Friday’s Viewing Picks

Australian Rules Football
Qualifying Final, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Victoria, Australia
Geelong Cats vs. Hawthorn Hawks — FS1, 5:30 a.m.

Qualifying Final, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Sydney Swans vs. Greater Western Sydney Giants — FS2, 1 a.m. (Saturday)

Boxing
Premier Boxing Champions, Santander Arena, Reading, PA
WBA World Middleweight Title

Sergio Mora vs. Daniel Jacobs — Spike, 9 p.m.

CBS Sports Spectacular: Fight Night, Downtown Las Vegas Event Center, Las Vegas, NV
Vacant WBA-NABA USA Super Lightweight Title

Emmanuel Robles vs. Steve Claggett — CBS Sports Network, 11:30 p.m.

Bundesliga
Schalke vs. Bayern Munich — FS1, 2:30 p.m.

Bundesliga Match Day — FS1, 2 p.m.

College Football
Maryland at Florida International — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m.
Louisville at Syracuse — ESPN2, 8 p.m.

B1G Football & Beyond — Big Ten Network, noon
College Football Live — ESPN, 1:30 p.m.
CFB Daily — ESPNU, 4:30 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
College Football Countdown — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 11 p.m.

College Soccer
Men’s
Michgan vs. Rutgers — Big Ten Network, 5 p.m.
Indiana vs. Maryland — Big Ten Network, 7:30 p.m.

Women’s
Vanderbilt vs. Auburn — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Stanford vs. Minnnesota — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Bay Area, 9 p.m.
UCLA vs. North Carolina — Pac-12 Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Ohio at Oklahoma — Fox College Sports Pacific, 8 p.m.
Miami (FL) at Kansas State — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 8:30 p.m.
Illinois at Oregon — Pac-12 Oregon, 10 p.m.
Purdue at Stanford — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Bay Area, 11 p.m.

Golf
European Tour
KLM Open, The Dutch, Spijk, The Netherlands

2nd Round — Golf Channel, 5:30 a.m.
2nd Round — Golf Channel Live Extra App/NBC Sports App, 9:30 a.m.

PGA Tour
BMW Championship, Crooked Stick Golf Club, Carmel, IN

1st Round Conclusion/2nd Round Start — Golf Channel, 9 a.m.
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 8:30 a.m.
Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

Web.com Tour
DAP Championship, Canterbury Golf Club, Beachwood, OH

2nd Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m.

Hockey
World Cup of Hockey
Pre-Tournament Game, Nationwide Arena, Columbus, OH

Canada vs. United States — ESPNU/Sportsnet One/Sportsnet 360/TVA Sports, 7 p.m.

Hockey Central @ noon: World Cup — Sportsnet/NHL Network, noon
Hockey Central: World Cup — Sportsnet/NHL Network, 6:30 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem, Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH
Weigh-In — FS1, 6 p.m.

Resurrection Fighting Alliance 43, 1STBANK Center, Broomfield, CO
Welterweight Title Fight

Brian Camozzi vs. Nick Barnes — AXS TV, 10 p.m.

Hard Knocks MMA Fighting: Best Fights — beIN Sports, 9 p.m.

MLB
American League
Baltimore at Detroit — MASN2/Fox Sports Detroit, 7 p.m.
Boston at Toronto — NESN/Sportsnet, 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay at New York Yankees — Fox Sports Sun/YES, 7 p.m.
Cleveland at Minnesota — STO/Fox Sports North, 8 p.m.
Kansas City at Chicago White Sox — Fox Sports Kansas City/Comcast SportsNet Chicago, 8 p.m.
Seattle at Oakland — MLB Network/Root Sports Northwest/Comcast SportsNet California, 10 p.m.
Texas at Anaheim — MLB Network/Fox Sports Southwest/Fox Sports West, 10 p.m.

