Wednesday’s Viewing Picks

College Basketball
Men’s
ACC/Big Ten Challenge
Michigan State at Notre Dame — ESPN2, 7:15 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Penn State — ESPNU, 7:15 p.m.
Iowa at North Carolina — ESPN, 7:30 p.m.
Virginia at Maryland — ESPN2, 9:15 p.m.
Georgia Tech at Northwestern — ESPNU, 9:15 p.m.
Duke at Wisconsin — ESPN, 9:30 p.m.

Temple at St. Joseph’s — CBS Sports Network, 6:30 p.m.
Northeastern at Harvard — NESN, 7 p.m.
Bowling Green at Western Kentucky — American Sports Network, 8 p.m.
Western Carolina at East Tennessee State — American Sports Network, 8 p.m.Southern Illinois at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville — Fox College Sports Central/Fox Sports Midwest, 8 p.m.
North Texas at Oklahoma State — Fox Sports Net, 8 p.m.
UNLV at Arizona State — Pac-12 Networks, 8 p.m.
Sam Houston State at Texas A&M — SEC Network Plus, 8 p.m.
Villanova at LaSalle — CBS Sports Network, 8:30 p.m.
Texas-El Paso at Colorado State — Root Sports (Northwest/Rocky Mountain/Southwest), 9 p.m.
Auburn at Texas Tech — SEC Network, 9 p.m.
Texas-San Antonio at Northern Arizona — Fox College Sports Pacific/Fox Sports Arizona, 9:30 p.m.
San Francisco at Colorado — Pac-12 Networks, 10 p.m.
Montana at Cal — Pac-12 Bay Area, 10 p.m.
Loyola Marymount at USC — Pac-12 Los Angeles, 10 p.m.
Concordia (OR) at Oregon — Pac-12 Oregon, 10 p.m.
Idaho at Washington State — Pac-12 Washington, 10 p.m.
Cal State-Fullerton at UCLA — Pac-12 Networks, midnight
Mississippi Valley State at Oregon State — Pac-12 Oregon, midnight

College Basketball Live Scoreboard — ESPN, 7:15 p.m.
Pac-12 Basketball Pregame Show — Pac-12 Networks, 7:30 p.m.
BTN Finale 2014-15 — Big Ten Network, 11:30 p.m.

Women’s
Louisiana Tech at LSU — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Duke at Nebraska — Big Ten Network, 7:30 p.m.
Texas-Arlington at Kansas State — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 8 p.m.
Seton Hall at Creighton — Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.
New Mexico at Texas — Longhorn Network, 8 p.m.

College Football
BTN Football & Beyond 2014 — Big Ten Network, noon
CFB Daily: The Edge — ESPNU, 1 p.m.
College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
ESPNU Film Room — ESPNU, 6:30 p.m.

English Premier League
Chelsea vs. Tottenham Hotspur — NBCSN, 2:45 p.m.
Arsenal vs. Southampton — Premier League Extra Time, 2:45 p.m.
Everton vs. Hull City — Premier League Extra Time, 2:45 p.m.
Sunderland vs. Manchester City — Premier League Extra Time, 2:45 p.m.

Premier League News — NBCSN, 1:30 p.m.
Premier League Live — NBCSN, 2 p.m.
Goal Zone — NBCSN, 5 p.m.

Golf
English Seniors Open Highlights: 2014 — Golf Channel, 2 p.m.
WGC-HSBC Championship Highlights: 2014 — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.
School of Golf: Chapter 39: Year End Special — Golf Channel, 7 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Tonight — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.
The Ultimate Fighter: Team Melendez vs. Team Pettis: Best Job in the World — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.

MLB
MLB Now — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.

NASCAR
NASCAR Race Hub — Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m.
NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5:30 p.m.

NBA
Chicago at Charlotte — NBA TV, 7 p.m.

NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 10:20 p.m.

NFL
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m.
Around the NFL — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
NFL Replay: New England at Green Bay — NFL Network, 8 p.m.
Inside the NFL: 2014 Week 14 — NFL Network, 9 p.m.
Sound FX: Mike Ditka — NFL Network, 10:30 p.m.
NFL Turning Point: 2014 Week 13 — NBCSN, 11 p.m.

