Want to watch a specific matchup, league, sport or even just find a way to fill a specific hole in your obscure sports streaming schedule for the week? Look no further*
(Okay, look a little further, if you’re unsure of what the different symbols mean, as we have an explainer at the bottom of the post.)
CRICKET | CURLING | DARTS | RUGBY | SOCCER | NCAA MLAX | NCAA WLAX | PRO LAX | SQUASH | HANDBALL | AUSSIE RULES | VOLLEYBALL | WOMEN’S HOCKEY
FIFA+, YouTube and RugbyPass TV are fully free streaming options, all others may require subscriptions
SATURDAY
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sat, Mar 21 | AFL | GWS | St. Kilda |
Sat, Mar 21 | Japan Rugby League 1 | Wild Knights | BlackRams |
Sat, Mar 21 | Japan Rugby League 1 | D-Rocks | Spears |
Sat, Mar 21 | Macau First Division | G. Universe | Gala |
Sat, Mar 21 | Super Rugby Pacific | Moana | Crusaders |
Sat, Mar 21 | Macau First Division | Benfica | Must IPO |
Sat, Mar 21 | AFL | Fremantle | Melbourne |
Sat, Mar 21 | Super Rugby Pacific | Waratahs | Blues |
Sat, Mar 21 | PDC | Euro Tour | ET3 - Belgian Darts Open Day 2 - Afternoon session |
Sat, Mar 21 | URC | Lions | Edinburgh |
Sat, Mar 21 | Rwanda Women's Super League | APR WFC | Kamonyi WFC |
Sat, Mar 21 | Top 14 | Clermont | Montpellier |
Sat, Mar 21 | Women's Nat'l Champ. | Pirin 22 | Sevlievo |
Sat, Mar 21 | Primus Ligue Burundi | Muzinga FC | BS Dynamik |
Sat, Mar 21 | Women's World Curling Champ. | Qualfiers | TBC |
Sat, Mar 21 | Kategoria Superiore | KF Bylis | Flamurtari |
Sat, Mar 21 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Estonia | Cyprus |
Sat, Mar 21 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Israel | Georgia |
Sat, Mar 21 | PREM | Harlequins | Gloucester |
Sat, Mar 21 | PREM | Northampton Saints | Newcastle Red Bulls |
Sat, Mar 21 | URC | Sharks | Munster |
Sat, Mar 21 | URC | Benetton | Ospreys |
Sat, Mar 21 | Ligue 1 (Benin) | ASVO | FC Loto |
Sat, Mar 21 | Ligue 1 (Benin) | Bani Ganse | Espoir |
Sat, Mar 21 | Women's EHF Champions League | HC Podravka | Team Esbjerg |
Sat, Mar 21 | PREM | Exeter Chiefs | Sharks |
Sat, Mar 21 | Top 14 | Racing 92 | Castres |
Sat, Mar 21 | Top 14 | Toulon | Stade Francais |
Sat, Mar 21 | Top 14 | Montauban | Bayonne |
Sat, Mar 21 | Top 14 | Perpigan | Lyon |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Cornell | Princeton |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Richmond | UMass |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Michigan | Johns Hopkins |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Towson | Stony Brook |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | UPenn | Yale |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | BC | North Carolina |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Dartmouth | Florida |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Navy | Holy Cross |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Boston U. | Loyola (MD) |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Duke | Virginia Tech |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Georgetown | Marquette |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | St. Joseph's | Richmond |
Sat, Mar 21 | Leone Rock Premier League | East End Lions FC | Bo Rangers |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Ohio State | Rutgers |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Georgetown | Syracuse |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Denver | Duke |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Clemson | Pitt |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Florida St. | Notre Dame |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Army | Bucknell |
Sat, Mar 21 | Kategoria Superiore | KF Teuta | FK Partizani |
Sat, Mar 21 | Kategoria Superiore | KF Vllaznia | FC Dinamo City |
Sat, Mar 21 | Women's EHF Champions League | DVSC Schaeffler | Odense Handbold |
Sat, Mar 21 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Belgium | Greece |
Sat, Mar 21 | URC | Glasgow | Leinster |
Sat, Mar 21 | PDC | Euro Tour | ET3 - Belgian Darts Open Day 2 - Evening session |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Syracuse | Virginia |
