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How to watch the 2024 Puppy Bowl with or without cable: Starting time, livestream options, more
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While most of this weekend’s focus is on Super Bowl 2024, there’s another big game happening Sunday that’s giving sports fans serious paws. That’s right: It’s the Puppy Bowl. The 2024 Puppy Bowl airs before Super Bowl LVIII, with Team Ruff and Team Fluff competing for the Lombarky Trophy.
What is the Puppy Bowl? Picture a Super Bowl for pups, all for a good cause. An annual televised event, the Puppy Bowl shows footage of puppies at play inside a model stadium with reporters offering commentary on their actions. The event was created to raise awareness about abandoned pets and dog adoption. The puppies featured in the Puppy Bowl are all from shelters.
There’s high stakes here with barking rights on the line. We can’t think of a more fun way to start Super Bowl Sunday than by watching Puppy Bowl XX. Here’s how and when to watch.
What time is the 2024 Puppy Bowl?
The 2024 Puppy Bowl will broadcast live on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. ET (11:00 a.m. PT).
What channel is the Puppy Bowl on?
Puppy Bowl XX will be simulcast on Animal Planet, Discovery, TBS, and TruTV.
How to stream the 2024 Puppy Bowl without cable
While most cable subscriptions carry the Animal Planet, Discovery, TBS and truTV, it’s easy to watch the 2024 Puppy Bowl if your cable subscription doesn’t offer those channels, or if you don’t have a cable subscription at all.
Watch the 2024 Puppy Bowl on Sling TV and save 50%
One of the most cost-effective ways to stream the 2024 Puppy Bowl is through a subscription to Sling TV — it’s entry level Orange plan ($40 per month) includes TBS. For a more complete sports-watching solution, consider upgrading to Orange + Blue ($60 per month) — you’ll get local NBC, Fox and ABC affiliates (where available), plus ESPN and NFL Network.
The streamer is currently offering a 50% off promotion for your first month, so you’ll pay just $20 for the Orange tier or $30 for the Orange + Blue tier. You can learn more by tapping the button below.
Top features of Sling TV Orange + Blue tier:
- There are up to 46 channels to watch in total, including local NBC, Fox and ABC affiliates (where available).
- You get access to most local NFL games and nationally broadcast games at the lowest price.
- All subscription tiers include 50 hours of cloud-based DVR storage.
- Sling TV doesn’t include CBS-aired games. If you’re looking to stream the Puppy Bowl and Super Bowl with one platform FuboTV or Hulu+ Live TV are better choices this weekend.
Watch the 2024 Puppy Bowl free with FuboTV
You can catch Puppy Bowl 2024 on FuboTV and stick around to watch Super Bowl LVIII at 6:30 p.m. ET (3:30 p.m. PT). FuboTV is a sports-centric streaming service that offers access to almost every NFL game of the season. Packages include CBS, Fox (“NFL on Fox”), NBC (“Sunday Night Football”), ESPN (“Monday Night Football”), NFL Network and more, so you’ll be able to watch more than just today’s games, all without a cable subscription.
To watch Puppy Bowl XX without cable, start a seven-day free trial of Fubo. You can begin watching immediately on your TV, phone, tablet or computer. In addition to the Puppy Bowl, you’ll have access to NFL football, FuboTV offers MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS and international soccer games. FuboTV Pro Tier is priced at $80 per month after your free seven-day trial.
Top features of FuboTV Pro Tier:
- There are no contracts with FuboTV — you can cancel at any time.
- The Pro tier includes 169 channels, including NFL Network. (You’ll need to upgrade to Ultimate for NFL RedZone.)
- FuboTV includes all the channels you’ll need to watch college and pro football, including CBS (not available through Sling TV).
- All tiers come with 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR recording.
- Stream on your TV, phone, and other devices.
Watch Puppy Bowl 2024 on Hulu + Live TV
You can watch Puppy Bowl XX and Super Bowl LVIII with Hulu + Live TV. The bundle features access to 90 channels, including Discovery and CBS, so you’ll be able to catch both games on one streaming platform. Unlimited DVR storage is also included. Watch Puppy Bowl 2024 and every NFL game on every major network next season with Hulu + Live TV, plus catch live NFL preseason games, exclusive live regular season games, popular studio shows (including “NFL Total Access” and the Emmy-nominated show “Good Morning Football”) and lots more.
Hulu + Live TV comes bundled with ESPN+ and Disney+. It’s priced at $77.
Can I stream the Puppy Bowl and the Super Bowl on the same streaming platform?
You can watch both the Puppy Bowl 2024 and Super Bowl LVIII on Fubo TV and Hulu + Live TV.
The adoptable dogs of the Puppy Bowl lineup
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The biggest Puppy Bowl to date, Puppy Bowl 2024 features 131 puppies from 73 shelters and rescues across 36 states and territories. This year’s Puppy Bowl features the all-time smallest pup, Sweetpea, weighing in at 1.7 pounds, and the biggest competitor, Levi the Great Dane at 70 pounds.
Two teams will compete in the Puppy Bowl — Team Ruff and Team Fluff, both competing to take home the Lombarky Trophy. Fans will learn how to take these adoptable dogs home themselves.
Expect some of the biggest names to be in the stadium on game day. For Team Ruff, fans can expect to see Bark Purdy from the SPCA in Sacramento, CA, Stryker, a border collie Mix from Trey, VA and Vanessa, a Yorkshire terrier mix from West Chester, PA, among other terrific four-footed athletes.
Team Fluff is also offering a stacked lineup with Cronut, a shar pei rescue from Chesapeake, VA, Harvey, a pug from Gardena, CA and Francine, a pug from New York, NY.