NHL
Montreal at Minnesota — Sportsnet/RDS/Fox Sports North, 7 p.m.
St. Louis at Chicago — NBCSN/TVA Sports, 8 p.m.
Edmonton at Winnipeg — Sportsnet/Sportsnet One, 9 p.m.
Philadelphia at Anaheim — The Comcast Network/Fox Sports West, 10:30 p.m.

Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet (East/Ontario)/NHL Network (US), noon
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
Hockey Central — Sportsnet, 6:30 p.m.
NHL Live — NBCSN, 7 p.m.
NHL on the Fly — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
NHL Overtime — NBCSN, 10:30 p.m.
NHL on the Fly — NHL Network, 10:30 p.m.
Hockey Central — NHL Network, 11 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, midnight

Scottish Challenge Cup
Semifinal
Alloa Athletic vs. Rangers — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:25 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.
Hot Stove — MLB Network, 9 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show — Audience Network (DirecTV), noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 1, 1 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.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 2, 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.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.
Jim Valvano’s ESPY Speech — ESPN/ESPN2/ESPN Classic/ESPNews/ESPNU/Longhorn Network, 7 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11:30 p.m.
Fox Sports Live: Countdown — Fox Sports 1, midnight

Swimming
12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), Hamad Aquatic Center, Doha, Qatar
Day 1 — Universal Sports, 8 p.m (same day coverage)

Tennis
Best of Five: Comebacks — Tennis Channel, 5 p.m.

Entertainment
The Middle — ABC, 8 p.m.
Survivor: Blood vs. Water: Kind of Like Cream Cheese; Still Holdin’ On — CBS, 8 p.m.
Hell’s Kitchen — Fox, 8 p.m.
Best of Birds — PBS, 8 p.m.
Arrow — The CW, 8 p.m.
Dude, You’re Screwed: Super Screwed: The Hunger Game — Discovery, 8 p.m.
White House Down — Encore, 8 p.m.
How the Universe Works: Expanded Edition: First Second — Science Channel, 8 p.m.
Smiles of a Summer Night — Turner Classic Movies, 8 p.m.
Mail Order Murder: The Mafia Connection (series premiere) — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Red Band Society (The Final Days) — Fox, 9 p.m.
NOVA: First Man on the Moon — PBS, 9 p.m.
Dude, You’re Screwed: Pain in the Neck — Discovery, 9 p.m.
The Getaway: Barcelona — Esquire Network, 9 p.m.
Property Brothers At Home: The Pool, Pool House and Movie Theater — HGTV, 9 p.m.
Drugs, Inc.: Marijuana Mayhem — National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m.
UFO Conspiracies: Fireball Attack — Science Channel, 9 p.m.
Penn Jillette’s Street Cred — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
Mob Wives: The Realist B…. Is Back — VH1, 9 p.m.
blackish — ABC, 9:30 p.m.
Mail Order Murder: Arlington’s Missing Brides — Investigation Discovery, 9:30 p.m.
The Car Chasers: Sales Contract Killers — CNBC, 10 p.m.
South Park: Rehash — Comedy Central, 10 p.m.
Best in Chow: The Great Holiday Baking War — Cooking Channel, 10 p.m.
U.S. Bounty Hunters (series premiere) — Destination America, 10 p.m.
The Soup — E!, 10 p.m.
Weekend Fix: Montreal (season finale) — Esquire Network, 10 p.m.
Hot in Cleveland: Tazed and Confused — TV Land, 10 p.m.
The Game — BBC America, 10 p.m.
Kitchen Inferno: Milk and Cookies: Get Ready to Crumble — Food Network, 10 p.m.
American Horror Story: Freak Show —  FX, 10 p.m.
Love the Way You Lie: The End of the Affair — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Strip the Cosmos: Expedition Mars — Science Channel, 10 p.m.
Key & Peele: Sex Addict Wendell — Comedy Central, 10:30 p.m.
U.S. Bounty Hunters — Destination America, 10:30 p.m.
The Exes: Oh Brother Here Art Thou — TV Land, 10:30 p.m.The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: Dave Grohl — Comedy Central, 11 p.m.
Web Therapy: Forget to Drink — Showtime, 11 p.m.
E! News — E!, 11 p.m.
Conan — TBS, 11 p.m.
Fast Sofa — The Movie Channel, 11:30 p.m.
The Colbert Report: Christopher Nolan — 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.
The Doors — Encore, midnight
At Midnight: Jon Gabrus; Adren Myrin; Matt Besser — Comedy Central, 12:01 a.m. (Thursday)

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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