Thursday’s Viewing Picks

Boxing
Golden Boy Live, The Belasco Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Junior Featherweights
Manuel Avila vs. Erik Ruiz — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.

College Baseball
Florida at Vanderbilt — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.
St. Mary’s (CA) at BYU — BYUtv, 8 p.m.
Mississippi State at Mississippi — SEC Network, 8:30 p.m.

College Baseball Live — ESPNU, 7 p.m.

College Softball
ACC Tournament, Tech Softball Park, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Quarterfinals
Boston College vs. Florida State — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 11 a.m.
North Carolina State vs. Louisville — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 1:30 p.m.
Virginia Tech vs. North Carolina — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 5 p.m.
Pittsburgh vs. Notre Dame — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 7:30 p.m.

Big Ten Tournament, Buckeye Field, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1st Round
Purdue vs. Illinois — BTN Plus, noon
Penn State vs. Maryland — BTN Plus, 2:30 p.m.
Ohio State vs. Indiana — Big Ten Network, 5:30 p.m.
Rutgers vs. Iowa — Big Ten Network, 8 p.m.

SEC Tournament, Tiger Park, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Quarterfinals
Auburn vs. Missouri — SEC Network, 11 a.m.
Alabama vs. Georgia — SEC Network, 1:30 p.m.
Florida vs. South Carolina — SEC Network, 4 p.m.
LSU vs. Kentucky or Tennessee — SEC Network, 6:30 p.m.

Stanford at Cal — Pac-12 Networks, 6 p.m.
UCLA at Arizona State — Pac-12 Networks, 8 p.m.
Washington at Utah — Pac-12 Washington/Pac-12 Mountain, 8 p.m.
Oregon at Arizona — Pac-12 Networks, 10 p.m.

Cycling
Four Days of Dunkirk
Stage 2: Fontaine au Pire to Maubeuge — Universal Sports, 9:30 a.m.

Golf
The Players Championship, TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
1st Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m.

Live From The Players — Golf Channel, 9 a.m.
Live From The Players — Golf Channel, 7 p.m.

Hockey
2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships
Group A, O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic
Czech Republic vs. France — TSN5, 10 a.m.
Sweden vs. Germany — TSN, 2 p.m.

Group B, CEZ Arena, Ostrava, Czech Republic
United States vs. Belarus — NBCSN/TSN, 10 a.m.
Finland vs. Slovenia — TSN3, 2 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Fighter’s Cut: Chris Weidman — Fox Sports 1, 8:30 p.m.
UFC Fight Flashback: Weidman vs. Machida — Fox Sports 1, 9 p.m.
UFC Fight Flasback: Silva vs. Weidman — Fox Sports 1, 9:30 p.m.

MLB
American League
Milwaukee at Oakland — MLB Network/MLB.com, 1 p.m.
Cleveland at Kansas City — STO/Fox Sports Kansas City, 2 p.m.
Detroit at Kansas City — Fox Sports Detroit/Fox Sports Kansas City, 2 p.m.
Baltimore at New York Yankees — MLB Network/MASN/YES, 7 p.m.
Texas at Tampa Bay — MLB Network/Fox Sports Southwest/Sun Sports, 7 p.m.
Houston at Anaheim Angels — Root Sports Southwest/Fox Sports West, 10 p.m.

National League
Los Angeles at Milwaukee — MLB Network/SportsNet LA, 1:30 p.m.
Chicago Cubs at St. Louis — WGN, 1:45 p.m.
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh — Fox Sports Ohio/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
San Diego at Arizona — Fox Sports San Diego/Fox Sports Arizona, 9:30 p.m.
Miami at San Francisco — Fox Sports Florida/Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, 10:15 p.m.

MLB Now — MLB Network, 4:30 p.m.
MLB Tonight: On-Deck Circle — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
MLB Whiparound — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.
MLB Epic Moments: Boston Idiots — Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 10 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, midnight
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Friday)

NASCAR
NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5 p.m.
NASCAR Race Hub — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.

NBA
The Starters — NBA TV, 6:30 p.m.
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 7 p.m.

