Friday’s Viewing Picks

Australian Rules Football
Collingwood Magpies vs North Melbourne Kangaroos — Fox Sports 2, 11:30 p.m.

Boxing
Friday Night Fights, Verona, NY
Boxcino Tournament: Middleweight Semifinals
Vitalii Kopylenko vs. Willie Monroe Jr. and Raymond Gatica vs. Brandon Adams — ESPN2, 9 p.m.

Golden Boy Live, San Antonio, TX
Welterweights: Alan Sanchez vs. Jorge Silva — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.

College Baseball
West Virginia at Oklahoma — Fox College Sports Central, 7 p.m.
TCU at Texas — Longhorn Network, 7 p.m.
UCLA at Utah — Pac-12 Los Angeles, 7 p.m.
Northwestern at Nebraska — Big Ten Network, 8 p.m.
Prairie View A&M at Texas Tech — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 8 p.m.
UCLA at Utah — Pac-12 Networks (joined in progress), 9 p.m.
Arizona at USC — Pac-12 Networks, 10 p.m.

College Football
College Football Live — ESPN2, 5 p.m.

College Lacrosse
Men’s
Johns Hopkins at Navy — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.

Women’s
Johns Hopkins at Penn State — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.

College Softball
Maryland-Eastern Shore at Hampton — ESPNU, 1 p.m.
Maryland-Eastern Shore at Hampton — ESPNU, 3:30 p.m.
Arkansas at Kentucky — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 6 p.m.
Arizona State at Washington — Pac-12 Networks, 7 p.m.
Cal at Oregon — Pac-12 Bay Area, 7 p.m.
Weber State at BYU — BYUtv, 8 p.m.
Florida at Texas A&M — ESPNU, 8 p.m.

College Tennis
Men’s
UCLA at USC — Pac-12 Networks, 3 p.m.

Women’s
UCLA at UCLA — Pac-12 Networks, 5 p.m.

English Football League Championship
Blackpool vs. Burnley — beIN Sport, 12:10 p.m.

Formula 1
Chinese Grand Prix, Shanghai, Communist China
Practice — NBCSN, 2 a.m.

Countdown to F1 — NBCSN, 5 p.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
Malaysian Open, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 9 a.m.

Champions Tour
Greater Gwinnett Championship, Duluth, GA
1st Round — Golf Channel, 12:30 p.m.

PGA Tour
Heritage Classic, Hilton Head, SC
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 2:30 p.m.

LPGA Tour
LOTTE Championship, Oahu, HI
3rd Round — Golf Channel, 6:30 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
Bellator 117, Council Bluffs, IA
Welterweight World Title: Lima vs. Hawn — Spike, 9 p.m.

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

National League
Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs — MLB Network/Fox Sports Ohio/WGN America, 2:20 p.m.
Atlanta at New York Mets — Fox Sports South/SNY, 7 p.m.
Milwaukee at Pittsburgh — Fox Sports Wisconsin/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
St. Louis at Washington — Fox Sports Midwest/MASN2, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Colorado — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/Root Sports Rocky Mountain, 8:30 p.m.
Arizona at Los Angeles Dodgers — Fox Sports Arizona/SportsNet LA, 10 p.m.
San Francisco at San Diego — Comcast SportsNet Bay Area/Fox Sports San Diego, 10 p.m.

Interleague
Seattle at Florida — Root Sports Northwest/Fox Sports Florida, 7 p.m.

High Heat — MLB Network, 1 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 1 a.m. (Saturday)
MLB Whiparound — Fox Sports 1, 1 a.m. (Saturday)
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Saturday)

NASCAR
NASCAR Race Hub — Fox Sports 1, 4 p.m.

NBA
NBA Face to Face With Hannah Storm — ESPN, 7 p.m.
Open Court — NBA TV, 9 p.m.
NBA 2014: An MVP Season — NBA TV, 10 p.m.
NBA Action: Top Moments of the Season — NBA TV, 10:30 p.m.

NFL
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.
Path to the Draft — NFL Network, 7 p.m.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs
Conference Quarterfinals
Eastern Conference
Game 2: Montreal at Tampa Bay — CBC/RDS/CNBC/Fox Sports Florida, 7 p.m. (Montreal leads series 1-0)
Game 1: Detroit at Boston — NBCSN/TSN/Fox Sports Detroit/NESN, 7:30 p.m.

Western Conference
Game 2: Dallas at Anaheim — NBCSN/TSN/RDS (joined in progress)/Fox Sports Southwest/Fox Sports Prime Ticket, 10 p.m. (Anaheim leads series 1-0)

NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Live — NBCSN, 6:30 p.m.
NHL on the Fly — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 10 p.m.
NHL Overtime — NBCSN, 12:30 a.m. (Saturday)

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.
SportsDash With Yahoo! Sports — NBCSN, noon
SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m./Fox Sports 2, 4 p.m.
The Box Score — Audience Network (DirecTV), 3 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN, 3 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN2, 4 p.m.
Crowd Goes Wild — Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.
Best of ROME — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.
SEC Storied: The Play That Changed College Football — ESPNU, 7 p.m.
Unguarded with Rachel Nichols — CNN, 10:30 p.m.
The Artie Lange Show — Audience Network (DirecTV), 11 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPN, midnight
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, midnight

Tennis
ATP Tour
Monte-Carlo Masters, Monte-Carlo, Principality of Monaco
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 4:30 a.m., 6:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

Federation Cup
Semifinal
Australia vs. Germany, Queensland Tennis Centre, Brisbane, Australia
Rubber 1-Singles — Tennis Channel, 10 p.m.
Rubber 1-Singles — Tennis Channel, midnight

Entertainment
Last Man Standing — ABC, 8 p.m.
Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Byambajav Ulambayar — The CW, 8 p.m.
Unforgettable — CBS, 8 p.m.
Kitchen Nightmares — Fox, 8 p.m.
Argo — Cinemax, 8 p.m.
National Lampoon’s Vacation — IFC, 8 p.m.
Charlie Rose-The Week — PBS, 8:30 p.m.
The Writers’ Room: Scandal — Sundance Channel, 9 p.m.
Shark Tank — ABC, 9 p.m.
Dateline NBC — NBC, 9 p.m.
Hart of Dixie — The CW, 9 p.m.
Peter Pan From the Milwaukee Ballet — PBS, 9 p.m.
Showdown of the Unbeatables: Rifle vs. Drone — National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m.
Parkland — Starz, 9 p.m.
Sydney ER: Impaled by a Bike — Discovery Fitness and Health, 10 p.m.
Best Week Ever — VH1, 10 p.m.
Ultimate Warfare: Locked and Reloaded: Hue: Vietnam’s Bloodiest Battle — American Heroes Channel, 10 p.m.
Hangar 1: The UFO Files: Shadow Government (season finale) — H2, 10 p.m.
Nightmare Next Door: Highway to Hell — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Escape From Alcatraz — Sundance Channel, 10 p.m.
Continuum: Minute to Win It — Syfy, 10 p.m.
20/20 — ABC, 10:01 p.m.
VICE — HBO, 11 p.m.Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 — VH1 Classic, 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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