Thursday’s Viewing Picks

Baseball
Pacific Coast League
El Paso Chihuahas at Round Rock Express — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.

College Softball
Women’s College World Series, ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, Oklahoma City, OK
Florida vs. Tennessee — ESPN, noon
Auburn vs. LSU — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
Alabama vs. Michigan — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Oregon vs. UCLA — ESPN2, 9:30 p.m.

NCAA Studio Update — ESPN, 2 p.m.
NCAA Studio Update — ESPN2, 9 p.m.

Cycling
Giro d’Italia
Stage 18: Melide to Verbania — beIN Sports, 8:30 a.m.

Tour of Belguim
Stage 2: Lochristi to Knokke-Heist — Universal Sports, 8:30 a.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
Irish Open, Royal County Down Golf Club (Championship Links) Newcastle, Northern Ireland
1st Round — Golf Channel, 3 a.m.
1st Round — Golf Channel, 11 a.m.

LPGA Tour
ShopRite LPGA Classic, Stockton Seaview Hotel & Golf Club (Bay Course), Galloway, NJ
1st Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m.

PGA Tour
Byron Nelson Classic, TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas, Irving, TX
1st Round — Golf Channel, 4 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 3:30 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Top 10 — Fox Sports 1, 9:30 p.m.
UFC Unleashed: Heavyweight Champions — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.

MLB
American League
Chicago White Sox at Baltimore — WGN/MASN, 1 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at Baltimore — Comcast SportsNet Chicago/MASN, approximately 4:30 p.m.
Boston at Texas — MLB Network/NESN/Fox Sports Southwest, 8 p.m.
Cleveland at Seattle — STO/Root Sports Northwest, 10 p.m.
Detroit at Anaheim Angels — Fox Sports Detroit/Fox Sports West, 10 p.m.
New York Yankees at Oakland — YES/Comcast SportsNet California, 10 p.m.

National League
Pittsburgh at San Diego — Root Sports Pittsburgh/Fox Sports San Diego, 10 p.m.
Atlanta at San Francisco — SportSouth/Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, 10:15 p.m.

The Rundown — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Now — MLB Network, 4 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
MLB Whiparound — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN, 10 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 11 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 11:30 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Friday)

NASCAR
NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5 p.m.
NASCAR Race Hub — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.

NBA
The Starters — NBA TV, 6:30 p.m.
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 7 p.m.

NFL
Top 10: Football Voices — NFL Network, 8 p.m.
A Football Life: Pat Summerall — NFL Network, 9 p.m.
My Road to Canton: John Madden — NFL Network, 10 p.m.

NHL
Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet/NHL Network (US), noon
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 7 p.m.

Scottish Premiership
Final, 1st Leg
Rangers vs. Motherwell — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:40 p.m.

Soccer
Toulon Tournament U-21
Group B, Stade Leo Legrange, Toulon, France
Côte d’Ivoire vs. Mexico — beIN Sports, 11:30 a.m.
England vs. Morocco — beIN Sports, 12:50 p.m.

The Express Xtra: Stars of Copa America: Messi & Silva — beIN Sports, 3 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
The Express Xtra: Stars of Copa America: Falcão & Bravo — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.

Spelling
2015 National Spelling Bee, Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, National Harbor, MD
Semifinals — ESPN2, 10 a.m.
Finals — ESPN, 8 p.m.

Sports Talk
Radius — NBCSN, 6 a.m.
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
Radius — NBCSN, 6:30 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 8 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
SportsMoney — Fox Sports 1, 10 a.m.
MLB Central — MLB Network, 10 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/Root Sports (Northwest/Pittsburgh/Rocky Mountain/Southwest), noon
His & Hers — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 2 p.m.
The Box Score — Audience Network (DirecTV), 3 p.m.
The Doug Gottlieb Show — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 3 p.m.
The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz — Fusion, 4 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN, 4:30 p.m.
Uncompromising: Kyrie Irving — Fox Sports 1, 4:30 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m.
CBS Sports Spectacular: World’s Strongest Man: 1995 — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.
Fox Sports Live: Countdown — Fox Sports 1, midnight

Tennis
French Open, Stade Roland Garros, Paris, France
Men’s & Women’s Round 2 — ESPN2, 5 a.m.
Men’s & Women’s Round 2 — Tennis Channel, 10 a.m.

French Open Tonight — Tennis Channel, 7 p.m.

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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