Thursday’s Viewing Picks

College Baseball
Valparaiso at Wright State — ESPN3, noon
Penn State at Purdue — Big Ten Network, 5 p.m.
Oklahoma State at Michigan — BTN2Go, 6 p.m.
Clemson at Florida State — ESPN3, 6 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Pittsburgh — ESPN3, 6 p.m.
Wake Forest at Duke — ESPN3, 6 p.m.
Mississippi State at Tennessee — SEC Network Plus, 6 p.m.
Central Florida at South Florida — CBS Sports Network, 6:30 p.m.
Virginia at North Carolina — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 7 p.m.
Georgia Tech at Miami (FL) — ESPN3, 7 p.m.
High Point at Liberty — ESPN3, 7 p.m.
Youngstown State at Illinois-Chicago — ESPN3, 7 p.m.
TCU at Oklahoma — Fox College Sports Central, 7 p.m.
LSU at South Carolina — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Arkansas at Georgia — SEC Network Plus, 7 p.m.
Auburn at Florida — SEC Network Plus, 7 p.m.
Ohio State at Indiana — Big Ten Network, 8 p.m.
Vanderbilt at Alabama — SEC Network Plus, 8 p.m.
Washington State at Arizona State — Pac-12 Networks, 10 p.m.

College Baseball Live — ESPNU, 7 p.m.

Cycling
Giro d’Italia
Stage 6: Montecatini Terme to Castiglione della Pescaia — beIN Sports, 8:30 a.m.

Tour of California
Stage 5: Santa Barbara to Santa Clarita — NBCSN, 5 p.m.
Women’s Recap — NBCSN, midnight

Golf
European PGA Tour
Open de España, Real Club de Golf El Prat, Terrassa, Spain
1st Round — Golf Channel, 5:30 a.m.
1st Round — Golf Channel, 9:30 a.m.

Champions Tour
Regions Tradition, Shoal Creek Golf Club, Shoal Creek, AL
1st Round — Golf Channel, 12:30 p.m.

PGA Tour
Wells Fargo Championship, Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, NC
1st Round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 2:30 p.m.

LPGA Tour
Kingsmill Championship, Kingsmill Resort (River Course), Williamsburg, VA
1st Round — Golf Channel, 9 p.m. (same day coverage)

Hockey
2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship
Quarterfinals
CEZ Arena, Ostrava, Czech Republic
USA vs. Switzerland — TSN2/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
Sweden vs. Russia — TSN2, 1 p.m./NBCSN, 9 p.m. (same day coverage)

O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic
Canada vs. Belarus — TSN, 10 a.m./NBCSN, 11:30 a.m. (joined in progress)
Finland vs. Czech Republic — TSN, 2 p.m.

MLB
American League
Minnesota at Detroit — MLB Network/Fox Sports North/Fox Sports Detroit, 1 p.m.
Kansas City at Texas — Fox Sports Kansas City/Fox Sports Southwest, 2 p.m.
New York Yankees at Tampa Bay — MLB Network/YES/Sun Sports, 7 p.m.
Toronto at Houston — Sportsnet/Root Sports Southwest, 8 p.m.
Boston at Seattle — NESN/Root Sports Northwest, 10 p.m.

National League
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia — MLB Network/Root Sports Pittsburgh/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 1 p.m.
New York Mets at Chicago Cubs — SNY/Comcast SportsNet Chicago, 2:20 p.m.
San Francisco at Cincinnati — MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet Bay Area/Fox Sports Ohio, 7 p.m.
Colorado at Los Angeles Dodgers — Root Sports Rocky Mountain/SNY, 10 p.m.
Washington at Fox Sports San Diego — MASN/Fox Sports San Diego, 10 p.m.

Interleague
St. Louis at Cleveland — Fox Sports Midwest/STO, noon

MLB Now — MLB Network, 4 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 10 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m.
MLB Whiparound — Fox Sports 1, midnight
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Friday)

NASCAR
Camping World Truck Series
NC Education Lottery 200, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, NC
Practice 1 — Fox Sports 1, 3 p.m.
Practice 2 — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.

NASCAR Race Hub — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.
Uncompromising: Kevin Harvick — Fox Sports 1, 9 p.m.
100,000 Cameras: Talladega — Fox Sports 1, 9:30 p.m.
NASCAR Masters of the Clock: The Legend of Martinsville — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.

