Friday’s Viewing Picks

Arena Football
Jacksonville Sharks at Tampa Bay Storm — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Las Vegas Outlaws at Spokane Shock — CBS Sports Network, 10 p.m.

Australian Rules Football
Port Adelaide Power vs. Geelong Cats — Fox Soccer Plus, 5:30 a.m.
Gold Coast Suns vs. Fremantle Dockers — Fox Soccer Plus, 11:30 p.m.

Boxing
Premier Boxing Champions, UIC Paviliion, Chicago, IL
WBA Super Welterweight Title
Erislandy Lara vs. Delvin Rodriguez — Spike, 9 p.m.

College Baseball
2015 College World Series Press Conference — ESPNU, 3 p.m.
SEC Now: CWS Press Conference — SEC Network, 3 p.m.

College Track & Field
NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Hayward Field, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Men’s Championships — ESPN3, 7 p.m.
Men’s Championships — ESPN, 7:30 p.m.

Copa América
Group A, Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar, Chile
Mexico vs. Bolivia — beIN Sports, 7:20 p.m.

The Express: Chile 2015 — beIN Sports, 6:30 p.m.
The Express Wrap-Up: Chile 2015 — beIN Sports, 9:30 p.m.

Cycling
Critérium du Dauphiné
Stage 6: Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur to Villard-de-Lans-Vercours — NBCSN, midnight (same day coverage)

European Games
Olympic Stadium, Baku, Azerbaijan
Opening Ceremony — Universal Sports, 6 p.m. (same day coverage)

Golf
European PGA Tour
Lyoness Open, Diamond Country Club (Diamond Course), Atzenbrugg, Austria
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 5 a.m.

Champions Tour
Senior Players Championship, Belmont Country Club, Belmont, MA
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 11 a.m.

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

LPGA Tour
Women’s PGA Championship, Westchester Country Club (West Course), Harrison, NY
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m.

PGA Tour
St. Jude Classic, TPC Southwind, Memphis, TN
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 4 p.m.

Web.com Tour
Rust-Oleum Championship, Lakewood Country Club, Westlake, OH
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 7 p.m.

America’s Pregame: U.S. Open Groupings — Fox Sports 1, 2 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC 188: Valasquez vs. Werdum, Arena Cuidad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Weigh-In — Fox Sports 2, 7 p.m.

CBS Sports Spectacular: Fight Night: Cage Fury 49, The Sands Casino Resort, Bethlehem, PA
Flyweight Title Fight
Sideco Honor vs. Lincon de sa Oliveira — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.

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

National League
Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs — Fox Sports Ohio/WGN, 4 p.m.
Atlanta at New York Mets — Fox Sports South/SNY, 7 p.m.
Colorado at Miami — Root Sports Rocky Mountain/Fox Sports Florida, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Washington at Milwaukee — MASN2/Fox Sports Wisconsin, 8 p.m.
Los Angeles Dodgers at San Diego — SportsNet LA/Fox Sports San Diego, 10 p.m.
Arizona at San Francisco — Fox Sports Arizona/Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, 10:15 p.m.

Interleague
Kansas City at St. Louis — MLB Network/Fox Sports Kansas City/Fox Sports Midwest, 8:15 p.m.

The Rundown — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Now — MLB Network, 4 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN/ESPN2, 10 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 11 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, midnight
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Saturday)

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series
Quicken Loans 400, Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn MI
Practice 1 — Fox Sports 1, 11:30 a.m.
Qualifying — Fox Sports 2, 4 p.m.

Xfinity Series
Michigan 250, Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, MI
Practice 1 — Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m.
Practice 2 — Fox Sports 1, 2:30 p.m.

NBA
NBA Sounds of the Finals: 2015 — NBA TV, 6:30 p.m.
The Starters — NBA TV, 8 p.m.
NBA Finals Film Room: 2015 Game 4 — NBA TV, 9 p.m.

NFL
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.

NHL
Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet 360/NHL Network (US), noon
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2015 Stanley Cup Final Edition — NHL Network, 7 p.m.

Soccer
Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers 2017
Le Grand Stade Agadir, Agadir, Morocco
Morocco vs. Libya — beIN Sports, 2:50 p.m.

FIFA Women’s World Cup
Group D, Winnipeg Stadium, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Australia vs. Nigeria — Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m.
United States vs. Sweden — NBC Universo, 7:48 p.m./Fox, 8 p.m.

Group C, BC Place Stadium, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Switzerland vs. Ecuador — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.
Japan vs. Cameroon — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.

FIFA Women’s World Cup Today — Fox Sports 1, 4 p.m.
FIFA Women’s World Cup Today — Fox, 7 p.m.
2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup Preview Show — NBC Universo, 7:30 p.m.
FIFA Women’s World Cup Today — Fox Sports 1, 9 p.m.
FIFA Women’s World Cup Tonight — Fox Sports 1, 1 a.m. (Saturday)

Football Focus — BBC World News, 4:30 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, midnight

Sports Talk
Radius — NBCSN, 6 a.m.
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
Radius — NBCSN, 6:30 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 7 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 8:45 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
MLB Central — MLB Network, 10 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 11:45 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/Root Sports (Northwest/Pittsburgh/Rocky Mountain/Southwest), noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
Sports Minds — beIN Sports, 1 p.m.
SVP & Russillo (The Final Days) — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
The Box Score — Audience Network (DirecTV), 3 p.m.
The Doug Gottlieb Show — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz — Fusion, 4 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 4 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN2, 4:30 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPNews, 6:30 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
SEC Storied: Croom — ESPNU, 7 p.m.
SEC Storied: Thunder and Lightning — ESPNU, 9 p.m.
E:60 Profile: Jason Witten — ESPN2, 9:30 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, midnight

Tennis
WTA Tour
Topshelf Open, Autotron Rosmalen, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Semifinals — Tennis Channel, noon & 2 p.m. (same day coverage)

ATP Tour
MercedesCup, Tennisclub Weissenhof e.V., Stuttgart, Germany
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 4 p.m. & 6 p.m. (same day coverage)

UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifiers
Group A, Almaty Ortalyk Stadion, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan vs. Turkey — Fox Sports 2, noon

Group H, Stadion Poljud, Split, Croatia
Croatia vs. Italy — ESPN2, 2:30 p.m.

Group B, Stadion Bilino polje, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina vs. Israel — ESPN3, 2:35 p.m.

Group B, Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Wales vs. Belgium — ESPN3, 2:35 p.m.

Group H, National Stadium, Ta’ Qali, Malta
Malta vs. Bulgaria — ESPN3, 2:35 p.m.

Group H, Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway
Norway vs. Azerbaijan — ESPN3, 2:35 p.m.

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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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