Thursday’s Viewing Picks

College Basketball
BIG Basketball Media Day 2014-15 — Big Ten Network, 9 a.m.
ESPNU College Basketball Media Days — ESPNU, 3 p.m.

College Football
Virginia Tech at Pittsburgh — ESPN, 7:30 p.m.
Colorado School of Mines at Fort Lewis — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.
Utah at Oregon State — Fox Sports 2/Pac-12 Networks/KEVU/KFBI/KMYU/KPDX/KUBN, 10 p.m./Pac-12 Bay Area/Pac-12 Los Angeles/Pac-12 Washington, 11 p.m. (joined in progress)

BTN Football & Beyond 2014 — Big Ten Network, noon
CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m.
College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
College Football Countdown — ESPN, 7 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
College Football Weekend Kickoff — ESPNU, 10:30 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 11:30 p.m.

College Soccer
Men’s
Washington at UCLA — Pac-12 Washington/Pac-12 Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

Women’s
Ohio State at Michigan State — Big Ten Network, 3:30 p.m.
Florida at South Carolina — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Colorado at Stanford — Pac-12 Bay Area, 9 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Portland State at North Dakota — Fox College Sports Pacific, 8 p.m.Missouri-Kansas City at New Mexico State — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 9 p.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
World Match Play Championship, London Golf Club, Ash, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Day Two — Golf Channel, 6:30 a.m.

European PGA Tour/Asian PGA Tour
Hong Kong Open, Hong Kong Golf Club, New Territories Fanling, Hong Kong
1st Round — Golf Channel, 11:30 a.m. (same day coverage)

PGA Tour
Shriners Hospital for Children Open, TPC Summerlin Course, Las Vegas, NV
1st Round — Golf Channel, 5 p.m.

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

LPGA Tour
LPGA KEB HanaBank Championship, Sky 72 Golf Club (Ocean Course), Incheon, South Korea
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 11:30 p.m.

MLB Postseason
National League Championship Series, AT&T Park, San Francisco, CA
Game 5: St. Louis Cardinals at San Francisco Giants — Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m. (San Francisco leads series 3-1)

MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6:30 p.m.
MLB on Fox Sports 1 Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 7:30 p.m.
MLB Tonight: League Championship Series — MLB Network, 11 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, midnight

MLS
Houston vs. New England — ESPN2/TSN2, 8 p.m.

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

NBA Preseason
Boston at Philadelphia — NBA TV, 7 p.m.
Los Angeles Lakers vs. Utah at Anaheim, CA — NBA TV, 10 p.m.

The Starters: Season Preview, Part 3 — NBA TV, 6:30 p.m.

NFL
New York Jets at New England — CBS/NFL Network, 8:25 p.m.

Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m.
Fantasy Football Live — NBCSN, 6 p.m.
NFL Total Access Kickoff live from Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
Fantasy Football Live — NBCSN, 6:30 p.m.
NFL Thursday Night Kickoff live from Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA — CBS/NFL Network, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday Night Football Postgame live from Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA — NFL Network, 11:30 p.m.

NHL
Carolina at New York Rangers — Fox Sports Carolinas/MSG Network, 7 p.m.
Dallas at Pittsburgh — TVA Sports 2/Fox Sports Southwest/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
New Jersey at Washington — MSG Plus 2/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, 7 p.m.
San Jose at New York Islanders — Comcast SportsNet California/MSG Plus, 7 p.m.
Boston at Montreal — Sportsnet 360/NHL Network (US)/NESN/RDS, 7:30 p.m.
Colorado at Ottawa — Altitude/RDS2/TSN5, 7:30 p.m.
St. Louis at Los Angeles — Fox Sports Midwest/Fox Sports West, 10:30 p.m.

Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet East/Sportsnet Ontario/NHL Network (US), noon
NHL on the Fly — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
Hockey Central Tonight — Sportsnet 360/NHL Network (US), 10 p.m.

Soccer
CONCACAF Women’s World Cup Qualifying 2014
Group 2, Sporting Park, Kansas City, MO
Jamaica vs. Martinique — Fox Sports 2, 6 p.m.
Costa Rica vs. Mexico — Fox Soccer Plus, 8:30 p.m.

Sports Talk
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
NFL AM — NFL Network, 6 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show live from Foxboro, MA — Audience Network (DirecTV), noon
SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m./Fox Sports 2, 5 p.m.
The Box Score — Audience Network (DirecTV), 3 p.m.
The Doug Gottlieb Show — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 3 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN2, 4 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.
ROME — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.
BTN Live — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 9 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.

Tennis
ATP Tour
Stockholm Open, Kungliga Tennishallen, Stockholm, Sweden
Round of 16 — Tennis Channel, 4 p.m. & 6 p.m. (same day coverage)

WTA Tour
Luxembourg Open, CK Sports Center Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Quarterfinals — Tennis Channel, 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. (same day coverage)

ATP Tour
Kremlin Cup, Olympic Stadium, Moscow, Russia
Round of 16 — Tennis Channel, midnight (delayed)

Entertainment
Bones — Fox, 8 p.m.
Gold Rush: Pay Dirt: Parker’s Take — Discovery, 8 p.m.
Food Truck Face Off: Venice Beach Battle — Food Network, 8 p.m.
Hunted: The War Against Gays in Russia — HBO2, 8 p.m.
Lincoln — The Movie Channel, 8 p.m.
Bad Judge — NBC, 9 p.m.
Donut Showdown: Fiesta — Cooking Channel, 9 p.m.
Food Factory USA: Easy Slider — FYI, 9 p.m.
Rehab Addict — HGTV, 9 p.m.
Gracepoint — Fox, 9 p.m.
The First 48: Murder in Treme — A&E, 9 p.m.
Hostel — Sho2, 9 p.m.
The Layover With Anthony Bourdain: Extra Miles: New York — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
Food Factory USA: Hey Dum Dum! — FYI, 9:30 p.m.
Beat Bobby Flay: Only in New York — Food Network, 10 p.m.
House Hunters — HGTV, 10 p.m.
Dead Again: Thou Shalt Not Kill — A&E, 10 p.m.
Gold Rush: Pay Dirt: Heroes and Zeros — Discovery, 10 p.m.
Midnight Feast: Seal the Deal — FYI, 10 p.m.
Inside Homicide: The Cell Phone Exchange — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
The L Word: Lactose Incident — Showcase, 10 p.m.
No Reservations: Asia Files: Vol. 3 — Travel Channel, 10 p.m.
Carnival Eats: K-Days/North Dakota State Fair — Cooking Channel, 10:30 p.m.
House Hunters International — HGTV, 10:30 p.m.
The Daily Show: Bryan Stevenson — Comedy Central, 11 p.m.
E! News — E, 11 p.m.
Conan — TBS, 11 p.m.
The Colbert Report: Bill Deresiewicz — 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.
At Midnight: Scott Aukerman; Jon Daly; Brett Gelman — Comedy Central, 12:01 a.m. (Friday)
The Transporter — Encore, 12:15 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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