Sat, Mar 21 | LOVB | LOVB Salt Lake | LOVB Atlanta |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Maryland | Penn St. |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Northwestern | Oregon |
Sat, Mar 21 | Women's EHF Europe League | Motherson Mosonmagyarova | MOL Esztergom |
Sat, Mar 21 | PWHL | Minnesota Frost | Vancouver Goldeneyes |
Sat, Mar 21 | Women's World Curling Champ. | Semi Finals | TBC |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Arizona St. | Stanford |
Sat, Mar 21 | Top 14 | La Rochelle | Pau |
Sat, Mar 21 | SKNFA Premier League | Newtown United FC | St. Peters FC |
Sat, Mar 21 | PWHL | Seattle Current | Boston Fleet |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Army | North Carolina |
Sat, Mar 21 | SKNFA Premier League | Cayon FC | Sandy Point FC |
Sat, Mar 21 | Provo Premier League | Provo | Teachers FC |
Sat, Mar 21 | PSA | Indian Open | Semi Finals |
Sat, Mar 21 | NLL | Las Vegas Desert Dogs | Rochester Knighthawks |
Sat, Mar 21 | LOVB | LOVB Houston | LOVB Madison |
Sat, Mar 21 | SKNFA Premier League | Old Road United Jets | Bath United |
Sat, Mar 21 | Provo Premier League | SWA Sharks | Academy Eagles |
Sat, Mar 21 | NLL | Calgary Roughnecks | Colorado Mammoth |
Sat, Mar 21 | Women's T20I | New Zealand | South Africa |
Sat, Mar 21 | NLL | Buffalo Bandits | San Diego Seals |
SUNDAY
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sun, Mar 22 | AFL | Port Adelaide | Essendon |
Sun, Mar 22 | Japan Rugby League 1 | Verblitz | BlueRevs |
Sun, Mar 22 | Japan Rugby League 1 | Brave Lupus | Heat |
Sun, Mar 22 | Macau First Division | Ching Fung | Chiba |
Sun, Mar 22 | Men's T20I | New Zealand | South Africa |
Sun, Mar 22 | AFL | West Coast | North Melbourne |
Sun, Mar 22 | Macau First Division | Hang Sai | University of Macau |
Sun, Mar 22 | PDC | Euro Tour | ET3 - Belgian Darts Open Day 3 - Round of 16 |
Sun, Mar 22 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Slovakia | Ukraine |
Sun, Mar 22 | Women's World Curling Champ. | Bronze Medal | TBC |
Sun, Mar 22 | URC | DHL Stormers | Dragons RFC |
Sun, Mar 22 | Rwanda Women's Super League | FOREVERVWFC | MACUBA WFC |
Sun, Mar 22 | Women's EHF Champions League | BV Borussia Dortmund | FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria |
Sun, Mar 22 | Women's EHF Europe League | HC Lokomotiva Zagreb | JDA Bourgogne Dijon |
Sun, Mar 22 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Lithuania | Serbia |
Sun, Mar 22 | Campionata Sammarinese | Tre Penne | Folgore |
Sun, Mar 22 | Kategoria Superiore | KF Tirana | Vora |
Sun, Mar 22 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Poland | Latvia |
Sun, Mar 22 | PREM | Leicester Tigers | Bristol Bears |
Sun, Mar 22 | Ligue 1 (Benin) | Dynamo Abomey | Ayema |
Sun, Mar 22 | Ligue 1 (Benin) | JS Pobe | Hodio |
Sun, Mar 22 | Women's EHF Champions League | Ikast Handbold | Gloria Bistrita |
Sun, Mar 22 | NCAA W | Michigan | Penn State |
Sun, Mar 22 | NCAA W | USC | Maryland |
Sun, Mar 22 | NCAA W | Ohio State | Johns Hopkins |
Sun, Mar 22 | NCAA W | Brown | Yale |
Sun, Mar 22 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Kosovo | Bosnia & Herzegovina |
Sun, Mar 22 | NCAA W | UConn | Denver |
Sun, Mar 22 | Women's EHF Europe League | Nykobing Flaster Handbold | Thuringer HC |
Sun, Mar 22 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Romania | Türkiye |
Sun, Mar 22 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Montenegro | Finland |
Sun, Mar 22 | Women's World Curling Champ. | Gold Medal | TBC |
Sun, Mar 22 | SKNFA Premier League | Dieppe Bay Eagles FC | St. Pauls United |
Sun, Mar 22 | Top 14 | Bordeaux-Begles | Toulouse |
Sun, Mar 22 | SKNFA Premier League | Conaree FC | Village Superstars |
Sun, Mar 22 | PSA | Indian Open | Finals |
Sun, Mar 22 | PWHL | Montreal Victoire | Ottawa Charge |
CRICKET 🏏
The bat-and-ball game. Three different styles of play — Test, One Day International (ODI) and T20 — separated by the number of overs (chances for a team to score runs) available to each teams. We’ll track all three here, but our actual written coverage will focus mostly on T20, the shortest, and increasingly most popular, of the three.
