Thursday’s Viewing Picks

College Baseball
Kentucky at Mississippi — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.

College Baseball Live — ESPNU, 7 p.m.

College Softball
ACC Tournament, Dail Softball Stadium, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Quarterfinals

Pittsburgh vs. Florida State — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 11 a.m.
North Carolina vs. Boston College — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 1:30 p.m.
Syracuse vs. Louisville — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 5 p.m.
Virginia Tech vs. Notre Dame — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 7:30 p.m.

Big Ten Tournament, Nittany Lion Softball Park, Beard Field, Penn State University, University Park, PA
First Round

Ohio State vs. Rutgers — Big Ten Network, noon
Illinois vs. Michigan State — Big Ten Network, 2:30 p.m.
Nebraska vs. Purdue — Big Ten Network, 5:30 p.m.
Wisconsin vs. Indiana — Big Ten Network, 8 p.m.

SEC Tournament, Nusz Park, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
Second Round

Tennessee vs. South Carolina — SEC Network, noon
Kentucky vs. LSU — SEC Network, 2:30 p.m.
Florida vs. Mississippi — SEC Nework, 5 p.m.
Auburn vs. Alabama — SEC Network, 7:30 p.m.

SEC Now — SEC Network, 2 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 4:30 p.m.

Arizona State at Oregon State — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Arizona/Pac-12 Oregon, 6 p.m.
Washington at Stanford — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Washington/Pac-12 Bay Area, 8 p.m.
Utah at Oregon — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Mountain/Pac-12 Oregon, 10 p.m.
Cal at Arizona — Pac-12 Bay Area/Pac-12 Arizona, 10 p.m.

Cycling
Giro d’italia
Stage 6: Ponte to Roccaraso (Aremogna) — beIN Sports, 6:55 a.m.

Golf
The Players Championship, TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach
1st Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m.

Live From The Players — Golf Channel, 9 a.m.
Live From The Players — Golf Channel, 7 p.m.

Hockey
2016 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship
Group B, Yubileiny Sports Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia

USA vs. France — NBCSN, 9 a.m.

Invictus Games
Closing Ceremony– ESPN2, 7 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Tonight — FS1, 6 p.m.

MLB
American League
Detroit at Baltimore — Fox Sports Detoit/MASN, 7 p.m.
Houston at Boston — MLB Network/Root Sports Southwest/NESN, 7 p.m.
Kansas City at New York Yankees — MLB Network/Fox Sports Kansas City/YES, 7 p.m.

National League
Philadelphia at Atlanta — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/Fox Sports Southeast, 7 p.m.
San Diego at Milwaukee — Fox Sports San Diego/Fox Sports Wisconsin, 8 p.m.
San Francisco at Arizona — Comcast SportsNet Bay Area/Fox Sports Arizona, 9;30 p.m.
New York Mets at Los Angeles — SNY/SportsNet LA, 10 p.m.

Interleague
St. Louis at Anaheim — Fox Sports Midwest/Fox Sports West, 10 p.m.

MLB Central — MLB Network, 10 a.m.
The Rundown — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Now — MLB Network, 4 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
MLB Whiparound — FS1, 7 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Friday)

NASCAR
NASCAR Race Hub — FS1, 5 p.m.
NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5 p.m.

NBA Playoffs
Western Conference Semifinal
Game 6: San Antonio at Oklahoma City — ESPN, 8:30 p.m. (Oklahoma City leads series 3-2)

NBA Draft Combine, Quest Multisport Complex, Chicago, IL
Day 1 — ESPN2, 3 p.m.

The Jump — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.
The Starters — NBA TV, 7 p.m.
NBA Countdown — ESPN, 7:30 p.m.
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 7:30 p.m.
NBA GameTime: Spurs/Thunder, Game 6 Postgame — NBA TV, 11 p.m.
NBA Tonight — ESPN2, 12:30 a.m. (Friday)

NFL
NFL HQ — NFL Network, 8 a.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
Super Bowl’s Greatest Halftime Shows — NFL Network, 9 p.m.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs
Western Conference Semifinal
Game 7: Nashville at San Jose — NBCSN/Sportsnet/TVA Sports, 9 p.m. (Series tied 3-3)

Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet/NHL Network, noon
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2016 Stanley Cup Playoff Edition — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
Hockey Central — Sportsnet, 7:30 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2016 Stanley Cup Playoff Edition — NHL Network, 8 p.m.
NHL Live — NBCSN, 8 p.m.
Hockey Central Live — Sportsnet, 8 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2016 Stanley Cup Playoff Edition — NHL Network, 11:30 p.m.
NHL Overtime — NBCSN, 11:45 p.m.

Scottish Premiership
Aberdeen vs. Heart of Midlothian — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:40 p.m.

Soccer
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, 10 p.m.

Sports Talk
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 6:45 a.m.
SportsCenter:AM — ESPN, 7 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 7 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 8:45 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz — ESPNU, 10 a.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 11:30 p.m.
The Rich Eisen Show — Audience (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/Root Sports (Northwest/Southwest), noon
BYU Sports Nation — BYUtv, noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
Sport Today — BBC World News, 12:45 p.m.
SEC Storied — ESPNU, 1 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN, 1:30 p.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 2:30 p.m.
The Doug Gottlieb Show — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN, 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.
Time to Schein — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 9:30 p.m.
E:60 — ESPN2, 10 p.m.
SEC Storied: Thunder and Lightning — SEC Network, 10:30 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — FS1, 11 p.m.
TMZ Sports — FS1, midnight
Jalen & Jacoby — ESPN2, midnight
SportsCenter at Night With Scott Van Pelt — ESPN, midnight
Contacto Deportivo — Univision/Univision Deportes, midnight

Tennis
Center Court: Internazionali BNL d’italia (ATP/WTA): Men’s and Women’s Round of 16 — Tennis Channel, 6 a.m.
Tennis Channel Live — Tennis Channel, 5 p.m.

WNBA
2016 WNBA Season Preview — NBA TV, 6 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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