NFL
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.
Path to the Draft — NFL Network, 6 p.m.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs
Eastern Conference Semifinal
Montreal at Tampa Bay — CBC/TVA Sports/NBCSN, 7 p.m. (Tampa Bay leads series 3-0)

Western Conference Semifinal
Chicago at Minnesota — NBCSN/Sportsnet/TVA Sports 2, 9:30 p.m. (Chicago leads series 3-0)

Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet/NHL Network (US), noon
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Live — NBCSN, 6 p.m.
Hockey Central — Sportsnet, 6:30 p.m.
NHL on the Fly: 2015 Playoff Edition — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2015 Playoff Edition — NHL Network, 10 p.m.
NHL Overtime — NBCSN, midnight

Sports Talk
Radius: Cardio Strength Challenge-Basheerah — NBCSN, 6 a.m.
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 6 a.m.
NFL AM (The Next-to-Final Day) — NFL Network, 6 a.m.
Radius: Transcend Yoga AM/Yoga With Caley — NBCSN, 6:30 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
MLB Central — MLB Network, 10 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/Root Sports (Northwest/Southwest), noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
SEC Now — SEC Network, 1 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN, 2 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.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 3:30 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN, 4:30 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 2, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 6 p.m.
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.
CBS Sports Spectacular: World’s Strongest Men Archives: 1979 — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
ESPN Films: Nixon’s National Champs — ESPNU, 6;30 p.m.
SEC Storied: Shaq & Dale — ESPN, 8 p.m.
SEC Storied: Thunder and Lightning — ESPN2, 8 p.m.
30 for 30: Bad Boys — ESPN, 9 p.m.
30 for 30: The Deal — ESPN2, 9:30 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 11:30 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, midnight

Tennis
ATP/WTA Tour
Madrid Open, La Caja Mágica, Madrid, Spain
Men’s 3rd Round & Women’s Round of 16 — Tennis Channel, 7 a.m.

Tennis Channel Live — Tennis Channel, 6 p.m.

UEFA Europa League
Semifinal, Leg 1
Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville, Spain
Sevilla vs. Fiorentina — Fox Sports 1, 3 p.m.

Stadio San Paolo, Naples, Italy
Napoli vs. Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk — Fox Sports 2, 3 p.m.

UEFA Europa League Pregame — Fox Sports 1/Fox Sports 2, 2:30 p.m.
UEFA Europa League Highlights — Fox Sports 2, 10 p.m.

Entertainment
The Big Bang Theory (season finale) — CBS, 8 p.m.
Bones — Fox, 8 p.m.
Baltimore Speaks! A BET Special — BET, 8 p.m.
Epic America — Destination America, 8 p.m.
The World’s Most Outrageous Pets: Animal Competitions — Discovery Family Channel, 8 p.m.
The Devil’s Own — Encore, 8 p.m.
20/20 on ID: Sneaking Suspicions — Investigation Discovery, 8 p.m.
Airport — Turner Classic Movies, 8 p.m.
Pitch Perfect 2: HBO First Look — HBO, 8:45 p.m.
My Dog’s Crazy Animal Friends: Lonely Ducks & Wobbly Goats — Discovery Family Channel, 9 p.m.
Rehab Addict: Family Affair — HGTV, 9 p.m.
How It’s Made — Science Channel, 9 p.m.
After the First 48: The Rookie — A&E, 9 p.m.
Most Infamous: Bloody Bayou Blues (season finale) — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Life Below Zero: Ice Highway — National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m.
Guardians of the Galaxy — Starz, 9 p.m.
Beat Bobby Flay: Any Given Sunday — Food Network, 10 p.m.
The Comedians: Go for Gad — FX, 10 p.m.
House Hunters: Danville, CA — HGTV, 10 p.m.
Lip Sync Battle: Stephen Merchant vs. Malin Akerman — Spike, 10 p.m.
American Crime — ABC, 10 p.m.
Ice Cold Gold: Sixty Degrees of Separation — Animal Planet, 10 p.m.
The Hangover Part III — HBO Signature, 10 p.m.
Did He Do It?: Burden of Proof (season finale) — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Dead End Express: Welcome to the Wildnerness (series premiere) — National Geographic Channel, 10 p.m.
The Red Road: Shadow Walker (season finale) — Sundance TV, 10 p.m.
Olympus: The Lexicon — Syfy, 10 p.m.
Dateline NBC: Tom Brokaw: A Lucky Life Interrupted — NBC, 10:01 p.m.
Caring for Mom and Dad — PBS, 10:06 p.m.
House Hunters International: Nothing Toulouse — HGTV, 10:30 p.m.
Louie: Untitled — FX, 10:33 p.m.
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart — Comedy Central, 11 p.m.
E! News — E!, 11 p.m.
The Best of Real Sex: How to Be a Better Lover — HBO, 11 p.m.
Conan — TBS, 11 p.m.
The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore — Comedy Central, 11:31 p.m.
The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon — NBC, 11:34 p.m.
Jimmy Kimmel Live — ABC, 11:35 p.m.
Late Show With David Letterman (The Final 10 Days) — CBS, 11:35 p.m.
Animation Domination — FXX, midnight
At Midnight With Chris Hardwick: Jen Kirkman; Blaine Capatch; Colton Dunn — Comedy Central, 12:01 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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