Top 15 Cable Sports Events: March 31 - April 2, 2017

NASCAR tops a very active weekend in cable sports programming, drawing a robust four million viewers, for FS1. The race was held at one of the more traditional and historic tracks, in Martinsville, VA.

Opening day for Major League Baseball, pushed all three games into the top 15, for ESPN. The primetime, Cubs vs Cardinals match up was tops in the A18-49 demographic, with a 1.2 rating, and drew 3.6 million viewers. The early game, Yanks vs Rays, brought in 1.3 million viewers and the late afternoon game, Giants vs D'backs, was just over one million.

The women's championship basketball game was the second most watched sports event of the weekend, collecting 3.8 million viewers, with a 6:10 start time. It did avoid most of the tougher competition, on Sunday night, but it still drew a strong number of viewers.

Rank	Day	Show	Net	Time	P2*	A18-49
1	Sun	NASCAR Cup Racing	FS1	2:00 PM	3,963	0.77
2	Sun	Women's Champ: MISS v SC	ESPN	6:11 PM	3,827	0.81
3	Sun	Sun Night Baseball: CHI v STL	ESPN	8:29 PM	3,616	1.16
4	Fri	Women's Champ: MISS v SC	ESPN2	9:54 PM	2,763	0.65
5	Fri	NBA: HOU v GS	ESPN	10:36 PM	2,213	0.89
6	Fri	NBA: SA v OKC	ESPN	8:03 PM	1,609	0.61
7	Fri	Women's Tourney	ESPN2	7:30 PM	1,497	0.26
8	Sun	MLB: NY v TB	ESPN	1:00 PM	1,302	0.45
9	Sun	NHRA: LAS VEGAS	FS1	6:14 PM	1,025	0.20
10	Sun	PGA Tour	GOLF	1:00 PM	1,022	0.14
11	Sun	MLB: SF v ARZ	ESPN2	4:00 PM	1,019	0.37
12	Fri	Bellator MMA Live	SPIKE	9:00 PM	907	0.38
13	Sat	PGA Tour	GOLF	1:00 PM	724	0.08
14	Sun	PL Soccer: MAN v ARS	NBCSN	10:57 AM	631	0.24
15	Fri	PGA Tour	GOLF	4:00 PM	621	0.07

* viewership (,000)