Friday’s Viewing Picks

College Basketball
Men’s
VCU at Saint Louis — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Manhattan at Quinnipiac — ESPNU, 7 p.m.
Valparaiso at Wisconsin-Green Bay — ESPNU, 9 p.m.

Women’s
Oregon at Arizona State — Pac-12 Networks, 1 p.m.
Wake Forest at Virginia Tech — ACC Regional/Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.
Seton Hall at Villanova — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.
Creighton at DePaul — Fox Sports 1, 9 p.m.
Stanford at UCLA — Pac-12 Networks, 10 p.m.
Colorado at Washington — Pac-12 Mountain/Pac-12 Washington, 10 p.m.
Oregon State at Arizona — Pac-12 Oregon/Pac-12 Arizona, 10 p.m.

ESPN Recruiting Nation — ESPNU, 1 p.m.

College Football
College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
Lemming Report — CBS Sports Network, 6:30 p.m.
2015 Senior Bowl Week Recap — NFL Network, 10:30 p.m.

College Gymnastics
Women’s
Texas & Southeast Missouri State at Oklahoma — Fox College Sports Central/Fox Sports Southwest, 8 p.m.
UCLA at Utah — Pac-12 Networks, 8 p.m.
Florida at Alabama — SEC Network, 8 p.m.
Utah State at BYU — BYUtv, 9 p.m.

College Hockey
Men’s
North College Star Cup, Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN
Bemidji State vs. Minnesota-Duluth — Fox College Sports Pacific, 5 p.m.
Minnesota State vs. Minnesota — Fox College Sports Pacific, 8 p.m.

Ohio State at Michigan State — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 7 p.m.
Providence at UMass-Lowell — NESN, 7 p.m.
Colorado College at North Dakota — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.
Michigan at Wisconsin — Big Ten Network, 9:10 p.m.

College Wrestling
Wisconsin at Michigan — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m.

Cycling
Tour Down Under
Stage 5: McLaren Vale to Willunga Hill — Universal Sports, 8 p.m.

FA Cup
4th Round Proper
Cambridge United vs. Manchester United — Fox Sports 1, 3 p.m.

FA Cup Match Day — Fox Sports 1, 2:30 p.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
Qatar Masters, Doha Golf Club, Doha, Qatar
3rd Round — Golf Channel, 4:30 a.m.

PGA Tour
Humana Challenge, Palmer Private Course, PGA West; Nicklaus Private Course, PGA West; La Quinta Country Club, La Quinta, CA
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

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

Champions Tour
Mitsubishi Electric Championship, Hualalai Resort Golf Club, Ka’upulehu-Kona, HI
1st Round — Golf Channel, 7:30 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Fight Night, Gustafsson vs. Johnson, Tele2 Arena, Stockholm, Sweden
Weigh-In — Fox Sports 1, noon

MLB
MLB Now — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.

NASCAR
NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5 p.m.

NBA
Chicago at Dallas — ESPN, 8 p.m.

NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 7 p.m.
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 11 p.m.

NFL
Sound FX: 2015 Championship Weekend — NFL Network, 3 p.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.
NFL Films Presents: Sounds of the Season — Fox Sports 1, 5:30 p.m.
Playbook Primetime — NFL Network, 8 p.m.
Bill Walsh: A Football Life — NFL Network, 9 p.m.

NHL
NHL All-Star Weekend, Nationwide Arena, Columbus, OH
Hockey Central: 2015 All-Star Media Day — Sportsnet/NHL Network (US), noon
2015 NHL All-Star Fantasy Draft Preshow — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
NHL Fantasy Draft Preshow — NBCSN, 7:30 p.m.
NHL All-Star Fantasy Draft — NBCSN/Sportsnet, 8 p.m.
2015 NHL All-Star Fantasy Draft Recap Show — NHL Network, 9:30 p.m.

Scottish Premier League
St. Johnstone vs. Aberdeen — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:30 p.m.

Scottish Premiership Highlights — Fox Soccer Plus, 2 p.m.

Skeleton
FIBT World Cup, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Men’s — Universal Sports, 4 p.m. (same day coverage)
Women’s — Universal Sports, 5 p.m. (same day coverage)

Skiing
FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup, Kitzbuehel, Austria
Men’s Super Combined — Universal Sports, 10 a.m. (same day coverage)

FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships
Snowboard-Parallel Giant Slalom — Universal Sports, 6 p.m. (same day coverage)

Soccer
CAF Africa Cup of Nations
Group C, Estadio de Mongomo, Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea
Ghana vs. Algeria — beIN Sports, 10:55 a.m.
South Africa vs. Senegal — beIN Sports, 7 p.m. (same day coverage)

ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.

