Friday’s Viewing Picks

Basketball
2014 FIBA World Championships for Women
Quarterfinals, Istanbul, Turkey
USA vs. France — NBA, 2 p.m.

CFL
Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Ottawa Redblacks — TSN/ESPN3, 7 p.m.
Calgary Stampeders at Saskatchewan Roughriders — TSN/ESPN2, 10 p.m.

College Field Hockey
Ohio State at Maryland — Big Ten Network, 3:30 p.m.

College Football
Lafayette at Fordham — CBS Sports Network, 6:30 p.m.
Louisville at Syracuse — ESPN, 7 p.m.
San Diego State at Frenso State — CBS Sports Network, 10 p.m.
Utah State at BYU — ESPN, 10:15 p.m.

BTN Football & Beyond 2014 — BTN, noon
SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
This Week in SEC Football — CBS Sports Network, 5 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN, 10 p.m.
Fox Sports Live: Countdown to Kickoff — Fox Sports 1, midnight
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 1:30 a.m. (Saturday)

College Soccer
Women’s
Virginia Tech at North Carolina — Fox Sports Net, 4 p.m.
Colorado at USC — Pac-12 Networks, 6 p.m.
Oregon State at Arizona — Pac-12 Oregon/Pac-12 Arizona/Pac-12 Washington, 6 p.m.
Utah at UCLA — Pac-12 Networks, 11 p.m.
Washington at Stanford — Pac-12 Washington/Pac-12 Bay Area/Pac-12 Oregon, 11 p.m.

College Softball
McLennan at Texas — Longhorn Network, 8 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Florida at LSU — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Penn State at Nebraska — Big Ten Network, 8 p.m.
Arizona State at Colorado — Pac-12 Arizona/Pac-12 Mountain, 8 p.m.
USC at Washington State — Pac-12 Networks, 9 p.m.
Arizona at Utah — Pac-12 Arizona/Pac-12 12 Mountain, 10 p.m.
Oregon at Stanford — ESPNU, 10 p.m.

Formula 1
Japanese Grand Prix, Suzuka, Japan
Practice — NBCSN, 1 a.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, St. Andrews Golf Club (Old Course); Carnoustie Golf Links; Kingsbarns Golf Links; St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 8 a.m.

Big Break Invitational, Reynolds Plantation (Great Waters Course), Oconee, GA
Final Day: Stroke Play — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

LPGA Tour
Reignwood LPGA Classic, Pine Valley Golf Club, Beijing, Communist China
3rd Round — Golf Channel, 11 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine, Scotiabank Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Weigh-In — Fox Sports 2, 3 p.m.

Bellator 127, Pechanga Resort & Casino, Temecula, CA
Featherweights: Daniel Straus vs. Justin Wilcox — Spike, 9 p.m.

MLB Postseason
American League Division Series
Game 2: Detroit Tigers at Baltimore Orioles — TBS, noon (Baltimore leads series 1-0)
Game 2: Kansas City Royals at Anaheim Angels — TBS, 9:30 p.m. (Kansas City leads series 1-0)

National League Division Series
Game 1: San Francisco Giants at Washington Nationals — Fox Sports 1, 3 p.m.
Game 1: St. Louis Cardinals at Los Angeles Dodgers — Fox Sports 1, 6:30 p.m.

MLB on TBS Pregame — TBS, noon
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, noon
MLB on Fox Sports 1 Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 2:30 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 3 p.m.
Fox Sports Live: Postgame Edition — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.
MLB on TBS Pregame — TBS, 9 p.m.
Fox Sports Live: Postgame Edition — Fox Sports 1, 9:30 p.m.
MLB Tonight: Division Series — MLB Network, 12:30 a.m. (Saturday)
The Postseason Show — TBS, 1 a.m. (Saturday)

MLS
DC United vs. Sporting KC — NBCSN, 8 p.m.

NASCAR
Nationwide Series
Kansas Lottery 300, Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, KS
Practice 1 — Fox Sports 1, noon
Practice 2 — ESPN2, 4 p.m.

Sprint Cup Series
Chase for the FedExCup, Contender Round
Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, KS
Practice 1 — Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m.
Qualifying — ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.

NFL
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NFL Game Rewind: Minnesota at Green Bay — NFL Network, 3:30 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.
Playbook: 2014 Week 5 — NFL Network, 4 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m.
Around the NFL — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
Playbook Primetime: 2014 Week 5 — NFL Network, 8 p.m.
Warren Moon: A Football Life — NFL Network, 9 p.m.
Sound FX: 2014 Week 4 — NFL Network, 10 p.m.

