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Holiday sports TV guide: Trojan football, bowl games, World Cup, USC basketball, NFL

There are two huge sports weekends coming up in the next month, with #USC being part of them. We’ll help you plan your schedule.

The holidays are a time for celebrating and feasting, for taking some time to enjoy life at the end of a difficult year in a generally difficult time. Christmas and New Year’s Day are painful times for some, but if at all possible, it’s good to get away from the grind and recharge before the new year. The week between Dec. 25 and Jan. 1 is the one week of the year when the days of the week blur together. Wednesday doesn’t feel like Wednesday, Monday doesn’t feel like Monday. It’s holiday time and a chance to hopefully take a break.

There’s lots of sports on TV this December, with the World Cup adding an ingredient to the mix. Christmas Day is a Sunday, which means the NFL plays most of its games on Saturday, Dec. 24, this year. There’s also a plot twist involving the big bowl games on Jan. 2. (The big bowls are that day because Jan. 1 is an NFL Sunday.)

USC Athletics is part of this feast of sports on TV. Let’s help you plan your schedule so that you can do other holiday activities in certain time slots:

3 keys to victory for Patriots in Week 8 matchup vs Jets

Here are three keys for the Patriots to knock off the Jets and get back to .500 win percentage

The New York Jets are on fire right now at 5-2, while the New England Patriots have had an up and down start to the season at 3-4. With this being the Patriots’ most important game of the season thus far, they will need to do a few things to ensure they cruise to victory on the road.

Unlike last week, the team isn’t stumbling towards kick-off with questions of who will start at quarterback. Coach Bill Belichick has already named Mac Jones as the starter for the game, which should quell all of the Bailey Zappe noise in the lead-up.

With the starting quarterback situation finally decided, these are the keys to victory for the Patriots to get back to .500 win percentage.

 

Report: Sean Payton to join FOX Sports as a studio panelist for 2022

In his first post-New Orleans Saints job, Sean Payton joins FOX Sports’ NFL Sunday broadcast studio panel, via @DillySanders:

In his first post-football move, former New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton will be joining FOX Sports as a studio panelist for 2022 per NBC Sports’ Mike Florio. He’ll step in for NFL Sunday broadcasts during off-weeks for Jimmy Johnson, who has been working remotely throughout the  COVID-19 pandemic. Payton will be joining the crew of Terry Bradshaw. Curt Menefee, Howie Long, Michael Strahan, and Jay Glazer.

Payton dropped some hints of the move last night, updating his Twitter banner to the FOX Sports logo. This does not clear up very much in terms of Payton’s future, as a rumors of a return to football will always be looming, but at least for this season he will not be joining any NFL team.

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Watch: Quenton Nelson vs. A Punter

I can’t personally think of more than a couple people in the NFL who’d be a worse matchup in a fight for a punter than one Quenton Nelson.

I admit, that headline makes me think to a certain degree that Quenton Nelson for some reason laid one of his highlight blocks on a punter Sunday, as the Colts were getting ready to take on the Buccaneers in Tampa.

Before the matchup began however it was Bucs punter Bradley Pinion, a Clemson product, who had a pregame punt hit Nelson, who was going through his warmup on the other side of the field, in the head.

Nelson was reported to be none too pleased as you’ll see below, and confronted Pinion himself.

Nelson punts the ball in the video after a second punt lands closer to him than he’d like.

The Colts entered the day 6-6 on the year and two games behind Houston for the AFC South lead.

I can’t personally think of more than a couple people in the NFL who’d be a worse matchup in a fight for a punter than one Quenton Nelson.