Friday’s Viewing Picks

College Field Hockey
Michigan State at Michigan — Big Ten Network, 3:30 p.m.
Cal at Stanford — Pac-12 Bay Area, 5 p.m.

College Football
South Florida at Cincinnati — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Troy at South Alabama — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.
BYU at Boise State — ESPN, 9 p.m.
Oregon vs. Cal at Santa Clara, CA — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.

BTN Football & Beyond 2014 — Big Ten Network, noon
CFB Daily: The Edge — ESPNU, 1 p.m.
College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
Lemming Report — CBS Sports Network, 7 pm.
This Week in SEC Football — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m.
College Football Countdown — ESPN, 8 p.m.
Fox Sports 1 College Football Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 9:30 p.m.

College Hockey
Men’s
Michigan at UMass-Lowell — NESN, 7 p.m.
Bemidji State at Minnesota — Big Ten Network, 9 p.m.

College Soccer
Men’s
Wake Forest at Virginia — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 6:30 p.m.

Women’s
Washington State at Colorado — Pac-12 Networks, 5 p.m.
Texas at Oklahoma — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 8 p.m.

College Softball
Galveston at Texas — Longhorn Network, 7 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Michigan at Penn State — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m.
Arizona State at Oregon — Pac-12 Arizona/Pac-12 Oregon/Pac-12 Mountain/Pac-12 Washington, 7 p.m.
Missouri at Florida — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Syracuse at Georgia Tech — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 8:30 p.m. (same night coverage)
UCLA at Stanford — Pac-12 Networks, 9 p.m.
Utah at Washington — Pac-12 Networks, 11 p.m.
Arizona at Washington State — Pac-12 Arizona/Pac-12 Washington, 11 p.m.

College Water Polo
Men’s
Stanford at UCLA — Pac-12 Networks, 7 p.m.

English League Championship
Fulham vs. Charlton Athletic — beIN Sports, 2:40 p.m.

The Express — beIN Sports, 2:30 p.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
Perth International, Lake Karrinyup Country Club, Perth Western, Australia
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 9 a.m. (same day coverage)

PGA Tour
McGladrey Classic, Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course), St. Simons Island, GA
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 2 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 1 p.m.

Champions Tour
AT&T Championship, TPC San Antonio (AT&T Canyons Course), San Antonio, TX
1st Round — Golf Channel, 5 p.m.

Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, Royal Melbourne Golf Course, Melbourne, Australia
3rd Round — ESPNews, 9 p.m.

LPGA Tour
Blue Bay LPGA, Jian Lake Blue Bay Golf Course, Hainan Island, Communist China
3rd Round — Golf Channel, 11:30 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC 179: Aldo vs. Mendes 2, Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Weigh-In — Fox Sports 2, 2 p.m.

Bellator 130, Kansas Star Arena, Mulvane, KS
Light Heavyweight World Title
Emanuel Newton vs. Linton Vassell — Spike, 9 p.m.

MLB Postseason
World Series, AT&T Park, San Francisco, CA
Game 3: Kansas City Royals at San Francisco Giants — Fox, 8 p.m. (Series tied 1-1)

MLB Now — MLB Network, 3 p.m.
MLB Tonight: World Series — MLB Network, 4 p.m.
MLB Tonight: World Series — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
World Series Pregame — Fox, 7:30 p.m.
MLB Tonight: World Series — MLB Network, 11 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, midnight

MLS
Chicago vs. Houston — NBCSN/TSN2, 8 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series
Chase for the Cup, Eliminator Round
Goody’s Whatever This is Called 500, Martinsville Speedway, Martinsville, VA
Practice 1 — Fox Sports 1, noon
Qualifying — Fox Sports 1, 4:30 p.m.

Camping World Truck Series
Kroger 200, Martinsville Speedway, Martinsville, VA
Practice 1 — Fox Sports 1, 1:30 p.m.
Practice 2 — Fox Sports 1, 3 p.m.

NASCAR Live: Martinsville — Fox Sports 1, 2:30 p.m.

NBA Preseason
San Antonio at Houston — NBA TV, 8 p.m.
Portland at Los Angeles Clippers — NBA TV, 10:30 p.m.

The Starters: Season Preview, Part 8 — NBA TV, 6 p.m.
NBA Rising — NBA TV, 7 p.m.

NFL
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NFL Game Rewind: San Diego at Denver — NFL Network, 3:30 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.
Playbook: Week 8 — NFL Network, 4 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m.
Around the NFL — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
Playbook Primetime: Week 8 — NFL Network, 8 p.m.
Terrell Davis: A Football Life — NFL Network, 9 p.m.
Sound FX: Peyton Manning 509 — NFL Network, 10 p.m.
Sound FX: Week 7 — NFL Network, 10:30 p.m.

NHL
Dallas at New Jersey — Fox Sports Southwest/MSG Plus, 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Winnipeg — Sun Sports/TSN3, 8 p.m.
Vancouver at Colorado — Sportsnet One/TVA Sports/Altitude, 9 p.m.
Carolina at Edmonton — SportSouth/Sportsnet Oilers, 9:30 p.m.
Columbus at Anaheim — Fox Sports Ohio/Fox Sports Prime Ticket, 10 p.m.

Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet East/Sportsnet Ontario/NHL Network (US), noon
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL on the Fly — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
Hockey Central — Sportsnet One, 8:30 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 10 p.m.
Hockey Central — Sportsnet 360/NHL Network (US), 11 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, midnight

Scottish Premier League
Aberdeen vs. Motherwell — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:40 p.m.

Soccer
Women’s2014 CONCACAF Women’s World Cup Qualifying
Semifinals, PPL Park, Chester, PA
Costa Rica vs. Trinidad and Tobago — Fox Sports 2, 4:30 p.m.
United States vs. Mexico — Fox Sports 1, 7:30 p.m.

ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.
CONCACAF Women’s World Cup Qualifying Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.

Sports Talk
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
NFL AM — NFL Network, 6 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 7 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show with guest host Suzy Shuster (Mrs. Rich Eisen) — Audience Network (DirecTV), noon
SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 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 — ESPN2, 4 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.
ROME — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
BTN Live — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.
Nine for IX Shorts — ESPN Classic, 9 p.m.
The Keys & Gray Show — beIN Sports, 10 p.m.
More Than a Game — CNN, 10 p.m.

Tennis
WTA Tour
WTA Finals, Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore Sports Hub, Singapore
Round Robin, White Group
Maria Sharapova vs. Agnieszka Radwanska and Petra Kvitova vs. Caroline Wozniacki — Tennis Channel, 1:30 a.m.

Round Robin, Red Group
Simona Halep vs. Ana Ivanovic — Tennis Channel, 7:30 a.m.

Doubles 1st Semifinal — Tennis Channel, midnight

Tennis Channel Live — Tennis Channel, 7 a.m.

ATP Tour
Swiss Indoors Basel, St. Jakobshalle, Basel, Switzerland
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 11 a.m.

ATP Tour
Valencia Open, The Ágora, The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 4 p.m. (same day coverage)

Entertainment
Last Man Standing — ABC, 8 p.m.
Eat St.: Viva La Waffle! — Cooking Channel, 8 p.m.
The Amazing Race 25: Morocc’ and Roll — CBS, 8 p.m.
Dateline NBC — NBC, 8 p.m.
Gold Rush-The Dirt: Parker’s Plan — Discovery, 8 p.m.
Untold Stories of the E.R.: Extra Dose: Why Am I Blue? — Discovery Fitness and Health, 8 p.m.
Out of Africa — Turner Classic Movies, 8 p.m.
On the Menu: Planet Hollywood — TNT, 8 p.m.
Charlie Rose-The Week — PBS, 8:30 p.m.
Eat St.: Planet of the Crepes — Cooking Channel, 8:30 p.m.
Deal With It: Howie Mandel and Nick Cannon — TBS, 9 p.m.
Shark Tank — ABC, 9 p.m.
Hawaii Five-0 — CBS, 9 p.m.
Great Performances: Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE! — PBS, 9 p.m.
America’s Next Top Model — The CW, 9 p.m.
Killing Bigfoot — Destination America, 9 p.m.
Gold Rush: From the Ashes — Discovery, 9 p.m.
Untold Stories of the E.R.: Extra Dose: Clueless! — Discovery Fitness and Health, 9 p.m.
12 Years a Slave — HBO2, 9 p.m.
Deadly Women: Mad or Bad — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Restrepo: Afghan Outpost — National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m.
Leave The World Behind — Showtime, 9 p.m.
Mysteries at the Museum: Radioactive Boy Scout; Match of the Century; Four Corners Outbreak — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
Offbeat Eats With Jim Stacy: The Big Top — Cooking Channel, 9:30 p.m.
How Do They Do It?: Dock Cranes; Plastic Bags; Baubles — Science Channel, 9:30 p.m.
Chuck’s Eat the Street: Little Osaka; A Lot of La — Cooking Channel, 10 p.m.
House Hunters: Tampa, FL — HGTV, 10 p.m.
Young, Hot & Crooked: Deadly Competition — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Art in the Twenty-First Century: Investigation — PBS, 10 p.m.
Edge of Alaska: Winter’s Grip (series premiere) — Discovery, 10 p.m.
Real Time With Bill Maher — HBO, 10 p.m.
Z-Nation: Welcome to the Fu-Bar — Syfy, 10 p.m.
20/20 — ABC, 10:01 p.m.
Chuck’s Eat the Street: Food With a View — Cooking Channel, 10:30 p.m.
House Hunters International: Guam — HGTV, 10:30 p.m.
Young, Hot & Crooked: Blindsided (season finale) — Investigation Discovery, 10:30 p.m.
Gorillas in the Mist — Turner Classic Movies, 10:45 p.m.
Comedy Bang! Bang!: Steven Yeun Wears Rolled Up Black Jeans & No Socks — IFC, 11 p.m.
E! News — E!, 11 p.m.
Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways: Washington, D.C. — HBO, 11 p.m.
Cops Reloaded — CMT, 11:30 p.m.
The Birthday Boys: Wet Dreams May Come — IFC, 11:30 p.m.
Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand-Up Revolution: Steve Simeone; G Reilly — Comedy Central, midnight
Wild Women — Cinemax, midnight

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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