NBA Playoffs
Eastern Conference Semifinal
Cleveland at Chicago — ESPN, 8 p.m. (Cleveland leads series 3-2)

Western Conference Semifinal
Houston at Los Angeles Clippers — ESPN, 10:30 p.m. (Clippers lead series 3-2)

2015 NBA Draft Combine — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
The Starters — NBA TV, 6:30 p.m.
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 7 p.m.
NBA Countdown — ESPN, 7:30 p.m.
2015 NBA TV Draft Combine Special — NBA TV, 8 p.m.
NBA GameTime: Cavaliers/Bulls, Game 6 Postgame — NBA TV, 10:30 p.m.
NBA GameTime: Rockets/Clippers, Game 6 Postgame — NBA TV, 1 a.m. (Friday)

NFL
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.

NHL
Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet/NHL Network (US), noon
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL on the Fly: 2015 Playoff Edition — NHL Network, 7 p.m.

Sports Talk
Radius — NBCSN, 6 a.m.
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
Radius — NBCSN, 6:30 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 7:30 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV), 9 a.m.
MLB Central — MLB Network, 10 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/Root Sports (Northwest/Rocky Mountain/Northwest), noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
SVP & Russillo (The Final Days) — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
The Box Score — Audience Network (DirecTV), 3 p.m.
The Doug Gottlieb Show — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 3 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN, 4:30 p.m.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 2, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
World’s Strongest Man 2014: 1 — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.
Podium 360 — Universal Sports, 7:30 p.m.
30 for 30: The U — ESPN2, 8 p.m.
World’s Strongest Man 2014: 2 — CBS Sports Network, 9:30 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 10 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.

Tennis
ATP/WTA Tour
Internazionali BNL d’Italia, Foro Italico, Rome, Italy
Men’s and Women’s Round of 16 — Tennis Channel, 6 a.m.

Tennis Channel Live — Tennis Channel, 5 p.m.

UEFA Europa League
Semifinal, Leg 2
Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence, Italy
Fiorentina vs. Sevilla — Fox Sports 2, 3 p.m.

NSK Olimpiyskyi, Kyiv, Ukraine
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk vs. Napoli — Fox Soccer Plus, 3 p.m.

UEFA Europa League Pregame — Fox Sports 2/Fox Soccer Plus, 2:30 p.m.

Entertainment
Bones — Fox, 8 p.m.
Frozen — Encore, 8 p.m.
Vegas Vacation — IFC, 8 p.m.
20/20 on ID: What Lies Beneath — Investigation Discovery, 8 p.m.
The Railway Man — Showtime, 8 p.m.
Girl Meets World: Girl Meets Pluto — Disney Channel, 8:30 p.m.
My Dog’s Crazy Animal Friends: Cheetahs, Bunnies & Labs! — Discovery Family Channel, 9 p.m.
Wayward Pines (series premiere) — Fox, 9 p.m.
The First 48: Closing Time; Family Matters — A&E, 9 p.m.
Breaking Point: Katie and Corey — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Life Below Zero: Darkness Falls — National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m.
Boyhood — Sho2, 9 p.m.
Mysteries at the Museum: Secrets of Las Vegas — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
My Dog’s Crazy Animal Friends: Miniature Mates — Discovery Family Channel, 9:30 p.m.
The Discoverers — The Movie Channel, 9:40 p.m.
Beat Bobby Flay: Homeland — Food Network, 10 p.m.
The Comedians: Orange You the New Black Guy — FX, 10 p.m.
House Hunters: St. Louis, MO — HGTV, 10 p.m.
Maron: Stroke of Luck (season premiere) — IFC, 10 p.m.
Lip Sync Battle: Derek Hough vs. Julianne Hough — Spike, 10 p.m.
Ice Cold Gold: Divided or Conquered — Animal Planet, 10 p.m.
Naked and Afraid: Mexico: Quintana Roo — Discovery, 10 p.m.
Breaking Point: Chris — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Dead End Express: Fire in the Canyon — National Geographic Channel, 10 p.m.
American Crime (season finale) — ABC, 10:01 p.m.
Dateline NBC — NBC, 10:01 p.m.
House Hunters International: La Serena, Chile — HGTV, 10:30 p.m.
Louie: Sleepover — FX, 10:31 p.m.
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: Rebel Wilson — Comedy Central, 11 p.m.
Cathouse: Come to the Party! — HBO, 11 p.m.
E! News — E!, 11 p.m.
The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore: Vincent Kartheiser — 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: George Clooney; Tom Waits (The Final 5 Days) — CBS, 11:35 p.m.
Animation Domination — FXX, midnight
At Midnight With Chris Hardwick: Mamrie Hart; Flula Borg; Rove McManus — 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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