Friday’s Viewing Picks

Australian Rules Football
Preliminary Finals, Melbourne Cricket Grounds, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Geelong Cats vs. Sydney Swans — FS1, 5:30 a.m.

Boxing
Solo Boxeo, Silver Spurs Arena, Osceola Heritage Park, Kissimmee, FL
Featherweights

Christopher Diaz vs. Raul Hirales — UniMás/Univision Deportes, 11 p.m.

Bundesliga
Borussia Dortmund vs. SC Freiburg — FS2, 2:20 p.m.

College Field Hockey
Rutgers at Indiana — Big Ten Network, 3:30 p.m.

College Football
Wyoming at Eastern Michigan — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m.
TCU at SMU — ESPN, 8 p.m.
USC at Utah — FS1, 9 p.m.

B1G Football & Beyond — Big Ten Network, noon
College Football Live — ESPN, 1:30 p.m.
CFB Daily — ESPNU, 4 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
College Football Countdown — ESPN, 7:30 p.m.
FS1 College Football Pregame — FS1, 8:30 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 11 p.m.
This Week in SEC Football — CBS Sports Network, 11:30 p.m.
FS1 College Football Extra — FS1, 12:30 a.m. (Saturday)

College Soccer
Men’s
Penn State vs. Wisconsin — Big Ten Network, 5:30 p.m.

Women’s
USC vs. Arizona — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Los Angeles/Pac-12 Arizona, 6 p.m.
Cal vs. Oregon State — Pac-12 Bay Area/Pac-12 Oregon, 6 p.m.
Baylor vs. Texas — Fox College Sports Atlantic/Fox Sports Southwest Plus, 7 p.m.
Washington State vs. Colorado — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Washington/Pac-12 Mountain, 8 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Texas A&M at Alabama — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Iowa at Michigan State — Big Ten Network, 7:30 p.m.
Washington at USC — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Washington/Pac-12 Los Angeles, 10 p.m.
Stanford at Oregon State — Pac-12 Bay Area/Pac-12 Oregon, 10 p.m.

English Football Championship
Presston North End vs. Wigan Athletic — beIN Sports, 4:45 p.m. (same day coverage)

Golf
European Tour
European Open, Bad Griesbach Golf Resort (Beckenbauer Course), Bad Griesbach, Germany

2nd Round — Golf Channel, 5 a.m.
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 9 a.m.
2nd Round — Golf Live Extra App, 10:30 a.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 10:30 a.m.

Web.com Tour
Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship, The Ohio State University Golf Club (Scarlet Course), Columbus, OH

2nd Round — Golf Channel, 11 a.m.

PGA Tour
Tour Championship, East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, GA

2nd Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m.

PGA Tour Champions
Bear Mountain Championship, Bear Mountain Resort (Mountain Course), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

1st Round — Golf Channel, 6 p.m.

Hockey
World Cup of Hockey
Hockey Central @ noon: World Cup — Sportsnet/NHL Network, noon
NHL Tonight: World Cup of Hockey Elimination Round Preview — NHL Network, 7 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Fight Night 95: Cyborg vs. Lansberg, Ginásio Nilson Nelson, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
Weigh-In — FS1, 6 p.m.

CES MMA 38, Foxwoods Resort & Casino, Mashantucket, CT
Featherweights

Sean Soriano vs. Levan Makashvili & Calvin Kattar vs. Chris Foster — AXS TV, 9 p.m.

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

MLB
American League
Boston at Tampa Bay — NESN/Fox Sports Sun, 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.
New York Yankees at Toronto — ESPN2/YES/Sportsnet, 7 p.m.
Anaheim at Houston — Fox Sports West/Root Sports Southwest, 8 p.m.
Seattle at Minnesota — Root Sports Northwest/Fox Sports North, 8 p.m.
Texas at Oakland — Fox Sports Southwest/Comcast SportsNet California, 9:30 p.m.

National League
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs — ESPN/Fox Sports Midwest/WLS, 2:20 p.m.
Atlanta at Miami — Fox Sports South/Fox Sports Florida, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at New York Mets — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/SNY, 7 p.m.
Washington at Pittsburgh — MASN/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Cincinnati at Milwaukee — Fox Sports Ohio/Fox Sports Wisconsin, 8 p.m.
Colorado at Los Angeles — Root Sports Rocky Mountain/Spectrum SportsNet LA, 10 p.m./MLB Network, 10:30 p.m. (joined in progress)
San Francisco at San Diego — MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet Bay Area/Fox Sports San Diego, 10:30 p.m.

Interleague
Arizona at Baltimore — Fox Sports Arizona/MASN2, 7 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, 8 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 10 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Saturday)

MLS
New York City FC vs. Chicago — UniMás/Univision Deportes, 8 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series: Chase for the Cup, Round of 16
Some Race That Makes Drivers Turn Four Lefts for 300 Miles, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, NH

Practice — NBCSN, 11:30 a.m.
Qualifying — NBCSN, 4:30 p.m.

Camping World Truck Series
UNOH 175, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, NH

Practice — FS1, 1:30 p.m.
Final Practice — FS1, 3:30 p.m.

Xfinity Series
The Whatever 300, Kentucky Speedway, Sparta, KY

Practice — NBCSN, 3:30 p.m.
Final Practice — NBCSN, 6 p.m.

NBA
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 8 p.m.

NFL
Good Morning Football — NFL Network, 7 a.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN2, 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.
Top 10: New England Patriots — NFL Network, 8 p.m.
Rodney Harrison: A Football Life — NFL Network, 9 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 Rom — beIN Sports, 7;30 p.m.
FIFA Football — beIN Sports, 8:30 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.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 8:45 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 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 — ESPN2, noon
Outside the Lines — ESPN, 1 p.m.
Russillo and Kanell — ESPNews, 1 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 — ESPN2, 4:30 p.m.
Around the Horn — ESPN, 5 p.m.
BTN Live — Big Ten Network, 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 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night With Scott Van Pelt — ESPN, midnight
Contacto Deportivo — Univision, midnight

Tennis
Moiselle Open (ATP) or St. Petersburg Open (ATP) or Toray Pan Pacific Open (WTA) Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 6 a.m.
Tennis Channel Live — Tennis Channel, 10 p.m.
Center Court: Moiselle Open (ATP), St. Petersburg Open (ATP), Toray Pan Pacific Open (WTA) or Guangzhou International Women’s Open (WTA) — Tennis Channel, 11 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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