Friday’s Viewing Picks

Australian Rules Football
Sydney Swans vs. Essendon Bombers — Fox Soccer Plus, 5:30 a.m.
Adelaide Crows vs. West Coast Eagles — Fox Sports 2, 11:30 a.m.

AFL Highlights — Fox Soccer Plus, 4:30 a.m.

Boxing
Friday Night Fights, Shelton, WA
Light Heavyweights
Thomas Williams, Jr. vs. Gabriel Campilio — ESPN2, 9 p.m.

CFL
Toronto Argonauts at Montreal Alouettes — TSN/ESPN3, 7 p.m.
BC Lions at Calgary Stampeders — TSN/ESPNews, 10 p.m.

College Football
College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
CFB Daily: The Blitz — ESPNU, 5:30 p.m.
Top 25 College Football Games of 2013: No. 5: Ohio State vs. Michigan — ESPNU, 7 p.m.

Commonwealth Games
XX Commonwealth Games, Glascow, Scotland
Day 9: Daytime Highlights — CBS Sports Network, 5 p.m.
Day 9: Evening Highlights — CBS Sports Network, 11 p.m.

Golf
Champions Tour
3M Championship, TPC Twin Cities, Blaine, MN
1st Round — Golf Channel, noon

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 11:30 a.m.

PGA Tour
WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Firestone Country Club (South Course), Akron, OH
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 1:30 p.m.

PGA Tour
Barracuda Championship, Montreux Golf and Country Club, Reno, NV
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 6:30 p.m.

MLB
American League
Anaheim Angels at Tampa Bay — Fox Sports West/Sun Sports, 7 p.m.
New York Yankees at Boston — MLB Network/YES/NESN, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Baltimore — MLB Network/Root Sports Northwest/MASN2, 7 p.m.
Texas at Cleveland — KTXA/STO, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at Chicago White Sox — Fox Sports North/Comcast SportsNet Chicago, 8 p.m.
Toronto at Houston — Sportsnet/Comcast SportsNet Houston, 8 p.m.
Kansas City at Oakland — Fox Sports Kansas City/Comcast SportsNet California, 9:30 p.m.

National League
Cincinnati at Florida — Fox Sports Ohio/Fox Sports Florida, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Washington — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/MASN, 7 p.m.
San Francisco at New York Mets — Comcast SportsNet Bay Area/SNY, 7 p.m.
Milwaukee at St. Louis — Fox Sports Wisconsin/Fox Sports Midwest, 8:15 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Arizona — Root Sports Pittsburgh/Fox Sports Arizona, 9:30 p.m.
Atlanta at San Diego — Fox Sports South/Fox Sports San Diego, 10 p.m.
Chicago Cubs at Los Angeles Dodgers — WGN America/SportsNet LA, 10 p.m.

Interleague
Colorado at Detroit — Root Sports Northwest/Fox Sports Detroit, 7 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.
MLB Whiparound — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Saturday)
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 2 a.m. (Saturday)

MLL Lacrosse
New York Lizards at Charlotte Hounds — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.

Inside the MLL — CBS Sports Network, 6:30 p.m.

MLS
Sporting KC vs. Philadelphia — NBCSN/TSN2/RDS, 8 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series
GoBowling.com 400, Pocono International Raceway, Long Pond, PA
Practice 1 — Fox Sports 1, 11 a.m.
Qualifying — Fox Sports 1, 3:30 p.m.

Camping World Truck Series
Pocono Mountains 150, Pocono International Speedway, Long Pond, PA
Final Practice — Fox Sports 2, 2:30 p.m.

NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5 p.m.
NASCAR Race Hub: Special — Fox Sports 1, 7:30 p.m.

NBA
USA National Team Scrimmage, Las Vegas, NV
Blue vs. White — ESPN, 9 p.m.

NFL
Inside Training Camp — NFL Network, 10 a.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.
Pro Football Hall of Game: The New Class — NFL Network, 8 p.m.
Hall of Fame Friday Night: Gold Jacket Dinner — NFL Network, 9 p.m.
A Football Life: Michael Strahan — NFL Network, 10 p.m.

