Friday’s Viewing Picks

Boxing
ShoBox: The New Generation, Celebrity Theater, Phoenix, AZ
Vacant WBC Continental Americas Middleweight Title
Louis Rose vs. Rob Brant — Showtime, 10:30 p.m.

Bundesliga
TSG Hoffenheim vs. Hamburger — FS2, 2:20 p.m.

College Basketball
Men’s
Boom Shakalaka — BYUtv, 9 p.m.
ESPNU Midnight Madness — ESPNU, 9 p.m.

College Field Hockey
Iowa at Penn State — Big Ten Network, 3:30 p.m.

College Football
Yale at Penn — NBCSN, 7:30 p.m.
Memphis at Tulsa — ESPN, 8 p.m.
Utah State at San Diego State — ESPN2, 10:30 p.m.

B1G Football & Beyond — Big Ten Network, noon
CFB Daily: The Edge — ESPNU, 1 p.m.
College Football Live — ESPN, 2 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.
Fox Sports Live: Countdown to Kickoff — FS1, midnight

College Hockey
Men’s
Minnesota-Duluth at Notre Dame — Comcast SportsNet Chicago Plus/NESNplus, 6 p.m.
Northeastern at Minnesota — Fox College Sports Atlantic/Fox Sports North Plus, 8 p.m.

College Soccer
Men’s
Cal vs. San Diego State — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Bay Area, 5 p.m.
Wake Forest vs. Notre Dame — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 7 p.m.
Stanford vs. UCLA — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Bay Area, 11 p.m.

Women’s
Texas vs. Oklahoma — Longhorn Network, 7 p.m.
Washington vs. Cal — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Washington/Pac-12 Bay Area, 7 p.m.
UCLA vs. Colorado — Pac-12 Mountain, 9 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Arkansas at Florida — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Wisconsin at Iowa — Big Ten Network, 8 p.m.
UCLA at Oregon — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Los Angeles, 9 p.m.
Utah at Arizona State — Pac-12 Arizona, 9 p.m.
Washington at Cal — Pac-12 Washington/Pac-12 Bay Area, 9 p.m.
Colorado at Arizona — Pac-12 Mountain/Pac-12 Arizona, 11 p.m.
USC at Oregon State — Pac-12 Los Angeles/Pac-12 Oregon, 11 p.m.

English Football Championship
Rotherham United vs. Sheffield Wednesday — beIN Sports, 2:40 p.m.

Formula 1
United States Grand Prix, Circuit of the Americas, Austin, TX
Practice 1 — NBCSN, 11 a.m.
Practice 2 — NBCSN, 3 p.m.

Golf
European Tour
Hong Kong Open, Hong Kong Golf Club (Championship Composite Course), Fanling, Hong Kong
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 6 a.m. (same day coverage)

PGA Tour
Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, TPC Summerlin, Las Vegas, NV
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 5 p.m.

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

LPGA Tour
LPGA Taiwan Championship, Miramar Golf & Country Club, New Taipei City, Taiwan
3rd Round — Golf Channel, midnight

Mixed Martial Arts
Bellator MMA Live
Bellator 144, Mohegan Sun Arena, Mohegan Sun Casino and Resort, Uncasville, CT
Middleweight Title Fight
Rafael Carvalho vs. Brandon Halsey — Spike, 9 p.m.

Lion Fight 25, Pechanga Grand Ballroom, Temecula, CA
Vacant Super Middleweight Title
John Wayne Parr vs. Cosmo Alexandre — AXS TV, 10 p.m.

MLB Postseason
American League Championship Series
Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, MO
Toronto Blue Jays at Kansas City Royals — FS1, 8 p.m. (Kansas City leads series 3-2)

The Rundown — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Now — MLB Network, 4 p.m.
Iron: The Legacy of Cal Ripken, Jr. — FS1, 6 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
Fox ALCS Pregame — FS1, 7 p.m.
MLB Tonight: League Championship Series — MLB Network, 11 p.m.

NASCAR
Camping World Truck Series
Fred’s 250, Talladega Superspeedway, Lincoln, AL
Practice — FS1, 1 p.m.
Final Practice — FS1, 3 p.m.

Sprint Cup Series
CampingWorld.com 500, Talladega Superspeedway, Lincoln, AL
Practice — NBCSN, 2 p.m.
Final Practice — NBCSN, 4:30 p.m.

NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5:30 p.m.
The Soup Invades NASCAR — E!, 10 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: Greatest Plays in the Super Bowl — NFL Network, 8 p.m.
Steve Largent: A Football Life — NFL Network, 9 p.m.

NHL
Montreal at Buffalo — NHL Network/RDS/City TV/MSG Buffalo/Bell TV, 7 p.m.
Boston at New York Islanders — TVA Sports/NESN/MSG Plus, 7:30 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Winnipeg — Sun Sports/TSN3, 8 p.m.
Detroit at Calgary — Sportsnet One/Fox Sports Detroit, 9 p.m.
Washington at Edmonton — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/Sportsnet Oilers, 9 p.m.
Carolina at Los Angeles — Fox Sports Carolinas/Fox Sports West, 10:30 p.m.

Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet/NHL Network, noon
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
Hockey Central: Flames Pregame — Sportsnet One, 8:30 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 10 p.m.
Hockey Central — Sportsnet One, 11:30 p.m.
On the Fly — NHL Network, 1 a.m. (Saturday)

Soccer
FIFA U-17 World Cup
Group Stage
Group B, Estadio Francisco Sanchez Rumoroso, Coquimbo, Chile
Republic of Korea vs. England — FS1, 3:55 p.m.
United States vs. Chile — FS2, 6:55 p.m.

Group A, Estadio Sausalito, Vina Del Mar, Chile
Guinea vs. Brazil — Fox Soccer Plus, 3:55 p.m.
Croatia vs. Nigeria — Fox Soccer Plus, 6:55 p.m.

Football Focus — BBC World News, 4:30 p.m.
Total Italian Football — beIN Sports, 5 p.m.
El Clasico — beIN Sports, 5:30 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 (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz — ESPNU, 10 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 10 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 11:45 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show — Audience Network (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/Root Sports (Northwest/Pittsburgh/Rocky Mountain/Southwest), noon
BYU Sports Nation — BYUtv, noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
Russillo and Kanell — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN, 1:30 p.m.
The Box Score — Audience Network (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV), 3 p.m.
The Doug Gottlieb Show — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 3 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN2, 4 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN, 4:30 p.m.
Around the Horn — ESPN, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
BTN Live — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.
Time to Schein — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 9 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — FS1, 11 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night With Scott Van Pelt — ESPN, midnight
Contacto Deportivo — Univision, midnight

Tennis
Center Court: Erste Bank Open (ATP, Vienna)/Stockholm Open (ATP, Stockholm)/Kremlin Cup (WTA, Moscow)/Luxembourg Open (WTA, Luxembourg) — Tennis Channel, 6 a.m.
Tennis Channel Live — Tennis Channel, 5 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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