBC. The ladies’s snowboarding slopestyle last airs at 8:30 p.m. on USA. Determine skating workforce competitions air at 8:30 and 11 p.m. on NBC.
The ladies’s moguls finals in freestyle snowboarding air at 6:30 a.m. Sunday on USA. One other preliminary hockey match between Group USA and Switzerland airs at 8:10 a.m. Sunday on the identical community.
Protection of the boys’s 5000m race in velocity skating, the boys’s skiathlon in cross-country snowboarding and extra begins at 2 p.m. Sunday on NBC.
NBC additionally will air extra ski leaping, luge, determine skating and alpine snowboarding occasions beginning at 7 p.m. Sunday. The boys’s snowboarding slopestyle last airs at 11 p.m. Sunday on Peacock.
Professional Bowl
The 2022 NFL Professional Bowl airs at 3 p.m. EST Sunday on ESPN and ABC. The occasion, which options the NFL’s all-stars, will happen at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nev.
This yr’s sport options new guidelines, which abolish the standard kickoff. As a substitute, the workforce that wins the coin toss will get to decide on the position of the ball on the sector for the primary play of the primary quarter or resolve whether or not to start out the sport on offense or protection from the opposite workforce’s designated spot.
After a rating, a workforce additionally will get the choice to provide the ball again to its opponent at its personal 25-yard line or can maintain the ball at its personal 25-yard line for a fourth-and-15 play. If that workforce converts, it’ll retain place.
Justin Herbert of the Los Angeles Chargers, Jonathan Taylor of the Indianapolis Colts, Tyreek Hill of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and T.J. Watt of the Pittsburgh Steelers have been among the many gamers chosen for the AFC Professional Bowl roster.
Dalvin Prepare dinner of the Minnesota Vikings, Deebo Samuel of the San Francisco 49ers and Micah Parsons of the Dallas Cowboys have been among the many gamers chosen for the NFC Professional Bowl roster.
NASCAR at LA Coliseum
The 2022 NASCAR Cup Sequence schedule begins with the Busch Mild Conflict on Sunday on the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The 23-car, 150-lap exhibition race airs at 6 p.m. EST on Fox.
{Qualifications} for the occasion air at 8:30 p.m. Saturday on FS1. Further qualifying warmth races for the primary occasion are anticipated to air at 3 and 4:10 p.m. Sunday on Fox.
The Busch Mild Conflict on the Coliseum marks the primary time NASCAR will maintain an occasion at a venue that has hosted the Tremendous Bowl, World Sequence and the Olympics.
Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin, Chase Elliott, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano and Kyle Larson are among the many favorites to complete first on the 0.25-mile asphalt oval monitor.
Weekend schedule (all occasions EST)
Friday
Olympics
Opening Ceremony at 6:30 a.m. on NBC
Curling: Blended doubles USA vs. Sweden at 2 p.m. on USA
Determine skating: Group competitors, males’s quick program (re-air) at 4 p.m. on USA; Group competitors, rhythm dance (re-air) at 5:15 p.m. on USA; Group competitors, pairs quick program (re-air) at 6 p.m.
Snowboarding: Girls’s slopestyle {qualifications} at 10 p.m. on USA
Golf
AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am: Second spherical from 3 to six p.m. on Golf Channel
Soccer
FA Cup: Middlesbrough vs. Manchester United at 3 p.m. on ESPN+
NHL
All-Star Expertise at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN
School basketball
Males’s
St. Bonaventure at Richmond at 6 p.m. on ESPN2
Creighton at Seton Corridor at 7 p.m. on FS1
San Diego State at Colorado State at 9 p.m. on FS1
Nevada at Fresno State at 11 p.m. on FS1
Girls’s
Texas at Baylor at 8 p.m. on ESPN2
Oregon at Arizona at 10 p.m. on Pac 12 Community
NBA
