Thursday’s Viewing Picks

Baseball
National Youth Baseball Championships All-Star Challenge, 12U, Baseball Heaven, Yaphank, NY
Semifinal — CBS Sports Network, 10 a.m.
Championship Finals — CBS Sports Network, 1 p.m.

CFL
BC Lions at Winnipeg Blue Bombers — TSN/ESPN2, 8:30 p.m.

College Football
Pac-12 Football Media Day Special: Day 1 — Pac-12 Networks, noon
B1G Football Media Day 2015 — Big Ten Network, 1 p.m.
2015 College Football Media Days: Big Ten and Pac-12 — ESPNU, 1 p.m.
College Football Live — ESPN, 2 p.m.
BTN Live: Football Media Day Special — Big Ten Network, 3 p.m.

FINA World Aquatics Championships
Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia
Women’s Water Polo: USA vs. Japan — Universal Sports, 6 p.m. (same day coverage)
Synchronized Swimming: Duet Free Finals — Universal Sports, 8 p.m. (same day coverage)
Synchronized Swimming: Mixed Duet Free Finals — Universal Sports, 9 p.m. (same day coverage)
Women’s Diving: 10 meter platform — Universal Sports, 10 p.m. (same day coverage)

Golf
European PGA Tour
Paul Lawrie Match Play, Murcar Links Golf Club, Aberdeen, Scotland
Round of 64 — Golf Channel, 7:30 a.m.
Round of 64 — Golf Channel, 11 a.m.

PGA Tour
Quicken Loans National, Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Gainesville, VA
1st Round — Golf Channel, 2:30 p.m.

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

Web.com Tour
Utah Championship, Golf Club at Thanksgiving Point, Lehi, UT
1st Round — Golf Channel, 6:30 p.m.

Minor League Baseball
South Atlantic League
Lexington Legends at Greenville Drive — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Reloaded: UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche — Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.

MLB
American League
Chicago White Sox at Boston — WPWR/NESN, 7 p.m.
Detroit at Baltimore — MLB Network/Fox Sports Detroit/MASN, 7 p.m.
Kansas City at Toronto — MLB Network/Fox Sports Kansas City/Sportsnet, 7 p.m.
Anaheim Angels at Houston — Fox Sports West/Root Sports Southwest, 8 p.m.
New York Yankees at Texas — YES/Fox Sports Southwest, 8 p.m.
Seattle at Minnesota — Root Sports Northwest/Fox Sports North, 8 p.m.
Cleveland at Oakland — STO/Comcast SportsNet California, 10 p.m.

National League
San Diego at New York Mets — MLB Network/Fox Sports San Diego/SNY, noon
Washington at Miami — MLB Network/MASN, noon
Atlanta at Philadelphia — SportSouth/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Pittsburgh at Cincinnati — Root Sports Pittsburgh/Fox Sports Ohio, 7 p.m.
Colorado at St. Louis — Root Sports Rocky Mountain/Fox Sports Midwest, 7:15 p.m.
Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee — Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports Wisconsin, 8 p.m.

The Rundown — MLB Network, 3 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, 10 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, midnight
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, midnight

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

NBA
The City Game — NBA TV, 9 p.m.
Run TMC: The Power of Three — NBA TV, 9:30 p.m.

NFL
Inside Training Camp Live: On the Field — NFL Network, 8:45 a.m.
Inside Training Camp Live: Fantasy Spotlight — NFL Network, 2 p.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
Inside Training Camp Live — NFL Network, 3 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.
Training Camp Primetime — NFL Network, 8 p.m.

Soccer
International Champions Cup, Shanghai Stadium, Communist China
Real Madrid vs. AC Milan — Fox Sports 1, 7:55 a.m.

FIFA Football World — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, 10 p.m.

Special Olympics
Los Angeles, CA
Day 6 — ESPN, 7 p.m.

Sports Talk
Sport Today — BBC World News, 5:45 a.m.
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 8:45 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 9:30 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 — ESPN2, noon
Sport Today — BBC World News, 12:45 p.m.
The Russillo Show — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 2:45 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.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.
World’s Strongest Man 2015 — CBS Sports Network, 6:30 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Podium 360 — Universal Sports, 7:30 p.m.
30 for 30: Angry Sky: The Legend of Nick Piantanida — ESPN, 8 p.m.
30 for 30: The Deal — ESPN, 9:30 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.
Fox Sports Live: Countdown — Fox Sports 1, midnight

Tennis
ATP Tour
bet-at-home Open: German Tennis Championships, Rothenbaum Event Location, Hamburg, Germany
3rd Round — Tennis Channel, 8 a.m.

U.S. Open Series
Atlanta Open, Atlantic Station, Atlanta, GA
2nd Round — ESPN3, 4 p.m.

Track & Field
IAAF Diamond League, Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm Bauhaus Athletics — beIN Sports, 2 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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