Weekend Viewing Picks

Saturday, October 11

CFL
Ottawa Redblacks at BC Lions — TSN/ESPN3, 10 p.m.

College Football Viewing Picks

College Soccer
Women’s
Rutgers at Penn State — Big Ten Network, 4:30 p.m.
Gonzaga at BYU — BYUtv, 9 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Northwestern at Ohio State — Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m.
Montana State at Northern Arizona — Fox College Sports Pacific, 9 p.m.
Utah at USC — Pac-12 Networks, 10 p.m.
Washington State at Oregon State — Pac-12 Washington/Pac-12 Oregon, 10 p.m.

Formula 1
Russian Grand Prix, Sochi Autodrom, Sochi, Russia
Qualifying — Univision Deportes, 6:55 a.m./NBCSN, 7 a.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
Oceanico Victoria Golf Course, Vilamoura, Portugal
3rd Round — Golf Channel, 8 a.m.

Champions Tour
SAS Championship, Prestonwood Country Club, Cary, NC
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 2:30 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 2:30 p.m.

PGA Tour
Frys.com Open, Silverado Resort and Spa, Napa, CA
3rd Round — Golf Channel, 5 p.m.

LPGA Tour
Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club (West Course), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Final Round — Golf Channel, 11:30 p.m.

Gymnastics
45th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2014, Guangxi Sports Center Gymnasium, Nanning, Communist China
Highlights — NBC, 2 p.m.
Apparatus Final Day 1 — Universal Sports, 8 p.m. (same day coverage)

Mixed Martial Arts
World Series of Fighting 14, Edmonton Expo Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Jake Shields vs. Ryan Ford — NBCSN, 9 p.m.

MLB Postseason
American League Championship Series, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, MD
Game 2: Kansas City Royals at Baltimore Orioles — TBS, 4 p.m. (Kansas City leads series 1-0)

MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Postseason Pregame — TBS, 4 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 7:30 p.m.
The Postseason Show — TBS, 7:30 p.m.

National League Championship Series, Busch Stadium, St. Louis, MO
Game 1: San Francisco Giants at St. Louis Cardinals — Fox/Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.

Fox MLB Pregame Show — Fox, 7 p.m.
MLB Tonight: League Championship Series — MLB Network, 11 p.m.

MLS
Montreal vs. New England — Univision Deportes/TSN2/RDS/Comcast SportsNet New England, 4 p.m.
New York vs. Toronto FC — TSN, 7 p.m./MSG Network, 10:30 p.m. (delayed)
Philadelphia vs. Columbus — The Comcast Network/Time Warner Cable SportsNet, 7 p.m.
Real Salt Lake vs. San Jose — KUCW/Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, 9:30 p.m.
Chivas USA vs. Colorado — Time Warner Cable Deportes/Altitude 2, 10:30 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series
Chase for the Cup, Contender Round
Bank of America 500, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Charlotte, NC
Race — ABC, 7:30 p.m.

NASCAR RaceDay: Charlotte — Fox Sports 2, 6 p.m.
NASCAR Countdown — ABC, 7 p.m.

NBA Preseason
Cleveland vs. Miami at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — ESPNews, 5 p.m.
Chicago at Milwaukee — NBA TV, 8:30 p.m.

NBA Press Conference live from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — NBA TV, 7:45 p.m.

NHL
Calgary at St. Louis — Sportsnet 360/Fox Sports Midwest, 7 p.m.
Montreal at Philadelphia — City TV/TVA Sports/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Ottawa at Tampa Bay — Sportsnet One/Sun Sports, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Toronto — CBC/NHL Network (US)/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Washington at Boston — FX Canada/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/NESN, 7 p.m.
Anaheim at Detroit — Fox Sports Prime Ticket/Fox Sports Detroit, 7 p.m.
Carolina at New York Islanders — Fox Sports Carolinas/MSG Plus, 7 p.m.
New Jersey at Florida — MSG Plus 2/Fox Sports Florida, 7 p.m.
New York Rangers at Columbus — MSG Network/Fox Sports Ohio, 7 p.m.
Dallas at Nashville — Fox Sports Southwest/Fox Sports Tennessee, 8 p.m.
Buffalo at Chicago — MSG Buffalo/Bell TV/Comcast SportsNet Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Los Angeles at Arizona — Fox Sports West/Fox Sports Arizona, 9 p.m.
Minnesota at Colorado — Fox Sports North/Altitude, 9 p.m.
Edmonton at Vancouver — CBC/TVA Sports 2, 10 p.m.
Winnipeg at San Jose — Sportsnet 360/Comcast SportsNet California, 10 p.m.

