Thursday’s Viewing Picks

Baseball
Arizona Fall League
Mesa Solar Sox at Salt River Rafters — MLB Network, 8:30 p.m.

College Basketball
Men’s
Pacific at Oregon — Pac-12 Networks, 10:30 p.m.
Cal State-San Marcos at Cal — Pac-12 Bay Area/Pac-12 Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
St. Martin’s at Washington — Pac-12 Washington/Pac-12 Oregon, 10:30 p.m.

College Football
Clemson at Wake Forest — ESPN, 7:30 p.m.
Bethune-Cookman at Norfolk State — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.
Grambling State at Mississippi Valley State — ESPNU, 10:30 p.m. (same night coverage)

BTN Football & Beyond 2014 — Big Ten Network, noon
CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m.
College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
ESPN Recruiting Nation — ESPNU, 6 p.m.
College Football Countdown — ESPN, 7 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
Lemming Report — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.

College Soccer
Women’s
Stanford at Cal — Pac-12 Networks, 5 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
LSU at Texas A&M — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Montana State at North Dakota — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 8 p.m.
UCLA at Colorado — Pac-12 Networks, 8:30 p.m.
Oregon State at Washington State — Pac-12 Oregon/Pac-12 Washington, 8:30 p.m.
St. Mary’s at BYU — BYUtv, 9 p.m.

Golf
PGA Tour
Sanderson Farms Championship, Country Club of Jackson, Jackson, MS
1st Round — Golf Channel, 2 p.m.

PGA Tour/European PGA Tour
WGC-HSBC Champions, Sheshan International Golf Club, Shanghai, Communist China
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 11 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Reloaded: UFC 172: Jones vs. Texeira — Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.

MLB
MLB Now — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
2014 Silver Slugger Awards — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
MLB Tonight: Silver Slugger Awards — MLB Network, 7 p.m.

NASCAR
NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5 p.m.
NASCAR Race Hub — Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m.

NBA
San Antonio at Houston — TNT, 8 p.m.
Dallas at Portland — TNT, 10:30 p.m.

Inside the NBA — TNT, 1 a.m. (Friday)

NFL
Cleveland at Cincinnati — NFL Network, 8:25 p.m.

Sound FX: Russell Wilson — NFL Network, 1:30 p.m.
Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m.
NFL Total Access Kickoff live from Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, OH — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
Fantasy Football Live — NBCSN, 6:30 p.m.
Fantasy Football Uncensored — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.
NFL Thursday Night Football Kickoff live from Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, OH — NFL Network, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday Night Football Postgame live from Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, OH — NFL Network, 11:30 p.m.
Undrafted — NFL Network, midnight

NHL
Edmonton at Boston — Sportsnet 360/TVA Sports/NESN, 7 p.m.
Florida at Philadelphia — Fox Sports Florida/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Tampa Bay — Sportsnet Flames/Sun Sports, 7:30 p.m.
Minnesota at Ottawa — RDS/Fox Sports North/TSN5, 7:30 p.m.
New Jersey at St. Louis — NHL Network (US)/MSG Network/Fox Sports Midwest, 8 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Winnipeg — NHL Network (US)/Root Sports Pittsburgh/TSN3, 8 p.m.
Nashville at Dallas — Fox Sports Tennessee/Fox Sports Southwest, 8:30 p.m.
Toronto at Colorado — TSN4/Altitude, 9 p.m.
New York Islanders at Los Angeles — MSG Plus/Fox Sports West, 10:30 p.m.
Vancouver at San Jose — Sportsnet 360/Comcast SportsNet California, 10:30 p.m.

Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet/NHL Network (US), noon
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL on the Fly — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
Hockey Central — Sportsnet 360, 9:30 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 11 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.
Hot Stove — MLB Network, 9 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show live from Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, OH — Audience Network (DirecTV), noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
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.
Highly Questionable — ESPN2, 4 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 2, 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.
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.
BTN Live — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.
Podium 360 — Universal Sports, 7:30 p.m.
30 for 30: Brothers in Exile — ESPN2, 8 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 9 p.m.
30 for 30: Playing for the Mob — ESPN2, 9:30 p.m.
SEC Studio: SEC Chalk Talk — SEC Network, 10 p.m.
SportsCenter Featured — ESPN2, 11 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.

UEFA Europa League
Match Day 4
Group C, Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium, Tripoli Arkadia, Greece
Asteras Tripoli vs. Tottenah Hotspur — Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m.

Group F, Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne, France
Saint-Étienne vs. Internazionale — Fox Sports 2, 1 p.m.

Group D, Marin Anastasovici, Giurgiu, Romania
Astra Giurgiu vs. Celtic — Fox Soccer Plus, 1 p.m.

Group H, Goodison Park, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Everton vs. LOSC Lille Metropole — Fox Sports 1, 3 p.m.

Group G, Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville, Spain
Sevilla vs. Standard Liège — Fox Sports 2, 3 p.m.

Group I, Stadio San Paolo, Naples, Italy
Napoli vs. Young Boys — Fox Soccer Plus, 3 p.m.

UEFA Europa League Pregame — Fox Sports 1/Fox Sports 2/Fox Soccer Plus, 12:30 p.m.
UEFA Europa League Highlights: Match Day 4 — Fox Sports 2, 10 p.m.

Entertainment
The Big Bang Theory — CBS, 8 p.m.
Bones — Fox, 8 p.m.
Cupcake Wars: Cirque du Soleil — Cooking Channel, 8 p.m.
Independence Day — Encore, 8 p.m.
Food Truck Face-Off: The Distillery District Duel — Food Network, 8 p.m.
Meet John Doe — Turner Classic Movies, 8 p.m.
Donut Showdown: Bejeweled — Cooking Channel, 9 p.m.
Food Factory USA: Slow Your Roll — FYI, 9 p.m.
Rehab Addict: Up and Away — HGTV, 9 p.m.
Bad Judge (The Final Days) — NBC, 9 p.m.
Gracepoint — Fox, 9 p.m.
Deadly Affairs: Virtual Lust — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
White House Down — Starz, 9 p.m.
The Layover With Anthony Bourdain: Extra Miles: Rome — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
Food Factory USA: Muffin But the Best — FYI, 9:30 p.m.
Beat Bobby Flay: Surf and Turf — Food Network, 10 p.m.
House Hunters: West Hollywood — HGTV, 10 p.m.
Rise of the Berlin Wall — American Heroes Channel, 10 p.m.
Monsters Inside Me: The Killer in the Lake — Animal Planet, 10 p.m.
Deadly Affairs: Games People Play — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
The Enforcer — Sundance TV, 10 p.m.
No Reservations: Europe Files: Volume 1 — Travel Channel, 10 p.m.
Carnival Eats: Illinois State Fair/Erie County Fair — Cooking Channel, 10:30 p.m.
House Hunters International — HGTV, 10:30 p.m.
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: James Risen — Comedy Central, 11 p.m.
Sex With Sunny Megatron: Orgasm — Showtime, 11 p.m.
E! News — E!, 11 p.m.
Taxicab Confessions: New York, New York, Part 3 — HBO, 11 p.m.
Conan — TBS, 11 p.m.
Cops Reloaded — CMT, 11:30 p.m.
The Colbert Report: Steven Johnson — Comedy Central, 11:31 p.m.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — NBC, 11:34 p.m.
Jimmy Kimmel Live — ABC, 11:35 p.m.
Late Show With David Letterman — CBS, 11:35 p.m.
Aroused — Showcase, midnight
At Midnight: Jim Norton; Artie Lange; Kurt Metzger — Comedy Central, 12:01 a.m. (Friday)
Adam Devine’s House Party: Non-Stop Dance Party — Comedy Central, 12:31 a.m. (Friday)

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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