Classic Bowling: 2006 Etonic Championship

Noon, ESPN Classic

OK, one, it happened last year. Two, it’s bowling, for Earl Anthony’s sake. Couldn’t they show the Flutie “Hail Mary” game or N.C. State and Jimmy V beating Phi Slamma Jamma for the hundredth time?

NFL Films Presents

1:30 p.m., ESPN

Roundtable discussion of quarterbacks who have backed up Brett Favre. I kid you not. “Guys Who’ve Sold Beer at Soldier Field, Wired For Sound” must have fallen through.

MLS: Dallas at Columbus

3 p.m., Fox Soccer Channel

Battling with the Blue Jackets for fourth-most significant sports enterprise in Ohio’s capital city behind the Buckeyes, Buckeyes and Buckeyes.

Triathlon: Ironman USA

4 p.m., Versus

Highlights from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Isn’t that French for ‘cardiac arrest’?

NHL: Hurricanes at Maple Leafs

7 p.m., Versus

Because there is nothing more exciting than the first week of a nine-month hockey season.

Rooters

8 p.m., NESN

A two-part look at a Red Sox fan club. Thanks for all these extra days off during the playoffs, Major League Baseball. We really needed ’em.

NFL’s Greatest Games: 1996 AFC Championship

8 p.m., ESPN2

Colts at Steelers. Back when Jim Harbaugh was nearly leading Indy to an improbable Super Bowl appearance instead of out-coaching Pete Carroll at Stanford.