November
November provides a little respite from the extremely busy October. The MLB and WNBA playoffs are over but that doesn’t mean there’s not a lot of great sports content for your guests to enjoy.
Football starts the second half of its season. For your Thanksgiving classics, you have the Bears vs. the Lions and the Eagles vs the Cowboys. You also have TCU against Texas Tech for NCAAF.
Novembers also gives us the return of basketball with both the NBA and NCAA. The NCAAM starts on Sunday Nov. 1 with Notre Dame vs Villanova early in the morning with a game in Rome, Italy (9:30am ET) for the Eternal City Tipoff; and High Point v Liberty with a midnight tipoff (yes midnight). On the women side of things, the Notre Dame vs. Villanova Eternal City game is at a more reasonable start time (12pm ET).
On the pro-side, the NBA Cup continues it’s in-season tournament with group play events every Friday, starting in October and going through November. There are also games on Tues. November 24th and Weds the 25th.
November also includes UEFA: Champions and Europa matches, PGA and LPGA tournaments, and F1 racing.
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October
As we head into fall, we head into a great sports season. Between the NFL and NCAA completing their first month, the MLB starts their post-season run, and hockey returns.
While a lot of eyes will be set on football, the MLB Post-Season always delivers on some exciting moments. It starts at the beginning of the month with the MLB Wild Card games the first week of the month, then leading into Divisional Series. The World Series Game 1 starts on the 23rd.
Hockey also returns to TV. The NHL regular season officially starts on September 29th, but the meat of the season start is in October. Monday October 13th, the NHL’s “Frozen Frenzy” takes place. All 32 teams will play on ESPN networks, staggered over the course of the day. This provides some great marketing opportunities for sports bars looking to win over hockey fans.
And, of course, there’s football. At the start of the month, the league is a quarter of the way through the season and by the end of it, we’re halfway done. We can start to get a better feel for what the playoff push will look like.
You also have UEFA Champions and Premiere League action throughout the month, as well.
We are officially in football season. The best time of the year for sports bars. You’ll have football multiple nights a week for the next five months.
It starts with the first week of NCAA football kicking off on Thursday, September 3rd between Colorado at Georgia Tech; Idaho at Utah; UAB at Illinois; and Eastern Illinois at Minnesota. Meanwhile the NFL season starts on Wednesday, September 9th with the New England Patriots visiting the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers visiting the LA Rams on Weds the 10th.
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Outside of football, you have the U.S. Open running for two weeks, the LGPA Solheim Cup on the 11th through 13th, and the PGA President’s Cup from the 24th-27th.
It’s wild to think about, but the MLB regular season is also wrapping up. Wild Card games start at the end of the month, leading into the rest of postseason play.
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