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sat, Mar 21 | Women's T20I | New Zealand | South Africa |
Sun, Mar 22 | Men's T20I | New Zealand | South Africa |
CURLING 🥌
Scottish in origin, curling has gained famed in the US over the last 28 years, since being reintroduced to the Olympics at the 1998 Nagano Games. Curling tournaments are known as “bonspiels” and the largest one is The Brier, named after a tobacco product made by its original sponsor.
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sat, Mar 21 | Women's World Curling Champ. | Qualfiers | TBC |
Sat, Mar 21 | Women's World Curling Champ. | Semi Finals | TBC |
Sun, Mar 22 | Women's World Curling Champ. | Bronze Medal | TBC |
Sun, Mar 22 | Women's World Curling Champ. | Gold Medal | TBC |
DARTS 🎯
The sport that started it all for us, and still our favorite. Nearly all of the televised tournaments in the sport are run by the PRO Darts Corporation (PDC), especially for affiliate tours like those in Asia.
Because of the way time (zones) work, nearly every single tournament happens somewhere between “too early in the morning for most people” and “right in the middle of the workday” but we’re sure you’ll be able to figure how to get it in.
PROGRAMMING NOTE: If a PDC tournament is available on Peacock and you have Peacock, we strongly recommend watching the event on there, as it is the exact same broadcast as the PDC app and doesn’t have to be streamed from your phone or other device to watch on TV.
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sat, Mar 21 | PDC | Euro Tour | ET3 - Belgian Darts Open Day 2 - Afternoon session |
Sat, Mar 21 | PDC | Euro Tour | ET3 - Belgian Darts Open Day 2 - Evening session |
Sun, Mar 22 | PDC | Euro Tour | ET3 - Belgian Darts Open Day 3 - Round of 16 |
Sun, Mar 22 | PDC | Euro Tour | ET3 - Belgian Darts Open Day 3 - QF-F |
RUGBY 🏉
Rugby (both 15s and 7s) is almost certainly the hardest sport for us to keep track of, as the sheer number of leagues is a bit overwhelming for even the most seasoned fans. And that’s before taking into account the disjointed nature of most of their schedules that result from the sport’s emphasis on international competitions which pull players away from leagues for weeks at a time.
All of which means that every weekend (and some weekdays) rugby is almost always on in one form or another, but not always in the way you might be anticipating.
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sat, Mar 21 | Japan Rugby League 1 | Wild Knights | BlackRams |
Sat, Mar 21 | Japan Rugby League 1 | D-Rocks | Spears |
Sat, Mar 21 | Super Rugby Pacific | Moana | Crusaders |
Sat, Mar 21 | Super Rugby Pacific | Waratahs | Blues |
Sat, Mar 21 | URC | Lions | Edinburgh |
Sat, Mar 21 | Top 14 | Clermont | Montpellier |
Sat, Mar 21 | PREM | Harlequins | Gloucester |
Sat, Mar 21 | URC | Sharks | Munster |
Sat, Mar 21 | PREM | Northampton Saints | Newcastle Red Bulls |
Sat, Mar 21 | URC | Benetton | Ospreys |
Sat, Mar 21 | PREM | Exeter Chiefs | Sharks |
Sat, Mar 21 | Top 14 | Racing 92 | Castres |
Sat, Mar 21 | Top 14 | Toulon | Stade Francais |
Sat, Mar 21 | Top 14 | Montauban | Bayonne |
Sat, Mar 21 | Top 14 | Perpigan | Lyon |
Sat, Mar 21 | URC | Glasgow | Leinster |
Sat, Mar 21 | Top 14 | La Rochelle | Pau |
Sun, Mar 22 | Japan Rugby League 1 | Brave Lupus | Heat |
Sun, Mar 22 | Japan Rugby League 1 | Verblitz | BlueRevs |
Sun, Mar 22 | URC | DHL Stormers | Dragons RFC |
Sun, Mar 22 | PREM | Leicester Tigers | Bristol Bears |
Sun, Mar 22 | Top 14 | Bordeaux-Begles | Toulouse |
SOCCER ⚽️
To be as clear as is humanly possible, association football is not obscure at all, obviously including in America (as we’ll be hosting the World Cup in a few months). HOWEVER, there are any number of obscure leagues and cups that we will be tracking.
