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The dream of appearing in the 128-player draws for the US Open will be within reach for the 128 men and women playing in the qualifying for the event beginning Tuesday, Aug. 24, at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York with exclusive coverage on ESPN+ and ESPNEWS.
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UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Gastelum presented by Modelo airs live from UFC APEX in Las Vegas this Saturday, Aug. 21, on ESPN, ESPN Deportes and ESPN+ (English and Spanish) at 10 p.m. ET.
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NASCAR Cup Series Hour-Long Pre-Race Coverage Begins at 2 p.m. ET Sunday on NBCSN, Race Coverage at 3 p.m. ET
NASCAR Xfinity Series Coverage Gets Underway Saturday at 3 p.m. ET on NBCSN
NTT INDYCAR SERIES Bommarito Automotive Group 500 Saturday in Primetime at 8 p.m. ET on NBCSN
STAMFORD, Conn. – Aug. 19, 2021 – The battle for the 2021 NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series Playoffs continues at Michigan International Speedway this weekend on NBCSN, headlined by coverage of the NASCAR Cup Series beginning with an hour-long pre-race coverage of NASCAR America and Countdown to Green Sunday at 2 p.m. ET. Sunday’s race coverage will get underway from Michigan at 3 p.m. ET on NBCSN.
NASCAR coverage this weekend will begin Saturday at 3 p.m. ET with Countdown to Green on NBCSN, leading into Xfinity Series racing at Michigan at 3:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN.
Coverage of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES’ Bommarito Automotive Group 500 will be presented Saturday in primetime beginning with pre-race coverage at 8 p.m. ET on NBCSN, before the green flag waves shortly following 8:30 p.m. ET.
Two-time Daytona 500 Champion and NASCAR Hall of Fame selection Dale Earnhardt Jr. will join Daytona 500-winning crew chief Steve Letarte, and 21-time Cup Series race winner and “The Mayor” of NASCAR Jeff Burton in NBC Sports’ “Racing Team” broadcast booth to call the Xfinity Series race Saturday from Michigan. NBC Sports’ lead NASCAR race announcer Rick Allen will call Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race with Earnhardt Jr., Burton and Letarte.
Dave Burns, Marty Snider and Parker Kligerman will contribute coverage from pit road on Saturday and Sunday.
Pre- and post-race coverage throughout the weekend will be anchored by Snider alongside auto racing icon Kyle Petty and Brad Daugherty.
Last week on the IMS road course, A.J. Allmendinger won his second career Cup Series race, while Austin Cindric won the Xfinity Series race. Kevin Harvick has won the past three Cup Series races at Michigan.
The official home of the NASCAR Championship and Playoffs, NBC Sports will once again present the final 20 NASCAR Cup Series races and 19 NASCAR Xfinity Series races in 2021, culminating with the Championship at Phoenix Raceway on Nov. 6-7. Click here for more information on NBC Sports’ 2021 NASCAR coverage.
NASCAR Pick ‘Em: NBC Sports’ free-to-play game, NASCAR Pick ‘Em, features a weekly contest for each NASCAR Cup Series race. NASCAR Pick ‘Em is available for download now on the NBC Sports Predictor app powered by PointsBet (available in the App Store and Google Play Store) and at nbcsports.com/predictor.
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HOW TO WATCH
| Date | Coverage | Network | Time (ET) |
| Sat., August 21 | Countdown to Green – NASCAR Xfinity Series | NBCSN | 3 p.m. |
| NASCAR Xfinity Series Racing at Michigan International Speedway | NBCSN | 3:30 p.m. | |
| Sun., August 22 | NASCAR America – NASCAR Cup Series | NBCSN | 2 p.m. |
| Countdown to Green – NASCAR Cup Series | NBCSN | 2:30 p.m. | |
| NASCAR Cup Series Racing at Michigan International Speedway | NBCSN | 3 p.m. | |
| NASCAR Cup Series Post Race | NBCSN | 6 p.m. |
INDYCAR: BOMMARITO AUTOMOTIVE GROUP 500
More than five hours of INDYCAR coverage will be presented Saturday from World Wide Technology Raceway on NBCSN and Peacock. Pre-race coverage of the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 gets underway in primetime at 8 p.m. ET on NBCSN, with race coverage beginning at 8:30 p.m. ET. Coverage of practice on the oval course begins Saturday at 1:15 p.m. ET on Peacock, followed by qualifying at 5 p.m. ET.
