Thursday’s Viewing Picks

College Basketball
Men’s
College of Charleston at Towson — Comcast SportsNet (Mid-Atlantic/Comcast Network), 6 p.m.
Western Kentucky at Old Dominion — American Sports Network, 7 p.m.
Mount St. Mary’s at Sacred Heart — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
Kentucky at Arkansas — ESPN, 7 p.m.
Memphis at Cincinnati — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Iowa at Rutgers — ESPNU, 7 p.m.
Wisconsin at Penn State — Big Ten Network, 8 p.m.
Hofstra at Northeastern — Comcast SportsNet (Mid-Atlantic/New England/Comcast Network/SNY), 8 p.m.
North Dakota at Northern Arizona — Fox College Sports Pacific, 8:30 p.m.
Texas-Rio Grande Valley at Cal State-Bakersfield — American Sports Network, 9 p.m.
Rice at UAB — CBS Sports Network, 9 p.m.
Ohio State at Purdue — ESPN, 9 p.m.
Belmont at Texas-Martin — ESPNU, 9 p.m.
Arizona State at Cal — FS1, 9 p.m.
USC at Oregon — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Los Angeles/Pac-12 Oregon, 9 p.m.
BYU at Loyola Marymount — BYUtv, 11 p.m.
Gonzaga at St. Mary’s — ESPNU, 11 p.m.
Utah at Washington State — FS1, 11 p.m.
Arizona at Stanford — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Arizona/Pac-12 Bay Area, 11 p.m.

Katz Korner — ESPNU, 3 p.m.
ESPNU Recruiting Nation — ESPNU, 6 p.m.
Pac-12 Basketball Pregame Show — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Los Angeles/Pac-12 Oregon, 8:30 p.m.
Pac-12 Basketball Postgame Show — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Arizona/Pac-12 Bay Area, 1 a.m. (Friday)

Women’s
Old Dominion at Western Kentucky — Fox College Sports Atlantic, noon
North Carolina State at Virginia Tech — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 7 p.m.
Vanderbilt at Tennessee — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Loyola Marymount at BYU — BYUtv, 8 p.m.
Northern Arizona at North Dakota — Fox College Sports Central, 8 p.m.
Kentucky at Mississippi — SEC Network, 9 p.m.

B1G Basketball Report — Big Ten Network, 10 p.m.

College Football
College Football Live — ESPN, 2 p.m.

Golf
European Tour
Abu Dhabi Golf Championship, Abu Dhabi Golf Club, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
1st Round — Golf Channel, 6 a.m.

PGA Tour
CareerBuilder Challenge, PGA West (TPC Stadium and Nicklaus Tournament Course)/La Quinta Country Club, La Quinta, CA
1st Round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

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

Champions Tour
Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai, Hualalai Golf Course, Ka’upulehu-Kona, HI
1st Round — Golf Channel, 7 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Reloaded: UFC 187: Johnson vs. Cormier — FS1, 6 p.m.

MLB
Hot Stove — MLB Network, 9 a.m.
MLB Now — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
Top 10 Right Now: First Basemen — MLB Network, 9 p.m.
Top 10 Right Now: Starting Pitchers — MLB Network, 10 p.m.

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

NBA
Los Angeles Clippers at Cleveland — TNT, 8 p.m.
San Antonio at Phoenix — TNT, 10:30 p.m.

The Starters — NBA TV, 5:30 p.m.
Fantasy Tip-Off — NBA TV, 6 p.m.
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 6:30 p.m.
NBA Tip-Off: NBA All-Star Game Starters Announcement — TNT, 7 p.m.
Inside the NBA — TNT, 1 a.m. (Friday)

NFL
NFL HQ — NFL Network, 8 a.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.
Around the NFL — NFL Network, 5 p.m.

NHL
Calgary at Columbus — Sportsnet Flames/Fox Sports Ohio, 7 p.m.
Ottawa at New Jersey — RDS/TSN5/MSG Plus, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Boston — Sportsnet 360/Sportsnet (East/Pacific)/NESN, 7 p.m.
Carolina at Toronto — Fox Sports Southeast/Sportsnet Ontario, 7:30 p.m.
Chicago at Tampa Bay — TVA Sports/Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Sun Sports, 7:30 p.m.
Nashville at Winnipeg — Fox Sports Tennessee/TSN3, 8 p.m.
Edmonton at Dallas — Sportsnet West/Fox Sports Southwest, 8:30 p.m.
San Jose at Arizona — Comcast SportsNet Arizona/Fox Sports Arizona, 9 p.m.
Minnesota at Los Angeles — Sportsnet/Fox Sports North/Fox Sports West, 10:30 p.m.

Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet/NHL Network, noon
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
Hockey Central: Canucks Pregame — Sportsnet West, 6:30 p.m.
Hockey Central: Maple Leafs Pregame — Sportsnet Ontario, 7 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
Hockey Central: Oilers Pregame — Sportsnet West, 8:30 p.m.
On the Fly: Bonus Coverage — NHL Network, 9:30 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 10:30 p.m.
On the Fly: Bonus Coverage — NHL Network, 12:30 a.m. (Friday)

Soccer
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, 8 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 9:45 a.m.
The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz — ESPNU, 10 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show — Audience Network (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/Root Sports (Northwest/Pittsburgh/Rocky Mountain), noon
BYU Sports Nation — BYUtv, noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
Russillo and Kanell — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN, 1:30 p.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 1:45 p.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 2:30 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.
Around the Horn — ESPN, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
Time to Schein — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night With Scott Van Pelt — ESPN, midnight
Contacto Deportivo — Univision/Univision Deportes, midnight

Tennis
Australian Open, Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Men’s and Women’s Singles Round 2 — ESPN2, 3 a.m.
Men’s and Women’s Singles Round 3 — Tennis Channel, 7 p.m.
Men’s and Women’s Singles Round 3 — ESPN2, 11 p.m.

Australian Open Today — Tennis Channel, 7 a.m.
Tennis Channel Live at the Australian Open — Tennis Channel, 6 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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