Thursday’s Viewing Picks

Australian Rules Football
Sydney Swans vs. Geelong Cats — Fox Soccer Plus, 5 a.m.

AFL Highlights — Fox Soccer Plus, 4 a.m.

College Football
College Football Live — ESPN2, 5 p.m.

College Softball
Women’s College World Series, Oklahoma City, OKFlorida vs. Baylor — ESPN, noon
Oregon vs. Florida State — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
Kentucky vs. Louisiana-Lafayette — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Alabama vs. Oklahoma — ESPN2, 9:30 p.m.

Cycling
Giro d’Italia, Italy
Stage 18: Belluno – Rif. Panarotta (Valsugana) — beIN Sport, 8 am.

Tour of Belgium
Stage 2: Lierde to Knokke-Heist — Universal Sports, 8 a.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
Nordea Masters, Malmo, Sweden
1st Round — Golf Channel, 5 a.m.

PGA Tour
Memorial Tournament, Dublin, OH
1st Round — Golf Channel, 2:30 p.m.

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

Minor League Baseball
Iowa Cubs at Memphis Redbirds — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Tonight — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.
UFC 1 on 1: Ronda Roussey — Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.
UFC Fight Flashback: Demetrious Johnson vs. John Dodson — Fox Sports 1, 8:30 p.m.

MLB
American League
Texas at Minnesota — MLB Network/Fox Sports Southwest/Fox Sports North, 1 p.m.
Detroit at Oakland — Fox Sports Detroit, 3:30 p.m.
Kansas City at Toronto — Fox Sports Kansas City/Sportsnet, 7 p.m.
Baltimore at Houston — MASN/Comcast SportsNet Houston, 8 p.m.
Anaheim Angels at Seattle — Fox Sports West/Root Sports Northwest, 10 p.m.

National League
New York Mets at Philadelphia — MLB Network/SNY/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
San Francisco at St. Louis — Comcast SportsNet Bay Area/Fox Sports Midwest, 8:15 p.m.
Cincinnati at Arizona — Fox Sports Ohio/Fox Sports Arizona, 9:30 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Los Angeles Dodgers — Root Sports Pittsburgh/SportsNet LA, 10 p.m.

Interleague
Atlanta at Boston — MLB Network/SportSouth/NESN, 7 p.m.

MLB Now — MLB Network, 4 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN, 10 p.m.
MLB Whiparound — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 12:30 a.m. (Friday)
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Friday)

NASCAR
NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5 p.m.
NASCAR Race Hub — Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m.

NBA Playoffs
Western Conference Finals
Game 5: Oklahoma City Thunder at San Antonio Spurs — TNT, 9 p.m. (Series tied 2-2)

NBA Tip-Off — TNT, 8 p.m.
NBA GameTime: Thunders/Spurs, Game 5 Postgame — NBA TV, 11:30 p.m.
Inside the NBA — TNT, 11:30 p.m.

NFL
NFL Films Presents: The Candlestick Makers — NFL Network, 9 p.m.
NFL Films Presents: The Greatest Games of 2013 — NFL Network, 9:30 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 10 p.m.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs
Eastern Conference Final
Game 6: Montreal Canadiens at New York Rangers — NBCSN/CBC/RDS, 8 p.m. (New York leads series 3-2)

NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Live — NBCSN, 7 p.m.
NHL Tonight: Conference Final Pregame — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
Hockey Tonight — CBC, 7:30 p.m.
NHL Overtime — NBCSN, 10:30 p.m.
NHL Tonight: Conference Final Postgame — NHL Network, 10:30 p.m.

Soccer
International Friendly, Washington, DC
Honduras vs. Turkey — beIN Sport/Univision Deportes, 8 p.m.

Sports Talk
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
NFL AM — NFL Network, 6 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 7 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
SportsDash With Yahoo! Sports — NBCSN, noon
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m./Fox Sports 2, 5 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN2, 4 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
ROME — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.
SEC Storied: The Book of Manning — ESPNU, 6:30 p.m.
Inside: U.S. Soccer’s March to Brazil — ESPN, 7 p.m.
Inside: U.S. Soccer’s March to Brazil — ESPN, 7:30 p.m.
30 for 30: You Don’t Know Bo — ESPNU, 9 p.m.
30 for 30 Shorts: Untucked and Wilt Chamberlain; Borscht Belt Bellhop — ESPNU, 10:30 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPNews, 11 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.
Lead Off — CBS Sports Network, midnight

Tennis
2014 French Open, Stade Roland-Garros, Paris, France
Men’s and Women’s 2nd Round — ESPN2, 5 a.m.
Men’s and Women’s 2nd Round — Tennis Channel, 10 a.m.

French Open Tonight — Tennis Channel, 7 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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