2012 SUMMER OLYMPICS
NBC Sports Network, 2:15 p.m. ET
At 2:15 p.m. ET, NBC Sports Network presents live coverage of the gold medal match in women’s soccer, with the resilient USA team facing, in this year’s Olympic final, the efficient and impressive squad from Japan. The match that got the USA here, a thriller of a game against Canada, was perhaps the most exciting soccer game I’ve ever seen – with the US scoring the winning goal in the final minute of extra overtime, and emerging as victors, 4-3, without lining up for a shootout, which was imminent in less than a minute of play. Even with so many other events occurring today, this one – in which Japan gets to defend its 2011 World Cup victory against this very team – easily gets the gold so far as I’m concerned.