Hockey Central Saturday — Sportsnet One/Sportsnet 360/NHL Network (US), 6:30 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 10 p.m.

Soccer
International Friendly, Beijing National Stadium, Communist China
Brazil vs. Argentina — beIN Sports, 8 a.m.

African Cup of Nations
Qualification
Democratic Republic of Congo vs. Côte d’Ivoire — beIN Sports, 10:25 a.m.
Sudan vs. Nigeria — beIN Sports, 12:55 p.m.
Guinea vs. Ghana — beIN Sports, 2:55 p.m.

Sports Talk
The Lost Son of Havana — ESPN Classic, 8 a.m.
Dari & Mel — ESPNU, 9 a.m.
Elevate — ESPN Classic, 10 a.m.
All In With Laila Ali: In The Water — CBS, 11 a.m.
Game Changers With Kevin Frazier: Soccer’s Human Shield — CBS, 11:30 a.m.
30 for 30 Shorts: The Irrelevant Giant/Arthur and Johnny — ESPN Classic, 11:30 a.m.
A Fighting Chance — ESPN Classic, noon
30 for 30: Marion Jones: Press Pause – ESPN Classic, 1 p.m.
Senna — ESPN Classic, 2 p.m.
Nine for IX: Venus vs. — ESPN Classic, 4 p.m.
Knuckleball! — ESPN Classic, 5 p.m.
The Express Xtra – Weekends — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.

Tennis
ATP Tour
Shanghai Masters, Qi Zhong Tennis Center, Shanghai, Communist China
Semifinals — Tennis Channel, 4:30 a.m. & 8 a.m.

WTA Tour
Japan Women’s Open, Utsubo Tennis Center, Osaka, Japan
Semifinals — Tennis Channel, 2 p.m. & 4 p.m. (same day coverage)

UEFA Euro 2016
Qualifiers, Match Day 2
Group D, Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Scotland vs. Georgia — Fox Sports 2, 11:45 a.m.

Group I, Yerevan Republican Stadium after Vazgen Sargsyan, Yerevan, Armenia
Armenia vs. Serbia — Fox Soccer Plus, noon

Group F, Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland
Finland vs. Greece — Fox Sports 2, 2:30 p.m.

Group F, Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Northern Ireland vs. Faroe Islands — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:30 p.m.

UEFA Euro 2016 Highlights: Match Day 2: Saturday — Fox Soccer Plus, 11 p.m.

Entertainment
Top 20 Countdown — VH1, 9 a.m.
The Calling: Let the Games Begin! — Destination America, 9:30 a.m.
E! News Weekend — E!, 10 a.m.
Top 20 Countdown — VH1, 10 a.m.
A Mighty Wind — Sundance TV, 10:15 a.m.
The Kitchen: Homecoming — Food Network, 11 a.m.
Real Girl’s Kitchen: Haylie Hearts Venice — Cooking Channel, 1 p.m.
Simply Laura: Papa’s Pizza — Cooking Channel, 1:30 p.m.
Uncle Buck — IFC, 1:45 p.m.
A Healthy You & Carol Alt — Fox News, 4 p.m.
Weird Science — IFC, 4 p.m.
My Cat From Hell: Scratch Tracks: Chubs — Animal Planet, 6 p.m.
Sixteen Candles — IFC, 6 p.m.
Cops: Taser Proof — Spike, 8 p.m.
Austin City Limits: Ed Sheeran; Valerie June — PBS, 8 p.m.
My Cat From Hell: Hungry Like The Wolf — Animal Planet, 8 p.m.
Rush — HBO, 8 p.m.
The Breakfast Club — IFC, 8 p.m.
Stella Dallas — Turner Classic Movies, 8 p.m.
Ghost Adventures: Extra Pulses: Queen Mary — Travel Channel, 8 p.m.
God Bless Ozzy Osbourne — VH1 Classic, 8 p.m.
12 Years a Slave — HBO, 8:30 p.m.
Buying Alaska: Frontier Comfort — Destination America, 9 p.m.
Survivor’s Remorse: On the Carpet — Starz, 9 p.m.
Doctor Who: Mummy on the Orient Express — BBC America, 9 p.m.
51 Amazing Facts About America — H2, 9 p.m.
Delivery Man — Showtime, 9 p.m.
Ghost Adventures: Lemp Mansion & Brewery — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
48 Hours: The Hit — CBS, 10 p.m.
Journey to Normandy — American Heroes Channel, 10 p.m.
Intruders: There Is No End (season premiere) — BBC America, 10 p.m.
10 Things You Don’t Know About: The Almighty Dollar — H2, 10 p.m.
House Hunters Renovation — HGTV, 10 p.m.
Scorned: Love Kills: The Doctor Will See You Now — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
The Chair: Moving On — Starz, 10 p.m.
Black Sabbath Live: Gathered in Their Masses — VH1 Classic, 10 p.m.
The Graham Norton Show — BBC America, 11 p.m.
Apartment 1303 — The Movie Channel, 11 p.m.
Saturday Night Live with host Bill Hader and musical guest Hozier — NBC, 11:29 p.m.

