Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

Boxing
Best of 2011: Cotto vs. Margarito II — HBO, 11 p.m.

College Basketball
Men’s
Florida at Rutgers — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Elon at North Carolina — ESPNU, 7 p.m.
The Citadel at Tennessee — Fox College Sports Pacific/Fox Sports Arizona/SportSouth, 7 p.m.
Penn State at Michigan — Big Ten Network, 7:30 p.m.
Georgia Tech at Fordham — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.
Southern Illinois at Evansville — Fox College Sports Central/Fox Sports Midwest, 8 p.m.
Western Kentucky at Louisiana-Munroe — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 8:30 p.m.
Jacksonville at Alabama — CSS, 9 p.m.
Vanderbilt at Marquette — ESPN2, 9 p.m.
Oklahoma at Cincinnati — ESPNU, 9 p.m.
Oregon State at Washington — Fox College Sports Central/Root Sports Northwest/Root Sports Rocky Mountain, 9 p.m.
BYU at St. Mary’s — ESPN2, 11 p.m.
UCLA at Stanford — Fox Sports Net, 11 p.m. (national)

College Football
Champ Sports Bowl, Orlando, FL
Notre Dame vs. Florida State — ESPN/ESPN 3D, 5:30 p.m.

Alamo Bowl, San Antonio, TX
Washington vs. Baylor — ESPN, 9 p.m.

IIHF World Junior Championships
Denmark vs. Canada — TSN/NHL Network (US), 8 p.m.
Latvia vs. Russia — TSN2, 10 p.m.

MLB
Clubhouse Confidential — MLB Network, 5:30 p.m.
Hot Stove Live — MLB Network, 6 p.m.

NBA
Dallas at Oklahoma City — TNT, 8 p.m.
New York at Los Angeles Lakers — TNT, 10:30 p.m.

Inside the NBA — TNT, 1 a.m.

NHL
Calgary at New York Islanders — Rogers Sportsnet Calgary/MSG Plus, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Toronto at Carolina — Leafs TV/Fox Sports Carolinas, 7 p.m.
Montreal at Tampa Bay — RDS/TSN-Habs/Sun Sports, 7:30 p.m.
Edmonton at Minnesota — Rogers Sportsnet West/Fox Sports North, 8 p.m.
Columbus at Dallas — Fox Sports Ohio/Fox Sports Southwest, 8:30 p.m.
Los Angeles at Winnipeg — Fox Sports West/TSN-Jets, 8:30 p.m.
Phoenix at Colorado — Fox Sports Arizona/Altitude, 9 p.m.
Vancouver at Anaheim — Rogers Sportsnet Pacific/KDOC, 10 p.m.

NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Network at the 2012 Winter Classic — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 11 p.m.

Skiing
FIS World Cup, Bormio, Italy
Men’s Downhill — Universal Sports, 11 a.m. (same day coverage)
Women’s Slalom — Universal Sports, 2 p.m. (same day coverage)

Sports Talk
The Best of the Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/Fox Sports Net, 9 a.m.
Tim Brando Show — CBS Sports Network, 10 a.m.
The Box Score — Audience Network (DirecTV), noon
The Scott Van Pelt Show — ESPNews , 1 p.m.
Numbers Never Lie — ESPN2, 3:30 p.m.
NBC SportsTalk — Versus, 6 p.m.

Entertainment
Happy New Year, Charlie Brown — ABC, 8 p.m.
Man, Woman, Wild: Bear’s Kitchen — Discovery, 9 p.m.
I (Almost) Got Away With It: Got to Pretend I’m A Priest — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Beavis and Butt-Head — MTV, 10 p.m.
Beyond Scared Straight: Western Tidewater Regional Jail, VA — A&E, 10 p.m.
Alaska: The Last Frontier — Discovery, 10 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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