Weekend Viewing Picks

Saturday, November 1

Baseball
Arizona Fall League
Fall Stars Game — MLB Network, 8 p.m.

CFL
Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Calgary Stampeders — TSN/ESPN3, 4 p.m.
BC Lions at Edmonton Eskimos — TSN/ESPN3, 7 p.m.

College Basketball
Men’s
Colorado School of Mines at BYU — BYUtv, 9 p.m.

College Football Viewing Picks

College Hockey
Men’s
St. Cloud State at Minnesota — Fox College Sports Atlantic/Fox Sports North, 5 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Northern Colorado at North Dakota — Fox College Sports Pacific, 1 p.m.
Minnesota at Purdue — Big Ten Network, 8:30 p.m.
Weber State at Northern Arizona — Fox College Sports Pacific, 10 p.m.

English Football League Championship
Wolverhampton vs. Birmingham City — beIN Sports, 8:10 a.m.

English Premier League
Newcastle vs. Liverpool — NBCSN/mun2, 8:45 a.m.
Chelsea vs. Queens Park Rangers — NBCSN/mun2, 11 a.m.
Arsenal vs. Burnley — Premier League Extra Time, 11 a.m.
Everton vs. Swansea City — Premier League Extra Time, 11 a.m.
Hull City vs. Southampton — Premier League Extra Time, 11 a.m.
Leicester City vs. West Bromwich Albion — Premier League Extra Time, 11 a.m.
Stoke City vs. West Ham United — Premier League Extra Time, 11 a.m.

Premier League Live — NBCSN, 8 a.m.
Premier League Live — NBCSN, 10:45 a.m.
Goal Zone — NBCSN, 1 p.m.
Match of the Day — NBCSN, 1:30 p.m.

Figure Skating
ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
Skate Canada, Prospera Place, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Pairs Free Program — Universal Sports, 4:30 p.m.
Free Dance — Universal Sports, 7:30 p.m.

Formula 1
United States Grand Prix, Circuit of the Americas, Austin, TX
Qualifying — NBC, 1 p.m./Univision Deportes, 1:55 p.m.

Golf
LPGA Tour
LPGA Taiwan Championship, Miramar Golf Club, Tapei, Taiwan
3rd Round — Golf Channel, 3 a.m. (same day coverage)

European PGA Tour
BMW Masters, Lake Malaren Golf Club, Shanghai, Communist China
3rd Round — Golf Channel, 6 a.m. (same day coverage)

Champions Tour
Charles Schwab Cup Championship, Desert Mountain Club (Cochise Course), Scottsdale, AZ
3rd Round — Golf Channel, 4:30 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 4 p.m.

PGA Tour
CIMB Classic, Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club (West Course), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Final Round — Golf Channel, 11 p.m.

Horse Racing
Breeders’ Cup, Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, CA
Championship Saturday — NBCSN, 3:30 p.m.
Breeders’ Cup Classic — NBC, 8 p.m.

MLS Cup Playoffs
Eastern Conference Semifinal, Leg 1
Columbus vs. New England — Univision Deportes/Time Warner Cable SportsNet/Comcast SportsNet New England, 4 p.m.

Western Conference Semifinal, Leg 1
Real Salt Lake vs. LA Galaxy — NBCSN, 8 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series
Chase for the Cup, Eliminator Round
Texas 500, Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX
Practice 2 — Fox Sports 1, 11 a.m.
Practice 3 — Fox Sports 2, 2 p.m.

Nationwide Series
O’Reilly Auto Parts Challenge, Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX
Qualifying — Fox Sports 2, noon
Race — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.

NASCAR Live: Texas — Fox Sports 2, 1:30 p.m.

NBA
Chicago at Minnesota — NBA TV/WGN America, 8 p.m.
Los Angeles Lakers at Golden State — NBA TV, 10:30 p.m.

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

Hockey Central — Sportsnet 360/NHL Network (US), 5 p.m.
Hockey Central Saturday — CBC/Sportsnet/NHL Network (US), 6:30 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 10 p.m.
Hockey Central Postgame — CBC, 12:30 a.m. (Sunday)

Rugby
International Friendly, Kobe, Japan
Japan Brave Blossoms vs. New Zealand Maori All Blacks — Fox Soccer Plus, 1 a.m.

