Friday’s Viewing Picks

Australian Rules Football
Sydney Swans vs. Richmond Tigers — Fox Sports 2, 5:30 a.m.
Hawthorn Hawks vs. Essendon Bombers — Fox Sports 2,11:30 p.m.

Boxing
Fight Night, Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel, Niagara Falls, NY
Super Welterweights
Kenny Abril vs. Dennis Hogan — CBS Sports Network, 9 p.m.

Golden Boy Live, Salinas Storm House, Salinas, CA
Welterweights
Alan Sanchez vs. Stephen Claggett — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.

Top Rank Friday Night Knockout, State Farm Arena, Hidalgo, TX
WBO International Super Middleweight Title
Gilberto Ramirez vs. Derek Edwards — truTV, 10 p.m.

ShoBox: The New Generation, Little Creek Casino Resort, Shelton, WA
Middleweights
Dominic Wade vs. Sam Soliman — Showtime, 10:35 p.m.

CFL
Hamilton Ti-Cats at Calgary Stampeders — TSN/ESPN2, 9 p.m.

2015 CFL on TSN Pre-Game — TSN, 8:30 p.m.

Copa América
Quarterfinal, Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar, Chile
Argentina vs. Colombia — beIN Sports, 7:20 p.m.

The Express Gameday — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.
The Express: Chile 2015 — beIN Sports, 6:30 p.m.
The Express Wrap-Up: Chile — beIN Sports, 9:30 p.m.
The Xtra Chile 2015 — beIN Sports, 10 p.m.

European Games
Baku, Azerbaijan
Swimming, Boxing — Universal Sports, 6 p.m. (same day coverage)

Golf
European PGA Tour
Golf Club München Eichenried (Championship Course), Munich, Germany

2nd Round — Golf Channel, 5:30 a.m.
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 9:30 a.m.

LPGA Tour
NW Arkansas Championship, Pinnacle Country Club, Rogers, AR
1st Round — Golf Channel, 11:30 a.m.

U.S. Senior Open, Del Paso Country Club, Sacramento, CA
2nd Round — Fox Sports 1, 3 p.m.

U.S Senior Open Wrap Up — Fox Sports 1, 9:30 p.m.

PGA Tour
Travelers Championship, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, CT
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 3:30 p.m.

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

IndyCar
MAV TV 500, Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, CA
Qualifying — NBCSN, midnight (same day coverage)

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Romero, Hard Rock Live, Hollywood, FL
Weigh-In — Fox Sports 2, 5 p.m.

Bellator 139, Kansas Star Arena, Mulvane, KS
Heavyweights
Kongo vs. Volkov — Spike, 9 p.m.

Legacy Fighting Championship 42, Golden Nugget Casino, Lake Charles, LA
Middleweights
Njokuani vs. Quayhagen — AXS TV, 10 p.m.

MLB
American League
Boston at Tampa Bay — NESN/Sun Sports, 7 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at Detroit — Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports Detroit, 7 p.m.
Cleveland at Baltimore — STO/MASN2, 7 p.m.
Texas at Toronto — Fox Sports Southwest/Sportsnet One, 7 p.m.
New York Yankees at Houston — MLB Network/YES/Root Sports Southwest, 8 p.m.
Kansas City at Oakland — Fox Sports Kansas City/Comcast SportsNet California, 10 p.m.
Seattle at Anaheim Angels — Root Sports Northwest/Fox Sports West, 10 p.m.

National League
Atlanta at Pittsburgh — Fox Sports South/Root Sports Pittsbugh, 7 p.m.
Cincinnati at New York Mets — Fox Sports Ohio/SNY, 7 p.m.
Los Angeles Dodgers at Miami — SportsNet LA/Fox Sports Florida, 7 p.m.
Washington at Philadelphia — MASN/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Chicago Cubs at St. Louis — MLB Network/WLS/Fox Sports Midwest, 8:15 p.m.
Arizona at San Diego — Fox Sports Arizona/Fox Sports San Diego, 10 p.m.
Colorado at San Francisco — Root Sports Rocky Mountain/Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, 10:15 p.m.

Interleague
Minnesota at Milwaukee — Fox Sports North/Fox Sports Wisconsin, 8 p.m.

The Rundown — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Now — MLB Network, 4 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 11 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, midnight
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Saturday)

MLS
FC Dallas vs. Houston — UniMás/Univision Deportes, 9 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series
Save Mart 350, Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, CA
Practice 1 — Fox Sports 2, 3 p.m.
Final Practice — Fox Sports 2, 6:30 p.m.

NBA
The Starters: The Draft Review — NBA TV, 6:30 p.m.
2015 Eastern Conference Draft Review — NBA TV, 7 p.m.
2015 Western Conference Draft Review — NBA TV, 8 p.m.

NFL
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.

NHL
2015 NHL Draft, BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL
1st Round — NBCSN/Sportsnet, 7 p.m.

Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet/NHL Network (US), noon
NHL Tonight: 2015 NHL Draft Preview — NHL Network, 5:30 p.m.
Pre-Draft Special — NBCSN, 6:30 p.m.
Hockey Central Draft Special — Sportsnet, 6:30 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2015 NHL Draft: Round 1 Recap — NHL Network, 10 p.m.

Soccer
FIFA Women’s World Cup
Quarterfinal, Stade Olympique, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Germany vs. France — Fox, 4 p.m.

Quarterfinal, Lansdowne Stadium, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Communist China vs. United States — NBC Universo, 7:18 p.m./Fox, 7:30 p.m.

FIFA Women’s World Cup Today — Fox, 3 p.m.
FIFA Women’s World Cup Today — Fox, 7 p.m.
2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup Preview Show — NBC Universo, 7 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 11 p.m.
FIFA Women’s World Cup Tonight — Fox Sports 1, midnight

Sports Talk
Sport Today — BBC World News, 5:45 a.m.
Radius: Jump Cut — NBCSN, 6 a.m.
Radius: Lower Body Blast — Oxygen, 6 a.m.
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
Radius: Launch by Radius — NBCSN, 6:30 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 6:30 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 8:45 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
MLB Central — MLB Network, 10 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 11:45 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/Root Sports (Northwest/Pittsburgh/Rocky Mountain/Southwest), noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
Sports Minds — beIN Sports, 1 p.m.
The Russillo Show — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 2 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN, 2:30 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.
Football Focus — BBC World News, 3:30 p.m.
The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz — Fusion, 4 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN, 4:30 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
World’s Strongest Man 2015 — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
NCAA Championship Recap — ESPNU, 7 p.m.
30 for 30: Benji — ESPNU, 8:30 p.m.

Tennis
WTA Tour
Aegon International, Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, England, United Kingdom
1st Semifinal — Tennis Channel, 8 a.m.
2nd Semifinal — Tennis Channel, 10 a.m.

ATP Tour
Aegon Open Nottingham, Nottingham Tennis Centre, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
1st Semifinal — Tennis Channel, noon (same day coverage)
2nd Semifinal — Tennis Channel, 2 p.m. (same day coverage)

Racquet Bracket: Wimbledon — Tennis Channel, 8 p.m.

Track & Field
U.S. Outdoor Championships, Hayward Field, Eugene, OR
Day Two — NBCSN, 10 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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