Friday’s Viewing Picks

Australian Rules Football
West Coast Eagles vs. Richmond Tigers — Fox Soccer Plus, 6:30 a.m.

AFL Highlights — Fox Soccer Plus, 5:30 a.m.

Beach Volleyball
World Series of Beach Volleyball, Long Beach, CA
Women’s Round of 24 — NBCSN, 3 p.m.
Men’s Round of 16 — NBCSN, 4 p.m.
Men’s Quarterfinal — Universal Sports, 8 p.m.

Boxing
Friday Night Fights, Chicago, IL
Welterweights
Roberto Garcia vs. Breidis Prescott — ESPN2, 9 p.m.

Golden Boy Live, Indio, CA
Junior Welterweights
Frankie Gomez vs. Vernon Paris — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.

CFL
Winnipeg Blue Bombers at BC Lions — TSN/ESPN3, 10 p.m.

College Football
College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
Top 25 College Football Games of 2013: No. 17: Auburn vs. Texas A&M — ESPNU, 7 p.m.

Commonwealth Games
XX Commonwealth Games, Glascow, Scotland
Day 2: Daytime Highlights — CBS Sports Network, 5 p.m.
Day 2: Evening Highlights — CBS Sports Network, 11 p.m.

Cycling
Tour de France
Stage 19: Maubourguet Pays du Val d’Adour to Bergerac — NBCSN, 8 a.m.

Extended Primetime Coverage — NBCSN, 8 p.m.

Formula 1
Hungarian Grand Prix, Hungaroring, Budapest, Hungary
Practice — NBCSN, noon (same day coverage)

Golf
European PGA Tour
Russian Open, Tseleevo Golf & Polo Club, Moscow, Russia
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 8 a.m.

LPGA Tour
International Crown, Caves Valley Golf Club, Owings Mills, MD
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 11:30 a.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 11 a.m.

Champions Tour
Senior Open Championship, Royal Porthcawl, Bridgend, Wales
2nd Round — ESPN2, noon

PGA Tour
Canadian Open, The Royal Montreal Golf Club, Montreal, Canada
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 4 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 3:30 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC on Fox 12: Lawler vs. Brown, San Jose, CA
Weigh-In — Fox Sports 2, 7 p.m.

Bellator MMA Live: Summer Series
Bellator 122, Temecula, CA
MW Tournament Final
Cooper vs. Halsey — Spike, 9 p.m.

MLB
American League
Boston at Tampa Bay — MLB Network/NESN/Sun Sports, 7 p.m.
Toronto at New York Yankees — MLB Network/Sportsnet/WWOR, 7 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at Minnesota — Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports North, 8 p.m.
Cleveland at Kansas City — STO/Fox Sports Kansas City, 8 p.m.
Oakland at Texas — Comcast SportsNet California/KTXA, 8 p.m.
Baltimore at Seattle — MASN2/Root Sports Northwest, 10 p.m.
Detroit at Anaheim Angels — Fox Sports Detroit/Fox Sports West, 10 p.m.

National League
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs — Fox Sports Midwest/WGN America, 4 p.m.
Arizona at Philadelphia — Fox Sports Arizona/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Washington at Cincinnati — MASN/Fox Sports Ohio, 7 p.m.
San Diego at Atlanta — Fox Sports San Diego/Fox Sports South, 7:30 p.m.
New York Mets at Milwaukee — WPIX/Fox Sports Wisconsin, 8 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Colorado — Root Sports Pittsburgh/Root Sports Rocky Mountain, 8:30 p.m.
Los Angeles Dodgers at San Francisco — SportsNet LA/Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, 10:15 p.m.

Interleague
Miami at Houston — Fox Sports Florida/Comcast SportsNet Houston, 8 p.m.

The Rundown — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Now — MLB Network, 4 p.m.
MLB Tonight: On-Deck Circle — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN, 10 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 1 a.m. (Saturday)
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Saturday)

MLS
Colorado vs. Chivas USA — Altitude/Time Warner Cable Deportes, 9:30 p.m.

NASCAR
Nationwide Series
Lilly Diabetes 250, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN
Practice 1 — Fox Sports 1, 8:30 a.m.
Practice 2 — Fox Sports 1, 10:30 a.m.

