Thursday’s Viewing Picks

Boxing
Golden Boy Live, Bayamon, Puerto Rico
Flyweights
McWilliams Arroyo vs. Froilan Saludar — Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.

College Baseball
2014 NCAA College World Series, TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, Omaha, NE
Elimination Game
Mississippi vs. TCU — ESPN, 8 p.m.

College World Series Postgame — ESPNU, 11 p.m.

College Basketball
Inside College Basketball: Draft Special: The Backcourt — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.

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

Cycling
Tour de Suisse, Switzerland
Stage 6: Büren A.D. Aare to Delémont — beIN Sport, 9:30 a.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
Irish Open, Cork, Ireland
1st Round — Golf Channel, 5 a.m. & 10 a.m.

PGA Tour
Travelers Championship, Cromwell, CT
1st Round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

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

LPGA Tour
U.S. Women’s Open Championship, Pinehurst Resort and Country Club, Pinehurst, NC
1st Round — ESPN2, 3 p.m.

Horse Racing
Royal Ascot 2014, Berkshire, England
Day 3 — beIN Sport, 1 p.m. (same day coverage)

Minor League Baseball
Kannapolis Intimidators at Charleston RiverDogs — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.

MLB
American League
Anaheim Angels at Cleveland — Fox Sports West/STO, noon
Kansas City at Detroit — MLB Network/Fox Sports Kansas City/Fox Sports Detroit, 1 p.m.
Houston at Tampa Bay — Comcast SportsNet Houston/Sun Sports, 7 p.m.
Toronto at New York Yankees — Sportsnet/YES, 7 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at Minnesota — Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports North, 8 p.m.
Boston at Oakland — NESN/Comcast SportsNet California, 10 p.m.

National League
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh — MLB Network/Fox Sports Ohio/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 12:30 p.m.
Milwaukee at Arizona — Fox Sports Wisconsin, 3:30 p.m.
Atlanta at Washington — MLB Network/SportSouth/MASN, 7 p.m.
New York Mets at Miami — MLB Network/SNY/Fox Sports Florida, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at St. Louis — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/Fox Sports Midwest, 8:15 p.m.

Interleague
Seattle at San Diego — Root Sports Northwest/Fox Sports San Diego, 6:30 p.m.

MLB Now — MLB Network, 4 p.m.
MLB Tonight: On-Deck Circle — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m.
MLB Whiparound — Fox Sports 1, midnight
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, midnight

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

NHL
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 6 p.m.

Soccer
2014 FIFA World Cup, Group Play
Group C, Estadio Nacional, Brasilia, Brazil
Colombia vs. Côte d’Ivoire — ESPN/Univision/Univision Deportes, 11:30 a.m.

Group D, Arena Corinthians, São Paulo, Brazil
Uruguay vs. England — ESPN/Univision/Univision Deportes, 2:30 p.m.

Group C, Estadio das Dunas, Natal, Brazil
Japan vs. Greece — ESPN/Univision/Univision Deportes, 5:30 p.m.

Fútbol Central Edición Mundial — Univision Deportes, 10 a.m.
El Gordo y la Flaca: Edición Mundial — Univision, 11 a.m.
El Gordo y la Flaca: Edición Mundial — Univision, 2 p.m.
Fútbol Central Edición Mundial — Univision Deportes, 2 p.m.
Fútbol Central Edición Mundial — Univision Deportes, 5 p.m.
World Cup Tonight — ESPN2, 9:30 p.m.
ESPN FC: World Cup Encore — ESPN2, midnight

Sports Talk
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
NFL AM — NFL Network, 6 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 8 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
SportsDash With Yahoo! Sports — NBCSN, noon
SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m./Fox Sports 2, 5 p.m.
SEC Storied: Going Big — ESPNU, 6 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.
Podium 360 — Universal Sports, 7:30 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPNews, 8 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPN2, 11 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 1 a.m. (Friday)

Tennis
Center Court: Coverage of Topshelf Open & Aegon International– Tennis Channel, 6 a.m.
Tennis Channel Live — Tennis Channel, 2 p.m.

WTA Tour
Topshelf Open, s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Quarterfinal — Tennis Channel, 2:30 p.m. (same day coverage)

ATP Tour
Topshelf Open, s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Quarterfinal — Tennis Channel, 4:30 p.m. (same day coverage)

WTA Tour
Aegon International, Eastbourne, England
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 8 p.m., 10 p.m. & midnight (same day coverage)

Entertainment
Black Box — ABC, 8 p.m.
Hell’s Kitchen: 7 Chefs Compete — Fox, 8 p.m.
The Fourth Annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards — The CW, 8 p.m.
Sin City — Encore, 8 p.m.
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment — IFC, 8 p.m.
Pillow Talk — Turner Classic Movies, 8 p.m.
What Happened Next? — Science Channel, 8:30 p.m.
Food Factory: Halloween 2 — Biography Channel, 9 p.m.
How It’s Made: Slate Ties; Hot Dog Carts; Garage Door Openers; Bicycle Seats — Science Channel, 9 p.m.
Gang Related — Fox, 9 p.m.
The First 48: Safe House — A&E, 9 p.m.
The Sixties: War in Vietnam — CNN, 9 p.m.
Fixer Upper — HGTV, 9 p.m.
Blood Relatives: So Lonesome I Could Die — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Life Below Zero: Search and Rescue — National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m.
Rectify: Running With the Bull — Sundance Channel, 9 p.m.
Dominion: Pilot (series premiere) — Syfy, 9 p.m.
I Love the 2000’s: 2004 — VH1, 9 p.m.
Food Factory: Berry Berry Tasty — Biography Channel, 9:30 p.m.
How Do They Do It?: Bagels; Racing Tires; Liuli Grass — Science Channel, 9:30 p.m.
House Hunters — HGTV, 10 p.m.
Maron: Marc’s Family — IFC, 10 p.m.
Southern Fried Homicide: So Many Women — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
The Savage Line: Death Roll — National Geographic Channel, 10 p.m.
The L Word: Lacuna — Showcase, 10 p.m.
I Love the 2000’s: 2005 — VH1, 10 p.m.
Campus Killer: Santa Barbara — A&E, 10:02 p.m.
House Hunters International — HGTV, 10:30 p.m.
Comedy Bang! Bang!: Lizzy Caplan Wears All Black and Powder Blue Espadrilles — IFC, 10:30 p.m.
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: Hamid Al-Bayati — Comedy Central, 11 p.m.
Napoleon Dynamite — IFC, 11 p.m.
The L Word: Labia Majora — Showcase, 11 p.m.
Conan — TBS, 11 p.m.
Katie Does Manhattan — HBO, 11:10 p.m.
The Colbert Report: Jay Carney — Comedy Central, 11:31 p.m.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — NBC, 11:34 p.m.
Jimmy Kimmel Live — ABC, 11:35 p.m.
Late Show With David Letterman — CBS, 11:35 p.m.
A Real Sex Xtra: The Best of Pornucopia: Going Down in the Valley — HBO, 11:40 p.m.
At Midnight: David Wain; Michael Showalter; Michaela Watkins — Comedy Central, 12:01 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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