Friday’s Viewing Picks

Australian Rules Football
1st Preliminary Final
Fremantle Dockers vs. Hawthorn Hawks — FS2, 6 a.m.

Bundesliga
Koln vs. Ingolstadt — FS2, 2:20 p.m.

College Field Hockey
Michigan at Maryland — Big Ten Network, 3:30 p.m.

College Football
Boise State at Virginia — ESPN, 8 p.m.
Stanford at Oregon State — FS1, 10 p.m.

B1G Football & Beyond — Big Ten Network, noon
CFB Daily: The Edge — ESPNU, 1 p.m.
College Football Live — ESPN, 2 p.m.
This Week in SEC Football — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
College Football Countdown — ESPN, 7:30 p.m.
Lemming Report — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.
Tailgate Fan: Colorado State at Colorado — CBS Sports Network, 8:30 p.m.

College Soccer
Men’s
UCLA vs. VCU — Pac-12 Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.

Women’s
Utah vs. Stanford — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Mountain/Pac-12 Bay Area, 6 p.m.
Arizona vs. Washington — Pac-12 Arizona/Pac-12 Washington, 7 p.m.
Oklahoma vs. Texas Tech — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 8 p.m.
UCLA vs. Oregon — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Los Angeles/Pac-12 Oregon, 11 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Illinois at Maryland — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m.
Kentucky at South Carolina — SEC Network, 7 p.m.

Cycling
UCI Road World Championships, Richmond, VA
Men’s Under-23 Road Race — Universal Sports, 2 p.m.

English Football Championship
Queens Park Rangers vs. Fulham — beIN Sports, 2:40 p.m.

Formula 1
Japan Grand Prix, Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka, Japan
Practice — NBCSN, 1 a.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
European Open, Hartl Resort at Bad Griesbach (Beckenbauer Course), Bad Griesbach, Germany
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 5 a.m.
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 9 a.m.

PGA Tour
FedEx Cup
The Tour Championship, East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, GA
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, noon

Champions Tour
Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach, Pebble Beach Golf Links; Poppy Hills Golf Course, Pebble Beach, CA
1st Round — Golf Channel, 6 p.m.

Web.com Tour
Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship, The Ohio State University Golf Club (Scarlet Course), Columbus, OH
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 8:30 p.m. (same day coverage)

Mixed Martial Arts
Lion Fight 24, Foxwoods Resort Casino, Mashantucket, CT
Ky Hollenbeck vs. Richard Abraham — AXS TV, 9 p.m.

UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Barnett, Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan
Weigh-In — FS2, 11 p.m.

MLB
American League
Baltimore at Boston — MASN/NESN, 7 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at New York Yankees — Comcast SportsNet Chicago/YES, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at Detroit — Fox Sports North/Fox Sports Detroit, 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Toronto — Sun Sports/Sportsnet, 7 p.m.
Cleveland at Kansas City — STO/Fox Sports Kansas City, 8 p.m.
Texas at Houston — ESPN2/Fox Sports Southwest/Root Sports Southwest, 8 p.m.
Seattle at Anaheim — MLB Network/Root Sports Northwest/Fox Sports West, 10 p.m.

National League
Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs — MLB Network/Root Sports Pittsburgh/WLS, 2:20 p.m.
Atlanta at Miami — Fox Sports South/Fox Sports Florida, 7 p.m.
New York Mets at Cincinnati — SNY/Fox Sports Ohio, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Washington — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/MASN2, 7 p.m.
Los Angeles Dodgers at Colorado — SportsNet LA/Root Sports Rocky Mountain, 8 p.m.
Milwaukee at St. Louis — Fox Sports Wisconsin/Fox Sports Midwest, 8:15 p.m.
Arizona at San Diego — Fox Sports Arizona/Fox Sports San Diego, 10 p.m.

Interleague
San Francisco at Oakland — MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet Bay Area/Comcast SportsNet California, 10 p.m.

Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
MLB Whiparound — FS1, 7 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, midnight
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Saturday)

MLS
New York Red Bulls vs. Orlando — UniMás/Univision Deportes, 7 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series
Sylvania 300, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, NH
Practice — NBCSN, noon
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 p.m.

Xfinity Series
VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300, Kentucky Speedway, Sparta, KY
Practice — NBCSN, 3:30 p.m.
Practice 2 — NBCSN, 6 p.m.

NFL
NFL HQ — NFL Network, 8 a.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.
Madden NFL Live — NFL Network, 4 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m.
Around the NFL — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
Top 10: New York Giants — NFL Network, 8 p.m.
Dexter Manley: A Football Life — NFL Network, 9 p.m.

NHL Preseason
New York Islanders at Philadelphia — MSG Plus/The Comcast Network, 6 p.m.
Buffalo at Toronto — Sportsnet 360, 7:30 p.m.
Chicago at Montreal — NHL Network/Comcast SportsNet Chicago Plus, 7:30 p.m.
Edmonton at Winnipeg — TSN3, 8 p.m.
Vancouver at Calgary — Sportsnet One, 9 p.m.
Los Angeles at Anaheim — NHL Network/Fox Sports Prime Ticket, 10 p.m.

Scottish Championship League
Falkirk vs. Queen of the South — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:40 p.m.

Soccer
Football Focus — BBC World News, 4:30 p.m.
English Football Cup Highlights: Round 3 — beIN Sports, 5 p.m.
El Clasico — beIN Sports, 5:30 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
The Keys & Gray Show — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, 10 p.m.
The Locker Room — beIN Sports, 10:30 p.m.

Sports Talk
Sport Today — BBC World News, 5:45 a.m.
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 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.
The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz — ESPNU, 10 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/Rocky Mountain/Southwest), noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
Russillo and Kanell — 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 — ESPN, 4:30 p.m.
America’s Pregame — FS1, 4:30 p.m.
Around the Horn — ESPN, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.
BTN Live — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.
Time to Schein — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
American Heavy: Deontay Wilder — NBCSN, 7:30 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night With Scott Van Pelt — ESPN, midnight

Tennis
ATP Tour
Moselle Open, Les Arènes Metz, Metz, France
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 4 p.m. (same day coverage)

WTA Tour
Toray Pan Pacific Open, Ariake Colosseum and Ariake Tennis Forest Park, Tokyo, Japan
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 8 p.m. (same day coverage)

Tennis Channel Live — Tennis Channel, 10:30 p.m.
Center Court — 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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