Sunday, October 12

College Football
Championship Drive: Who’s In? — ESPN, 8:30 p.m.

College Soccer
Men’s
Penn State at Maryland — Big Ten Network, 1 p.m.
Washington at Oregon State — Pac-12 Washington/Pac-12 Oregon, 6 p.m.
UCLA at Stanford — Pac-12 Networks, 8 p.m.

Women’s
Boston College at Louisville — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 1 p.m.
Texas Christian at Oklahoma — Fox College Sports Central, 2 p.m.
Wake Forest at Duke — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 3 p.m.
Minnesota at Illinois — Big Ten Network, 3 p.m.
Colorado at Oregon — Pac-12 Networks, 4 p.m.
Arizona at Washington — Pac-12 Arizona/Pac-12 Washington, 4 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Auburn at Kentucky — SEC Network, noon
Stanford at Arizona State — Pac-12 Networks, 2 p.m.
Washington at Oregon — Pac-12 Washington/Pac-12 Oregon, 2 p.m.
Texas A&M at Florida — SEC Network, 2 p.m.
Oklahoma at Iowa State — ESPNU, 2:30 p.m.
South Carolina at Alabama — SEC Network, 4 p.m.

Formula 1
Russian Grand Prix, Sochi Autodrom, Sochi, Russia
Race — NBCSN, 6:30 a.m./Univision Deportes, 7 a.m.

Fórmula 1 Previo — Univision Deportes, 6:30 a.m.
F1 Extra — NBCSN, 9 a.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
Oceanico Victoria Golf Course, Vilamoura, Portugal
Final Round — Golf Channel, 8:30 a.m.

Champions Tour
SAS Championship, Prestonwood Country Club, Cary, NC
Final Round — Golf Channel, 2:30 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 1 p.m.

PGA Tour
Frys.com Open, Silverado Resort and Spa, Napa, CA
Final Round — Golf Channel, 5 p.m.

Gymnastics
45th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2014, Guangxi Sports Center Gymnasium, Nanning, Communist China
Highlights — NBC, 3 p.m.
Apparatus Final Day 2 — Universal Sports, 8 p.m. (same day coverage)

MLB Postseason
National League Championship Series, Busch Stadium, St. Louis, MO
Game 2: San Francisco Giants at St. Louis Cardinals — Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.

MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
MLB on Fox Sports 1 Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 7:30 p.m.
MLB Tonight: League Championship Series — MLB Network, 11 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 11:30 p.m.

MLS
Houston vs. DC United — Comcast SportsNet Houston, 3 p.m.
FC Dallas vs. LA Galaxy — ESPN2/TSN2, 7 p.m.

NBA Preseason
Brooklyn vs. Sacramento at Shanghai, Communist China — NBA TV, 1 a.m.
Detroit at Washington — NBA TV, 7 p.m.
Golden State vs. Los Angeles Lakers at Ontario CA — NBA TV, 9:30 p.m.

NFL Viewing Picks

NHL
Toronto at New York Rangers — City TV/TVA Sports/NHL Network (US)/MSG Network, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Los Angeles — TSN3/Fox Sports West, 10 p.m.

Rogers Hometown Hockey live from London, Ontario, Canada — City TV/NHL Network (US), 6:30 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 10 p.m.

Soccer
International Friendly, Estadio Corregidora, Queretaro, Mexico
Mexico vs. Panama — ESPN2, 4:55 p.m./UniMás/Univisión Deportes, 5 p.m.

Fútbol Central — UniMás, 4 p.m.
Univisión Deportes Fútbol Club — Univisión Deportes, 4 p.m.

Sports Talk
Outside the Lines — ESPN2, 8 a.m./ESPNews, 9 a.m.
The Sports Reporters — ESPN2, 8:30 a.m./ESPNews, 9:30 a.m.
30 for 30: Playing for the Mob — ESPN2, 9 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.
NBCSN Sunday Sports Report — NBCSN, 11:30 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPN2, midnight

Tennis
ATP Tour
Shanghai Masters, Qi Zhong Tennis Center, Shanghai, Communist China
Doubles Final — Tennis Channel, 1 a.m.
Singles Final — Tennis Channel, 4:30 a.m.