NBC Sports’ lead INDYCAR team of Leigh Diffey (play-by-play), Townsend Bell (analyst) and Paul Tracy (analyst) will call the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 with Kelli Stavast and Kevin Lee serving as pit reporters.
Alex Palou (415 points) sits atop the season standings ahead of Pato O’Ward (394 pts) and reigning and six-time INDYCAR champion Scott Dixon (381 pts). Dixon and Josef Newgarden won the pair of races held at World Wide Technology Raceway last year.
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| Date | Coverage | Network/Streaming | Time (ET) |
| Fri., August 20 | Indy Lights 1 | Peacock | 6:30 p.m. |
| Sat., August 21 | Bommarito Automotive Group 500 – Practice | Peacock | 1:15 p.m. |
| Bommarito Automotive Group 500 – Qualifying | Peacock | 5 p.m. | |
| Indy Lights 2 | Peacock | 6:30 p.m. | |
| Bommarito Automotive Group 500 Pre-Race | NBCSN | 8 p.m. | |
| Bommarito Automotive Group 500 | NBCSN | 8:30 p.m. | |
| Bommarito Automotive Group 500 Post-Race | NBCSN | 10:30 p.m. |
LUCAS OIL MOTOCROSS: BUDDS CREEK NATIONAL
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With four races left in the 2021 season, the Budds Creek National from Mechanicsville, Md., will be presented Saturday at 11 p.m. ET and midnight ET on NBCSN. Coverage will also air Sunday at 4 p.m. ET on NBC. Dylan Ferrandis, currently on a podium streak of eight rounds, leads the 450 Class standings, while Justin Cooper sits atop the 250 Class standings and is narrowly trailed by Jett Lawrence. Live streaming coverage of all races and qualifying will be available exclusively on Peacock. For more information about Motocross on Peacock, click here.
DALE JR. DOWNLOAD
Former NASCAR crew chief for Richard Petty for nearly three decades, and NASCAR Hall of Fame member, Dale Inman is this week’s guest on the Dale Jr. Download episode that airs this Thursday at 5 p.m. ET on NBCSN.
Produced on-site at Dirty Mo Media Studios in Mooresville, N.C., the Dale Jr. Download on NBCSN takes viewers couch-side for the taping of the motorsports icon’s weekly podcast, featuring unparalleled perspective, candid commentary, and insight that fans have come to expect from Dale Jr.
NBC SPORTS’ NASCAR COVERAGE
NBC Sports is the official home of the 2021 NASCAR Playoffs, covering the race for the NASCAR Cup Series & NASCAR Xfinity Series championships. NBC Sports’ NASCAR programming also includes races from NASCAR’s regional touring series; annual events such as the NASCAR Awards and NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremony; and original programming across NBC Sports platforms.
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ESPN+ will continue its exclusive coverage of two top soccer leagues – German Bundesliga and Spain’s LaLiga – beginning on Friday, Aug. 20, with Bundesliga’s RB Leipzig vs. VfB Stuttgart at 2:30 p.m. ET, and LaLiga’s Real Betis vs. Cádiz CF 3 p.m. Both matches will stream live on ESPN+ in English and Spanish.
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The ESPN College Football Podcast is expanding for the 2021 season with five new episodes every week available Monday-Friday mornings beginning Aug. 30.
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Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution (NYSE: DIS) and the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) today announced a new, multi-year distribution agreement that will continue to make Disney’s robust lineup of sports, news, kids, family and general entertainment programming available to NCTC’s more than 700 small and mid-sized independent cable and broadband operators across the U.S.
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Record 1,200 Hours of Paralympic Programming from Tokyo, Including First-Ever Primetime Coverage on NBC
Live Coverage of Opening Ceremony Presented on Tuesday, Aug. 24, at 7 a.m. ET on NBCSN
STAMFORD, Conn. – Aug. 19, 2021 – NBCUniversal is making an unprecedented commitment to the Paralympics with a record 1,200 hours of programming, including more than 200 hours of television coverage, the first-ever primetime hours on NBC, live coverage of the Opening Ceremony and Closing Ceremony on NBCSN, and exclusive streaming coverage on NBC Sports digital platforms and Peacock. Click here for complete programming details.
Live coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Paralympics begins Tuesday, August 24, at 7 a.m. ET on NBCSN. Live event competition gets underway later in the evening on Tuesday, August 24, at 10 p.m. ET.
