Best-bets for Aug. 6: Tough “Truth,” tough athletes
1) Olympics. In a day filled with finals, things start early and continue late. In the morning, Peacock has six track-and-field finals (6-11 a.m. ET), NBC Sports Network has men’s bronze-medal soccer (7:30a.m.) and USA has women’s field-hockey finals and volleyball semi-finals (6-10 a.m.). At night, NBC has the men’s basketball gold-medal game (an earlier game is shown here) at 10:30 p.m. ET. Also at night (after 8), NBC reruns many of the day’s track finals and CNBC has the bronze and gold matches in men’s beach volleyball. Read more…