{"id":866,"date":"2009-05-02T14:36:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T21:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=866"},"modified":"2017-06-10T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T20:59:13","slug":"on-the-couch-may-2-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"On The Couch May 2, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Andy Villanueva<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Reporting from my couch \u2013 Figuring my love for watching sixteen different sporting events on any given day, it would be beneficial to give my thought and insight to sports watched from your four major sports and anything minor to big events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Its the first Saturday in May, which means its Derby Day! If your looking for programming for anything on ESPN, forget it. Its all about the\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Kentucky Derby<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With that said enjoy watching nine full races between ESPN and\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\">NBC<\/span>. The Derby begins at 3pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Look for a\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\">great race<\/span>, with Friesan Fire winning from the front end as the track came up muddy and will have a hard time getting dry by post time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Earlier on NBC at 11am you can treat yourself to some\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_3\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Stanley Cup action<\/span>\u00a0as the\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_4\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/span>\u00a0invade the\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_5\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Washington Capitals<\/span>. NBC is beside itself to have this game today as it pits\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_6\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Sidney Crosby<\/span>\u00a0and Alex Ovechkin. Sit and watch just 10 minutes of this game and you may change your mind about the sport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tonight its the exciting conclusion to the Chicago-Boston\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_7\" class=\"yshortcuts\">NBA playoffs<\/span>\u00a0series. I will take Chicago to knock off the champs. The Celtics were lucky to get out of Boston with a Game 5 victory. Unlike others who think\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_8\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Rajon Rondo<\/span>\u00a0should have been suspended, I believe it wasn&#8217;t as flagrant as the\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_9\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Dwight Howard elbow<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_10\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Los Angeles Angels<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_11\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/span>\u00a0both play today. Angels face the\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_12\" class=\"yshortcuts\">New York Yankees<\/span>\u00a0at 10 am on FSW and the Dodgers host the\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_13\" class=\"yshortcuts\">San Diego Padres<\/span>\u00a0at 7 pm tonight on FSPT.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last but not least,\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_14\" class=\"yshortcuts\">NASCAR<\/span>\u00a0is on FOX at 5 pm as the drivers battle it out on the \u00be mile track at\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_15\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Richmond International Raceway<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Have fun this Saturday and get a recap of what this\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1241300038_16\" class=\"yshortcuts\">couch potato<\/span>\u00a0did tomorrow morning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andy Villanueva<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59586,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/59586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}