Thursday’s Viewing Picks

College Baseball
LSU at Mississippi — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Mississippi State at Alabama — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.
Gonzaga at BYU — BYUtv, 8 p.m.
Arizona at USC — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Arizona/Pac-12 Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

College Baseball Live — ESPNU, 7 p.m.

College Lacrosse
Women’s
ACC Tournament, Lane Stadium, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA
Quarterfinals
Virginia Tech vs. North Carolina — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, noon
Virginia vs. Duke — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 2:30 p.m.
Boston College vs. Syracuse — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 5 p.m.
Louisville vs. Notre Dame — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 7:30 p.m.

Maryland at Penn State — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m.

College Softball
Bethune-Cookman at Florida A&M — ESPNU, 4 p.m.

Golf
European Tour
Communist China Open, Topwin Golf & Country Club, Beijing, Communist China
1st Round — Golf Channel, 2:30 a.m.

LPGA Tour
Texas Shootout, Las Colinas Country Club, Irving, TX
1st Round — Golf Channel, noon

PGA Tour
New Orleans Classic, TPC Louisiana, Avondale, LA
1st Round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

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

Web.com Tour
United Leasing & Finance Championship, Victoria National Golf Club, Newburgh, IN
1st Round — Golf Channel, 6:30 p.m. (same day coverage)

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Reloaded: UFC 193: Rousey vs. Holm — FS1, 8 p.m.

MLB
American League
Oakland at Detroit — MLB Network/Fox Sports Detroit, 1 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at Baltimore — MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet Chicago/MASN2, 7 p.m.

National League
Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs — MLB Network/Fox Sports Wisconsin/Comcast SportsNet Chicago, 2:20 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Colorado — Root Sports Pittsburgh/Root Sports Rocky Mountain, 3 p.m.
Philadelphia at Washington — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/MASN, 4 p.m.
St. Louis at Arizona — MLB Network/Fox Sports Midwest/Fox Sports Arizona, 9:30 p.m.
Miami at Los Angeles — MLB Network/Fox Sports Florida/SportsNet LA, 10 p.m.

Interleague
Atlanta at Boston — MLB Network/Fox Sports South/NESN, 7 p.m.

MLB Central — MLB Network, 10 a.m.
MLB Now — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
MLB Whiparound — FS1, 7 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Friday)

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

NBA Playoffs
Eastern Conference Quarterfinal
Game 6: Atlanta at Boston — TNT, 8 p.m. (Atlanta leads series 3-2)

The Jump — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.
The Starters — NBA TV, 6:30 p.m.
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 7 p.m.
NBA GameTime: Hawks/Celtics, Game 6 Postgame — NBA TV, 10:30 p.m.
Inside the NBA — TNT, 10:30 p.m.
NBA Tonight — ESPN2, 12:30 a.m. (Friday)

NFL
Annual Player Selection Meeting, Auditorium Theatre, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
1st Round — ESPN, 8 p.m.
1st Round — NFL Network, 8 p.m.

NFL HQ — NFL Network, 8 a.m.
Path to the Draft — NFL Network, 10 a.m.
2016 NFL Draft Kickoff: Day 1 — NFL Network, 1 p.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 1:30 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
NFL Draft Red Carpet — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
SportsCenter Special: Draft Countdown — ESPN, 7 p.m.
2016 NFL Draft Kickoff — NFL Network, 7:30 p.m.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs
Eastern Conference Semifinal
Game 1: Pittsburgh at Washington — CBC/NBCSN/TVA Sports, 8 p.m.

Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet/NHL Network, noon
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs Edition — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs Edition — NHL Network, 8 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs Edition — NHL Network, 10:30 p.m.

Soccer
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
The Express Xtra — beIN SPorts, 10 p.m.

Sports Talk
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 6:45 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 8:45 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show live from New York City — Audience Network (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz — ESPNU, 10 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 10 a.m.
The Best of the Rich Eisen Show — Audience Network (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/Root Sports Northwest, noon
BYU Sports Nation — BYUtv, noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
Sport Today — BBC World News, 12:45 p.m.
Russillo and Kanell — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
The Doug Gottlieb Show — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 3 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN, 4 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN, 4:30 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN2, 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.
30 for 30: Fantastic Lies — ESPN2, 8 p.m.
30 for 30 Shorts: Billion Dollar Game — ESPN2, 10 p.m.
30 for 30 Shorts: Kid Danny — ESPN2, 10:30 p.m.
Fox Sports Live with Jay and Dan — FS1, 11 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night — ESPN, 11:30 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 11:30 p.m.
Jalen & Jacoby — ESPN2, midnight
TMZ Sports — FS1, midnight
Contacto Deportivo — Univision/Univision Deportes, midnight

Tennis
ATP Tour
Istanbul Open, Koza World of Sports Complex, Istanbul, Turkey
2nd Round — Tennis Channel, 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m.

UEFA Europa League
Semifinal, 1st Leg, Estadio El Madrigal, Villarreal, Spain
Villarreal vs. Liverpool — FS1, 3 p.m.

Semifinal, 1st Leg, Arena Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine
Shakhtar Donetsk vs. Sevilla — FS2, 3 p.m.

UEFA Europa League Pregame — FS1/FS2, 2:30 p.m.
UEFA Europa League Full Time — FS2, 5 p.m.
UEFA Europa League Highlights — Fox Soccer Plus, 11 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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