Friday’s Viewing Picks

Arena Football
Tampa Bay Storm at Orlando Predators — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m.

Australian Rules Football
Collingwood Magpies vs. Fremantle Dockers — Fox Soccer Plus, 5:30 a.m.
Richmond Tigers vs. Brisbane Lions — Fox Soccer Plus, 11:30 p.m.

CFL
Montreal Alouettes at Winnipeg Blue Bombers — TSN/ESPN2, 8:30 p.m.

College Baseball
College World Series, TD Ameritrade Park, Omaha, NE
Bracket 1
Arizona vs. Oklahoma State — ESPN, 3 p.m.

Bracket 2
TCU vs. Coastal Carolina — ESPN, 8 p.m.

Baseball Tonight at the College World Series — ESPN, 7 p.m.
College World Series Postgame — ESPNU, 11 p.m.

Drag Racing
NHRA Nationals, Summit Motorsports Park, Norwalk, OH
Qualifying — FS1, 8 p.m.

Golf
European Tour
BMW International Open, Golf club Gut Larchenhof, Pulheim, Germany

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

PGA Tour Champions
American Family Insurance Championship, University Ridge Golf Club, Madison, WI

1st Round — Golf Channel, 12:30 p.m.

PGA Tour
Quicken Loans National, Congressional Country Club (Blue Course), Bethesda, MD

2nd Round — Golf Channel, 3:30 p.m.

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

LPGA Tour
NW Arkansas Championship, Pinnacle Country Club, Rogers, AR

1st Round — Golf Channel, 6:30 p.m.

Gymnastics
U.S. Gymnastics Championships, Chaifetz Arena, St. Louis, MO
Day 1 — NBC, 9 p.m.

IndyCar
Road America Grand Prix, Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI
Practice — NBCSN, noon

Mixed Martial Arts
Bellator 157: Dynamite II, Scottrade Center, St. Louis, MO
Satoshi Ishii vs. Rampaga Jackson — Spike, 8 p.m.

Kimbo Slice: One of a Kind — Spike, 7 p.m.

Legacy Fighting Championship 56, Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX
Bantamweight World Championship

Manny Vasquez vs. Stephen Peterson — AXS TV, 10 p.m.

MLB
American League
Cleveland at Detroit — STO/Fox Sports Detroit, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at New York Yankees — Fox Sports North/YES, 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Baltimore — Fox Sports Sun/MASN, 7 p.m.
Boston at Texas — NESN/Fox Sports Southwest, 8 p.m.
Toronto at Chicago White Sox — Sportsnet One/Comcast SportsNet Chicago Plus, 8 p.m.
Houston at Kansas City — Root Sports Southwest/Fox Sports Kansas City, 8:15 p.m.
Oakland at Anaheim — Comcast SportsNet California/Fox Sports West, 10 p.m.

National League
Chicago Cubs at Miami — MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports Florida, 7 p.m.
Los Angeles at Pittsburgh — MLB Network/SportsNet LA/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
San Diego at Cincinnati — Fox Sports San Diego/Fox Sports Ohio, 7 p.m.
New York Mets at Atlanta — SNY/Fox Sports South, 7:30 p.m.
Washington at Milwaukee — MASN2/Fox Sports Wisconsin, 8 p.m.
Arizona at Colorado — Fox Sports Arizona/Root Sports Rocky Mountain, 8:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at San Francisco — The Comcast Network/Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, 10:15 p.m.

Interleague
St. Louis at Seatle — Fox Sports Midwest/Root Sports Southwest, 10 p.m.

MLB Central — MLB Network, 10 a.m.
The Rundown — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Now — MLB Network, 4 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
MLB Whiparound — FS1, 9 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Saturday)

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series
Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, CA

Practice — FS1, 3 p.m.
Final Practice — FS1, 6:30 p.m.

NASCAR Race Hub: Weekend Edition — FS1, 5 p.m.

NBA
The Jump — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.
The Starters: Draft Review — NBA TV, 7 p.m.
NBA Draft: Eastern Conference Draft Review — NBA TV, 10 p.m.
NBA Draft: Western Conference Draft Review — NBA TV, 11 p.m.

NFL
NFL HQ — NFL Network, 8 a.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.

NHL
2016 NHL Draft, First Niagara Center, Buffalo, NY
Round 1 — NBCSN/Sportsnet, 7 p.m.

Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet/NHL Network, noon
NHL Tonight: 2016 NHL Draft Preview Show — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
Pre Draft Show — NBCSN, 6:30 p.m.
Hockey Central — Sportsnet, 6:30 p.m.
2016 NHL Draft: Round 1 Recap — NHL Tonight, 10 p.m.

Soccer
ESPN FC — ESPN2, 6:30 p.m.
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, midnight

Sports Talk
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 6:45 a.m.
SportsCenter:AM — ESPN, 7 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 7:30 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 8:45 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Auidence (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
SportsCenter: Face to Face With Hannah Storm — ESPN, 10 a.m.
The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz — ESPNU, 10 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 11:45 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show — Audience (AT&T U-Verse/DirecTV)/Root Sports (Northwest/Pittsburgh/Rocky Mountain/Southwest), noon
BYU Sports Nation — BYUtv, noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
Russillo and Kanell — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN, 1:30 p.m.
The Doug Gottlieb Show — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 3 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN, 4 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN, 4:30 p.m.
Around the Horn — ESPN, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
Time to Schein — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
Fox Sports Live With Jay and Dan — FS1, 11 p.m.
TMZ Sports — FS1, midnight
SportsCenter at Night — ESPN, midnight
Contato Depotivo — Univision/Univision Deportes, midnight

Tennis
WTA Tour
Eastbourne International, Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, England, United Kingdom

Semifinals — Tennis Channel, 8 a.m.

ATP Tour
Nottingham Open, Nottingham Tennis Centre, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Semifinals — beIN Sports, 8 p.m. (same day coverage)

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

WNBA
Los Angeles Sparks at Minneosta Lynx — NBA TV, 8 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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