National League
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh — Fox Sports Ohio/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Los Angeles at Miami — SportsNet LA/Fox Sports Florida, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Washington — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/MASN, 7 p.m.
New York Mets at Atlanta — SNY/Fox Sports South, 7:30 p.m.
Milwaukee at St. Louis — Fox Sports Wisconsin/Fox Sports Midwest, 8:15 p.m.
San Francisco at Arizona — KNTV/Fox Sports Arizona, 9:30 p.m.
Colorado at San Diego — Root Sports Rocky Mountain/Fox Sports San Diego, 10:30 p.m.

Interleague
Chicago Cubs at Houston — WPWR/Root Sports Southwest, 8 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, 9 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Saturday)

MLS
Sporting KC vs. Houston — UniMás/KMCI, 8 p.m.

NASCAR
Xfinity Series
Virginia529 College Savings 250, Richmond International Raceway, Richmond, VA

Final Practice — NBCSN, 8 a.m.
Qualifying — NBCSN, 4 p.m.
Race — NBCSN, 7:30 p.m.

Countdown to Green — NBCSN, 7 p.m.
Xfinity Series Post-Race Show — NBCSN, 10 p.m.

Sprint Cup Series
Federated Auto Parts 400, Richmond International Raceway, Richmond, VA

Practice — NBCSN, 10 a.m.
Final Practice — NBCSN, noon
Qualifying — NBCSN, 5:30 p.m.

NASCAR America — NBCSN, 3:30 p.m.

NBA
2016 Hall of Fame Red Carpet Show — NBA TV, 6:30 p.m.
2016 Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony — NBA TV, 7:30 p.m.

NFL
Good Morning Football — NFL Network, 7 a.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
NFL Network Up to the Minute — NFL Network, 4 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m.
Fantasy and Friends — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
The Timeline: September 11rh — NFL Network, 8 p.m.

NHL
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 9:30 p.m.

Paralympics
2016 Rio Paralympics
Swimming, Track & Field — NBCSN, 11:30 p.m.

Soccer
Football Focus — BBC World News, 4:30 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
The Xtra — beIN Sports, 7 p.m.
The Locker Room — beIN Sports, 7:30 p.m.
The Keys & Gray Show — beIN Sports, 8 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, 7:30 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 8:45 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV), 9 a.m.
SportsCenter: Face to Face With Hannah Storm — ESPN, 10 a.m.
The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz — ESPNU, 10 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 11:45 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show — Audience (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/Root Sports (Northwest/Pittsburgh/Rocky Mountain/Southwest), noon
BYU Sports Nation — BYUtv, noon
His & Hers –ESPNews, noon
Outside the Lines — ESPN, 1 p.m.
Russillo and Kanell — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 3 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN2, 4 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN2, 4:30 p.m.
Around the Horn — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interrrupion — ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.
Time to Schein — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 9 p.m.
BTN Live — Big Ten Network, 9:30 p.m.
Fox Sports Live With Jay and Dan — FS1, 11 p.m.
TMZ Sports — FS1, 11:30 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night With Scott Van Pelt — ESPN, midnight
Contacto Deportivo — Univision/Univision Deportes, midnight

Stand Up to Cancer — ABC/CBS/Fox/Ion/NBC/Aspire/Audience (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/Bravo/Bloomberg/Comedy Central/Discovery Life Channel/Epix/ESPNews/E!/FMTV/Fox Movie Channel/FS2/Fusion/Galavision/Great American Country/HBO/HLN/Lifetime Movie Network/Logo/MLB Network/National Geographic Channel/Pivot/Showtime/Smithsonian Channel/Starz/Starz Encore/TBS/Univision Deportes/USA Network/VH1/WGN America, 8 p.m.

Tennis
U.S. Open, USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing, New York, NY
Mixed Doubles Final — ESPN2, noon
Men’s Seifinals — ESPN, 3 p.m.

U.S. Open Tonight — Tennis Channel, 11 p.m.

Track & Field
IAAF Diamond League, King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium
Memorial Van Damme — beIN Sports, 2 p.m.

Diamond League Highlights: Zurich — beIN Sports, 1 p.m.
Atletix — beIN Sports, 1:30 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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