Thursday’s Viewing Picks

CFL
Edmonton Eskimos at BC Lions — TSN/ESPN2, 10 p.m.

College Football
College Football Live — ESPN, 2 p.m.
Championship Drive: Inside the Schedule — ESPN, 9 p.m.

CONCACAF Champions League
Group D, StubHub Center, Carson, CA
LA Galaxy vs. Central FC — Fox Sports 2/Univision Deportes, 10 p.m.

Cycling
Tour de Pologne (Tour of Poland)
Stage 5: Nowy Sacz to Zakopane — beIN Sports, 11:30 a.m.

Tour of Utah
Stage 4: Soldier Hollow in Heber Valley — Fox Sports 1, 3 p.m.

FINA World Aquatics Championships
Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia
Swimming — Universal Sports, 10:30 a.m.
Men’s Water Polo Semifinal: Italy vs. Serbia — Universal Sports, 6 p.m. (same day coverage)

Golf
PGA Tour
WGC-Bridgetone Invitational, Firestone Country Club (South Course), Akron, OH
1st Round — Golf Channel, 1:30 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 11 a.m.

PGA Tour
Barracuda Championship, Montreux Golf & Country Club, Reno, NV
1st Round — Golf Channel, 6:30 p.m.

Minor League Baseball
Pacific Coast League
El Paso Chihuahuas at Albuquerque Isotopes — CBS Sports Network, 9 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Unleashed: UFC Bantamweights — Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.

MLB
American League
Kansas City at Detroit — MLB Network/Fox Sports Kansas City/Fox Sports Detroit, 1 p.m.
Boston at New York Yankees — MLB Network/NESN/YES, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at Toronto — MLB Network/Fox Sports North/Sportsnet, 7 p.m.
Houston at Oakland — Root Sports Southwest/Comcast SportsNet California, 10 p.m.

National League
St. Louis at Cincinnati — Fox Sports Midwest/Fox Sports Ohio, 12:30 p.m.
Los Angeles Dodgers at Philadelphia — MLB Network/SportsNet LA/WCAU, 1 p.m.
San Diego at Milwaukee — Fox Sports San Diego/Fox Sports Wisconsin, 2 p.m.
Arizona at Washington — MASN, 4 p.m.
Miami at Atlanta — Fox Sports Florida/SportSouth, 7 p.m.
San Francisco at Chicago — Comcast SportsNet Bay Area/Comcast SportsNet Chicago, 8 p.m.

MLB Now — MLB Network, 4 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
MLB Whiparound — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN, 10 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, midnight
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 1 a.m. (Friday)

NASCAR
The States of NASCAR — NBCSN, 4:30 p.m.
NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5 p.m.
NASCAR Race Hub — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.

NBA
Kobe: The Interview — NBA TV, 9 p.m.

NFL
NFL Preseason HQ — NFL Network, 8 a.m.
Inside the Camp Live: On the Field — NFL Network, 10 a.m.
Inside Training Camp Live: Fantasy Spotlight — NFL Network, 2 p.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
Inside Training Camp Live — NFL Network, 3 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.
Hall of Fame Gold Jacket Ceremony — NFL Network, 9 p.m.

Soccer
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
Marcel’s Milan — beIN Sports, 9 p.m.
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, 10 p.m.

Sports Talk
Sport Today — BBC World News, 5:45 a.m.
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 7 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 8:45 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show live from Los Angeles, CA — Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
ESPN Radio with Max & Marcellus — ESPNU, 10 a.m.
MLB Central — MLB Network, 10 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/Root Sports (Northwest/Pittsburgh/Rocky Mountain/Southwest), noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
Sport Today — BBC World News, 12:45 p.m.
The Russillo Show — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 2:45 p.m.
The Box Score from Los Angeles, CA — 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 Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz — Fusion, 4 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN, 4:30 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
SportsCenter Special: Face to Face With Hannah Storm — ESPN, 7 p.m.
Back on Board: Greg Louganis — HBO2, 8 p.m.
Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant — Fox Sports 1, 9 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.
Fox Sports Live: Countdown — Fox Sports 1, midnight

Tennis
ATP/WTA Tour
Citi Open, Rock Creek Park Tennis Center, Washington, D.C.
Men’s and Women’s Round of 16 — Tennis Channel, 2 p.m.

Tennis Channel Live — Tennis Channel, 1:30 p.m.

WTA Tour
U.S. Open Series
Bank of the West Classic, Taube Family Tennis Stadium, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2nd Round — ESPN3, 2 p.m.
2nd Round — ESPN3, 10 p.m.

WNBA
Tulsa Shock at Los Angeles Sparks — NBA TV, 10:30 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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