Ah, I see. A misleading lesson example that can snowball. Tables are very flexible, thanks to the nature of HTML, though as we can see above there is a best practice approach that takes into account strict semantics.
In the example of the lesson column headings are being treated as header of the table. That results in an overlap of semantics. THEAD is not a column header, but at TABLE header.
TH is geared to both column headings and row headings, which roles are declared in the scope attribute. Technically speaking, the THEAD does not require a TH, just a TD. There is no need to define scope since its scope is the entire table.
<tr><td colspan="3">Weekend Schedule</td></tr>
Only thing with this may be the added code weight of CSS to style the element. TH has default styles that fit in perfectly here. That’s what is known as a style cheat. Mind, the only inherited property that is does not already have is font-weight. The default style actually looks better, imho.

Meant to mention this earlier, notice that in the top body row the first element is a TD, not a TH. Being empty it has no role but space holder.Headings are not data, per se, but assuming they are, then a heading for that column would be appropriate.