Killik Cup, Twickenham Stadium, London, England, United Kingdom
Barbarians vs. Australia — Universal Sports, 10:30 a.m.

International Friendly, Soldier Field, Chicago, IL
U.S. Eagles vs. New Zealand All Blacks — NBC, 3:30 p.m.

USA Rugby Preview — Universal Sports, 3 p.m.
USA Rugby Post Show — Universal Sports, 6 p.m.

Sports Talk
30 for 30 Shorts: Great Trade Robbery — ESPN2, 7:17 a.m.
Dari & Mel — ESPNU, 9 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 11 a.m.
30 for 30 Soccer Stories: Mysteries of the Rimet Trophy & Barbosa: The Man Who Made Brazil Cry — ESPN Classic, 11 a.m.
American Man — ESPN Classic, noon
Splinters — ESPN Classic, 1:30 p.m.
On the Mat — ESPN Classic, 3:30 p.m.
Push: Madison Versus Madison — ESPN Classic, 5 p.m.
30 for 30 Shorts: The High Five and Schedule Makers — ESPN Classic, 7 p.m.
30 for 30: 9.79 — ESPN Classic, 7:30 p.m.
30 for 30: Hillsborough — ESPN Classic, 9 p.m.

Tennis
ATP Tour
BNP Paribas Masters, Paris Indoorground à Bercy, Paris, France
Semifinals — Tennis Channel, 9:30 a.m.

WTA Tour
WTA Tournament of Champions, Hall Arena Armeec, Sofia, Bulgaria
Semifinals — Tennis Channel, 2 p.m. (same day coverage)

Entertainment
Cops: We Know Who You Area — Spike, 8 p.m.
Austin City Limits: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — PBS, 8 p.m.
My Cat From Hell: Reese the Ripper — Animal Planet, 8 p.m.
Airplane Repo: Wheels Up: We’ve Got an Emergency Situation — Discovery, 8 p.m.
Speed — Encore, 8 p.m.
One Starry Christmas — Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m.
Winter’s Tale — HBO, 8 p.m.
Buying Alaska: Waterfront Wilderness — Destination America, 9 p.m.
Renovation Realities: The Khalil Job — DIY Network, 9 p.m.
Survivor’s Remorse: Out of the Past — Starz, 9 p.m.
Animal Cops: Houston: Abandoned Hero — Animal Planet, 9 p.m.
Doctor Who: Dark Water — BBC America, 9 p.m.
Airplane Repo: Wheels Up: Spies in the Night — Discovery, 9 p.m.
The Devil’s Graveyard — H2, 9 p.m.
Friday the 13th — Sundance TV, 9 p.m.
Night of the Living Dead — The Movie Channel, 9 p.m.
Transporter: The Series: 12 Hours — TNT, 9 p.m.
Saturday Night Live — NBC, 10 p.m.
D-Day to Victory: Breakout of Normandy — American Heroes Channel, 10 p.m.
Pit Bulls and Parolees: Helter Shelter — Animal Planet, 10 p.m.
The Graham Norton Show — BBC America, 10 p.m.
Walk of Shame — Cinemax, 10 p.m.
Railroad Alaska: Mountain Danger — Destination America, 10 p.m.
Skyscraper: Road to Chicago — Discovery, 10 p.m.
Scorned: Love Kills: Disco Queen — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
The Chair: The Test — Starz, 10 p.m.
Sex Sent Me to the E.R.: Have a Ball — TLC, 10 p.m.
Transporter: The Series: Payback — TNT, 10 p.m.
The Dead Files: Living Nightmare: Flint, MI — Travel Channel, 10 p.m.
Friday the 13, Part 2 — Sundance TV, 11 p.m.
Sex Sent Me to the E.R.: Extra Dose: The Skydive Club — TLC, 11 p.m.
Saturday Night Live with host Chris Rock and musical guest Prince — NBC, 11:29 p.m.
Bleach — Cartoon Network, midnight

Sunday, November 2

CFL
Toronto Argonauts at Montreal Alouettes — TSN/ESPN3, noon

College Basketball
Men’s
Pikeville at Kentucky — SEC Network, SEC Network, 7 p.m.

Bill Raftery’s Big East Preview — Fox Sports 1, 9 p.m.

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

College Soccer
Men’s
Michigan at Michigan State — Big Ten Network, 1 p.m.
Cal at UCLA — Pac-12 Networks, 8 p.m.