WTA Tour
Japan Women’s Open, Utsubo Tennis Center, Osaka, Japan
Final — Tennis Channel, 10 a.m. (same day coverage)

WTA Tour
Tianjin Open, Tianjin International Tennis Center, Tianjin, Communist China
Final — Tennis Channel, noon (same day coverage)

UEFA Euro 2016
Qualifiers, Match Day 3
Group C, Arena Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine
Ukraine vs. Macedonia — Fox Soccer Plus, noon

Group C, Josy Barthel, Luxembourg
Luxembourg vs. Spain — Fox Sports 1, 2:30 p.m.

Group C, Friends Arena, Solna, Sweden
Sweden vs. Liechtenstein — Fox Sports 2, 2:30 p.m.

UEFA Euro 2016 Pregame — Fox Sports 1/Fox Sports 2, 2 p.m.
UEFA Euro 2016 Highlights: Match Day 3: Sunday — Fox Soccer Plus, 10:30 p.m.

Entertainment
CBS News Sunday Morning — CBS, 9 a.m.
Off the Bat From the MLB Fan Cave — MTV2, 11 a.m.
Weather Geeks — Weather Channel, noon
Farmhouse Rules: Bake Fest — Food Network, 12:30 p.m.
Man Fire Food: Fired-Up Chefs — Cooking Channel, 2 p.m.
Domino — IFC, 2:15 p.m.
Stuck on You — Encore, 2:20 p.m.
America’s Funniest Home Videos — ABC, 7 p.m.
60 Minutes — CBS, 7 p.m.
Hawaii Life: Waikiki Beach — HGTV, 8 p.m.
Once Upon a Time — ABC, 8 p.m.
Alaska: The Last Frontier Exposed: A Mild Winter — Discovery, 8 p.m.
No Country for Old Men — IFC, 8 p.m.
Crash — The Movie Channel, 8 p.m.
Madam Secretary — CBS, 8:01 p.m.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine — Fox, 8:30 p.m.
Hawaii Life: Maui — HGTV, 8:30 p.m.
Resurrection — ABC, 9 p.m.
The Walking Dead: Sanctuary (season premiere) — AMC, 9 p.m.
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: Paraguay — CNN, 9 p.m.
Alaska: The Last Frontier: Moving Toward the Future — Discovery, 9 p.m.
Boardwalk Empire — HBO, 9 p.m.
48 Hours on ID: Highway of Tears — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Snapped: Killer Couples: Brittany Smith and Jabrai Copney — Oxygen, 9 p.m.
Homeland — Showtime, 9 p.m.
Bar Rescue: Thugs With Mugs — Spike, 9 p.m.
Extreme Houseboats: Rockstars & Warships — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
Strangest Weather on Earth: Raining Spiders — Weather Channel, 9 p.m.
Living Alaska: Palmer, AK — HGTV, 10 p.m.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — CBS, 10 p.m.
This Is Life With Lisa Ling: The Genius Experiment — CNN, 10 p.m.
Ghost Asylum: Cannon Memorial Banner — Destination America, 10 p.m.
Cutthroat Kitchen: Here’s Looking At You, Squid — Food Network, 10 p.m.
On the Case With Paula Zahn: The Green Dragon — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Wicked Tuna: North vs. South: Tick Tock Tuna — National Geographic Channel, 10 p.m.
The Affair (series premiere) — Showtime, 10 p.m.
Catch a Contractor: If at First You Don’t Succeed, Lie, Lie Again — Spike, 10 p.m.
Chinatown — Sundance TV, 10 p.m.
Extreme Houseboats: Grain Haulers & Spas — Travel Channel, 10 p.m.
American Supernatural: Haunted Hurricane Island — Weather Channel, 10 p.m.
Manhattan: The Gun Model — WGN America, 10 p.m.
Talking Dead (season premiere) — AMC, 10:01 pm.
Living Alaska: Eagle River, AK — HGTV, 10:30 p.m.
Great Estates Scotland: Dumfries — PBS, 10:30 p.m.
Miracle — TBS 11 p.m.
Comic Book Men: Heir Apparent (season premiere) — AMC, midnight

About Ken Fang

Ken has been covering the sports media in earnest at his own site, Fang's Bites since May 2007 and at Awful Announcing since March 2013. He provides a unique perspective having been an award-winning radio news reporter in Providence and having worked in local television. Fang celebrates the three Boston Red Sox World Championships in the 21st Century, but continues to be a long-suffering Cleveland Browns fan.

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