Thursday’s Viewing Picks

Boxing
Iron Mike Productions, Miami, FL
IBF Junior Lightweight Title
Argenis Mendez vs. Rances Barthelemy — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.

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

Cycling
Tour de France
Stage 6: Arras to Reims — NBCSN, 8 a.m.

Highlights — NBCSN, noon
Extended Primetime Highlights — NBCSN, 8 p.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
Scottish Open, Iverness, Scotland
1st Round — Golf Channel, 5:30 a.m.

LPGA Tour
Women’s British Open, Southport, England
1st Round –ESPN2, 9 a.m.

PGA Tour
John Deere Classic, Silvis, IL
1st Round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

Golf Channel Pregame — Golf Channel, 1:30 p.m.

Champions Tour
U.S. Senior Open Championship, Oak Tree National, Edmond, OK
1st Round — ESPN2, 8 p.m.

Web.com Tour
Utah Championship, Sandy, UT
1st Round — Golf Channel, 6 p.m.

Horse Racing
British Meeting, Newmarket Race Courses, Newmarket, England
Boylesports Ladies Day — beIN Sport, 8:30 a.m.

Lacrosse
2014 FIL World Championships, Commerce City, CO
USA vs. Canada — ESPN2/ESPNU, 9 p.m.

Minor League Baseball
South Bend Silver Hawks at Dayton Dragons — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.

MLB
American League
Chicago White Sox at Boston — MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet Chicago/NESN, 4 p.m.
New York Yankees at Cleveland — YES/STO, 7 p.m.
Anaheim Angels at Texas — MLB Network/Fox Sports West/Fox Sports Southwest, 8 p.m.
Detroit at Kansas City — MLB Network/Fox Sports Detroit/Fox Sports Kansas City, 8 p.m.
Minnesota at Seattle — Fox Sports North/Root Sports Northwest, 10 p.m.

National League
Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati — WGN America, 12:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at Milwaukee — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 2 p.m.
Atlanta at New York Mets — SportSouth/SNY, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh at St. Louis — Root Sports Pittsburgh/Fox Sports Midwest, 7:15 p.m.
San Diego at Los Angeles Dodgers — Fox Sports San Diego/SportsNet LA, 10 p.m.

Interleague
Oakland at San Francisco — MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet California/Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, 3:45 p.m.
Washington at Baltimore — MASN2/MASN, 7 p.m.

The Rundown — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6:30 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 8 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 11 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 1 a.m. (Friday)
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Friday)
MLB Whiparound — Fox Sports 1, 1:30 a.m. (Friday)

NASCAR
NASCAR America: Scan All 43 — NBCSN, 2:30 p.m.
NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5 p.m.
NASCAR Race Hub — Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m.
NASCAR America: Future Stars — NBCSN, 5:30 p.m.

NBA Summer League
Orlando, FL
Indiana vs. Miami — NBA TV, 3 p.m.
Boston vs. Orlando — NBA TV, 5 p.m.
Memphis vs. Houston — NBA TV, 7 p.m.

NFL
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 9 p.m.

Soccer
2014 FIFA World Cup
ESPN FC: World Cup Encore — ESPN, 7 p.m.

Softball
World Cup of Softball, Irvine, CA
USA vs. Canada — ESPN, 9 p.m.

Sports Talk
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
NFL AM — NFL Network, 6 a.m.
The Best of the Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV), 9 a.m.
SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m./Fox Sports 2, 5 p.m.
The Best of the Box Score — Audience Network (DirecTV), 3 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN, 3 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
ROME — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.
Undeniable: The Road to the Under Armour All-America Game — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.
America’s First Sport — ESPNU, 8 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPN2, 11 p.m.
Lead Off (The Final Days) — CBS Sports Network, midnight
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 12:30 a.m. (Friday)

Tennis
ATP Tour
Mercedes Cup, Stuttgart, Germany
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 10 a.m. & noon (same day coverage)

ATP Tour
Swedish Open, Båstad, Sweden
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 2 p.m. & 4 p.m. (same day coverage)

Entertainment
Coming Soon

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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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