NHL Preseason
Chicago at New York Rangers — NHL Network (US)/Comcast SportsNet Chicago/MSG Network, 7 p.m.
Detroit at Toronto — Sportsnet/Fox Sports Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Montreal at Ottawa — RDS/TSN, 7:30 p.m.

NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2014-15 Season Preview — NHL Network, 10 p.m.

Scottish Premier League
Kilmarnock vs. Dundee United — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:30 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.
The Doug Gottlieb Show — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 3 p.m.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 2, 4 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.
BTN Live — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.
30 for 30: Elway to Marino — ESPNU, 6 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPNews, 6:30 p.m.
30 for 30: You Don’t Know Bo — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 9 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 9:45 p.m.
Unguarded with Rachel Nichols — CNN, 10:30 p.m.

Synchronized Swimming
13th Synchronized Swimming World Cup, Université Laval, PEPS Aquatic Centre, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Team Technical Preliminaries — Universal Sports, 8 p.m.

Tennis
ATP/WTA Tour
Communist China Open, National Tennis Center, Beijing, Communist China
Men’s and Women’s Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 4:30 a.m.

ATP Tour
Japan Open Tennis Championships, Ariake Colisseum & Ariake Tennis Forest Park, Tokyo, Japan
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 9:30 a.m. (same day coverage)

Center Court Primetime — Tennis Channel, 8 p.m.
Tennis Channel Live — Tennis Channel, 9:30 p.m.
Center Court: Communist China Open & Japan Open Tennis Championships — Tennis Channel, 10 p.m.

Entertainment
Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Matt Barnes — The CW, 8 p.m.
Last Man Standing (season premiere) — ABC, 8 p.m.
The Amazing Race 25: When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go — CBS, 8 p.m.
The African Queen — Turner Classic Movies, 8 p.m.
Off the Menu’s: Chili’s (series premiere) — TNT, 8 p.m.
Gravity — Cinemax, 8:25 p.m.
Charlie Rose-The Week — PBS, 8:30 p.m.
Dracula Untold: HBO First Look — HBO2, 8:45 p.m.
Shark Tank — ABC, 9 p.m.
Hawaii Five-0 — CBS, 9 p.m.
Dateline NBC: The Wire — NBC, 9 p.m.
America’s Next Top Model — The CW, 9 p.m.
Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 Years — PBS, 9 p.m.
Alaska Monsters: The Northern Giant — Destination America, 9 p.m.
Bearing Sea Gold: The Lead — Discovery, 9 p.m.
Untold Stories of the E.R.: Extra Dose: Shredded! — Discovery Fitness and Health, 8 p.m.
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion — Disney Channel, 9 p.m.
Ender’s Game — HBO2, 9 p.m.
Deadly Women: Cold as Ice — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Mistaken for Strangers — Showtime, 9 p.m.
About Last Night — Starz, 9 p.m.
Mysteries at the Museum: Doyle & Houdini; The Poison Squad; The Great Imposter — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
House Hunters: Atlanta — HGTV, 10 p.m.
Young, Hot & Crooked: Blood Brothers — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
How It’s Made: Upright pianos, Flags, Wet/Dry Vacs, Medieval Axes — Science Channel, 10 p.m.
Ancient Assassins: The 47 Ronin — American Heroes Channel, 10 p.m.
The Knick: Working Late a Lot — Cinemax, 10 p.m.
In Search of Aliens: The Alien Code (season premiere) — H2, 10 p.m.
20/20: The Mystery of Johnsburg Road — ABC, 10:01 p.m.
Airplane Repo: Flying Blind — Discovery, 10:02 p.m.
House Hunters International: Tenerife, Canary Islands — HGTV, 10:30 p.m.
How It’s Made: Oil Lamps, Chocolate Mints, Underfloor heating, Pillows — Science Channel, 10:30 p.m.
E! News — E!, 11 p.m.
The Best Offer — Sho2, 11 p.m.
Sunset Strip — The Movie Channel, 11:30 p.m.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — NBC, 11:34 p.m.
Late Show With David Letterman — CBS, 11:35 p.m.
Swordfish — HBO Signature, midnight
Blade Runner — Sundance TV, 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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