Thursday’s Viewing Picks

College Football
Lamar at Southeastern Louisiana — American Sports Network, 7 p.m.
Miami (FL) at Cincinnati — ESPN, 7:30 p.m.
Alabama State at Texas Southern — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.

B1G Football & Beyond — Big Ten Network, noon
CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m.
College Football Live — ESPN, 2 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.
Tailgate Fan: Oklahoma State at Texas — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.

College Soccer
Women’s
Maryland vs. Michigan — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m.
Alabama vs. Auburn — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Washington vs. UCLA — Pac-12 Networks, 7 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Montana at North Dakota — Fox College Sports Pacific, 8 p.m.
Idaho at Northern Arizona — Fox College Sports Pacific, 10 p.m.

CONCACAF Men’s Olympic Qualifying
Group A, Sporting Park, Kansas City, KS
Panama vs. Cuba — NBC Universo, 6:30 p.m.
United States vs. Canada — NBC Universo, 8:55 p.m.

Golf
Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, The Clearwater Bay & Country Club, Hong Kong
1st Round — ESPN2, 2 a.m.

European PGA Tour
Alfred Dunhill Links Championships, Old Course at St. Andrews; Carnoustie Golf Links; Kingsbarns Golf Links, Scotland, United Kingdom
1st Round — Golf Channel, 8 a.m.

Web.com Tour
Tour Championship, TPC Sawgrass (Dye’s Valley Course), Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
1st Round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

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

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Fight Flashback: UFC 187 — FS1, 8 p.m.
UFC 1 on 1: Forrest Griffin — FS1, 8:30 p.m.
UFC Ultimate Insider: Cormier/Evans/Woodley — FS1, 9 p.m.

MLB
American League
Toronto at Baltimore — Sportsnet/MASN2, noon
Boston at New York Yankees — ESPN2/NESN/YES, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at Cleveland — Fox Sports North/STO, 7 p.m.
Anaheim Angels at Texas — Fox Sports West/Fox Sports Southwest, 8 p.m.
Kansas City at Chicago White Sox — Fox Sports Kansas City/Comcast SportsNet Chicago, 8 p.m.

National League
New York Mets at Philadelphia — SNY/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, noon
Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati — MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet Chicago, 12:30 p.m.
Los Angeles Dodgers at San Francisco — SportsNet LA/Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, 3:45 p.m.
Milwaukee at San Diego — Fox Sports Wisconsin/Fox Sports San Diego, 6:30 p.m.
Washington at Atlanta — MASN2/SportSouth, 7 p.m.
Colorado at Arizona — Root Sports Rocky Mountain/Fox Sports Arizona, 9:30 p.m.

Interleague
Miami at Tampa Bay — Fox Sports Florida/Sun Sports, 7 p.m.

The Rundown — MLB Network, 3:30 p.m.
MLB Now — MLB Network, 4 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
MLB Whiparound — FS1, 7 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 10 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, midnight
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, midnight

NASCAR
NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5 p.m.
NASCAR Race Hub — FS1, 6 p.m.

NBA
NBA Real Training Camp: 2015 Cleveland Cavaliers — NBA TV, 11 a.m.

NFL
Baltimore at Pittsburgh — CBS/NFL Network, 8:25 p.m.

NFL HQ — NFL Network, 8 a.m.
Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m.
TNF GameDay live from Pittsburgh, PA and Los Angeles, CA — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
Thursday Night Kickoff live from Pittsburgh, PA and Los Angeles, CA — CBS/NFL Network, 7:30 p.m.
TNF Postgame — NFL Network, 11:30 p.m.

NHL Preseason
Calgary at Winnipeg — TSN3, 8 p.m.
Chicago at St. Louis — NHL Network/Comcast SportsNet Chicago Plus, 8 p.m.
Vancouver at Edmonton — Sportsnet 360, 9 p.m.
Colorado at Anaheim — Fox Sports Prime Ticket, 10 p.m.

Soccer
NWSL
Championship Game, Providence Park, Portland, OR
FC Kansas City vs. Seattle Reign — FS1, 9:30 p.m.

ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 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 — Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz — 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
Sport Today — BBC World News, 12:45 p.m.
Russillo and Kanell — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 2:45 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 — ESPN, 4:30 p.m.
Around the Horn — ESPN, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.
BTN Live — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.
Time to Schein — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
Podium 360 — Universal Sports, 7:30 p.m.
30 for 30 Shorts: BringBackSungWoo — ESPN2, 11 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — FS1, 11:30 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night With Scott Van Pelt — ESPN, midnight

Tennis
Center Court — Tennis Channel, 1 a.m.

WTA Tour
Wuhan Open, Optics Valley International Tennis Center, Wuhan, Communist China
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 8 p.m. (same day coverage)

UEFA Europa League
Playoffs, Matchday 2
Group J, Stade Louis II, Monaco
Monaco vs. Tottenham Hotspur — FS1, 1 p.m.

Group K, Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Schalke vs. Aseras Tripoli — FS2, 1 p.m.

Group G, Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy
Lazio vs. St.-Étienne — Fox Soccer Plus, 1 p.m.

Group B, Anfield, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Liverpool vs. Sion — FS1, 3 p.m.

Group C, Stadio Toumba, Salonika, Greece
PAOK vs. Borussia Dortmund — FS2, 3 p.m.

Group A, Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Celtic vs. Fenerbahçe — Fox Soccer Plus, 3 p.m.

UEFA Europa League Pregame — FS1/FS2/Fox Soccer Plus, 12:30 p.m.
UEFA Europa League Highlights: Matchday 2: Thursday — FS2, 1 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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