Best of the weekend so far…

There was plenty of action with Mayweather,Jr coming on in the late rounds with some flashy combinations that impressed the judges while the early rounds went to De La Hoya who used his trade mark body blows

 

In the end Mayweather, Jr. was able to win a spilt decision and remain undefeated.

 

The replay will come this week on HBO and look for a rematch perhaps in the fall.

 

NBC did the Derby right with plenty of quality coverage. Tom Hammond continues to prove he is the best in the business as the host.

 

Director David Michaels (Al’s Brother) had all the right shots to capture the excitement of Street Sence with jubilant jockey Calvin Borel hi fiving everyone but the Queen.

 

By the way I will never again say the Queen has bad taste in hats. As the band played “My Ole Kentucky Home,” Michaels found a number of hats that actually made the Queen look stylish.”

 

The low point of the show was the audio of the call of the race. For some reason we could hear the actual call of the race clearly. Then some post race comments were also lost.

 

ESPN scored high on its pre race show with plenty of good features. Also in their first year as the home of the radio broadcast they were very strong and huge upgrade over Westwood One.

 

Versus had the best hockey game if the weekend with Sens besting
New Jersey
in a thriller 3-2. They will now move on to face the winner of the Buffalo-Rangers match up.

 

Golf fans were treated on CBS to a wonderful battle with Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh and Phil Mickelson all in the hunt for today.

 

FOX had their primetime coverage rained out on Saturday night. Now we will see them on Sunday at 1pm

 

Baseball today has the A’s at Tampa Bay on Fox Sports Bay area at 10:40am. Meanwhile Baltimore looks to take the weekend series from the Tribe at the Yard on MASN starting at 1pm. The Nats try to win one against the Cubs at 2pm on MASN2 and the Giants host the Phils in the national game tonight on ESPN.