FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, July 12th, 2013
NBC SPORTS GROUP’S PRESS PASS – WHAT TO WATCH JULY 12, 2013
(All Times ET)
The “Press Pass” on NBC Sports Group Press Box is a quick overview of upcoming program information and highlights from the Communications team. “The Pass” provides upcoming listings and programming details.
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THE PASS
Friday, July 12
4:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – Indy Lights: Pocono
5:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – IndyCar: Toronto Qualifying
8 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – Tour Primetime
Saturday, July 13
8 a.m. on NBC Sports Network – Tour de France: Stage Fourteen
Noon on NBC – Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open
2 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – Indy Lights: Toronto
2:30 p.m. on NBC – Golf Central Live
3 p.m. on NBC – U.S. Senior Open
3 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – Honda Indy Toronto-Race 1
8 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – Tour Primetime
11 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – MLS: Los Angeles at Portland
Sunday, July 14
8 a.m. on NBC Sports Network – Tour de France: Stage Fifteen
Noon on NBC – Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open
2:30 p.m. on NBC – Golf Central Live
3 p.m. on NBC – U.S. Senior Open
3 p.m. on NBC Sports Network – Honda Indy Toronto-Race 2
NBC Sports Network will present more than nine hours of IZOD IndyCar Series coverage this weekend highlighted by a Honda Indy Toronto race doubleheader. NBC Sports Network will air Race 1 live tomorrow at 3 p.m. ET, and Race 2 live on Sunday at 3 p.m. ET.
Race coverage will be preceded by qualifying today at 5:30 p.m. ET, plus Indy Lights tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET. In addition, today at 4:30 p.m. ET, NBC Sports Network will air last week’s Indy Lights from Pocono.
Play-by-play announcer Leigh Diffey will call qualifying and race action and will be joined by NBC Sports Group’s Formula One analyst Steve Matchet. Former IndyCar driver Townsend Bell, who won the 2001 Indy Lights in Toronto, will manage the pits at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario along with reporters Jon Beekhuis, Kevin Lee, and Brian Till.
Live weekend Tour de France coverage will begin tomorrow at 8 a.m. ET on NBC Sports Network with Stage 14 from Sanit-Pourçain-sur-Sioule to Lyon, and will continue on Sunday at 8 a.m. with Stage 15 from Givors to Mont Ventoux on NBC Sports Network. All Tour de France stages will feature continuing coverage at 8 p.m. ET with NBC Sports Network’s nightly Tour Primetime.
Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen, the voices of cycling, will call the race action for the live shows with reporters Steve Schlanger and Carolyn Manno. Todd Harris will host nightly studio coverage with analysts Bob Roll and Scott Moninger.
The Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open will be the first European Tour event broadcast on American network television when NBC airs the third and final rounds live from Noon-2:30 p.m. ET tomorrow and Sunday.
Play-by-play announcer Brian Hammons, along with analysts Curt Byrum, Peter Oosterhuis and David Feherty will call the action from Castle Stuart Golf Links in Inverness, Scotland with Rich Beem reporting from the course.
NBC’s weekend Golf coverage continues with the U.S. Senior Open from Omaha Country Club in Omaha, Neb. NBC will air live coverage from 3-6 p.m. ET tomorrow and Sunday, with each round preceded by a 30-minute Golf Central Live pre-game show at 2:30 p.m. ET.
MLS: LOS ANGELES AT PORTLAND
NBC Sports Network’s Major League Soccer coverage this weekend features the Portland Timbers (7-2-9, 30 pts.) hosting the L.A. Galaxy (9-7-3, 30 pts.). Coverage begins tomorrow at 11:00 p.m. ET.
NBC Sports Group’s MLS announce team of Arlo White (play-by-play), Kyle Martino (‘Between-the-Benches’) and Russ Thaler (analyst) will host coverage from Jeld-Wen Field in Portland, Ore.
