Friday’s Viewing Picks

Australian Rules Football
Preliminary Final, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia
Sydney Swans vs. North Melbourne Kangaroos — Fox Sports 2, 5:30 a.m.

College Football
UConn at South Florida — ESPN, 8 p.m.

BTN Football & Beyond 2014 — Big Ten Network, noon
CFB Daily: The Edge — ESPNU, 1 p.m.
College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
Lemming Report — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m.
College Football Countdown — ESPN, 7:30 p.m.
This Week in SEC Football — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.
Fox Sports Live: Countdown to Kickoff — Fox Sports 1, midnight

College Soccer
Men’s
Delaware at Cal — Pac-12 Networks, 6:30 p.m.

Women’s
Pacific at Cal — Pac-12 Networks, 4 p.m.
Mississippi at Mississippi State — SEC Network, 7 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Deseret First Duel

Utah at BYU — BYUtv, 9 p.m.
Maryland vs. USC at Washington — Pac-12 Networks, 8:30 p.m.
Wisconsin at Washington — Pac-12 Networks, 11 p.m.

Formula 1
Singapore Grand Prix, Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore
Practice — 9:30 a.m.

Countdown to F1 — NBCSN, 5 p.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
Wales Open, The Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, Wales, England
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 5:30 a.m. & 10 a.m.

Web.com Tour
Web.com Tour Championship, TPC Sawgrass (Dye’s Valley Course), Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 2 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 1 p.m.

LPGA Tour
Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic, Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail (The Senator Course), Prattville, AL
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 5 p.m.

Champions Tour
Hawaii Championship, Kapolei Golf Course, Kapolei, Oahu, HI
1st Round — Golf Channel, 7:30 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
Bellator 125, SaveMart Center, Fresno, CA
Middleweights
Doug Marshall vs. Melvin Manhoef — Spike, 9 p.m.

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

National League
Los Angeles Dodgers at Chicago Cubs — MLB Network/SportsNet LA/WGN America, 2:20 p.m.
Milwaukee at Pittsburgh — Fox Sports Wisconsin/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Washington at Miami — MASN2/Fox Sports Florida, 7 p.m.
New York Mets at Atlanta — SNY/Fox Sports South, 7:30 p.m.
Arizona at Colorado — Fox Sports Arizona/Root Sports Rocky Mountain, 8 p.m.
Cincinnati at St. Louis — Fox Sports Ohio/Fox Sports Midwest, 8:15 p.m.
San Francisco at San Diego — MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet Bay Area/Fox Sports San Diego, 10 p.m.

Interleague
Philadelphia at Oakland — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/Comcast SportsNet California, 9:30 p.m.

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

MLS
Real Salt Lake vs. Colorado — NBCSN, 10 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series
Race to the Cup, Challenger Round
Sylvania 300, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, NH
Practice 1 — Fox Sports 1, noon
Qualifying — Fox Sports 1, 4:30 p.m.

Camping World Truck Series
UNOH 175, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, NH
Practice 2 — Fox Sports 1, 1:30 p.m.
Practice 3 — Fox Sports 1, 3 p.m.

Nationwide Series
The Race That Has a Sponsor That Has Not Paid Me to Use Its Name 300, Kentucky Speedway, Sparta, KY
Practice 2 — Fox Sports 6:30 p.m.

NASCAR Race Hub — Fox Sports 1, 11 a.m.
NASCAR Live: New Hampshire — Fox Sports 1, 2:30 p.m.
NASCAR Live: New Hampshire — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.
NASCAR Live: Kentucky — Fox Sports 1, 7:30 p.m.

NFL
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NFL Game Rewind: Tampa Bay at Atlanta — NFL Network, 3:30 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.
Playbook: Week 3 — NFL Network, 4 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m.
Around the NFL — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
Playbook Primetime — NFL Network, 8 p.m.
Brandon Marshall: A Football Life — NFL Network, 9 p.m.
Sound FX: Week 2 — NFL Network, 10 p.m.

Sports Talk
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
NFL AM — NFL Network, 6 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 8 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — NBCSN, 11 a.m.
SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 2, 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 — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN2, 4 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.
ROME — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
BTN Live — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.
SEC Storied: The Believer — ESPNU, 6:30 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 9 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.
Unguarded With Rachel Nichols — CNN, 10:30 p.m.

Tennis
ATP Tour
Moselle Open, Metz, France
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 4 p.m. & 6 p.m. (same day coverage)

WTA Tour
Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, Japan
Final — Tennis Channel, midnight

Entertainment
Masters of Illusion — The CW, 8 p.m.
Big Brother 16 — CBS, 8 p.m.
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History: The Common Cause (1939-1944)
Bering Sea Gold: Dredged Up: Under the Ice: The Champagne Kiss Off — Discovery, 8 p.m.
Secret Window — Encore, 8 p.m.
Hack My Brain: Think Fast — Science Channel, 8 p.m.
Man Caves: Man Caves Turn a Master Bedroom Into the Ultimate Nautical Man Cave — DIY Network, 9 p.m.
Dateline NBC: The Charleston Killer — NBC, 9 p.m.
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team — CMT, 9 p.m.
Alaska Monsters: The Saberwolf — Destination America, 9 p.m.
Untold Stories of the E.R.: Extra Dose: Dr. Epi — Discovery Fitness and Health, 9 p.m.
Love It or List It, Too: Shanti & Marcello — HGTV, 9 p.m.
Deadly Women: Second Best — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Hack My Brain: Mind Mavericks — Science Channel, 9 p.m.
Thor: The Dark World — Starz, 9 p.m.
Mysteries at the Museum: Circling the Skies; Lady & the Panda; 12 Years a Slave — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
Rush Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland — VH1 Classic, 9 p.m.
Bering Sea Gold: Under the Ice: Grounds for Divorce — Discovery, 9:01 p.m.
Donut Showdown: Shipwrecked — Cooking Channel, 10 p.m.
House Hunters: Denver — HGTV, 10 p.m.
Young, Hot & Crooked: Point Blank — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
The War to End All Wars: No End in Sight — American Heroes Channel, 10 p.m.
The Knick: Start Calling Me Dad — Cinemax, 10 p.m.
Swamp Monsters: Honey Island Swamp Monster — Destination America, 10 p.m.
In Search of Aliens: The Founding of America — H2, 10 p.m.
Hack My Brain: The Houdini Challenge — Science Channel, 10 p.m.
Django Unchained — Showcase, 10 p.m.
20/20 — ABC, 10:01 p.m.
House Hunters International: Madrid, Spain — HGTV, 10:30 p.m.
Young, Hot & Crooked: Femme Fatale — Investigation Discovery, 10:30 p.m.
E! News — E!, 11 p.m.
Aroused — Sho2, 11:30 p.m.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — NBC, 11:34 p.m.
Machete — IFC, midnight
Eraser — Starz, midnight
Big Brother After Dark — TV Guide Network, midnight

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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