Friday’s Viewing Picks

Baseball
Australian Baseball League
Championship Series, AFA Stadium at Holloway Field, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Game 1: Adelaide Bite at Brisbane Bandits — MLB Network, 3 a.m.

Bundesliga
Borussia Mönchengladbach vs. Werder Bremen — FS2, 2:20 p.m.

College Basketball
Men’s
Columbia at Yale — FS1, 5 p.m.
Dartmouth at Penn — American Sports Network, 6 p.m.
Harvard at Princeton — ESPNU, 7 p.m.
Central Michigan at Akron — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.
St. Peter’s at Siena — ESPNU, 9 p.m.

Women’s
Quinnipiac at Siena — ESPNU, 5 p.m.
Providence at Xavier — FS1, 8 p.m.
UCLA at Arizona State — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Los Angeles/Pac-12 Arizona, 8 p.m.
Oregon State at Washington — Pac-12 Oregon/Pac-12 Washington, 9 p.m.
Stanford at Cal — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Bay Area, 10 p.m.
USC at Arizona — Pac-12 Los Angeles/Pac-12 Arizona, 10 p.m.

College Football
College Football Live — ESPN2, 2 p.m.
All-Star Challenge — ESPN2, 7 p.m.

College Gymnastics
Women’s
Florida at Georgia — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Arkansas at LSU — SEC Network, 8:30 p.m.

College Hockey
Men’s
Duel in the D, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, MI
Michigan State vs. Michigan — Fox Sports Detroit/Fox Sports North Plus/STO, 7:30 p.m.

Lake Superior State at Michigan Tech — American Sports Network, 8 p.m.
Penn State at Minnesota — Big Ten Network, 8 p.m.
Colorado College at Minnesota-Duluth — Fox Sports North, 8 p.m.

College Swimming & Diving
Cal at USC — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Bay Area/Pac-12 Los Angeles, 5 p.m.

College Volleyball
Men’s
Cal-Santa Barbara at BYU — BYUtv, 9 p.m.

College Wrestling
Ohio State at Penn State — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.

English Football Championship
Brighton & Hove Albion & Brentford — beIN Sports, 2:40 p.m.

Golf
European Tour
Dubai Desert Classic, Emirates Golf Club (Majlis Course), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 2:30 a.m.

Champions Tour
Allianz Championship, Broken Sound Club (Old Course), Boca Raton, FL
1st Round — Golf Channel, 11 a.m.

PGA Tour
Phoenix Open, TPC Scottsdale (Stadium Course), Scottsdale, AZ
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 2 p.m.

LPGA Tour
Coates Golf Championship, Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian Club, Ocala, FL
3rd Round — Golf Channel, 8 p.m. (same day coverage)

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs. Thompson, MGM Grand Garden Arena, MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV
Weigh-In — FS1, 7 p.m.

MLB
Hot Stove — MLB Network, 9 a.m.
MLB Now — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.

NASCAR
NASCAR America: Top Moments — NBCSN, 4 p.m.
NASCAR: The List: Best Daytona Moments — NBCSN, 4:30 p.m.
NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5 p.m.

NBA
Indiana at Atlanta — ESPN, 7 p.m.
San Antonio at Dallas — ESPN, 9:30 p.m.

10 Before Tip — NBA TV, 6:30 p.m.
The Starters — NBA TV, 7 p.m.
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 7:30 p.m.
NBA CrunchTime — NBA TV, 9 p.m.
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 11 p.m.
NBA Tonight — ESPN2, midnight

NFL
Super Bowl HQ — NFL Network 8 a.m.
Super Bowl Live from San Francisco — NFL Network, 11 a.m.
NFL Insiders live from San Francisco — ESPN, 2 p.m.
NFL Live from San Francisco — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.
Super Bowl Live: Players Only — NFL Network, 5 p.m.
That Other Pregame Show from San Francisco — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
Super Bowl Live from San Francisco — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
Super Bowl Tonight live from San Francisco — NFL Network, 8 p.m.
Super Bowl’s Greatest Halftime Shows — CBS, 9 p.m.
Super Bowl Live from San Francisco — CBS Sports Network, 10 p.m.

NHL
Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay — NHL Network/TVA Sports/Root Sports Pittsburgh/Sun Sports, 7:30 p.m.
Carolina at Winnipeg — Fox Sports Carolinas/TSN3, 8 p.m.
Columbus at Calgary — Fox Sports Ohio/Sportsnet West, 9 p.m.
Arizona at Anaheim — Sportsnet One/Fox Sports Arizona/Fox Sports West, 10 p.m./Sportsnet (East/Ontario/Pacific), 11 p.m. (joined in progress)

Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet/NHL Network, noon
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 10:30 p.m.
On the Fly: Bonus Coverage — NHL Network, midnight

Soccer
International Friendly, StubHub Center, Carson, CA
United States vs. Canada — FS1/Univision Deportes, 10:30 p.m.

U.S. National Team Pregame — FS1, 10 p.m.

Football Focus — BBC World News, 4:30 p.m.
El Clasico — beIN Sports, 5 p.m.
La Liga World — beIN Sports, 6 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.

Sports Talk
Sport Today — BBC World News, 5:45 a.m.
Boomer & Carton live from San Francisco — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 8:30 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show live from San Francisco — Audience Network (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz — ESPNU, 10 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 10:45 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show live from San Francisco — Audience Network (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/Root Sports (Northwest/Pittsburgh/Rocky Mountain), noon
BYU Sports Nation — BYUtv, noon
The Jim Rome Show live from San Francisco — CBS Sports Network, noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
Outside the Lines — ESPN2, 1:30 p.m.
The Doug Gottlieb Show live from San Francisco — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 3 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN2, 4 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN, 4:30 p.m.
Around the Horn — ESPN, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
30 for 30: Four Falls of Buffalo — ESPN2, 9 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night With Scott Van Pelt — ESPN, midnight
Contacto Deportivo — Univision Deportes, midnight

Tennis
ATP Tour
Open Sud de France, Park & Suites Arena, Montpellier, France
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 8 a.m.

ATP Tour
Ecuador Open Quito, Club Jacarandá, Quito, Ecuador
1st Quarterfinal — Tennis Channel, 5 p.m. (same day coverage)
4th Quarterfinal — Tennis Channel, 6:30 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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