The Week In Tv Sports

Highlights

SUNDAY 6/24
? US Outdoor Track & Field Championships
CBS 3 PM (LIVE), ESPN2 5 PM (TAPE DELAY)
Sleepy Eugene, Ore., hallowed home of distance-running legend Steve Prefontaine, is the site of this megameet. Competitors are expected to include Maurice Greene (running the 100 and 200 meters), Marion Jones (200 meters and long jump), Gail Devers (100-meter hurdles) and Suzy Favor Hamilton (1,500 meters).

MONDAY 6/25
? Wimbledon
TNT MONDAY AND TUESDAY 8 AM, 4 PM; WEDNESDAY 11 AM; THURSDAY AND FRIDAY 11 AM, 7 PM; CNN/SI, MONDAY-FRIDAY, 9 PM
The VH1 Behind the Music episode that is Jennifer Capriati's life continues at the All England Club. The onetime teen phenom turned teen washout has returned as the endorsement-ready story of the year. After winning the Australian and French Opens, the 25-year-old Capriati aims for the third leg of the Grand Slam. On the men's side seven-time champion Pete Sampras, whose life fits more into the Happy Days model, looks to rebound from a typical early exit at the French Open.

TUESDAY 6/26
?The Season: Tiger Woods in the U.S. Open
ESPN 8 PM
The first installment of a new monthly program presents an hourlong, behind-the-scenes look at Tiger's Open week. The network kept a camera and mike handy to record every Woods word. On July 5 The Season will offer the same saturation treatment of the 76ers during the NBA Finals.

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SATURDAY 6/23-SUNDAY 6/24
? Giants at Cardinals
FX SATURDAY 8 PM, ESPN SUNDAY 8 PM
Welcome to Taterfest 2001 at Busch Stadium, featuring King Spud, St. Louis's Mark McGwire, and the man who would mash his record, San Francisco's Barry Bonds (above). Already Bonds is halfway to history. With 36 home runs through Sunday, he was on pace to surpass by 15 McGwire's single-season mark of 70. The underachieving Giants haven't gotten as much bang for Bonds's bashes as they would have liked; they were only 17-14 when he homered. The Cardinals at last have Big Mac back (he missed 45 games with tendinitis in his right knee) and can counter the bilious Bonds with a budding belter, 21-year-old rookie third baseman Albert Pujols (20 dingers).

ALL TIMES EASTERN. SCHEDULES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.