Sports Talk
Radius — NBCSN, 6 a.m.
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
NFL AM — NFL Network, 6 a.m.
Radius — NBCSN, 6:30 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 8:30 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
Hot Stove — MLB Network, 9 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/Root Sports, noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 2, 2:30 p.m.
The Box Score — Audience Network (DirecTV), 3 p.m.
The Doug Gottlieb Show — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 3 p.m.
Fox Sports 1 on 1: Coach Krzyzewski — Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
ROME — CBS Sports Network, 5 p.m.
BTN Live — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.
Keepers of the Streak — ESPN, 7 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.

Tennis
2015 Australian Open, Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Men’s and Women’s 3rd Round — ESPN2, 3 a.m.
Men’s and Women’s 3rd Round — Tennis Channel, 7 p.m.
Men’s and Women’s 3rd Round — ESPN2, 9 p.m.

Australian Open Today — Tennis Channel, 7 a.m.
Live at the Australian Open — Tennis Channel, 6 p.m.

Entertainment
Undercover Boss: Rocket Fizz — CBS, 8 p.m.
World’s Funniest Fails: Trees: Man’s Only Natural Predator — Fox, 8 p.m.
Hart of Dixie — The CW, 8 p.m.
Gold Rush-The Dirt: Beets Are Back — Discovery, 8 p.m.
Untold Stories of the E.R.: Extra Dose: Don’t Touch That! — Discovery Life Channel, 8 p.m.
Die Hard — Encore, 8 p.m.
Wedding Crashers — HBO, 8 p.m.
Lost in Yonkers — Turner Classic Movies, 8 p.m.
Cold Justice: Burned (Fairview Park, OH) — TNT, 8 p.m.
Charlie Rose-The Week — PBS, 8:30 p.m.
American Masters: Ricky Jay: Deceptive Practice (season premiere) — PBS, 9 p.m.
Gold Rush: Gold Road — Discovery, 9 p.m.
Outrageous Births: Tales From the Crib: Baby Born Twice — Discovery Life Channel, 9 p.m.
Love It or List It, Too: Eleanor & Dave — HGTV, 9 p.m.
Most Evil: Egocentric Killers — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier — Starz, 9 p.m.
12 Monkeys: Mentally Divergent — Syfy, 9 p.m.
Wake Up Call: Wooten’s Airboat Tours-Sinking Business — TNT, 9 p.m.
Mysteries at the Castle: Green Lady; Count of Monte Carlo; Robin Hood — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
The Grateful Dead Movie — VH1 Classic, 9 p.m.
NY ER: Shocking Reminder — Discovery Life Channel, 10 p.m.
The Soup — E!, 10 p.m.
Dateline NBC: The Unusual Suspect — NBC, 10 p.m.
Live From Lincoln Center: Richard Tucker Opera Gala: A New Century — PBS, 10 p.m.
Myth Hunters: The Curse of Treasure Mountain — American Heroes Channel, 10 p.m.
Treehouse Masters: Treehive Beehive — Animal Planet, 10 p.m.
Banshee: A Fixer of Sorts — Cinemax, 10 p.m.
Ancient Case Files: The Secret Queen of the Pacific — Discovery Family Channel, 10 p.m.
Real Time With Bill Maher — HBO, 10 p.m.
Wives With Knives: Can’t Let Go — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Be Cool — Sho2, 10 p.m.
Helix: Reunion — Syfy, 10 p.m.
Biloxi Blues — Turner Classic Movies, 10 p.m.
20/20 — ABC, 10:01 p.m.
NY ER: Heart Trouble — Discovery Life Channel, 10:30 p.m.
Comedy Bang! Bang: Schoolboy Q Wears a Patterned Bucket Hat and Glasses — IFC, 11 p.m.
E! News — E!, 11 p.m.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — NBC, 11:34 p.m.
Kyle Kinane: I Liked His Old Stuff Better — Comedy Central, midnight
National Lampoon’s European Vacation — IFC, midnight
Listening to You: The Who at Isle of Wight — VH1 Classic, 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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