Monday is a wall-to-wall sports night in North America. The NFL’s Week 7 Monday Night Football game sends the Washington Commanders to face the San Francisco 49ers at 8:15 p.m. ET, while baseball’s American League pennant race continues with the Cleveland Guardians at the Tampa Bay Rays in ALCS Game 5 at Tropicana Field, first pitch 8:08 p.m. ET.
On the ice, early first-period scores had the New York Rangers up 1-0 on the Anaheim Ducks at Madison Square Garden and the Philadelphia Flyers up 1-0 on the Colorado Avalanche. Later, the San Jose Sharks visit the Toronto Maple Leafs at 7:30 p.m. ET — William Nylander played despite missing the morning skate with illness, while John Tavares is out week-to-week with a lower-body injury — and the Pittsburgh Penguins visit the Utah Mammoth at 9:00 p.m. ET. The WNBA Finals also continue with Game 2, Atlanta Dream at Golden State Valkyries, the Valkyries leading 1-0.
Soccer takes over Tuesday: Champions League Matchday 3 opens with Fenerbahçe vs Slavia Prague and Sabah vs Borussia Dortmund at 12:45 p.m. ET, then Paris Saint-Germain vs Barcelona, Liverpool vs Villarreal, Manchester City vs AEK Athens, Napoli vs Bodø/Glimt, Porto vs PSV, Roma vs Slovan Bratislava and Stuttgart vs Atlético Madrid at 3:00 p.m. ET.
Barcelona arrive in Paris having won their opening two Champions League matches, and PSG beat Manchester City 4-2 last time out — setting up the tie of the round less than 24 hours after Monday’s North American slate wraps.
