Thursday’s Viewing Picks

Bundesliga
Relegation Playoff, 1st Leg
Eintracht Frankfurt vs. FC Nürnberg — FS1, 2:30 p.m.

Bundesliga Match Day — FS1, 2 p.m.

College Baseball
Maryland at Michigan State — Big Ten Network, 3 p.m.
Louisville at Wake Forest — ESPN3, 6 p.m.
Miami (FL) at Florida State — ESPN3, 6 p.m.
North Carolina at North Carolina State — ESPN3, 6 p.m.
Lipscomb at Stetson — ESPN3, 6:30 p.m.
Missouri at Kentucky — SEC Network Plus, 6:30 p.m.
Creighton at St. John’s — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
Boston College at Georgia Tech — ESPN3, 7 p.m.
Wright State at Illinois-Chicago — ESPN3, 7 p.m.
Baylor at Texas — Longhorn Network, 7 p.m.
Tennessee at Georgia — SEC Network Plus, 7 p.m.
Florida at LSU — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.
Dallas Baptist at Wichita State — ESPN3, 7:30 p.m.
West Virginia at Texas Tech — Fox Sports Southwest, 7:30 p.m.
Arkansas at Mississippi State — SEC Network Plus, 7:30 p.m.
Auburn at Vanderbilt — SEC Network Plus, 7:30 p.m.
Mississippi at Texas A&M — SEC Network Plus, 7:30 p.m.
Santa Clara at BYU — BYUtv, 8 p.m.
South Carolina at Alabama — SEC Network Plus, 8 p.m.

College Softball
NCAA Division I Softball Tournament
Columbia Regional, University Field, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

1st Round

Louisville vs. Nebraska — ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.
Missouri vs. BYU — ESPN2, 8 p.m.

College Softball Featured — ESPN2, 7:30 p.m.

Cycling
Giro d’Italia
Stage 12: Noale to Bibione — beIN Sports, 8:30 p.m.

Giro d’Italia Highlights — beIN Sports, 10:30 p.m.

Tour of California
Stage 5: Lodi to South Lake Tahoe — NBCSN, 5 p.m.

Golf
European Tour
The K Club (Palmer Ryder Cup Course), Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland

1st Round — Golf Channel, 7:30 a.m.

PGA Tour Champions
Regions Tradition, Greystone Golf & Country Club (Founders Course), Birmingham, AL

1st Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m.

PGA Tour
Byron Nelson Classic, TPC Four Seasons Resort & Club Las Colinas, Irving, TX

1st Round — Golf Channel, 4 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 3:30 p.m.

Web.com Tour
BMW Charity Pro-Am, Thornblade Club; The Reserve at Lake Keowee; The Preserve at Verdae, Greer, SC

1st Round — Golf Channel, 7 p.m. (same day coverage)

LPGA Tour
Kingsmill Championship, Kingsmill Resort (River Course), Williamsburg, VA

1st Round — Golf Channel, 9 p.m. (same day coverage)

Hockey
2016 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship
Quarterfinal, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow, Russia

Czech Republic vs. United States — NBCSN, 9 a.m.

Quarterfinals, Yubileiny Sports Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
Finland vs. Denmark — NBCSN, 11:30 a.m. (same day coverage)
Canada vs. Sweden — NBCSN, 1 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Unleashed: Best of Fabricio Werdum — FS1, 8;30 p.m.
UFC Tonight — FS1, 9:30 p.m.

MLB
American League
Seattle at Baltimore — MLB Network/Root Sports Northwest/MASN, 12:30 p.m.
Houston at Chicago White Sox — Root Sports Southwest/Comcast SportsNet Chicago, 8 p.m.
Toronto at Minnesota — Sportsnet/Fox Sports North, 8 p.m.
New York Yankees at Oakland — YES/Comcast SportsNet California, 10 p.m.

National League
Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee — MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports Wisconsin, 1:30 p.m.
Atlanta at Pittsburgh — MLB Network/Fox Sports Southeast/Root Sports Pittsgburgh, 7 p.m.
Washington at New York Mets — MLB Network/MASN/SNY, 7 p.m.
Colorado at St. Louis — Root Sports Rocky Mountain/Fox Sports Midwest, 7:15 p.m.
San Francisco at San Diego — Comcast SportsNet Bay Area/Fox Sports San Diego, 9:30 p.m.

Interleague
Cleveland at Cincinnati — STO/Fox Sports Ohio, 7 p.m.
Los Angeles at Anaheim — SportsNet LA/Fox Sports West, 10 p.m.

MLB Central — MLB Network, 10 a.m.
The Rundown — MLB Network, 4:30 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
MLB Whiparound — FS1, 7 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Friday)

NASCAR
Camping World Truck Series
NC Education Lottery 200, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, NC

Final Practice — FS1, 4:30 p.m.

NBA Playoffs
Eastern Conference Finals
Game 2: Toronto Raptors at Cleveland Cavaliers– ESPN, 8;30 p.m. (Cleveland leads series 1-0)

The Jump — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.
The Starters — NBA TV, 6:30 p.m.
NBA GameTime: East Finals — NBA TV, 7 p.m.
NBA Countdown — ESPN, 7:30 p.m.
NBA GameTime: East Finals: Raptors/Cavaliers, Game 2 Postgame — NBA TV, 11 p.m.
NBA Tonight — ESPN2, 1 a.m. (Friday)

NHL
Western Conference Final
Game 3: St. Louis Blues at San Jose Sharks — CBC/NBCSN/TVA Sports, 9 p.m. (Series tied 1-1)

Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet/NHL Network, noon
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Live — NBCSN, 7 p.m.
NHL Tonight: Conference Final Pregame — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2016 Conference Final Edition — NHL Network, 8 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2016 Conference Final Edition — NHL Network, 11:30 p.m.
NHL Overtime — NBCSN, midnight

Scottish Premiership
Final, 1st Leg
Falkirk vs. Kilmarnock — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:40 p.m.

Scottish Premiership Highlights — Fox Soccer Plus, 2 p.m.

Soccer
Toulon Tournament
Group B, Stade Léo Lagrange, Besançon, France

Guinea vs. Paraguay — beIN Sports, 11:30 a.m.
England vs. Portugal — beIN Sports, 1:20 p.m.

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

Sports Talk
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 6 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 6:45 a.m.
SportsCenter: AM — ESPN, 7 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 8:45 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV), 9 a.m.
The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz — ESPNU, 10 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show — Audience (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/Root Sports (Pittsburgh/Rocky Mountain/Southwest), 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.
Outside the Lines — ESPN, 1:30 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.
SportsNation — ESPN, 4 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.
Gotham to Ghana: New York Rivals Journey to Africa — FS1, 8 p.m.
E:60 — ESPN2, 10 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 10 p.m.
Fox Sports Live with Jay and Dan — FS1, 11 p.m.
TMZ Sports — FS1, midnight
SportsCenter at Midnight With Scott Van Pelt — ESPN, midnight
Contacto Deportivo — Univision/Univision Deportes, midnight

Tennis
French Open, Stade Roland-Garros, Paris France
Qualifying: Men’s Rounds 2 & 3/Women’s Round 2 — Tennis Channel, 1 p.m. (same day coverage)

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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