Soccer
Premier League Countdown: Goals of the Season — NBCSN, 6:30 p.m.
Premier League Live: The Champions — NBCSN, 7:30 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)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
The Box Score — Audience Network (DirecTV), 3 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — ESPNU, 4 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
ROME — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
City Slam — ESPN, 8 p.m.
Unguarded with Rachel Nichols — CNN, 10:30 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.
Lead Off (The Final Days) — CBS Sports Network, midnight
Olbermann — ESPN2, 1 a.m. (Saturday)

Tennis
ATP Tour
U.S. Open Series: Citi Open, William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center, Washington, DC
1st Quarterfinal — Tennis Channel, 1 p.m.
2nd Quarterfinal — ESPN2, 4 p.m.
3rd Quarterfinal — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
4th Quarterfinal — Tennis Channel, 9 p.m.

ATP Tour
bet-at-home Kitzbühel Cup, Kitzbühel. Austria
Semifinals — Tennis Channel, 3 p.m. & 4:30 p.m. (same day coverage)

WTA Tour
U.S. Open Series: Bank of the West Classic, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Quarterfinal — ESPN2, 11 p.m.

WNBA
Connecticut Sun at San Antonio Stars — NBA TV, 8 p.m.

Entertainment
Masters of Illusion: Jaws of Death (series premiere) — The CW, 8 p.m.
Velvet Goldmine — Flix, 8 p.m.
Save the Last Dance — Showcase, 8 p.m.
A Case of You — The Movie Channel, 8 p.m.
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jane Fonda — Turner Classic Movies, 8 p.m.
Charlie Rose-The Week — PBS, 8:30 p.m.
Beavis and Butt-head Do America — Cinemax, 8:45 p.m.
Man Caves: Medieval Times Is Here to Help Man caves Build the Ultimate Medieval Man Cave for Brian Bo (season premiere) — DIY Network, 9 p.m.
What Would You Do? — ABC, 9 p.m.
Dateline NBC: Bad Blood — NBC, 9 p.m.
Great Performances: Dudamel Conducts the Verdi Requiem at the Hollywood Bowl — PBS, 9 p.m.
Redwood Kings: Shiver Me Timbers (series premiere) — Animal Planet, 9 p.m.
Untold Stories of the E.R.: I Hate Doctors — Discovery Fitness and Health, 9 p.m.
Alaskan Bush People: Back to the Bush: The Big Decision — Discovery, 9 p.m.
Ancient Aliens: The Tesla Experiment — H2, 9 p.m.
Love It or List It, Too: Joyce & Steve — HGTV, 9 p.m.
Deadly Women: Lady of Blood (season premiere) — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
David Bowie: Five Years — Showtime, 9 p.m.
Cat Ballou — Turner Classic Movies, 9 p.m.
Cold Justice: Other Side of the Tracks (Cambridge, OH) — TNT, 9 p.m.
Monumental Mysteries: Superman vs. the KKK; Who Killed Huey Long?; Marches to Montgomery — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
Election — The Movie Channel, 9:35 p.m.
Donut Showdown: New York City — Showtime, 10 p.m.
20/20 — ABC, 10 p.m.
Hannah Anderson: Anatomy of a Kidnapping — NBC, 10 p.m.
Treehouse Masters: Canopy Island Camp — Animal Planet, 10 p.m.
A Haunting: Demon’s Revenge (season premiere) — Destination America, 10 p.m.
Deadliest Catch: On Deck: Sabotage — Discovery, 10 p.m.
In Search of Aliens: Nazi Time Travelers — H2, 10 p.m.
Real Time With Bill Maher — HBO, 10 p.m.
Deadly Women: Mom’s Money — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Dawn of the Dead — Cinemax, 10:15 p.m.
Aerosmith: Rock for the Rising Sun — VH1 Classic, 10:30 p.m.
Conan the Destroyer — IFC, 11 p.m.
The 2013 AVN Awards — Sho2, 11 p.m.
Bikini Spring Break — The Movie Channel, 11:30 p.m.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — NBC, 11:34 p.m.
Topless Prophet: The Video — Cinemax, midnight
O Brother, Where Art Thou? — Starz, midnight
Big Brother After Dark — TV Guide Network, midnight
Point Break — Sundance TV, 12:15 a.m. (Saturday)
Klute — Turner Classic Movies, 12:15 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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