Women’s
Arizona State at Utah — Pac-12 Networks, 4 p.m.
Portland at Santa Clara — ESPNU, 5 p.m.
UCLA at Washington — Pac-12 Networks, 6 p.m.
Oregon State at Stanford — Pac-12 Oregon/Pac-12 Bay Area, 6 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Florida at Tennessee — SEC Network, noon
Miami at North Carolina State — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 1 p.m.
Stanford at Oregon — Pac-12 Networks, 2 p.m.
Colorado at Arizona State — Pac-12 Mountain/Pac-12 Arizona, 2 p.m.
South Carolina at Mississippi — SEC Network, 2 p.m.
Texas at Iowa State — ESPNU, 3 p.m.
Texas A&M at Missouri — SEC Network, 4 p.m.

College Water Polo
Men’s
UCLA at USC — Pac-12 Networks, 10 p.m.

English Premier League
Manchester City vs. Manchester United — NBCSN/mun2, 8:30 a.m.
Aston Villa vs. Tottenham Hotspur — NBCSN, 11 a.m.

Premier League Live — NBCSN, 7:30 a.m.
Premier League Live — NBCSN, 10:30 a.m.
Goal Zone — NBCSN, 1 p.m.
Match of the Day II — NBCSN, 10:30 p.m.

Figure Skating
ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
Skate Canada, Prospera Place, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Men’s and Women’s Free Skate — NBC, 1 p.m.

Formula 1
United States Grand Prix, Circuit of the Americas, Austin, TX
Race — NBC/UniMás, 3 p.m.

Countdown to F1 — NBCSN, 2 p.m.
Fórmula 1 Previo — UniMás, 2:30 p.m.
F1 Post Race: Austin — NBC, 5 p.m.

Golf
LPGA Tour
LPGA Taiwan Championship, Miramar Golf Club, Tapei, Taiwan
Final Round — Golf Channel, 2 a.m. (same day coverage)

European PGA Tour
BMW Masters, Lake Malaren Golf Club, Shanghai, Communist China
Final Round — Golf Channel, 6 a.m. (same day coverage)

Champions Tour
Charles Schwab Cup Championship, Desert Mountain Club (Cochise Course), Scottsdale, AZ
Final Round — Golf Channel, 3:30 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

MLS Cup Playoffs
Eastern Conference Semifinal, Leg 1
New York vs. DC United — Univision Deportes/MSG Network/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, 4 p.m.

Western Conference Semifinal, Leg 2
FC Dallas vs. Seattle — ESPN2/TSN2, 9 p.m.

ESPN FC — ESPN2, 11 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series
Chase for the Cup, Eliminator Round
Texas 500, Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX
Race — ESPN, 3 p.m.

NASCAR RaceDay: Texas — Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m.
NASCAR Countdown — ESPN, 2 p.m.
NASCAR Victory Lane: Texas — Fox Sports 1, 8:30 p.m.

NBA
Charlotte at New York — NBA TV, 7:30 p.m.

NFL Viewing Picks

NHL
Detroit at Buffalo — TVA Sports/Fox Sports Detroit/MSG Buffalo/Bell TV, 5 p.m.
Los Angeles at Carolina — Fox Sports West/Fox Sports Carolinas, 5 p.m.
Calgary at Montreal — City TV/RDS, 7 p.m.
Arizona at Washington — Fox Sports Arizona/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, 7 p.m.
Anaheim at Colorado — Fox Sports Prime Ticket/Altitude, 8 p.m.
Winnipeg at Chicago — TSN3/WGN, 9 p.m.
Nashville at Vancouver — Fox Sports Tennessee/Sportsnet Pacific, 9:30 p.m.

Rogers Hometown Hockey live from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada — City TV/NHL Network (US), 6:30 p.m.
NHL on the Fly — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
Hockey Central — Sportsnet Pacific, 9 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 10 p.m.

Rugby
Rugby League Four Nations, AAMI Park, Melbourne, Australia
Australia vs. England — Fox Soccer Plus, 1 a.m.

Total Rugby — Universal Sports, 1:30 p.m.

Running
New York City Marathon — ESPN2/WABC, 9 a.m.

Sailing
Volvo Ocean Race: Week 4 — NBCSN, 2:30 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.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 11 a.m.
SportsMoney — Fox Sports 1, 2:30 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.
NBCSN Sunday Sports Report — NBCSN, 11:30 p.m.

