Friday’s Viewing Picks

Australian Rules Football
Semifinal, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Hawthorn Hawks vs. Adelaide Crows — FS2, 5:30 a.m.

Basketball
EuroBasket 2015, Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille, France
Semifinal
Serbia vs. Lithuania — NBA TV, 2:50 p.m.

Bundesliga
FSV Mainz vs. TSG 1899 Hoffenheim — FS1, 2:30 p.m.

Bundesliga Pregame — FS1, 2 p.m.

College Field Hockey
Northwestern at Maryland — Big Ten Network, 3:30 p.m.
Cal at Stanford — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Bay Area, 4:30 p.m.

College Football
Howard vs. Hampton at RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C. — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.
Florida State at Boston College — ESPN, 8 p.m.
Idaho State at Boise State — CBS Sports Network, 9 p.m.
New Mexico at Arizona State — Pac-12 Networks, 10 p.m.

B1G Football & Beyond — Big Ten Network, noon
CFB Daily: The Edge — ESPNU, 1 p.m.
College Football Live — ESPN, 2 p.m.
ESPNU Film Room — ESPNU, 4 p.m.
This Week in SEC Football — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
College Football Countdown — ESPN, 7:30 p.m.
Lemming Report — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 8:30 p.m.
Pac-12 Football Pregame Show — Pac-12 Networks, 9 p.m.
Fox Sports Live: Countdown to Kickoff — FS1, 11:30 p.m.
Pac-12 Football Postgame Show — Pac-12 Networks, 1:30 a.m. (Saturday)

College Soccer
Men’s
North Carolina vs. Notre Dame — ESPNU, 5 p.m.

Women’s
Utah vs. Utah State — Pac-12 Mountain, 6:30 p.m.
Oregon vs. Portland State — Pac-12 Oregon, 6:30 p.m.
Michigan vs. Nebraska — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m.
Texas A&M vs. Vanderbilt — SEC Network, 7 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Maryland at Oklahoma — Fox College Sports Atlantic, noon
Washington at Oklahoma — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 9 p.m.
North Dakota State at Northern Arizona — Fox College Sports Central, 10 p.m.

English Football Championship
Ipswich Town vs. Birmingham City — beIN Sports, 2:40 p.m.

Golf
LPGA Tour
Solheim Cup, St. Leon-Rot Golf Club (St. Leon Course), St. Leon-Rot, Germany
Day 1 — Golf Channel, 2 a.m.

Web.com Tour
Small Business Connection Championship at River Run, River Run Country Club, Davidson, NC
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 12:30 p.m.

PGA Tour
FedEx Cup Playoffs
BMW Championship, Conway Farms Golf Club, Lake Forest, IL
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

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

European PGA Tour
Italian Open, Golf Club Milano, Monza Park, Italy
2nd Round — Golf Channel, midnight (same day coverage)

MLB
American League
Baltimore at Tampa Bay — MASN2/Sun Sports, 7 p.m.
Boston at Toronto — NESN/Sportsnet, 7 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at Cleveland — Comcast SportsNet Chicago/STO, 7 p.m.
Kansas City at Detroit — Fox Sports Kansas City/Fox Sports Detroit, 7 p.m.
Anaheim Angels at Minnesota — Fox Sports West/Fox Sports North, 8 p.m.
Oakland at Houston — Comcast SportsNet California/Root Sports Southwest, 8 p.m.
Seattle at Texas — Root Sports Northwest/Fox Sports Southwest, 8 p.m.

National League
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs — MLB Network/Fox Sports Midwest/WLS, 2:20 p.m.
Miami at Washington — MLB Network/Fox Sports Florida/MASN, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Atlanta — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/Fox Sports South, 7:30 p.m.
Cincinnati at Milwaukee — Fox Sports Ohio/Fox Sports Wisconsin, 8 p.m.
San Diego at Colorado — Fox Sports San Diego/Root Sports Rocky Mountain, 8:30 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Los Angeles Dodgers — Root Sports Pittsburgh/SportsNet LA, 10 p.m.
Arizona at San Francisco — Fox Sports Arizona/Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, 10:15 p.m.

Interleague
New York Yankees at New York Mets — MLB Network/YES/SNY, 7 p.m.

MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
MLB Whiparound — FS1, 7 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, midnight
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Saturday)

MLS
Sporting KC vs. FC Dallas — UniMás/Univision Deportes, 7 p.m.

NASCAR
Camping World Truck Series
American Ethanol E15 225, Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, IL
Final Practice — FS1, 10 a.m.
Qualifying — FS1, 4:30 p.m.
Race — FS1, 8:30 p.m.

NCWTS Setup — FS1, 8 p.m.

Sprint Cup Series
myAFibRisk.com 400, Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, IL
Practice — NBCSN, 12:30 p.m.
Qualifying — NBCSN, 6:30 p.m.

Xfinity Series
Furious 7 300, Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, IL
Final Practice — NBCSN, 2 p.m.

NFL
NFL HQ — NFL Network, 8 a.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.
Madden NFL Live — NFL Network, 4 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m.
Around the NFL — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
Top 10 Devastating Losses — NFL Network, 8 p.m.
Christian Okoye: A Football Life (season premiere) — NFL Network, 9 p.m.

Rugby
2015 IRB Rugby World Cup
Pool A, Twickenham Stadium, Twickenham, London, England, United Kingdom
England vs. Fiji — Universal Sports, 2 p.m.

Scottish Championship League
St. Mirren vs. Raith Rovers — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:40 p.m.

Soccer
Football Focus — BBC World News, 4:30 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
The Keys & Gray Show — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, 10 p.m.
The Locker Room — beIN Sports, 10:30 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.
The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz — ESPNU, 10 a.m.
MLB Central — MLB Network, 10 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 11:45 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/Root Sports (Northwest/Pittsburgh/Rocky Mountain/Southwest), noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
Russillo and Kanell — ESPNU, 1 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.
Highly Questionable — ESPN, 4:30 p.m.
Around the Horn — ESPN, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.
BTN Live — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.
Time to Schein — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
America’s Pregame — FS1, 6 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 9 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — FS1, 10:30 p.m.

Tennis
Davis Cup
World Cup Playoff
Uzbekistan vs. United States, Olympic Tennis School, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Singles
Denis Istomin vs. Steve Johnson & Farrukh Dustov vs. Jack Sock — Tennis Channel, 1 a.m.

World Group Semifinal
Great Britain vs. Australia, Emirates Arena, Glascow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Singles
Andy Murray vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis & Daniel Evans vs. Bernard Tomic — Tennis Channel, 8 a.m.

Tennis Channel Live at the Davis Cup — Tennis Channel, 2 p.m.

WNBA Playoffs
Eastern Conference Semifinal
Game 1: Washington Mystics at New York Liberty — NBA TV, 7 p.m.

Western Conference Semifinal
Game 1: Los Angeles Sparks at Minnesota Lynx — NBA TV, 9 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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