Cavaliers at Hornets at 7 p.m. on NBA TV
76ers at Mavericks at 10 p.m. on ESPN
Saturday
Olympics
Freestyle snowboarding: Males’s moguls finals at 6:30 a.m. on USA
Girls’s hockey: USA vs. Russia at 8:10 a.m. on USA
Daytime protection at 2 p.m. on NBC
Primetime protection at 8 p.m. on NBC
Snowboarding: Girls’s slopestyle last at 8:30 p.m. on USA
Determine skating: Group competitions at 8:30 and 11 p.m. on NBC
Soccer
FA Cup: Plymouth Argyle at Chelsea at 7:30 a.m. on ESPN+
FA Cup: Fulham at Manchester Metropolis at 10 a.m. on ESPN+
Serie A: AC Milan at Inter Milan at midday on beIN Sports activities
Bundesliga: RB Leipzig at Bayern Munich at 12:30 p.m. on ESPN+
FA Cup: Brighton at Tottenham Hotspur at 3 p.m. on ESPN+
La Liga: Sevilla at Osasuna at 3 p.m. on ESPN+
School basketball
Males’s
UConn at Villanova at midday on Fox
Illinois at Indiana at midday on ESPN
St. John’s at Butler at midday on FS1
Oklahoma at Oklahoma State at midday on ESPN2
Auburn at Georgia at 1 p.m. on SEC Community
Tennessee at South Carolina at 1 p.m. on CBS
Texas Tech at West Virginia at 2 p.m. on ESPN
Iowa State at Texas at 2 p.m. on Longhorn Community
DePaul at Xavier at 2 p.m. on FS1
Louisville at Syracuse at 2 p.m. on ESPN2
Michigan at Purdue at 2:30 p.m. on Fox
Baylor at Kansas at 4 p.m. on ESPN
Michigan State at Rutgers at 4 p.m. on FS1
Missouri at Texas A&M at 4 p.m. on ESPN2
USC at Arizona at 5 p.m. on Fox
Duke at North Carolina at 6 p.m. on ESPN
Penn State at Wisconsin at 6 p.m. on Large Ten Community
LSU at Vanderbilt at 6 p.m. on SEC Community
SMU at Wichita State at 6 p.m. on ESPN2
Oregon State at Colorado at 6 p.m. on FS1
Kentucky at Alabama at 8 p.m. on ESPN
UCF at Memphis at 8 p.m. on ESPN2
Gonzaga at BYU at 10 p.m. on ESPN
UCLA at Arizona State at 10 p.m. on ESPN2
Girls’s
Florida Gulf Coast at Lipscomb at 2:30 p.m. on ESPN+
Oklahoma State at Iowa State at 7 p.m. on ESPN+
Texas Tech at Kansas State at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN+
NHL
All-Star Recreation at 3 p.m. on ABC
Golf
AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am: Third spherical from 3 to 7 p.m. on CBS
NBA
Knicks at Lakers at 8:30 p.m. on ABC
Sunday
Olympics
Freestyle snowboarding: Girls’s moguls finals at 6:30 a.m. on USA
Girls’s hockey: USA vs. Switzerland at 8:10 a.m. on USA
Daytime protection at 2 p.m. on NBC
Primetime protection at 7 p.m. on NBC
Males’s snowboarding slopestyle last at 11 p.m. on Peacock
Soccer
FA Cup: Cardiff Metropolis at Liverpool at 7 a.m. on ESPN+
Serie A: Napoli at Venezia at 9 a.m. on beIN Sports activities
Bundesliga: Bayer Leverkusen at Borussia Dortmund at 9:30 a.m. on ESPN+
La Liga: Atletico at Barcelona at 10:15 a.m. on ESPN+
La Liga: Villarreal at Actual Betis at 12:30 p.m. on ESPN+
Ligue 1: PSG at Lille at 2:45 p.m. on beIN Sports activities
Serie A: Hellas Verona at Juventus at 2:45 p.m. on beIN Sports activities
La Liga: Granada at Actual Madrid at 3 p.m. on ESPN+
School basketball
Males’s
Windfall at Georgetown at midday on FS1
Maryland at Ohio State at 1 p.m. on CBS
Houston at Cincinnati at 6 p.m. on ESPN2
Girls’s
Louisville at Syracuse at midday on ACC Community Plus
Tennessee at UConn at midday on Fox
Miami at North Carolina at midday on ACC Community
Texas A&M at Kentucky at midday on ESPN2
Florida at Georgia at 1 p.m. on SEC Community
Notre Dame at Florida State at 2 p.m. on ACC Community
Baylor at Texas at 4 p.m. on ESPN2
Stanford at USC at 6 p.m. on Pac 12 Community
Iowa at Michigan at 6:30 p.m. on Large Ten Community
NFL
Professional Bowl at 3 p.m. on ESPN, ABC
Golf
AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am: Ultimate spherical from 3 to six:30 p.m. on CBS
NBA
Nets at Nuggets at 3:30 p.m. on NBA TV
Hawks at Mavericks at 6 p.m. on ESPN
Bucks at Clippers at 9 p.m. on NBA TV
NASCAR
Busch Mild Conflict on the Coliseum at 6 p.m. on Fox
