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ESPN today made an update to its NBA broadcast schedule. On Friday, February 23, the Minnesota Timberwolves and Anthony Edwards will host the Milwaukee Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo at 10 p.m. ET. The matchup will replace the previously selected game between the Miami Heat and the New Orleans Pelicans.
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Top Rank Boxing on ESPN presented by AutoZone: Lopez vs. Ortiz will be presented live this Thursday, February 8, at 10:30 p.m. ET/ 7:30 p.m. PT, on ESPN, ESPN Deportes, and ESPN+ from Michelob ULTRA Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada. This special Thursday night event precedes Super Bowl LVIII, which unfolds Sunday, February 11 at Allegiant Stadium. This marks the first time the championship will be hosted in Las Vegas and features a showdown between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs.
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On Sunday, Feb. 4, at 8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN will broadcast live and exclusively Pickleball Slam 2, the exciting sequel to last year’s inaugural Pickleball Slam tournament.
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Showcasing the world’s best hockey players, ESPN’s industry-leading collection of television and direct-to-consumer platforms will present the 2024 NHL All-Star Weekend, live from Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Canada.
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ESPN platforms will exclusively present the 2024 PLL Championship Series, Wednesday – Monday, Feb. 14-19. The four team, five-day, nine-game event will be played at The St. James just outside of Washington, D.C.
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World’s Oldest Rugby Championship Begins this Friday, Feb. 2, Live at 2:30 p.m. ET on Peacock with First of Three Round 1 Matches as Defending Champion Ireland Visits France; Scotland Visits Wales this Saturday at 11:45 a.m. ET Live on Peacock
All Six Nations Matches Stream Live on Peacock; Encore Coverage Presented Across CNBC and NBC
Studio Hosts: Dan Lyle, Alex Corbisiero
Rugby Offerings Available to U.S. Commercial Establishments through Peacock Sports Pass
STAMFORD, Conn. – Jan. 31, 2024 – NBC Sports presents coverage of the 2024 men’s Guinness Six Nations Rugby Championship, beginning Friday, Feb. 2, with opening round matches of one of the world’s oldest rugby championships.
All matches throughout the 2024 Six Nations Championship – which culminates with the final three Round 5 matches on Saturday, March 16 – will be presented live on Peacock. Television coverage throughout the tournament includes same- or next-day encores across NBC and CNBC.
Ireland won the 2023 Six Nations tournament and its 15th Six Nations outright championship last year, becoming the first country since Wales in 2019 to win the outright title, Grand Slam, and Triple Crown in one tournament. Runners-up and 2022 champions France, featuring two-time reigning Player of the Tournament Antoine Dupont, aim to win their second tournament in three years, while Wales looks to win its 29th overall title and move into a tie for first place with England for most championships in tournament history.
Five of the current top ten men’s teams in the World Rugby Rankings are participating in the 2024 Six Nations tournament: No. 2 Ireland, No. 4 France, No. 5 England, No. 6 Scotland, and No. 8 Wales, with Italy on the cusp at No. 11.
Rugby offerings are available to U.S. commercial establishments through Peacock Sports Pass. Peacock Sports Pass offers commercial establishments in the U.S. access to select events from Peacock’s exclusive live sports content library, including rugby, the Premier League, Big Ten football and basketball, and much more. To subscribe or to find out more information about Peacock Sports Pass, click here. Through the Six Nations Championship, all tournament matches will be available live, commercial-free and on-demand.
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HOW TO WATCH – OPENING ROUND: FRIDAY, FEB. 2-SUNDAY, FEB. 4
| Date | Match | Time (ET) | Platform |
| Fri., Feb. 2 | France v. Ireland (LIVE) | 2:30 p.m. | Peacock |
| Sat., Feb. 3 | Italy v. England (LIVE) | 9:15 a.m. | Peacock |
| Wales v. Scotland (LIVE) | 11:45 a.m. | Peacock | |
| Sun., Feb. 4 | France v. Ireland* | 7 a.m. | CNBC |
| Italy v. England* | 9 a.m. | CNBC | |
| Wales v. Scotland* | 1 p.m. | CNBC | |
| *Encore presentation | |||
FINAL 2023 SIX NATIONS TABLE
| Pos. | Team | P | W | D | L | PD | Points |
| 1 | Ireland | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 27 |
| 2 | France | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 59 | 20 |
| 3 | Scotland | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 15 |
| 4 | England | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -35 | 10 |
| 5 | Wales | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -63 | 6 |
| 6 | Italy | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | -60 | 1 |
CHAMPIONSHIP FACTS
NBC Sports’ Six Nations coverage is part of an extensive collection of rugby programming across NBC Sports platforms which spans the calendar year, including the HSBC SVNS Series and the 2024 Paris Olympics rugby tournament.
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PGA TOUR LIVE on ESPN+ will present live, four-stream coverage of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, in Pebble Beach, Calif., with an enhanced Main Feed featuring Rory McIlroy and Ludvig Åberg, and an expanded Marquee Groups stream starting tomorrow, Thursday, February 1.
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LeBron James leads the Los Angeles Lakers into Madison Square Garden in an NBA Saturday Primetime matchup against the New York Knicks and Jalen Brunson.
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ESPN is set for another year of industry-leading coverage of Division I college softball, with nearly 200 matchups across its linear platforms: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network, ACC Network and Longhorn Network. The remaining nearly 3,000 games will be streamed on ESPN+, ESPN3, Big 12 Now on ESPN+, SEC Network+ and ACC Network Extra (ACCNX).
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ESPN tips off its WNBA free agency coverage on Thursday, Feb. 1, with a live, one-hour WNBA Free Agency Special at 4 p.m. ET on ESPN2. Host LaChina Robinson will be joined by former WNBA head coach & GM and 2023 Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Carolyn Peck, alongside WNBA reporters Andraya Carter, and Alexa Philippou from studios in Bristol. Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famers Rebecca Lobo and Holly Rowe will join from Waco, Texas, the site of Thursday Primetime women’s college basketball (No. 13 Texas at No. 19 Baylor, 8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN).
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