Can I still vote in the Puppy Bowl pupularity playoffs?
Unfortunately, voting closed on Feb. 8, 2024 for the pupularity playoffs, but you can see the results during Sunday’s big game (the Puppy Bowl, that is).
How to adopt a dog from the 2024 Puppy Bowl
There are more than 250,000 animals in the shelter system in the U.S and more than 2.7 million dogs and cats are euthanized each year because shelters simply don’t have room. That means adopting a dog from a shelter (as opposed to purchasing a dog from a breeder) could be saving a life.
You’ll be hard-pressed to resist the adorable faces of the stars of the Puppy Bowl. If you don’t win your office’s Super Bowl LVIII pool, you can definitely win the 2024 Puppy Bowl by rescuing one of the sweet faces competing in the game.
You can also learn more about adopting a dog (or cat), including how to find your local pet adoption shelter, by tapping the button below.
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The escalating fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continued Saturday as both sides traded strikes as the war in Gaza nears one year.
The Israel Defense Forces said its air force struck Hezbollah fighters inside a mosque in southern Lebanon that they said was used as a command center to “plan and execute terrorist attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel.”
The mosque was adjacent to Salah Ghandour Hospital in the town of Bint Jbeil. The hospital said in a statement that Israeli forces had shelled it after being warned to evacuate. The shelling “resulted in nine members of the medical and nursing staff being injured, most of them seriously,” while most of the medical staff were evacuated. On Thursday, the World Health Organization said 28 health workers in Lebanon had been killed in the past 24 hours.
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At the same time, 12 Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs, including one that badly damaged a large hall Hezbollah used to hold ceremonies, Lebanon’s state news agency said.
Later in the day, more strikes hit the area, from which tens of thousands of people have fled over the past two weeks.
Israeli airstrikes also hit areas in southern and eastern Lebanon, according to state media. At least six people were killed, according to NNA.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah said it launched a series of rockets at an Israeli air base near Haifa, about 30 miles from the Lebanese border. Israeli police said fragments of interceptors fell in several sites but no injuries were reported, according to the Associated Press.
Israel has sharply expanded its strikes on Lebanon in recent weeks after nearly a year of exchanging fire with the Iran-backed Hezbollah — long designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., Israel and many other nations. The IDF has been carrying out nightly bombardment of Beirut’s once densely populated southern suburbs, a stronghold of Hezbollah. Overnight, a military spokesman issued three alerts for residents there to evacuate.
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Nearly a week of Israeli ground operations in southern Lebanon, near Israel’s northern border, and two weeks of airstrikes in that region and in southern Beirut — both Hezbollah strongholds — had killed more than 2,000 people, the health ministry said. More than 1 million people have been driven from their homes, including tens of thousands under Israel evacuation orders in almost 100 towns and villages near the border.
Hezbollah started launching those attacks in support of its ideological ally Hamas, which is also backed by Iran, the day after Hamas sparked the ongoing war in Gaza with its Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel. The IDF says Hezbollah militants have fired over 10,000 rockets across the border since Oct. 8, 2023. The vast majority of them have been intercepted by Israel’s advanced missile defense systems.
Israel conducts more ground raids
The Israeli military said on Saturday its special forces were carrying out ground raids against Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon, destroying missiles, launchpads, watchtowers and weapons storage facilities. The military said troops also dismantled tunnel shafts that Hezbollah used to approach the Israeli border.
Some 1.2 million people have been driven from their homes since Israel escalated its strikes in late September aiming to cripple Hezbollah and push it away from the countries’ shared border. On Tuesday, Israel launched what it calls a limited ground operation into southern Lebanon.
Nine Israeli troops have been killed in close fighting in the area in the past few days, which is saturated with arms and explosives, the military said.
Americans attempt to leave Lebanon
The U.S. government has warned Americans not to travel to Lebanon since mid-September and urged any citizens in the country to leave via commercial travel routes. As of Friday night, the U.S. State Department has assisted approximately 500 U.S. citizens, permanent residents and their families to leave Lebanon on flights organized by the agency.
Other nations are also working to evacuate their residents from Lebanon. Germany has evacuated 460 citizens on German military flights, while a Dutch military transport plane carried more than 100 citizens out of Lebanon. There were also citizens of Belgium, Finland and Ireland who were repatriated on that flight.
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“It’s great that these people are safely back in the Netherlands. These have been tense times for them,” Christiaan Rebergen, secretary-general of the foreign ministry, said after they landed Friday.
Fighting ongoing in Gaza
Palestinian medical officials say Israeli strikes in northern and central Gaza early Saturday have killed at least nine people, including two children.
One strike hit a group of people in the northern town of Beit Hanoun, killing at least five people, including two children, according to the Health Ministry’s Ambulance and Emergency service.
Another strike hit a house in the northern part of Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least four people, the Awda hospital said. The strike also left a number of wounded people, it said.
The Israeli military did not have any immediate comment on the strikes but has long accused Hamas of operating from within civilian areas.
Earlier in the day, the Israeli military had warned residents in parts of central Gaza to evacuate, saying its forces would soon operate there in response to Palestinian militants.
The warnings cover areas along a strategic corridor in central Gaza, which was at the heart of obstacles to a ceasefire deal earlier this summer. The military warned Palestinians in areas of Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps, located along the Netzarim corridor, to evacuate to an along Gaza’s shore called Muwasi, which the military has designated a humanitarian zone. It’s unclear how many Palestinians are currently living in the areas affected by the order, parts of which were evacuated previously.
Almost 42,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza during the almost year-long war, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between civilian and militant deaths.