worse comes to worse you always go to Watch ESPN on your computer, tablet or in last resort phone and sign in with your cable provider and just stream the game live. If you have a laptop and an HDMI cord, you can hook your Laptop up to your TV and either do mirror screen or extended screen so you can stream the game live and watch in on a big screen TV instead of your laptop screen. Still HD and great quality unless you using dial up internet or something. This is how I watch all my TV Shows and movies..for free, without ads, commercials or anything literally the day a new movie is released or a TV show airs even though I have Verizon Fios cable. (seriously check out TVMUSE.com it's genius, legal and free!) It's all about convenience baby! Plus no commercials saves me a boat load of time.