Meanwhile, at ESPN, the three-hour preview show begins at 11 a.m. with the Sunday NFL Countdown crew. The noon half-hour sounds like the one to watch: ESPN profiles New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick's Naval Academy roots, and Kenny Mayne seeks tickets to the game while pressured by his Sopranos pals from this season's earlier Tony Sparano/Sopranos bit.
If it were up to me, the NFL wouldn't play preseason games, but I will acknowledge that the Ravens' move to put their exhibition season (along with other, to-be-determined programming) on WBAL/Channel 11 should promote a certain degree of synergy with the club's radio home at WBAL (1090 AM) and 98 Rock (97.9 FM), all owned by Hearst.
Saturday night's U.S. Figure Skating Championships (featuring Bel Air's Kimmie Meissner) on WBAL was Baltimore's top-rated sports show of the week. It finished just ahead of Monday's American Gladiators, another NBC show carried by WBAL. You can debate whether the latter really is sports programming, though I'd let you engage in that discussion with Wolf.