Sprint Cup Series
Brickyard 400, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN
Practice — Fox Sports 1, 11:30 a.m.

NASCAR Live: Indianapolis — Fox Sports 1, 10 a.m.
NASCAR Race Hub: Special — Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m.
The 10: NASCAR’s Greatest Races — Fox Sports 1, 2 p.m.
NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5 p.m.

NFL
Inside Training Camp — NFL Network, 10 a.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.
Training Camp Primetime — NFL Network, 8 p.m.

Soccer
Club Friendly: Deco Testimonial Match, Estadio do Dragão, Porto, Portugal
FC Porto 2004 vs. FC Barcelona 2006 — beIN Sport, 2:30 p.m.

Football United Tour 2014, Westpac Stadium, Wellington, New Zealand
Sydney vs. West Ham United — beIN Sport, 10 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), 9 a.m.
SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
The Box Score — Audience Network (DirecTV), 3 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 4:30 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
ROME — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
Frank Caliendo’s Best of the NFL — ESPN, 7 p.m.
Roll Tide/War Eagle — ESPN, 8 p.m.
30 for 30: You Don’t Know Bo — ESPNU, 10 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPN2, 11 p.m.
Lead Off (The Final Days) — CBS Sports Network, midnight
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 1:30 a.m. (Saturday)

Tennis
ATP Tour
Suisse Open, Gstaad, Switzerland
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 1 p.m. & 3 p.m. (same day coverage)

ATP Tour
U.S. Open Series: Atlanta Open, Atlantic Station, Atlanta, GA
Quarterfinals — ESPN2, 4 p.m. & 7 p.m.
Quarterfinal — Tennis Channel, 9 p.m.

ATP Tour
Croatia Open Umag, Umag, Croatia
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 5 p.m. & 7 p.m. (same day coverage)

Track & Field
IAAF World Junior Championships, Hayward Field, Eugene, OR
Day 3 — Universal Sports, 9 p.m.

WNBA
Tulsa Shock at Washington Mystics — NBA TV, 7 p.m.

Entertainment
Dateline NBC — NBC, 8 p.m.
There’s Something About Mary — Cinemax, 8 p.m.
National Treasure — Encore, 8 p.m.
Ancient Aliens: Special Edition: Faces of the Gods — H2, 8 p.m.
Land of the Dead — IFC, 8 p.m.
Silver Linings Playbook — The Movie Channel, 8 p.m.
Charlie Rose-The Week — PBS, 8:30 p.m.
Eric Clapton The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale — VH1 Classic, 9 p.m.
What Would You Do? — ABC, 9 p.m.
24: Live Another Day: Day 9: 10:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. (season finale) — Fox, 9 p.m.
Mountain Monsters: Ohio Grassman of the Perry County — Destination America, 9 p.m.
Untold Stories of the E.R.: Dr. Epi — Discovery Fitness and Health, 9 p.m.
Ancient Aliens: The Reptilians — H2, 9 p.m.
The Internship — HBO2, 9 p.m.
Afternoon Delight — Starz, 9 p.m.
Cold Justice: Sunspot Highway (Alamogordo, NM) — TNT, 9 p.m.
Monumental Mysteries: The King and the Spanish Dancer; A Communist Comes to America; Filth Party — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
Donut Showdown: Chinatown — Cooking Channel, 10 p.m.
Close Encounters: Examined: Piney Woods & Falcon Lake — Science Channel, 10 p.m.
20/20 — ABC, 10 p.m.
Deadliest Catch: On Deck — Discovery, 10 p.m.
In Search of Aliens: The Hunt for Atlantis (series premiere) — H2, 10 p.m.
Real Time With Bill Maher — HBO, 10 p.m.
The Exorcist — IFC, 10 p.m.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — NBC, 11:34 p.m.
Topless Prophet: Stripper Circus — Cinemax, midnight
The Half Hour: Kurt Braunohler — Comedy Central, midnight
Big Brother After Dark — TV Guide Network, midnight
The Half Hour: Joe Zimmerman — Comedy Central, 12:30 a.m. (Saturday)

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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