HD Sports News  

After good news about the Tour de France being in HD as well as Wimbeldon, there is some bad news finally. The British Open has once again fallen into the pits of SD up-conversion. The British Open Golf Tournament, scheduled to begin Thursday the 16th will not be in High Definition on TNT or ABC again.

The 2009 Tour de France will be broadcast in the United States on Versus. This is the first time every stage of the Tour de France will be in HDTV starting July 4. Also, Lance Armstrong is making his comeback this year, so it should be very exciting.

With college football season 69 days away here are some notes about the television coverage of the college football season. We are currently creating the schedule so be sure to check back to see what games will be in HD this year.

With college football only 70 days away it is time to get started on some pre-season information that can be useful throughout the year. Below is the Bowl Schedule with the conferences that are affiliated with each game. But every time I see the bowls I dream of a playoff.

For those of you who follow the twitter feed and saw my comment about a 7-0 loss to Spain may now gloat in the comments (although I highly doubt anyone expected that outcome). The USA pulled one of the most unexpected upsets I have had the pleasure of watching. Jozy Altidore appears to have arrived on an international stage after that great goal in the first half. The United States have made the final of the Confederations Cup for the first time. Also, this is probably the biggest splash the United States have made in the international game.

The Mountain West Conference is the only conference to not have signed the BCS contract, and as such have submitted a plan to make college football have a playoff. There are a few interesting things here.
1. Forming a selection committee similar to the way the NCAA tournament works.
2. Including or excluding automatic qualifying [...]

The best of three College World Series Final begins today 6/22 with the Texas Longhorns taking on the LSU Tigers (this matchup makes me salivate for football season 73 more days untill college football begins). Texas was the number one seed coming into the tournament but LSU has been on a tear making it to the Final.

Wimbeldon is set to begin this Monday 6/22/2009. There will be a large quantity of HD coverage and we have it all below. ESPN2 will be covering the grass court through the early rounds. Then NBC will have coverage leading up to and including the Men’s and Women’s finals.

Once again the Mets are in the highlighted game of the week as they face the Tampa Bay Rays. The Rays have felt kind of a drop off from last season’s surprise run to the world series, but still stand to make a run. 72% of the country will get this game, the rest of the country will be split between the other two games.

NBC and ESPN will be covering the US Open this year with nine hours of HD coverage on Thursday and Friday. On Saturday NBC will have exclusive coverage on the weekend with six hours on Saturday and five and a half hours on Sunday.