Because how else are you going to know when your favorite Sammarinese team is playing against their biggest rival and how to watch it?
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sat, Mar 21 | Macau First Division | G. Universe | Gala |
Sat, Mar 21 | Macau First Division | Benfica | Must IPO |
Sat, Mar 21 | Rwanda Women's Super League | APR WFC | Kamonyi WFC |
Sat, Mar 21 | Women's Nat'l Champ. | Pirin 22 | Sevlievo |
Sat, Mar 21 | Primus Ligue Burundi | Muzinga FC | BS Dynamik |
Sat, Mar 21 | Kategoria Superiore | KF Bylis | Flamurtari |
Sat, Mar 21 | Ligue 1 (Benin) | ASVO | FC Loto |
Sat, Mar 21 | Ligue 1 (Benin) | Bani Ganse | Espoir |
Sat, Mar 21 | Leone Rock Premier League | East End Lions FC | Bo Rangers |
Sat, Mar 21 | Kategoria Superiore | KF Teuta | FK Partizani |
Sat, Mar 21 | Kategoria Superiore | KF Vllaznia | FC Dinamo City |
Sat, Mar 21 | SKNFA Premier League | Newtown United FC | St. Peters FC |
Sat, Mar 21 | SKNFA Premier League | Cayon FC | Sandy Point FC |
Sat, Mar 21 | Provo Premier League | Provo | Teachers FC |
Sat, Mar 21 | SKNFA Premier League | Old Road United Jets | Bath United |
Sat, Mar 21 | Provo Premier League | SWA Sharks | Academy Eagles |
Sun, Mar 22 | Macau First Division | Ching Fung | Chiba |
Sun, Mar 22 | Macau First Division | Hang Sai | University of Macau |
Sun, Mar 22 | Rwanda Women's Super League | FOREVERVWFC | MACUBA WFC |
Sun, Mar 22 | Campionata Sammarinese | Tre Penne | Folgore |
Sun, Mar 22 | Kategoria Superiore | KF Tirana | Vora |
Sun, Mar 22 | Ligue 1 (Benin) | Dynamo Abomey | Ayema |
Sun, Mar 22 | Ligue 1 (Benin) | JS Pobe | Hodio |
Sun, Mar 22 | SKNFA Premier League | Dieppe Bay Eagles FC | St. Pauls United |
Sun, Mar 22 | SKNFA Premier League | Conaree FC | Village Superstars |
LACROSSE 🥍
We track men’s and women’s lacrosse at the collegiate and pro levels in field and box forms.
MEN’S D1 LACROSSE 🚹 🎓🥍
Although we only include Top 20/25 games for the “big” list up top, in this part of town we include everything. This is what we call in the business “service journalism” as we have found it incredibly frustrating how disjointed the entire scheduling and streaming apparatus is for the sport at that level. It is our one true calling to put all this stuff in the same place.
Time/ | League/ | Team 1 | Team 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Utah | Virginia |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Detroit Mercy | Wagner |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Cornell | Princeton |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Richmond | UMass |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Michigan | Johns Hopkins |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Towson | Stony Brook |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | UPenn | Yale |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Albany | UMBC |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Marquette | Bellarmine |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | High Point | Delaware |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Fairfield | Drexel |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Holy Cross | Lehigh |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Merrimack | Mt. St. Mary's |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Air Force | Providence |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Canisius | Sacred Heart |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Manhattan | Siena |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Ohio State | Rutgers |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Monmouth | Hofstra |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | VMI | Mercyhurst |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Brown | St. John's |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Georgetown | Syracuse |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Denver | Duke |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Robert Morris | Cleveland St. |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Boston U. | Colgate |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Maryland | Penn St. |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Bucknell | Loyola (MD) |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Army | North Carolina |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Vermont | Bryant |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Iona | Marist |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA M | Binghamton | NJIT |
WOMEN’S D1 LACROSSE 🚺🎓🥍
Time/ | League/ | Team 1 | Team 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Canisius | Manhattan |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Lafayette | Colgate |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Temple | East Carolina |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Vanderbilt | Old Dominion |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | BC | North Carolina |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Dartmouth | Florida |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Navy | Holy Cross |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Boston U. | Loyola (MD) |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Duke | Virginia Tech |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | James Madison | South Florida |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Fairleigh Dickinson | LIU |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | UMass-Lowell | Albany |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | New Hampshire | Binghamton |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Columbia | Cornell |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Davidson | George Washington |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Le Moyne | Howard |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Sacred Heart | Iona |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Queens | Jacksonville |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Cal | Louisville |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Georgetown | Marquette |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Mt. St. Mary's | Merrimack |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | St. Joseph's | Richmond |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Coastal Carolina | Stetson |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Delaware St. | Stonehill |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | La Salle | VCU |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Xavier | Villanova |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Towson | William And Mary |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Clemson | Pitt |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Florida St. | Notre Dame |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Army | Bucknell |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Mercyhurst | Central Conn. |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | George Mason | Duquesne |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Siena | Fairfield |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | UNC Charlotte | Gardner-Webb |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Delaware | Lindenwood |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Rider | Marist |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Syracuse | Virginia |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | New Haven | Wagner |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Northwestern | Oregon |
Sat, Mar 21 | NCAA W | Arizona St. | Stanford |
Sun, Mar 22 | NCAA W | Michigan | Penn State |
Sun, Mar 22 | NCAA W | USC | Maryland |
Sun, Mar 22 | NCAA W | Ohio State | Johns Hopkins |
Sun, Mar 22 | NCAA W | Brown | Yale |
Sun, Mar 22 | NCAA W | Hofstra | Campbell |
Sun, Mar 22 | NCAA W | Youngstown St. | Cincinnati |
Sun, Mar 22 | NCAA W | Monmouth | Radford |
PRO LACROSSE 🥍
Pro lacrosse basically comes in two forms, box or field, with the former taking place in hockey rinks and, honestly, looking like a hockey game with players on their feet instead of skates. Also, more goals. WAY more goals. The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is the box lacrosse league, while the men’s Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) and the Women’s Lacrosse League (WLL) are field lacrosse leagues.
Time/ | League/ | Team 1 | Team 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sat, Mar 21 | NLL | Las Vegas Desert Dogs | Rochester Knighthawks |
Sat, Mar 21 | NLL | Calgary Roughnecks | Colorado Mammoth |
Sat, Mar 21 | NLL | Buffalo Bandits | San Diego Seals |
SQUASH 🏸
Somewhere between tennis, badminton, racquetball and jai alai sits squash. We know about as much as you do, unless you’re a huge squash fan, than you almost certainly know more than us. But we’re going to learn and you’re going to be so proud.
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sat, Mar 21 | PSA | Indian Open | Semi Finals |
Sun, Mar 22 | PSA | Indian Open | Finals |
HANDBALL 🤾
In our hometown, we had a European Handball intramural league which played after school to a full gymnasium most of the time. Apparently our enthusiasm for the game has spread across Europe, which has handball leagues in places we didn’t even know existed.
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sat, Mar 21 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Estonia | Cyprus |
Sat, Mar 21 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Israel | Georgia |
Sat, Mar 21 | Women's EHF Champions League | HC Podravka | Team Esbjerg |
Sat, Mar 21 | Women's EHF Champions League | DVSC Schaeffler | Odense Handbold |
Sat, Mar 21 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Belgium | Greece |
Sat, Mar 21 | Women's EHF Europe League | Motherson Mosonmagyarova | MOL Esztergom |
Sun, Mar 22 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Slovakia | Ukraine |
Sun, Mar 22 | Women's EHF Champions League | BV Borussia Dortmund | FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria |
Sun, Mar 22 | Women's EHF Europe League | HC Lokomotiva Zagreb | JDA Bourgogne Dijon |
Sun, Mar 22 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Lithuania | Serbia |
Sun, Mar 22 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Poland | Latvia |
Sun, Mar 22 | Women's EHF Champions League | Ikast Handbold | Gloria Bistrita |
Sun, Mar 22 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Kosovo | Bosnia & Herzegovina |
Sun, Mar 22 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Montenegro | Finland |
Sun, Mar 22 | Women's EHF Europe League | Nykobing Flaster Handbold | Thuringer HC |
Sun, Mar 22 | IHF World Champ. Euro Quals | Romania | Türkiye |
Aussie Rules Football 🦘🏈
Australia Rules Football, or ‘Aussie Rules,’ is one of the “big three” not-actually-foot-based ‘football’ games, along with American/”gridiron” football and the rugbies (union and league).