Tennis
ATP Tour
BNP Paribas Masters, Paris Indoorground à Bercy, Paris, France
Finals — Tennis Channel, 9 a.m.

WTA Tour
WTA Tournament of Champions, Hall Arena Armeec, Sofia, Bulgaria
Finals — Tennis Channel, 2 p.m. (same day coverage)

Entertainment
CBS News Sunday Morning — CBS, 9 a.m.
Top 20 Video Countdown — VH1, 9 p.m.
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers — Sundance TV, 10 a.m.
Southern at Heat: Tailgate at the Big Game — Food Network, noon
Weather Geeks — Weather Channel, noon
Farmhouse Rules: The Fed Baron — Food Network, 12:30 p.m.
Disclosure — Encore, 1:50 p.m.
Parents Just Don’t Understand: The Duchess of Drama & Graduate Mama — Discovery Family Channel, 3 p.m.
Payback — IFC, 5:45 p.m.
Countdown to Skyscraper: Live From Chicago — Discovery, 6 p.m.
America’s Funniest Home Videos — ABC, 7 p.m.
Skyscraper Live With Nik Wallenda — Discovery, 7 p.m.
60 Minutes — CBS, 7:30 p.m.
The Simpsons — Fox, 8 p.m.
Hawaii Life: Oahu — HGTV, 8 p.m.
Once Upon a Time — ABC, 8 p.m.
Steak Out With Kix Brooks — Cooking Channel, 8 p.m.
Angels Sing — Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m.
Raze — The Movie Channel, 8 p.m.
The Jazz Singer — Turner Classic Movies, 8 p.m.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine — Fox, 8:30 p.m.
Hawaii Life: Kihel, Maui — HGTV, 8:30 p.m.
Madam Secretary — CBS, 8:30 p.m.
Resurrection — ABC, 9 p.m.
The Walking Dead: Slabtown — AMC, 9 p.m.
The Britannia Awards 2014 — BBC America, 9 p.m.
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown: Iran — CNN, 9 p.m.
Outrageous Giant Foods — Food Network, 9 p.m.
Olive Kitteridge: Parts 1 & 2: Pharmacy/Incoming Tide (series premiere) — HBO, 9 p.m.
48 Hours on ID: Spies, Lies & Secrets — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Snapped: Killer Couples: Carol Bundy and Douglas Clark — Oxygen, 9 p.m.
Homeland — Showtime, 9 p.m.
Bar Rescue: Anything You Can Yell, I Can Yell Louder — Spike, 9 p.m.
The Apparition — Syfy, 9 p.m.
Extreme Hotels: Fantasy Tower; Mars Station; Atlantis — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
Strangest Weather on Earth: Ice Tsunami — Weather Channel, 9 p.m.
Alaska: The Last Frontier: Loaded for Bear — Discovery, 9:20 p.m.
Living Alaska — HGTV, 10 p.m.
This is Life With Lisa Ling: Road Strip — CNN, 10 p.m.
Ghost Stalkers: Old Taylor Memorial Hospital — Destination America, 10 p.m.
Cutthroat Kitchen: With a Chariot on Top — Food Network, 10 p.m.
On the Case With Paula Zahn: A Ray of Darkness — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Life Below Zero: Independent by Nature — National Geographic Channel, 10 p.m.
The Affair — Showtime, 10 p.m.
Catch a Contractor: Hack Attack! — Spike, 10 p.m.
Halloween — Sundance TV, 10 p.m.
Extreme Hotels: Ski Dubai; Giraffe Manor; Igloo Village — Travel Channel, 10 p.m.
American Supernatural: The Curse of Bodie — Weather Channel, 10 p.m.
Downloaded — VH1, 10 p.m.
Talking Dead — AMC, 10:01 p.m.
Living Alaska — HGTV, 10:30 p.m.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — CBS, 10:30 p.m.
Craft in America: Service (series premiere) — PBS, 10:30 p.m.
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver — HBO, 11 p.m.
Saw II — Showcase, 11 p.m.
Extreme Hotels: Spy Plane; Underwater Hotel; Elephant Lodge — Travel Channel, 11 p.m.
Comic Book Men: Super Baby — AMC, midnight
Enchantment — Turner Classic Movies, 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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