Below are key metrics about NBCU’s coverage of the Tokyo Paralympics:
6,745: Miles between Stamford, Conn. and Tokyo, Japan
4,400: Approximate number of Paralympic athletes expected to compete
1960: Year when the first Paralympic Games were held
1,200: Total programming hours across NBCUniversal
539: Number of medal events at the Games
240: Expected number of Team USA Paralympic athletes competing in Tokyo
200+: Hours of television coverage across NBC, NBCSN and Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA
30: Number of medals that NBCU’s Paralympic Games commentators have won
22: Sports on the Tokyo Paralympic program
16: Number of commentators on NBCU’s Tokyo Paralympics talent roster
13: Number of hours Tokyo is ahead of the U.S. Eastern time zone
2: Sports making their Paralympic debuts: badminton and taekwondo
First: First time NBC will present primetime coverage of the Paralympics
First: First time Peacock will stream Paralympics coverage
For more information about NBC Sports Group, our releases and latest news, please visit nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com. A complete archive of Tokyo Paralympics press releases can be found here.
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Boeing has signed a three-year agreement to become the title sponsor of ESPN Events’ inaugural Red Tails Classic college football kickoff game.
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Over a month of ESPN Little League coverage culminates with the start of the Little League Baseball World Series in Williamsport, Pa. The action begins Thursday with approximately eight hours of games on ESPN starting at 1 p.m. ET. ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC will televise every game of the eleven-day tournament leading up to the Little League Baseball World Series Championship Game on Sunday, August 29, at 3 p.m. on ABC.
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Live 90-Minute NBC Show Begins at 4:30 p.m. ET; Peacock Begins Live Coverage at 4 p.m. ET, and Presents Live Stream of NBC Coverage
Allyson Felix, Dalilah Muhammad, Ryan Crouser, Richardson and a Host of Olympians Highlight Coverage of NBC Sports’ Final 2021 USATF ‘Journey to Gold – Tokyo Outdoor Series’ Event
STAMFORD, Conn. – August 18, 2021 – Sha’Carri Richardson will face all three Tokyo Olympic medalists in the women’s 100m, headlining a star-studded field in the Diamond League 2021 Prefontaine Classic as NBC Sports’ live coverage of the 2021 USATF ‘Journey to Gold – Tokyo Outdoor Series’ concludes on Saturday, August 21 from the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field. NBC will present live coverage from 4:30-6 p.m. ET Saturday, with Peacock’s live coverage begins at 4 p.m. ET prior to live streaming NBC’s 90-minute show.
Richardson, competing in her first event since the U.S. Track & Field Trials, will face the three women’s 100m Tokyo Olympics medalists: Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah (gold), Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (silver) and Shericka Jackson (bronze).
Also expected to compete in Saturday’s field are Allyson Felix – who in Tokyo became the most decorated American Track & Field athlete ever – in the women’s 200m, Tokyo Olympics 400m hurdle silver medalist Dalilah Muhammad, 800m gold medalist Athing Mu, shotput gold medalist Ryan Crouser, Tokyo Olympians Ajee Wilson, Emma Coburn, Matthew Centrowitz and more. The men’s 200m is expected to feature Tokyo silver and bronze medalists Americans Kenny Bednarek (silver) and Noah Lyles (bronze). In the men’s shot put, gold medalist Crouser, who set an Olympic record in Tokyo with a 23.30m throw and a world record in Eugene at the Olympic Trials, and silver medalist Joe Kovacs are both expected to compete. Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Katie Nageotte is expected to headline the women’s pole vault event this weekend.
Following Crouser’s Olympic record shot put of 23.30 meters in Tokyo, NBC Sports’ Paul Swangard said: “That’s like taking a bowling ball, going to the free throw line, turning around and trying to throw a three-quarters shot the other direction. It’s impressive athleticism and strength.”
NBC Sports’ 2021 USATF Journey to Gold – Tokyo Outdoor Series coverage featured five U.S.-based events, which began April 24.
NBC Sports’ Paul Swangard will call the event, joined by four-time Olympic medalist Ato Boldon, four-time Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross, Olympic decathlon silver medalist Trey Hardee, and two-time Olympian Des Linden as analysts, and Lewis Johnson as a reporter.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 21 – PREFONTAINE CLASSIC
How to Watch
| Date | Peacock | NBC |
| August 21 | 4-6 p.m. ET | 4:30-6 p.m. ET |
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For more information about how to stream these races and more Track & Field on Peacock, click here. Peacock is currently available on the Roku platform; Apple devices, including iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD; Google platforms and devices, including Android
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All NBC and NBCSN coverage also streams on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app via “TV Everywhere,” giving consumers additional value for their subscription service, and making high quality content available to MVPD customers both in and out of the home and on multiple platforms.
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