If you are unsure of the differences between Aussie and rugby, here is a quick explainer on how the game works (mostly written by Brad):
Played on a cricket oval, so the field is massive
Points are scored via kicks through two sets of uprights at either of the field, which sort of look like this: I I I I
Through the center goalposts (without a defender touching it) is 6 points (defender touching is 1 point)
Kick though outside goalposts is 1 point
Tackling is allowed, climbing up a players back to catch a kick is allowed.
If a player cleanly catches a kick, it is called a “mark”
They get 10 seconds before a defender can try to tackle them (they can only kick it and can’t run until the ref says “play on”
PROGRAMMING NOTE: All AFL games are available on Watch AFL. However, it is one of the most expensive streaming services in sports — $20/week, $39/month,$182/year, — and most of the games are available in the US on the Fox Sports family of networks. We’ve listed below which of those channels you can see each game on, which we strongly recommend instead of paying almost $200 a year for the privilege. Especially if you are only Aussie curious and not Aussie committed. Unless you are also an insomniac who uses the games to fall asleep and find the yearly subscription to be cheaper than gummies or melatonin.
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sat, Mar 21 | AFL | GWS | St. Kilda |
Sat, Mar 21 | AFL | Fremantle | Melbourne |
Sun, Mar 22 | AFL | Port Adelaide | Essendon |
Sun, Mar 22 | AFL | West Coast | North Melbourne |
VOLLEYBALL 🏐
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sat, Mar 21 | LOVB | LOVB Salt Lake | LOVB Atlanta |
Sat, Mar 21 | LOVB | LOVB Houston | LOVB Madison |
WOMEN’S HOCKEY 🚺 🏒
DATE/ | LEAGUE/ | TEAM 1 | TEAM 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sat, Mar 21 | PWHL | Minnesota Frost | Vancouver Goldeneyes |
Sat, Mar 21 | PWHL | Seattle Current | Boston Fleet |
Sun, Mar 22 | PWHL | Montreal Victoire | Ottawa Charge |
*Don’t see your favorite league or sport covered above? Comment below with what’s missing and, if you can, give us a link to the schedule and/or where it’s available to stream (preferably for free)
A FEW NOTES
Each sport we track gets its own emoji, to have them each stand out in their own ways amidst a sea of text and lines.
Most sports will be obvious, though there may be a few that you wouldn't know unless you know, like snooker, which uses red and blue balls (yes, we know) in the sport. We’ve decided to use the red ball (🔴) for the sport because it stands out a little better.
For squash, we used the badminton (🏸) emoji, because there is no squash emoji and “shrunken tennis ball emoji with two piles of money next to it to show it’s a sport so wealthy the have private aviation companies sponsor their tournaments” seemed weird.
Finally, we used a magic wand (🪄) for jai alai because there is no jai alai emoji and the league we track was/is(?) called magic city jai alai.)
Gender1 (🚺,🚹, et al.) comes first, at least in the emoji “coding" we use. This is not done to make a political statement (read our newsletter, you’ll get enough of them there) but because the sports are usually described in that order (i.e., no one in real life says hockey “women's style,” as that would be insane. They say "women’s hockey".)
Any match in a team sport that has flags2 next to team names denotes either an international qualifier or tournament, like the T20 or FIFA Women’s World Cup (WWC), a tournament match for a regional competition (like the EHF Champions League) or multi-country league (such as the United Rugby Championship or URC). Single nation leagues, like France’s Top 14, will feature the country’s flag (in the case, 🇫🇷) as part of the league signifiers.
HOWEVER, if a team is featured in a single-nation league, but is in involved in an international competition, such as the Champions League-style tournaments, they will appear with a flag next to them even when competing in domestic leagues.
These 🥇🥈🥉 refer to the tier a league or tournament is for their country or region, the latter of which are signified by 🌍 (Africa/Central Asia), 🌎 (the Americas) or 🌏 (East Asia/Oceania). For European tournaments (both the national team championship and club champions’ league competitions) we use the European Union flag 🇪🇺.
For international competitions whose venues/locations change, like Rugby/Cricket World Cups or the aforementioned URC, this symbol will be used: 🌐.
For tournaments that occur in one fixed country year-over-year, we will use a flag of the country it takes place in.
The flags next an individual competitor’s name in an international individual sport, like squash or snooker, symbolize whichever countries the participants represent, not necessarily where they were born or even live.
1 is a construct
2 Or, in the case of the West Indies (🌴) in cricket or (combined) Ireland (🍀) in many sports, including cricket, symbols used by the teams themselves in lieu of flags.